Megan Duffy (born July 13, 1984) is an American women's basketball coach, currently the head coach at

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. Previously, she had been the head coach with the

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team, an associate head coach with the

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team,

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team, an assistant coach with

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team, and a professional basketball player in the WNBA, most recently playing for the

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College playing career

Duffy was born in

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. After graduating from

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, a Catholic high school in Dayton, she attended college at

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and graduated in 2006 with a double major in Psychology and Computer Applications. As an Irish athlete, Duffy was named to the

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Academic All American first team and was honorable mention Kodak All American. She received the

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from the

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as the best senior player under 5 ft 8 in (1.7 m). She is one of two players from Notre Dame, along with

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, to win the award.

Notre Dame statistics

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USA Basketball

Duffy was a member of the team representing the US at the 2005 World University Games Team in

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, Turkey. In the opening game against the Czech Republic, she led her team in scoring with 14 points. Duffy averaged 6.1 points per game. She helped the team to a 7–0 record and a gold medal at the event.

Professional playing career

Following her collegiate career, she was selected 31st overall in the

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. Duffy spent her rookie season with the Lynx backing up

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; she averaged 3.4 points, 1.2 assists and 12.5 minutes per game in 2006. Duffy went to training camp with the Lynx in 2007 but was released on April 26. She signed with the

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on April 30, but she was waived on May 18 in the final preseason roster cutdown. A

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most of the 2007 season, Duffy was re-signed by the Lynx on August 7, due to

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' departure to train with the Italian National Team. Duffy appeared in four games with Minnesota, averaging 1.4 points per game. On March 11, 2008, the

signed Duffy to a training camp contract. During the 2006–07 WNBA off-season she played for the Rhondda Rebels in Wales, UK. In the 2007–08 WNBA off-season she played for Ribera in Italy. She played for

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in Slovakia from September through December 2008 during the WNBA off-season. In January 2009, Duffy signed with CSS LMK Sfântu Gheorghe in Romania.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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Coaching career

In 2009, Duffy retired from play and entered the coaching ranks as an assistant under Kim Barnes Arico at St. John's. Her initial responsibilities included guard skills, scouting, and game planning. In 2011–12, Duffy also became St. John's recruiting coordinator. In 2012, Duffy accepted the position as associate head coach with George Washington. In 2014, Duffy left George Washington to accept the position of assistant coach with the University of Michigan, where she spent three seasons before being named the head coach at Miami (OH) in 2017. In two seasons with the Redhawks, Duffy accumulated a 44-20 overall record, including a 25–11 mark in league play. The team earned bids to the WNIT each season that she was there. In her first season at Miami in 2017–18, Duffy coached Miami to 21 wins, up from just 12 the previous season. This marked the largest improvement in the nation from the previous season in terms of total victories. Duffy was named the head coach at Marquette on April 10, 2019, the sixth head coach in the program's history. Through three seasons, she boasts the best winning percentage of any coach in the program's history, going 66-26 (.717) overall and 40-16 (.713) in BIG EAST play. In her first year at MU, she was named the BIG EAST Coach of the Year after guiding the Golden Eagles to a runner-up finish in the league and a 22-7 overall record despite being picked ninth in the league's preseason coaches' poll. In November 2021, Duffy was named as one of the 40 Under 40 rising stars in women's basketball by ''

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Stats

Sources: * 2017-2018 Schedule * MAC 2017-18 Women's Basketball Standings

Head Coaching Record

References

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