Mary Ellen Murphy (born December 12, 1957) is a basketball analyst who calls college and WNBA games for ESPN, BTN, and Pac-12 Network and select high school games for Comcast SportsNet California and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.
She kept to her Chicago roots and attended Northwestern University from 1977 to 1980, acting as a two-year captain for the women's basketball team.
[6] Murphy would coach the team for the first 15 games, compiling a 5–10 record, before being fired in the midst of a 5-game losing streak that dropped the Monarchs from first to third in their division.
[7][8] Upon being let go by the Monarchs, Murphy was hired by Brian Donlon, Lifetime Television's [9] vice president of sports and executive producer, to be part of its WNBA broadcast team along with Michele Tafoya and Reggie Miller.
When Lifetime ended its WNBA broadcasts in 1999, Murphy moved to ESPN for women's NCAA tournament games and WNBA broadcasts while FOX would bring her on board to call the Pac-12 women's games on FSN in the early 2000s.