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#2 Irish Tip Off NCAA Tournament Friday Against Montana - UND.COM - University of Notre Dame Official Athletic Site

2014-15 ND Women's Basketball: Game 34
NCAA Championship -- Oklahoma City Region/First Round
#2/2 [#1 seed] Notre Dame Fighting Irish (31-2 / 15-1 ACC) vs. [#16 seed] Montana Lady Griz (24-8 / 14-4 Big Sky)
DATE: March 20, 2015
TIME: 7:30 p.m. ET
AT: Notre Dame, Ind. - Purcell Pavilion (8,887)
SERIES: UM leads 1-0
LAST MTG: UM 50-48 (12/31/86)
TV: ESPN2/ESPN3-WatchESPN(live) (Beth Mowins, p-b-p / Stephanie White, color)
RADIO: Pulse FM (96.9/92.1)/WatchND (live) (Bob Nagle, p-b-p)
LIVE STATS: UND.com


Notre Dame is a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Championship for the 4th consecutive season and the 5h time in program history.

The Fighting Irish have won their NCAA Championship first-round game in 17 of the past 19 seasons.

Notre Dame ranks among the top 25 in nine NCAA statistical categories (as of March 16), including five top-10 rankings -- field-goal percentage (2nd - .498)
scoring offense (4th - 81.2 ppg.)
scoring margin (4th - +21.7 ppg.)
assists (7th - 18.2 apg.)
three-point percentage (7th - .378).
The Fighting Irish also rank 14th in assist/turnover ratio (1.21)
16th in both rebounding margin (+8.7 rpg.) and personal fouls (14.5 per game)
25th in free-throw percentage (.746)
third in the non-statistical measure of win-loss percentage (.939).

Notre Dame and Montana will be playing for just the second time on Friday night. The Lady Griz edged the Fighting Irish, 50-48 in the teams' only prior matchup on Dec. 31, 1986, in the consolation game of the Seattle Times Classic in Seattle, Washington.
 
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Irish In The NCAA Championship
Notre Dame is beginning its 22nd appearance in the NCAA Championship (and 20th in a row) this weekend. The Fighting Irish have a .697 winning percentage (46-20) in NCAA Championship play, ranking seventh all-time in that category (minimum of 20 games played).

In addition, Notre Dame's current streak of 20 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances ranks fifth in the record books (and seventh-longest at any time in tournament history).

Here are some other facts about the Fighting Irish in the "Big Dance" (see pp. 158-163 in this year's regular-season media guide for NCAA Championship results and records):
Notre Dame is one of five schools in tournament history to make at least four appearances in the NCAA national championship game (along with Tennessee-13, Connecticut-9, Louisiana Tech-6 and Stanford-4). The Fighting Irish are 1-3 all-time in the NCAA final, defeating Purdue (68-66) in 2001 in St. Louis, before falling to Texas A&M (76-70) in 2011 in Indianapolis, Baylor (80-61) in 2012 in Denver and Connecticut (79-58) in 2014 in Nashville.
Notre Dame is one of five schools ever to make three trips to the NCAA title game in a four-year span, joining Southern California (1983, 1984, 1986), Auburn (1988-90), Tennessee (1995-98) and Connecticut (2002-04) in that elite company.
Notre Dame is one of five schools to advance to the NCAA Women's Final Four six times.
Notre Dame's Muffet McGraw is the fifth Division I coach to lead her team to six NCAA Women's Final Four berths and four national championship game appearances.
Notre Dame is the sixth school to reach the NCAA Women's Final Four in four consecutive seasons (2011-14), joining Connecticut, LSU, Louisiana Tech, Stanford and Tennessee in that company. Of this group, three have made five consecutive appearances in the Final Four -- Connecticut (2000-04 and 2008-present), LSU (2004-08) and Stanford (2008-12).
Notre Dame is one of five schools to make six trips to the NCAA Women's Final Four and come away with at least one national championship, going to the semifinals in 1997 and 2013, the title game in 2011, 2012 and 2014, and winning it all in 2001.
The Fighting Irish have a 5-4 (.556) record at the NCAA Women's Final Four, owning the seventh-best winning percentage (minimum of three games played).
Last year, Notre Dame became the first ACC school to reach the NCAA national championship game since the 2006 "all-ACC" final, when Maryland defeated Duke, 78-75 in overtime in Boston. It also was the fifth time the ACC was represented in the NCAA title contest, along with 1991 (Virginia lost to Tennessee, 70-67 in overtime in New Orleans), 1994 (North Carolina defeated Louisiana Tech, 60-59 in Richmond, Va.) and 1999 (Duke lost to Purdue, 62-45 in San Jose).
Notre Dame is one of two schools in the country (along with Connecticut) to reach the NCAA Elite Eight the past four seasons.
Notre Dame is one of five schools in the land to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 12 times in the past 18 years (1997-2014), as well as each of the past five years.
The Fighting Irish have won their NCAA tournament opener in 17 of the past 19 seasons (1996-2014).
Each of Notre Dame's 22 NCAA tournament appearances have come during McGraw's 28-year tenure (1987-88 to present).
Notre Dame is 12-2 (.857) all-time in NCAA Championship play at Purcell Pavilion, with 12 games coming in the first and second rounds of the tournament before last year's regional games were played in South Bend. Following first-round losses to Minnesota in 1994 and 2009, the Fighting Irish won six consecutive NCAA tourney games at home each time, and they reached the Sweet 16 five times (2000, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2012) and advanced to the Final Four once (2014) from Purcell Pavilion.
 
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All the higher seeds have won so far today in the WBB Tournament except for #6 UW who lost to #11 MIA by 6 and #7 NW who lost to #10 ARK by 2.

Motley had a big day for MIA scoring 30 like she did when MIA beat the ND during the season.
 
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I live in Elkhart and am getting Nebraska vs Syracuse instead of ND. I hate ESPN
 
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connor_in said:
I live in Elkhart and am getting Nebraska vs Syracuse instead of ND. I hate ESPN
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The ND site noted ESPN2 would be a watch around jumping betweed a couple of game BUT the entire ND game would stream live on WATCHESPN.
 
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Mabrey at 0-1 was the only ND player under 50% shooting.
 
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Loyd 18 and Turner 11 in double figures

Allen and Reimer 9

Westbeld 8
 
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Westbeld 10 Rebs, 8 pts. Needs a deuce for Double Double.
 
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Final ND 77 MT 43

Final ND 77 MT 43

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STAT TOTAL
Points 77
Field Goals3 3-53, 62.3%
Free Throws 9-17, 52.9%
3-Pointers 2-8, 25.0%
Off. Rebounds 6
Def. Rebounds 32
Total Rebounds 38
Assists 20
Blocks 5
Steals 10
P. Fouls 12
Turnovers 14

MT
STAT TOTAL
Points 43
Field Goals1 9-62, 30.6%
Free Throws 3-5, 60.0%
3-Pointers 2-21, 9.5%
Off. Rebounds 12
Def. Rebounds 20
Total Rebounds 32
Assists 11
Blocks 3
Steals 7
P. Fouls 17
Turnovers 17
 
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That's how you put away a team in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament. These ladies know how to play in the tournament. And they did it with all players getting PT and the bench played a good portion of the 2nd half. Love that our starters got a lot of rest so they can be ready for DePaul. Having Turner back is huge for this game. She didn't play last time and it almost cost us.
 
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No current storyline in ND sports is any better than the development of the front line over the course of the season this year!

What a great group. I believe they will be dangerous enough this year, and wait until next!
 
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