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#4 Irish To Face #1 Baylor Tuesday In NCAA National Championship Game - UND.COM - University of Notre Dame Official Athletic Site

#4 Irish To Face #1 Baylor Tuesday In NCAA National Championship Game
Notre Dame playing in NCAA final for second consecutive year and third time in school history (6:43 p.m. MT/8:43 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN3; free live audio and stats at UND.com).

2011-12 ND Women's Basketball: Game 39
NCAA Women's Final Four -- National Championship
#4/4 [#1 seed] Notre Dame Fighting Irish (35-3 / 15-1 BIG EAST) vs. #1/1 [#1 seed] Baylor Lady Bears (39-0 / 18-0 Big 12)
DATE: April 3, 2012
TIME: 6:43 p.m. MT
AT: Denver, Colo. - Pepsi Center (19,155)
SERIES: BU leads 2-0
1ST MTG: BU 76-65 (12/1/10)
LAST MTG: BU 94-81 (11/20/11)
TV: ESPN/ESPN3 (live) (Dave O'Brien, p-b-p / Doris Burke, color / Holly Rowe, sideline / Rebecca Lobo, sideline)
RADIO: Pulse FM (96.9/92.1) / UND.com (live) (Bob Nagle, p-b-p)
LIVE STATS: UND.com
TWITTER: @ndwbbsid
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: UND.com

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•Notre Dame was No. 4 in the final Associated Press poll and is No. 4 in the current ESPN/USA Today poll.

•Baylor was No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll and is No. 1 in the current ESPN/USA Today poll.
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The Last Time Notre Dame And Baylor Met

The Last Time Notre Dame And Baylor Met

#4 Irish To Face #1 Baylor Tuesday In NCAA National Championship Game - UND.COM - University of Notre Dame Official Athletic Site

Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw was already prepared that 6-foot-8 Baylor phenom Brittney Griner would probably have her way inside against the Fighting Irish.

Griner did just that, scoring 32 points with 14 rebounds and six blocked shots. The problem was she wasn't alone for the top-ranked Lady Bears.

Odyssey Sims had one of her best overall games and Destiny Williams also had a double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds for Baylor in a 94-81 win over Notre Dame in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup in the preseason WNIT championship game on Nov. 20 in Waco, Texas.

"The game was particularly disappointing because defensively we really played poorly," McGraw said. "We tried a couple of different looks on (Griner), but it didn't really matter. I was disappointed with the way we guarded the other players."

Notre Dame had a pair of 25-point scorers in the same game for the first time since 2000. Natalie Novosel scored a (then) career-high 28 points and Skylar Diggins, like Griner a preseason AP All-America pick, had 27.

Sims has 25 points, six assists, six steals and only two turnovers in 38 minutes after she wasn't in the starting lineup for a reason that coach Kim Mulkey wouldn't specify -- or allow Sims to address.

The Lady Bears put the game away with a 14-3 run that was capped when Sims had a steal that she turned into a breakaway layup for a 70-58 lead with 9 1/2 minutes left.

"Just motivated altogether," Sims said. "Playing against (Diggins), playing against the team, playing in front of the crowd, No. 1 versus No. 2. All of that put together."

There was then a feisty play with 1:40 left after Diggins lost her dribble. When she tried to recover the ball from the floor, she had her arm unintentionally around Sims' neck. Sims jumped up clearly angry, then went to the sideline where Mulkey gave her a quick hug to try to settle her down. But Sims was assessed a technical foul.

Diggins and Sims were teammates on USA Basketball World University Games gold medal-winning team in China last summer. Notre Dame's Novosel and Devereaux Peters were also on that team.

"Odyssey is a very competitive player just like I am, and she was a teammate of mine. I don't think it was anything personal," Diggins said. "I think it's just both of us playing hard. Just a loose ball, you try to get it."

Sims agreed, and said she wished Diggins "the best the rest of the season."

Kayla McBride, who had 11 points for the Fighting Irish, made two free throws with 15:48 left to cap a 15-6 run that cut the deficit to 53-51. Baylor's game-clinching spurt came a couple of minutes later.

Notre Dame had an early 10-6 lead after Brittany Mallory went around Griner for a reverse layup.

After Griner and Diggins traded baskets, Sims hit a three-pointer, and Griner had a defensive rebound and the Lady Bears got the first lead when Sims passed to Williams for a 13-12 lead with 12:53 left in the first half.

That was during a furious pace when the game's first stop in action didn't come until McGraw finally called a timeout with 11:33 left after a putback by Williams for a 17-14 Baylor lead.

Baylor led 47-36 at halftime, that close only after Novosel hit a three-pointer at the buzzer after the Fighting Irish had missed their first 11 shots from long range.
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Something to fill the timeout. We need Peters on the court!


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clashmore_mike said:
No, said she is sticking around after Stanford was eliminated because of the Griner factor...
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That's all I heard. They could have mentioned:
MS in Poly Sci ND '75
Advisory Council College of Arts and Letters
Elected to ND Board of Trustees 1994
Honorary Doctor of Laws 1995 and Commencement Speaker.
 
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BGIF said:
That's all I heard. They could have mentioned:
MS in Poly Sci ND '75
Advisory Council College of Arts and Letters
Elected to ND Board of Trustees 1994
Honorary Doctor of Laws 1995 and Commencement Speaker.
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No! She's there because she's intrigued by a 6'8" man playng women's basketball...
 
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Anyone else just hear Brittany Griner talk?

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NDPhilly said:
Anyone else just hear Brittany Griner talk?

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Don't be hating.

A large larynx makes a deep voice so it should be expected that a larger than average lady will have a deeper than average voice.
 
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AvesEvo said:
Don't be hating.

A large larynx makes a deep voice so it should be expected that a larger than average lady will have a deeper than average voice.
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Odd when talking to Lobo who has no adam's apple by the way it was really noticable.
 
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Just can't get the bucket to fall when they get it to 5. Plenty of chances.
 
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What I don't like is how the announcers drool over Griner; is it that amazing when a person who is 5" taller than anyone else on the floor scores?
 
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When is it that somebody will clip Griner on the side of the knee. Just kidding. This is frustrating though. It's way too easy for her.
 
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