INJURIES
Florida State's Shakayla Thomas, who is the team's leading scorer at 15 points per game, was in uniform and took pregame warmups, but the junior forward missed her second straight game due to a left shoulder injury she suffered at Virginia on Feb. 16.
Notre Dame forced 22 turnovers and scored 17 points off those takeaways. The Fighting Irish outscored the Eagles in the paint by a 44-14 margin, and they tallied 10 blocked shots to Boston College's one.
Notre Dame held Boston College to just 14 points in the second half, making up for a shaky offensive start to the third quarter in which the Fighting Irish scored just two points across the first five minutes of the period.
"It was ugly," McGraw said about the second half. "We just didn't shoot it well; that makes it look ugly. And we turned it over, which helps to make it look uglier."
Notre Dame shot 45.5 percent for the game but just 35.7 percent in the second half. Boston College shot 25.4 percent for the game.
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Notre Dame entered Thursday second in the ACC in rebounding margin, at plus-7.4 The fact the Fighting Irish won the rebounding battle against the Eagles by just a 47-44 margin did not sit well with McGraw, who said everyone but Jackie Young (eight rebounds) did a poor job on the glass.
"That's disgraceful," McGraw said of the margin.
MSST got upset Thursday night shaking up bracketology predictions. Creme bumped ND ahead of them and projects this moves ND from the Stockton bracket to Lexington. Creme also moved So Car to Lexington in tandem with ND.
Friday night Texas got upset. After 19 straight wins the Horns have lost 3 close games.
Here's Creme's revised brackets:
Bracketology - Women's College Basketball Brackets and Predictions - ESPN
So Notre Dame would get screwed over even more? Having to play South Carolina in the Elite 8 and UCONN in the Final Four? If anything, that should keep Notre Dame in the Stockton region
Don't understand his bracket. He states the loss by Miss St moves them to 4 and ND to 3 overall. If that is true, then ND should not be seeded #1 in the bracket that faces Uconn in the final four. Everyone knows 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 so why did he move ND to that bracket?
Mychal Johnson, wearing a walking boot on her left leg, is shut down from action until at least tournament time.
STARTERS FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
B. Turner F 2-4 0-0 2-3 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 0 6
K. Westbeld F 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
M. Mabrey G 2-4 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 5
A. Ogunbowale G 3-4 2-3 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 8
L. Allen G 1-1 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 4
BENCH FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
E. Boley F 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
J. Young G 0-1 0-0 2-2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
TEAM 8-15 3-5 6-7 2 6 8 4 2 3 3 1 25
50.0% 60.0% 85.7%