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ND Women's BB '17 -'18 Season
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FINAL ND 83 MIA 76
FINAL ND 83 MIA 76
Matchup MIA ND
FINAL ND 83 MIA 76
Matchup MIA ND
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FG Made-Attem 32-68 29-69
[B]Field Goal % 47.1 42.0
3PT Made-Atte 3-11 3-12
Three Point % 27.3 25.0[/B]
[B]FT Made-Attem 9-12 22-26
Free Throw % 75.0 84.6[/B]
[B]Total Rebounds 42 38[/B]
Offensive Rebs 11 12
Defensive Rebs 31 26
Assists 16 22
Steals 8 9
Blocks 2 3
[B]Total Turnovers 21 16[/B]
Personal Fouls 18 12
Technical Fouls 0 0Final Ind Stats
Final Ind Stats
Miami
Notre Dame
Final Ind Stats
Miami
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STARTERS MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
S. BaileyF -- 4-9 0-0 5-6 3 5 8 4 0 0 2 5 13
E. DavenportC -- 12-19 0-0 0-0 2 2 4 0 1 0 1 4 24
E. HofC -- 6-14 0-0 2-4 1 5 6 2 3 2 5 2 14
E. BanksG -- 4-8 0-2 0-0 1 5 6 6 2 0 6 3 8
M. GrayG -- 2-7 1-3 2-2 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 7
BENCH MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
K. HarrisF -- 1-2 0-1 0-0 0 5 5 0 0 0 2 1 2
T. MasonG -- 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
K. MarshallG -- 1-4 0-1 0-0 0 3 3 2 2 0 0 1 2
N. PetithommeG -- 2-5 2-4 0-0 1 2 3 0 0 0 2 1 6
TEAM 32-68 3-11 9-12 11 31 42 16 8 2 21 18 76
47.1% 27.3% 75.0%
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STARTERS MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
J. ShepardF -- 4-10 0-0 4-5 1 5 6 1 0 3 4 3 12
K. WestbeldF -- 5-10 0-2 0-0 1 2 3 3 2 0 1 4 10
M. MabreyG -- 7-14 3-8 4-4 0 4 4 7 1 0 4 2 21
A. OgunbowaleG -- 4-17 0-1 12-13 2 4 6 4 2 0 3 3 20
J. YoungG -- 5-10 0-1 1-2 2 5 7 5 3 0 3 0 11
BENCH MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
D. PattersonF -- 2-4 0-0 1-2 3 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 5
K. NelsonF -- 2-4 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 0 4
TEAM 29-69 3-12 22-26 12 26 38 22 9 3 16 12 83
42.0% 25.0% 84.6%Miami vs. Notre Dame - Game Recap - January 4, 2018 - ESPN
Mabrey, Ogunbowale help No. 2 Notre Dame survive Miami
Mabrey, Ogunbowale help No. 2 Notre Dame survive Miami
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Marina Mabrey scored 21 points, Arike Ogunbowale had 20 despite struggling from the field and No. 2 Notre Dame survived an upset bid by Miami in an 83-76 victory on Thursday night.
Jessica Shepard had 12 points, Jackie Young added 11 and Kathryn Westbeld scored 10 for the Irish (14-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference).
Ogunbowale hit her first shot and then missed her next 12, going 28 minutes without a basket, before scoring on a rebound and hitting a free throw for a 62-57 Irish lead with 7:28 to play. Notre Dame led the rest of the way.
Erykah Davenport scored 24 points but just two in the final quarter for Miami (11-4, 1-1 ACC). Emes Hof had 14 points and Shanese Bailey had 13 for the Hurricanes.
Mabrey scored 14 first-half points as the Irish fought through poor shooting to take a 40-36 halftime lead. Miami started the game with a 14-3 run before Notre Dame battled back with the help of 10 Hurricane turnovers. The Irish shot 37.8 percent (14 of 37) in the half.
The second half began with Notre Dame committing three turnovers and Miami hitting its first five shots to forge a 46-45 lead. Davenport had 14 points in the quarter as the lead seesawed until a 6-0 run gave the Irish a 55-50 advantage with 3:57 remaining. But Miami closed with a 5-0 run to send the game into the fourth quarter tied.
ANOTHER SEASON-ENDING INJURY
The Irish played without point guard Lili Thompson, a graduate transfer from Stanford who became the team's fourth player to suffer a serious knee injury when she tore the ACL in her right knee during Sunday's win over Wake Forest. She will miss the rest of the season. Others with season-ending ACL injuries since September are forwards Brianna Turner and Mikayla Vaughn and guard Mychal Johnson, leaving coach Muffet McGraw with seven scholarship players and three walk-ons.
"It's certainly an unprecedented situation in my career," McGraw said.
In 14 games, Thompson averaged 5.9 points, a team-best 1.6 steals and 4.6 assists.
BIG PICTURE
Miami: The Hurricanes, who own one of the two victories by ACC teams over the Irish since Notre Dame joined the league in 2013, shot 50 percent in the first half (16 of 32). With a 51-48 defeat Dec. 31 against then-No. 14 Duke, coach Katie Meier's team could be sleeper if it cleans up its shortcomings.
Notre Dame: Inconsistent shooting could come back to haunt the Irish, who rely on Ogunbowale's 20.5 points per game.
UP NEXT
Miami: Hosts Wake Forest Sunday.
Notre Dame: Visits Georgia Tech Sunday.
AP Top 25
Others receiving votes: Villanova 49, Stanford 30, South Florida 24, Syracuse 22, Georgia 10, Marquette 5, LSU 4, Utah 3, Brown 2, Ball State 1, Belmont 1, Mercer 1
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RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Connecticut (32) 13-0 800
2 Notre Dame 15-1 747
3 Louisville 18-0 741
4 Mississippi State 17-0 702
5 Baylor 14-1 661
6 Tennessee 15-0 641
7 Texas 13-1 617
8 Oregon 15-2 559
9 South Carolina 13-2 557
10 Ohio State 15-2 520
11 Maryland 15-2 476
12 Missouri 14-2 426
13 Florida State 14-2 373
14 UCLA 11-4 367
15 West Virginia 14-2 320
16 Duke 12-4 280
17 Texas A&M 13-4 275
18 Arizona State 13-3 227
18 Iowa 15-2 227
20 Oklahoma State 12-3 224
21 Rutgers 16-2 139
22 Oregon State 11-4 136
23 Michigan 13-4 115
24 California 11-4 67
25 Green Bay 12-2 51Others receiving votes: Villanova 49, Stanford 30, South Florida 24, Syracuse 22, Georgia 10, Marquette 5, LSU 4, Utah 3, Brown 2, Ball State 1, Belmont 1, Mercer 1
USA Today Coaches Poll
USA Today Coaches Poll
Others receiving votes: Syracuse 62, Villanova 40, Virginia 13, Georgia Tech 10, California 8, Marquette 8, DePaul 7, Florida Gulf Coast 4, Miami 4, Georgia 3, Stanford 2, Ball State 2, USC 1, Virginia Tech 1
USA Today Coaches Poll
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RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Connecticut (32) 13-0 800
2 Notre Dame 15-1 748
3 Missi State 17-0 731
4 Louisville 18-0 721
5 Baylor 14-1 658
6 Tennessee 15-0 626
7 Texas 13-1 601
8 So Caroli 13-2 564
9 Oregon 15-2 559
10 Ohio State 15-2 522
11 Maryland 15-2 473
12 Florida St 14-2 399
13 Missouri 14-2 382
14 UCLA 11-4 368
15 W.Virginia 14-2 363
16 Texa A&M 13-4 282
17 Iowa 15-2 265
18 Duke 12-4 260
19 Rutgers 16-2 164
20 Michigan 13-4 154
21 Oregon State 11-4 148
22 Oklahoma State 12-3 143
23 Arizona State 13-3 123
24 Green Bay 12-2 102
25 South Florida 12-4 79Others receiving votes: Syracuse 62, Villanova 40, Virginia 13, Georgia Tech 10, California 8, Marquette 8, DePaul 7, Florida Gulf Coast 4, Miami 4, Georgia 3, Stanford 2, Ball State 2, USC 1, Virginia Tech 1
NOW
NOW
Top Showdown Awaits as No. 2 Irish Battles No. 3 Louisville
Tip-off is Thursday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. ET, on ESPN
Game 17: #2/2 Notre Dame (15-1, 4-0) at #3/4 Louisville (18-0, 4-0)
When: Thursday, Jan. 11 | 7:00 pm ET
Where: Louisville, Ky. | KFC Yum Center (22,000)
Watch: ESPN | WatchESPN
Listen: PULSE FM 96.9 / 92.1 | Bob Nagle (PxP)
NOW
Top Showdown Awaits as No. 2 Irish Battles No. 3 Louisville
Tip-off is Thursday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. ET, on ESPN
Game 17: #2/2 Notre Dame (15-1, 4-0) at #3/4 Louisville (18-0, 4-0)
When: Thursday, Jan. 11 | 7:00 pm ET
Where: Louisville, Ky. | KFC Yum Center (22,000)
Watch: ESPN | WatchESPN
Listen: PULSE FM 96.9 / 92.1 | Bob Nagle (PxP)
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – A top-three showdown awaits as No. 2 Notre Dame women’s basketball travels to No. 3 Louisville on Thursday, Jan. 11, for a battle for the top-spot in the ACC standings. The game will be broadcast on ESPN, with tip-off set for 7 p.m. ET inside the KFC Yum Center.
The Irish (14-1, 3-0) vie for their ninth straight win and their second against a top-five opponent this season, after previously dispatching No. 3 ranked South Carolina. Notre Dame, who stopped the Gamecocks then 17-game win streak, will look to halt another streak on Thursday as the Cardinals (18-0, 4-0) enter with an unblemished record.
WHO’S HOT
Arike Ogunbowale has produced three straight games of 20- plus points and is once again vying for the opportunity to tie her career best stretch of four straight, already set once this season.
Ogunbowale has proven herself to be an ACC road warrior, tallying 25 points at both Wake Forest and Georgia Tech, with each marking her second highest scoring output on the year. The junior got off to hot starts in each, scoring 10 points in the first quarter at Wake Forest and then a season best 12 points in the opening period at Georgia Tech. Ogunbowale started the game 7-of-8 from the field vs the Yellow Jackets.
MEASURING STICK
Perseverance has been the name of the game in South Bend and the Irish have the numbers to back it up. With a strength of schedule ranked first in the country, a RPI ranked second and conference RPI ranked first, the Irish enter Thursday’s matchup 16-1, winners of eight straight and a 4-0 record in ACC play.
Notre Dame boasts the second most wins over RPI top- 50 opponents with eight and is also tied with Louisville for the second most wins over top-25 ranked opponents with four. A win Thursday over the third ranked Cardinals would tie UConn for first in both categories, and also tie the Huskies for two top-five wins this season.
SHOOTING PERCENTAGE HEATING UP
In two the last three games, the Irish have produced their highest and third highest shooting percentages on the season - both of which occurred on the road. At Wake Forest, Notre Dame shot at least 80.0 percent in both the first and third quarters, finishing at 55.7 percent for the game. At Georgia Tech, the Irish shot 70.0 percent (21-30) from the field in the first half, marking the first time they had accomplished the feat in any half of play since shooting 71.4 (30-42) versus Valparaiso on Dec. 4, 2016. Notre Dame ultimately finished with a season best 62.3 percent.
All-in-all, Notre Dame is shooting an impressive 51.0 percent during ACC play, which ranks first in the league. As a result, Notre Dame’s season shooting percentage has jumped to 49.0 percent, which ranks seventh in the nation.
ROAD WARRIORS
With the win at Georgia Tech on Jan. 7, the Irish procured its ninth win away from home this season, which ties Villanova and UConn for the most among all NCAA Division-I schools. From Nov. 14-Dec. 3, the Irish played seven straight games away from the friendly confines of Purcell Pavilion, matching the longest streak of non-home games in regular season history. Now Notre Dame has played a total of 10 away from home, travelling 13,070 round-trip miles in the process.
CAREER VS CARDINALS
In three career games vs Louisville, Ogunbowale has totaled 50 points to average 16.7 points per game. Mabrey’s 26 points against Louisville last March lifted the Irish past the Cardinals into the ACC Tournament Championship game. Overall, Mabrey averages 10.0 points over three games. Young contributed 16 points in each of the two games vs Louisville last season. Finally, Westbeld is averaging 7.0 points over four games.
ABOUT LOUISVILLE
No. 3 Louisville’s 18-0 record is their best start and longest winning streak in program history, besting the program’s 16 straight wins set from 12/3/13 to 2/4/14. The Cardinals are one-of-four remaining undefeated teams in the country along with No. 1 UConn, No. 4 Mississippi State and next week’s opponent for Notre Dame, No. 6 Tennessee.
Thursday’s game will be between two of the top-shooting teams in the country as Louisville’s .486 shooting percentage ranks eighth in the country. The Cardinals also rank 18th in free-throw percentage (.766) and 12th in three-point shooting percentage (.389). Individually, Louisville is led by Asia Durr’s 20.2 points per game, which ranks 31st in the nation.
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Asia Durr, defense lead unbeaten Louisville into clash with Notre Dame
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- In reality, the thumping sound faintly audible to all nearby came from Asia Durr's hand repeatedly hitting the court as she lay prone not far from the free throw line. But for those who wore the same uniform as the University of Louisville guard, not to mention several thousand others in the stands who wore Louisville colors, the sound might as well have been the beat of their own hearts, temporarily relocated somewhere in the vicinity of their throats.
Durr had just crumpled to the court in obvious pain, and without any precipitating contact from an opposing player, during the second quarter of an ACC game against Duke. Watching the All-American who had already put on a shooting show in the first quarter, those in the arena likely experienced an inner monologue similar to that of Cardinals captain Myisha Hines-Allen.
"Please get up," Hines-Allen recalled of her thoughts. "We need you. Please?"
Hines-Allen was able to play the line's plaintiveness for laughs afterward because Durr returned to the game, the damage thankfully no worse than a sore ankle. There was truth there, too. Now part of the pool for Team USA and one of three players in the ACC averaging at least 20 points per game this season, Durr is the rare individual talent who puts a title within a team's grasp.
Yet as No. 3 Louisville attempts to remain unbeaten when it hosts No. 2 Notre Dame on Thursday (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET), it isn't what Durr does with the ball in her hands that will reveal the most about the host's credentials. We already know that on any given night, Durr can be brilliant -- and will need to be for Louisville to be its best in March or April. How Notre Dame defends her might well determine the course of the night, but how well Louisville defends Notre Dame -- the only team thus far able to make Connecticut's grip on this season's title look anything other than ironclad -- will reveal more about where the season goes from here.
Louisville has the pieces at its disposal to be among the nation's best defensive teams. And the Cardinals would have us believe they also have the chemistry to fit those pieces together.
As Oregon coach Kelly Graves alluded to after his team lost in Louisville earlier this season, the Cardinals no longer fit the role of David very well. The only three-star recruits in the KFC Yum! Center on Thursday will need tickets. Like Notre Dame and the rest of the sport's small-but-expanding upper class, Louisville's roster is full of high school All-Americans who look the part.
Instead of willing-but-undersized frontcourt players like Asia Taylor or Monique Reid, essential parts of previous Final Four teams, the Cardinals have a front line in Hines-Allen, 6-foot-2 Bionca Dunham, 6-2 Sam Fuehring and 6-4 Kylee Shook that would make a volleyball coach jealous. Instead of deceptively athletic guards like Desereé Byrd or Becky Burke, they have Durr, Arica Carter, Dana Evans and Jasmine Jones, a sprint relay team in need of a baton.
"We have some ability, like in Dana Evans, to put more ball pressure on the ball than we've had in the past," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. "And then with Sam and Myisha and Kylee and Bionca, I've got four post players that are pretty interchangeable. So it's not like I can't switch post to post, or I can't get out there and double a ball screen. They're pretty mobile. And we haven't always had four of them that are as mobile as those four are."
What that means is evident on both the macro and micro level. Louisville enters the game against Notre Dame allowing opponents to shoot just 35.9 percent from the field. If maintained, it would be the stingiest such data point of the Walz era, which dates to 2007. The Cardinals are also forcing 18.9 turnovers per game, on par with the two teams that reached the Final Four as the best of the era. They rendered Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu and Duke's Lexie Brown largely ineffectual, pressing and doubling those two All-America candidates off of every ball screen without paying a price for it. They at least kept Ohio State's Kelsey Mitchell from taking over a game (thereby allowing Durr the space to do just that in an overtime win). The pressure, speed, size and agility forced opponents, at their strongest points, to react and adjust to Louisville's defense.
Walz and his coaching staff are among the best in the business at game-by-game adjustments, but executing those plans in the biggest of games is still a matter of personnel.
"Everyone on our team brings something different, that's what is unique about our team," Hines-Allen said of the defense. "Like Jaz is a phenomenal on-ball defender but she needs to work on off-ball defense. Just examples like that, some people may be good on the ball, so we'll put them on the best player, so they're not off the ball so much. That's why we've been clicking so well at the defensive end."
"Once you accept [that it is a communal effort], you'll go hard for your teammate ... If you look to your left and look to your right and see your sisters next to you, and they're going to always have your back and go hard for you, it's a lot easier to play."
Myisha Hines-Allen, on Louisville's defense
So much about defense is measurable. A player's speed or wingspan. An opponent's field goal percentage or usage rate. Yet if asked to define "clicking," Hines-Allen wouldn't turn to the measurable. Just as when he was asked about his preferred metrics for measuring defense, Walz said simply "effort."
The best athletes armed with the best scouting report won't succeed on defense if they don't play together. With an 18-0 start to show for it, Louisville players and coaches insist that last part is also something that is part of the current group's identity, at least as much as the Final Four teams.
"Once you accept [that it is a communal effort], you'll go hard for your teammate, the one next to you," Hines-Allen said. "You're not always worrying about what Coach Walz has to say, or the other coaches. They just want the best for you. But if you look to your left and look to your right and see your sisters next to you, and they're going to always have your back and go hard for you, it's a lot easier to play."
Durr might yet be the best player to pass through Louisville, but she is not the first unique talent. There were moments before when Angel McCoughtry or Shoni Schimmel were as mesmerizing as Durr draining shot after shot with ease in the first quarter against Duke. Those performances make it easy to forget the other players on the court -- makes it easy for them to forget they're on the court when Louisville has the ball, for that matter.
"Same thing when we had Angel here and Shoni," Walz said. "When you have players of that caliber, sometimes you get caught watching. Especially with the way that game started. I mean, I was watching. It was pretty impressive what Asia was getting done offensively."
It is what puts Louisville in the game. It is just that the key to its championship aspirations, not to mention the ACC supremacy at stake Thursday night, begins at the other end of the court.
Jackie got aggressive underneath for 2.
Carter responds with a 3. Mabrey 3 off the rim.
ND timeout 3:42 1Q, UL 26-11
ND hitting 57% from the floor, 67% from the arc and is getting buried.
UL 83% from the floor, 12-4 , 100% from the arc, 4-4.
Carter responds with a 3. Mabrey 3 off the rim.
ND timeout 3:42 1Q, UL 26-11
ND hitting 57% from the floor, 67% from the arc and is getting buried.
UL 83% from the floor, 12-4 , 100% from the arc, 4-4.