No. 3 Notre Women, Louisville Set for Sunday ESPN2 Matinee – Notre Women Fighting Irish – Official Athletics Website

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Louisville, Ky. -no. 3 Notre Dame (18-2, 9-0) plays his third road competition in so many matches on Sunday and closes the swing away from Purcell Pavilion with ACC Rival Louisville (15-6, 8-2). Notre Dame is looking for a 10-0 start in the ACC game for the first time since the team was undefeated in conference games in 2015-16, and the last ACC team that did was NC State in 2021-22 before Notre Dame beat Wolfpack.

The Irish come out of a 77-61 win at Virginia Tech on Thursday night. All-American Hannah Hidalgo fell 30 points for the third time this season and the eighth time in his career and passed Jewell Loyd for the second time in 30-point matches. She only tracks Irish playful arike ogunbowale (11).

Against Hokies, Liza Karl had his best ACC game to date. She walked 5-5 from the floor and knocked two 3-Pointers down and ended with 12 points and a win over her former head coach Megan Duffy, now in Blacksburg.

When turning to this weekend, the Irish and Cardinals have become one of the country’s best woman’s basketball rivalization. Louisville has been a dangerous but hot and cold team this year.

The Junior Tip Nyla Harris has been Louisville’s most consistent shooting game, led the team with a 60.8 field target percentage and a 64.9 brand in ACC Play. Harris, Tajianna Roberts and Jayda Curry are all average double figure points, and Roberts leads the group with 13.7. Freshman was No. 25 -recruits in the country in the 2024 class and played his high school basketball at IMG Academy in Florida.

Irish veterans Sonia Lemon, Olivia Miles and Maddy Westbeld have recently had great success against Louisville as Notre Dame has won four of the last six meetings. In eight career matches against cardinals, lemon has an average of 15.6 points and 4.8 rebounds per day. Competition. The last meeting came in the quarterfinals of last year’s ACC tournament and Lemon had 26 points and 10 made free kicks.

Notre Dame is 20-14 all the time against Louisville and 6-6 in their place. Sunday’s game starts at noon and will be at ESPN2. Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe will be on call.