No. 8 Louisville overcomes No. 19 Notre Dame 71-64

Lindsay Allen had 12 points and 10 assists, breaking the conference’s all-time assist record, for the top-seeded Irish (28-3). Beachem is adding 15.4 points per contest. Notre Dame only got the one field goal from there and did the rest of their work from the line.

Both teams had impressive showings from multiple players.

Notre Dame has now won six straight games to improve to 23-7 and into second place in the ACC with a 12-5 record in league play. It seems to come down to the last second when Louisville and North Carolina State play lately.

This year’s game is part of a two-game contract.

Junior Molly Cobb joined the action with just eight seconds remaining in the half, scoring and sending the Irish into halftime down, 5-4. That tied it at 51.

Snider hit another 3 on the next Louisville possession, restoring the Cardinals’ lead, before hitting key buckets on consecutive possessions later in the half, taking Louisville’s lead to seven, then eight, with 4:30 left. But The Irish never went away. Louisville responded with five unanswered to go up one.

Quentin Snider needs four assists for 100 this season.

It became high-energy/high-stakes basketball.

Women’s ACC TournamentNo. 14 LOUISVILLE 59, No. 17 N.C. It’s a building the Irish know well. We win on Saturday and we’ll root for the Blue Devils on Saturday night and we’ll see where we stand. But the Irish overcame a cold-shooting first half and foul trouble to oust Louisville from the tournament at the HTC Center in Conway, South Carolina. “We got the ball to the right people, took good care of it and forced them into 18 (turnovers), which was huge”. The half consisted of four lead changes.

Louisville: Mathiang didn’t start but provided the initial spark off the bench with 12 first-half points and five rebounds. Colson and Farrell each had nine for the Irish.

Mitchell had been one of the hottest players in the league, was coming off games of 25, 21 and 26 points and got off to a great start at Wake. The Irish surpassed those expectations. FSU also topped Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl to close the 1995 season.

Notre Dame: The Irish had outshot the Cardinals much of the game but were crushed on the boards 44-27.

The 19th-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish had their 6-game winning streak snapped on Saturday, falling to #8 Louisville at the KFC Yum!