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Elizabeth Greason | Monday, April 2, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kathryn Westbeld sat down and leaned against the back of her locker in the locker room of Nationwide Arena. A soft smile plastered to the senior forward’s face; she gently shook her head at no one in particular before gazing down at her hand, clad with Notre Dame’s signature playoff-green nail polish and
Daniel O'Boyle | Monday, April 2, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — From junior forward Jessica Shepard’s layup to make the game 12-6 and her score to make it 24-16, 10 minutes and 36 seconds of basketball were played. Junior guard Marina Mabrey made a layup. Mabrey missed a layup. Junior guard Arike Ogunbowale missed a jumper. Mabrey missed a jumper. Ogunbowale missed another
Daniel O'Boyle | Monday, April 2, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Arike Ogunbowale climbed the ladder to cut down the net at Nationwide Arena, she stopped and looked around confused for a few seconds, miming a pair of scissors to show that she couldn’t find them. They were right at the top of the ladder, the same spot every other player on the
Elizabeth Greason | Saturday, March 31, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Against Oregon, it was Kathryn Westbeld. The senior forward went 9-for-12 for 20 points on an extremely efficient night, because in her words, something had to give — there was too much talent on the court for all five players to get equal attention from the Ducks. On Friday, that player was
Daniel O'Boyle | Saturday, March 31, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It couldn’t be confined to 40 minutes. In fact, it couldn’t be confined to one day. This had to finish in the early hours of Saturday morning. Irish fans may not have liked it, but the stolen inbounds pass to tie the game felt right. There needed to be more. An ending
Elizabeth Greason | Saturday, March 31, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — My parents always say you only need to watch the last three minutes of any Notre Dame sporting event. That’s where it’s all decided. On Friday, you could’ve gotten away with watching the final second before the buzzer in overtime of Notre Dame’s 91-89 win over UConn. It would have told you
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, March 27, 2018
SPOKANE, Wash. — It had to start with junior forward Jessica Shepard, the player who made an instant impact after being granted eligibility on the day of Notre Dame’s first preseason game. Top-seeded Notre Dame’s leading scorer had to be senior forward Kathryn Westbeld, the one starter whose value never seemed to appear on box scores.
Daniel O'Boyle | Saturday, March 24, 2018
SPOKANE, Wash. — A victory after trailing by 13 points in the second quarter to a fourth-seeded Texas A&M team that features the best freshman in the nation, all with only seven available scholarship players, one of whom hasn’t practiced all week, is a pretty improbable comeback. Right? “We’ve been down in other games,” Irish
Benjamin Padanilam | Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story was published online March 18. When the Irish went into the halftime locker room, it seemed as though the injuries had finally caught up to them. But when they came out of the locker room, something was different. And when they took the court for the third
Elizabeth Greason | Monday, March 5, 2018
It is said there is a first time for everything. That was the case for No. 5 Notre Dame on Sunday, who was unable to claim the ACC tournament title for the first time since joining the conference. The Irish failed to make history as the first team to win both the regular-season title and