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Observer Sports Staff | Wednesday, July 18, 2018
After winning the 2018 national championship, the women’s basketball team added more silverware to their record season on Wednesday night, as Arike Ogunbowale won the 2018 ESPY for Best Play. The then-junior guard’s game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer against No. 1-seeded Mississippi State for the national title game was chosen by the fans who voted
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, June 21, 2018
The 2018 NCAA women’s basketball national champions will have three more chances to take home a trophy this year after its nominations for the 2018 ESPY Awards. ESPN released its list of nominees Wednesday, with the Irish receiving nominations in three categories. Irish senior guard Arike Ogunbowale’s 3-point buzzer beater to defeat Mississippi State for the national championship
Observer Staff Report | Monday, April 16, 2018
Junior Arike Ogunbowale, a guard on Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team, will compete on the 26th season of ABC’s dance competition show “Dancing with the Stars,” ABC announced Friday. Ogunbowale, who received national attention after securing the women’s basketball program’s first national championship since 2001 with two game-winning buzzer-beaters in the women’s NCAA basketball tournament, will
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
Daniel O'Boyle | Saturday, March 31, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In groups of two or three, almost every player in Notre Dame’s locker room was huddled around a phone playing the same song, a tribute to the team by Indiana rapper Tevin Studdard. “Some guy tweeted it at us,” graduate student forward Kristina Nelson said. “That was lit. He literally put the
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
Daniel O'Boyle | Thursday, March 29, 2018
You never count UConn out. They’re considered among the greatest teams in the history of any sport for a reason. But with a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter and both of the Huskies’ best players leaving the game, the Irish were, for just a brief moment of Dec. 3’s regular-season meeting between Notre Dame
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, March 27, 2018
SPOKANE, Wash. — After Oregon fans left Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena and the Irish faithful waited for head coach Muffet McGraw to finish cutting down the nets, a staff member at the stadium rolled up one of large the banners reading “NCAA Spokane Regional” that lined the court. “Where do you keep those? Like, can I
Daniel O'Boyle | Monday, March 26, 2018
SPOKANE, Wash. — Thirty years ago, Penn State Guard Suzie McConnell recorded a record seventh triple-double of her college career. That record was tied once, by Louella Tomlinson of St. Mary’s (CA) in 2011, but few other players got anywhere near that mark. Before the start of this season, only 26 players had even recorded