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UConn and Notre Dame have history in the women’s NCAA Tournament, but there will be a first when the two teams take the court on Sunday.
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The Huskies and Fighting Irish will face each other for the first time with a Final Four bid on the line. The winner of Sunday’s final in Fort Worth Regional 1 will fill the first slot for the Final Four in Phoenix.
Out of the eight times these two programs have previously met in the tourney, the Huskies are 5-3. However, they’re 2-2 going back to the 2013-14 season. These two met earlier this year with UConn protecting home court in a 85-47 blowout win.
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Pregame thoughts
“When we would look at the brackets, it used to be like that with Tennessee too, you would look at the bracket and you would go, OK, when could we possibly face them? Most of the time, because of the high seeds that we were, it would end up being in the Final Four,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “For us that became, we knew at some point we would have to beat them if we wanted to win a national championship.”
The sixth-seeded Irish (25-10) is in its first Elite Eight since 2019 and taking on the defending national champion and top overall seed Huskies (37-0), who have a 53-game winning streak. For Notre Dame to beat UConn, they’ll have to play mistake-free basketball on both ends of the floor.
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Notre Dame vs. UConn How to Watch
Date: Sunday, March 29
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Dickeys Arena- Fort Worth, Texas
TV: ABC (Available on FuboTV)
“The rivalry started way before we even got here,” said Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo. “We understand how big it is.”
Hidalgo had a 31-point near quadruple-double in Notre Dame’s Sweet 16 win over Vanderbilt. She’ll need to bring the same energy for the Irish against the Huskies. Hidalgo is second nationally with 26.1 points a game. She also broke the NCAA single-season record with 199 steals, including 10 on Friday against the Commodores.
A win for UConn would make them just the 7th team ever to make the Final Four undefeated, and the 5th time UConn has done it under Auriemma.
