The primary excitement around the Notre Dame campus right is about the football team in the College Football Playoff and rightfully so. But when football ends, the focus will shift to the women’s basketball team, a national championship contender in its own right.
Even amidst all the football hoopla, Irish fans are finding time to turn out for women’s basketball games. Maybe no more home football games this season have at least partly to do with it, but Purcell Pavilion should be seeing a lot of fans as ACC play begins in earnest.
To that end, the women’s basketball team announced in the hours before the football team defeated Indiana that its conference home opener against Virginia has been sold out. What’s more, this season now has had the most sellouts for the program since Niele Ivey became coach. This is remarkable considering we’re not even into January yet.
People want to see the Irish play, and they deserve the attention.
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This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: Notre Dame women’s basketball sells out ACC home opener vs. Virginia
