No. 22 Notre Dame women's basketball loses 79-66 to No. 10 Louisville

Key Highlights

• The most puzzling part for Ivey was that she felt the Irish were on track to build off their 23-point win against North Carolina just four days prior. And it looked that way.
• While knocking off a top-10 team in the country was never going to be easy, it seemed that Notre Dame had a new swagger about it after knocking the Tar Heels out of the top-25 rankings only to boost itself into them. That confidence was why it wasn’t all that surprising that, even though the Cardinals led at halftime and held a 10-point advantage late in the third quarter, the Irish came within one possession of a tie game.
• Yet, the story of this game was Louisville’s ability to roll with Notre Dame’s punches. The Cardinals’ lead was cut to 59-56 with just 30 seconds left in the third quarter, and the sea of green in Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center rose to its feet.
• It was perhaps the loudest the crowd had been all night, and it seemed like momentum was finally back in the Irish’s hands. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMore: Notre Dame women's basketball beats North Carolina in statement winThat was until Louisville senior Reyna Scott drilled a 3-pointer with five seconds remaining to put the Cardinals up six.
• Notre Dame didn’t even bother inbounding the ball as time expired. There were 10 minutes left to play, but Scott’s shot from beyond the arc felt like the dagger.“They gained confidence as their shots were going in,” Ivey said.