Notre Dame entered Monday’s match against Duke classified as a n ° 1 team of the country for the first time this season.
It seemed a lot the game while focusing on one of the country’s best teams. The Fighting Irish won a 64-49 victory at home against the Blue Devils n ° 11 to open their reign as a best team in the country convincingly.
Duke fought in the first half while the 11 points of Taina Mair helped the Blue Devils in a single possession while Our Lady took a 29-27 lead in the break. But the tone of the game changed spectacularly after half-time.
Notre Dame opened the second half with a sequence of 17-1 to take control of the game. Duke did not score his first goal on the half-time field until Jadyn Donovan obtains a lay-up With 4:04 to play in the third quarter. At that time it was too late. The bucket reduced Notre Dame’s advance to 46-31, and Fighting Irish never left the Blue Devils in the game.
Hannah Hidalgo led Notre Dame’s effort with 19 points, four assists and three interceptions. Sonia Lemon added 15 points, seven rebounds, three assists and three interceptions.
Notre Dame checked glass with a 41-28 rebound advantage which included 15 offensive boards. The Irish limited the Blue Devils to an effort 1 out of 9 (11.1%) at a distance of 3 points while pulling 6 out of 18 (33.3%) beyond the arc themselves.
He increased to a dominant effort from Notre Dame to guarantee his 17th consecutive victory. The Irish lost consecutive matches against TCU and UTAH on November 29 and November 30 and have not been lost since. Their curriculum vitae now includes victories at the time. 2 UCONN, n ° 3 USC, n ° 4 of Texas, n ° 17 Caroline du Nord, n ° 17 Georgia Tech, n ° 21 CAL and now n ° 11 DUKE.
Notre Dame went to n ° 1 of the survey AP Monday after the defeat of the UCLA undefeated against the USC last Thursday. It was not a unanimous selection (16 votes), because 2 Texas (8) and the n ° 3 UCLA (6) also received votes in first place. But the Irish people pleaded on Monday that they belonged to the summit when they now obtaining the eye guaranteeing the seeded n ° 1 in the NCAA tournament.
This will probably take more work by the Irish, which were classified n ° 4 behind the N ° 1 of the UCLA, the South Carolina n ° 2 and Texas n ° 3 in the first early difference of the NCAA on Sunday.
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