Game Thread: #4 Notre Dame at #16 Louisville Highlights President's Day Games

the Schimmel sisters. Ever since I watched “Off the Rez”, I’ve been interested in how their careers would turn out…

Bad (or ND defense good) in the early going, but the Cardinals are starting to get on track…

Irish 12, Card 9 – 13:30, 1st half

and is staying in the game. Sky at the line to shoot (and sink) two

Notre Dame already has eight turnovers in the game, halfwayish through the first half. Yikes.

And Notre Dame is starting to be a little fouly…this could be good for the Cardinal to catch up/overtake the lead

ND 21, UL 19 – 6:04, 1st half

But misses her layup with Louisville down 3, near halftime. A Cardinal foul on the rebound with 22.4 seconds will give Notre Dame one last look in the half.

Notre Dame vs. Lousiville
38.6% – Shooting% – 28.5%
16 – Rebounds – 18
12 – Turnovers – 11
7- Assists – 2
9 Fouls – 5

No double-digit scorers at halftime, but Skylar Diggins is close with 9 points on 2-of-6 shooting; notable oh-fers so far are Shoni Schimmel (0-for-7) and Natalie Novosel (0-for-4)

At halftime, just might have worked – she puts in her first fg of the game, with a high kiss of the glass…

Just an impressive all-around player who gets overshadowed by Diggins quite a bit.

Notre Dame on an 8-2 run to grab their biggest lead of the game. A Schimmel turnover will give the Irish the opportunity to extend even further…

Schimmel take a step in instead of shooting from no-man’s land? Particularly since her shots aren’t falling from far far away…

4 on Natalie Novosel with the offensive violation….

Kayla McBride has 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting and 3 steals for ND. The Irish shooting percentage is up to 46.5 nearing to point of no comeback for the Cardinals (imho)…

Notre Dame retains it’s spot on top of the Big East after a sweltering second half…

Leaders:
ND – Skylar Diggins (27 points, 7 assists, 5-of-11 FG, 10-of-11 FT), Kayla McBride (15 points, 7-of-9 FG), Mallory with 13 points, Dev Peters with 10 and 9 rebounds
Louisville – Antonia Slaughter – off the bench (12 points, 6 rebounds), Asia Taylor (9 points, 7 rebounds – 6 o boards), Shoni Schimmel (9 points, 5 steals)

Buckeyes having scoring probbies & PSU capitalizing on 2nd chance opportunities… Nittany Lions up 20-13, 12:18 – 1st half

12 o boards? how can Ohio State rebound? at all?

buckeyes playing smelly basketball, I don’t care what you people say abt Sammy P.

And OSU is down 15 at the half? Man, what happened?

Here’s hoping for three Pac-12 teams in there!

I would also love to see Gonzaga & BYU… but I don’t see an at-large bid for the WCC this year based on how those two have performed.

The call to switch to Jeremy Lin is pulling on me more and more strongly…

killing it.

how does this happen??? #gladimnotatOSUfan

Vanderbilt up 4-2 early, looking fluid early.

Kentucky seems to be allowing vandy to stick in. letting foggie shoot triples isn’t helping the Wildcats cause too much

I’m kind of disappointed that none of today’s tv games have been very close or well played, necessarily. too bad :(

Still waiting for a run tonight… since for like 4 hours now…

Vanderbilt cuts the Kentucky lead to 12 with 11:35 left.

Much more of the ball movement we might’ve expected to get back in this game.

Adjustment for Kentucky: rotate. As in, move when the offensive player moves.

after being down by 20 in the second half

But the comeback effort showed resilience in their execution…and, once again, wavering focus by Kentucky.