What to know, how to watch No. 3 Notre Dame women’s basketball vs. Louisville
Notre Dame has the chance to end the regular season on a good note against Louisville on Sunday. College GameDay is in town for the matchup, with Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman serving as the guest picker. GameDay airs from Purcell Pavilion beginning at 11 a.m. ET.
This is everything to know about the matchup.
Notre Dame women’s basketball vs. Louisville game info
- Teams: No. 3 Notre Dame (24-3, 15-1 ACC) and No. 25 Louisville (22-6, 12-4)
- Head coaches: Niele Ivey (113-3, fifth year at Notre Dame); Jeff Walz (484-183, 18th year at Louisville)
- All-time series: Notre Dame leads, 21-14; the Irish won the last meeting, 89-71, on Feb. 2, 2025
- Date: March 2, 2025
- Location: Purcell Pavilion (South Bend, Ind.)
- Time: 12 p.m. ET
- Television: ESPN
- TV broadcasters: Beth Mowins & Debbie Antonelli
- Radio: 96.1 FM WSBT in South Bend
- Radio broadcaster: Sean Stires and Karen Keyes
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What to know about Notre Dame
• The Irish are reeling having lost two games in a row to NC State and Florida State. By way of those defeats, they no longer control their own destiny in terms of winning the ACC regular season title outright. If Notre Dame and NC State both win Sunday, they’ll share the championship. The Wolfpack have the head-to-head tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed at the conference tournament.
• Notre Dame’s leading scorer, Hannah Hidalgo, has only made 12 of her last 44 shot attempts. The Irish, for as talented as they are across the board, tend to go as Hidalgo goes. And, lately, she has not been going. Hidalgo’s best game since February was against these Cardinals, though, when she scored 34 points on 54.5 percent shooting a month ago. Perhaps she can channel that same sort of performance in this regular season finale.
• Notre Dame is averaging 85 points allowed per game during its two-game skid. The Irish had not allowed 80-plus points in any game this season until the last two.
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What to know about Louisville
• At Louisville’s best, the Cardinals can take care of ranked teams like they did against Georgia Tech, Cal, Florida State and Duke. At their worst, they’re capable of losing to ranked teams by 30-plus like they did against UConn and NC State. There have been more competitive losses against ranked teams on the Cards’ ledger, too, like losing in overtime at Kentucky and by single digits to UCLA and Oklahoma. Louisville kept it close against Notre Dame the first time for a while, too, before the Irish pulled away and won by 18 on the road.
• Louisville doesn’t have a superstar-driven team. Three players average in double figures and any one of them can get 20 points on her best night, but rarely do they all go off in unison. The Cardinals are inconsistent in that way.
By the numbers
| Stat | Notre Dame | Louisville |
| Scoring offense | 86.6 | 73.6 |
| Scoring margin | 24.4 | 6.3 |
| FG% | 49.3 | 44.0 |
| 3FG% | 40.3 | 32.2 |
| 3FG made/game | 7.8 | 6.2 |
| FT% | 77.2 | 71.8 |
| FT made/game | 12.4 | 12.3 |
| Rebounds | 44.0 | 36.3 |
| Rebound margin | 9.6 | 3.4 |
| Assists | 18.0 | 15.1 |
| Turnovers | 15.2 | 15.9 |
| Turnover margin | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| Assist/turnover ratio | 1.2 | 1.0 |
| Steals | 11.5 | 9.5 |
| Blocks | 5.6 | 1.9 |
