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Watch: Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Top Ten Tournament Moments

The last 25 years has been an insane for Notre Dame in women’s hoops. What are their 10 best tournament moments? Watch them here!

The Notre Dame Women’s Basketball team has been on a remarkable run the last quarter-century. They reached their first Final Four under the direction of Muffet McGraw in 1997, won their first national championship in 2001 before being a main-stay in the Final Four over the last decade and again winning a championship in 2018 in the most exciting of ways possible.

During that run there have been endless memories. Buzzer beaters, comeback wins and plenty of incredible individual performances to keep tournament marches alive. Notre Dame’s Athletic Page on YouTube recently ranked the top ten moments by the women’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament and this is what they came up with:

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I won’t argue the rankings although moments vs. complete game performances can cause a little bit of confusion. We may live to be 100 and not see someone have a weekend like Arike Ogunbowale had at the 2018 Final Four and National Championship, though.

Watch: SB Nation Does Deep Rewind of Arike Ogunbowale’s Title-Winning Shot

One of my favorite YouTube channels is SB Nation. The way it delves into sports history with their various series such as Collapse and The Worst makes it a must for sports fans. Perhaps its best series is Deep Rewind, in which it gives extensive …

Think about where you were the night Arike Ogunbowale beat the buzzer against Mississippi State to win the 2018 national championship. She had just upset UConn in the semifinals with a similar shot two nights before, and all of a sudden, she was a last-second hero again. It was only surprising that she didn’t get struck by lightning later that night.

Take a look at why it seemed so unlikely the Irish found themselves in this position that season. Learn how this national game came down to one play. And reminisce about the joy you felt the moment this shot went in. As they say at the end of these videos, welcome to a moment in history.

Happy Anniversary (x 2), Notre Dame Women’s Basketball

April 1 is a rather important day in the history of Notre Dame Women’s Basketball – Celebrate it here!

2019-20 didn’t bring a season that Notre Dame Women’s Basketball fans would have hoped for. Had there been a March Madness they wouldn’t have qualified for the first time since the 1993-94 season that saw them finish in the third round of the Women’s NIT.

However, April 1 is a rather important day in the history of Notre Dame Women’s Basketball because on it 19 years ago this evening, the 2000-01 squad beat Purdue for the second time that season and clinched their first national championship in program history as Ruth Riley saved her best moment for her last, leading all scorers with 28 points that included a pair of free throws to give the Irish the lead with five seconds left.

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17 years to the day later things came down to the final seconds again with Notre Dame battling Mississippi State and actually trailing by five points with under 100 seconds to play.

Enter Arike Ogunbowale and as big of shot as there has ever been in March Madness.

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Two national championships exactly 17 years apart. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Choice for Notre Dame’s Athletic Moment of the Decade an Obvious One

McGraw’s Irish had an all-time decade where deep NCAA Tournament runs were simply protocol.

No matter what sport you’re a fan of, if you’re a fan of Notre Dame athletics you had an incredibly memorable decade.

The football team returned to national prominence, twice going unbeaten in the regular season and making an appearance in the BCS Championship Game in 2012 and in the College Football Playoff in 2018.

Mike Brey’s basketball team reached heights that haven’t been seen in South Bend in a very long time as the Fighting Irish peaked mid-decade, winning the ACC in 2015 before nearly pulling the upset of unbeaten Kentucky in the Midwest Regional Final and coming within a buzzer-beater of going to the Final Four. They’d return to the Elite Eight a year later before falling to North Carolina as well.

The men’s hockey team made seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament, something they had done just four times previously. Three times they made the Frozen Four including a national final appearance in 2018.

As much as there was to get excited about there was one team that stuck out more than any others, and by a pretty significant margin.

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