| GAME 12 | No. 3 Notre Dame (9-2) vs Loyola MD (5-4) |
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| WHEN: | Sunday, Dec. 22 | 12 p.m. |
| WHERE | South Bend, Ind. | Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center |
| WATCH: | ACCNX |
| LISTEN: | Notre Dame Radio Network |
| SOCIAL: | @NDWBB | #GOIRISH |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — For the third time in a month and for the second time in a week, Notre Dame and Louisville will see each other on the court.
The fifth-seeded Cardinals notched a comeback win over 13th-seed Boston College on Thursday, and they will now see No. 4 seed Notre Dame on Friday morning. The rivals split the two regular season matchups; the home team won each time.
Notre Dame is coming off of back-to-back ranked wins over then-No. 5 Virginia Tech and then-No. 22 Louisville. The Irish played suffocating defense in both games, holding two of the conference’s best offenses to 58 points each. Virginia Tech’s 58 points were the fewest scored against Notre Dame by a top-five conference foe since 2008, and that was followed by allowing just one Louisville player to notch double-figures on Sunday.
Louisville will once again have to deal with Notre Dame’s three-headed monster: Hannah Hidalgo, Maddy Westbeld and Sonia Citron. All three made All-ACC teams earlier this week; Hidalgo was a member of the First Team, while Westbeld and Citron notched spots on the Second Team. Hidalgo was also named ACC Rookie and Defensive Player of the Year. Notre Dame is the only ACC team with three players on the All-ACC teams.
Friday morning’s game tips off on the ACC Network at 11 a.m. Pam Ward and Kelly Gramlich will be on the call.