SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame are back in the Final Four for the second straight season, and the game plan for the national semifinals will look familiar.
Notre Dame (34-3) and Connecticut (33-4) meet for the fourth time this season on Sunday in Denver. The winner will face Baylor or Stanford in Tuesday’s championship.
Irish coach Muffet McGraw says: “I don’t think there’s any mystery in the game.”
Notre Dame beat Maya Moore and Connecticut 72-63 in the national semifinals last season, then defeated the Huskies twice this year in Big East play. But UConn beat the Irish a 63-54 in the Big East tournament final.
The Irish lost to Texas A&M in the national championship last year, and star guard Skylar Diggins says that setback has been the bigger motivator this season.
