Notre Dame overcomes sluggish begin to beat Florida State

It seemed like Notre Dame may instantly undergo the consequences of dara mabrey being out for the season. In any case, Florida State is a ranked staff stacked with expertise, so this wasn’t an opponent the Irish might take evenly. Whereas which may not have been the case, hassle appeared to have been within the playing cards anyway. Ultimately, the Irish righted the ship and received, 70-47.

The Irish (17-2 8-1) had a tough first-half stretch as they missed 14 consecutive field-goal makes an attempt, permitting the Seminoles (18-5, 7-3) to rattle off 14 unanswered factors regardless of having their very own capturing troubles. The Irish went down by 10 within the second quarter, however they fully made that deficit up and trailed by just one at halftime. They lastly took agency management of the sport within the third quarter by outscoring the Seminoles, 27-10. A pleasant fourth quarter gave them a 48-24 scoring benefit for all the second half.

sonia citron led all gamers with 19 factors. Lauren Ebo, who took Mabrey’s beginning spot for this recreation, achieved a double-double of 12 factors and 10 rebounds. KK Bransford scored 15 off the bench. Whereas olivia miles shot solely 2 of seven from the sphere on a seven-point night time, she did have a game-high six assists.

This was not a reasonably recreation should you like capturing. The groups mixed for a field-goal proportion of .315, so any capturing lovers who threw their remotes at their TVs may very well be forgiven (though we don’t condone that conduct). Nonetheless, the Irish have been rolling on protection from the beginning, and that in the end performed an enormous position within the final result. They’ll want that as they proceed a stretch of three ranked opponents in 4 video games.

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