Greensboro, NC-Cal gave Notre Dame de Sixth Rang everything he could manage before falling from 73-64 in the quarter-final of the female basketball tournament on Friday. But the Golden Bears season is far from over.
The Bears (25-8) will have to wait a week before the NCAA tournament selection show on Sunday March 16, but the name of CAL will be called. It will be the first appearance of the Bears in The Big Dance since 2019 and the first under coach Charmin Smith.
Charlie Creme d’Espn provides the Bears to be a seeded n ° 8 in the NCAA. Despite the defeat against the Irish, 26-4 and the defending champion of the tournament, Cal did nothing or nothing to harm his curriculum vitae of the tournament.
Cal opened his first ACC tournament by beating Virginia in the second round on Thursday, then almost awarded a defeat of 91-52 in South Bend last month. A victory against Notre Dame would have been the best classified victory of Cal since he beat then-no. 5 Stanford on January 13, 2013. He would also have given the Bears victories on three teams classified during a season for the first time since 2019-20.
Despite 27 reversals, 19 in the first half, the Bears kept the meeting in the last until the last minutes.
Cal, seeded n ° 7 of the ACC tournament, led the second seeded Notre Dame 47-41 halfway to the third quarter on the strength of a sequence of 14-3. But this advance disappeared and the game turned when the Irish responded with a sequence of 12-0.
Lulu Twidale led Cal with 16 points, passing 4-in-7 from the 3-point beach. Marta Suarez and Kayla Williams each scored 14 points, and Michelle Onyiah added 13 points.
ACC HANNAH HIDALGO’s ACC PRIFICATION led Notre Dame with 25 points.
The Fighting Irish qualified for the semi-finals on Saturday to play the winner of Louisville-Duke.
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California Daily Newspapers
