-Notre Dame women beat UConn women in OT, 83-75, and advance to the Tuesday evening final against Baylor. Baylor advanced after taking care of Stanford, 59-47. If you look at the stats on the ND game, it would appear that the Irish should have dominated the Huskies. The team from South Bend led in every single one of the categories except free throw percentage (the Irish made up for that by making 20 of 27; UConn was 10 of 13), and blocked shots where it was 8 to 7. Cudos to the Huskies for staying so close and for their almost come back in the last minute of regulation (us Irish fans died two or three times) where they scrapped and scraped their way back from six points down to tie. They even drew first blood in OT with a three pointer. Notre Dame was led by Diggins, Novosel and Peters in scoring (19, 20 and 17) but it was the fifth year senior, Brittany Mallory, who made the big three pointers in OT that buried that other school from the Big East. More from the South Bend Tribune including a video report from Denver.
-Interesting notes from the NCAA report on the Irish-Huskie game:
-Yani Tseng does not win the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Sun Young Yoo won on the first extra hole against I.K. Kim. Those two tied at 9 under after Sunday rounds of -3, Kim missing a one foot putt on the 72nd hole to fall into the playoff. Yani's Sunday round was +1 and included a par at the par 5 18th hole; she finished one shot back. Brief story and lots of photos from Bangkok Bobby, including one of Kim after her devastating miss on 18. (Guess we have all felt that kind of pain before if not for such high stakes.)
-Hunter Mahan won down in Houston making him the first two time winner this year on the PGA. That's cool. Now on to the Masters.
-Guess what. More good weather today. Wow.
Photo: The gas station/bait shop just up the road across from the park entrance. It's under new management - Heather and Rob Douglas. They've done a pretty good job of cleaning it up and opening up the interior.
-Interesting notes from the NCAA report on the Irish-Huskie game:
Taking notes
• Notre Dame has played in just two overtimes games this season, both against Connecticut.
• The last time a national semifinal game went into overtime was in 1997.
• Notre Dame is 11-0 all-time as a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
• The Fighting Irish is the only team to score 70 points on Connecticut, doing so three times this season.
• Connecticut is 0-3 on the season when allowing more than 70 points.
• The Huskies are 33-2 on the season when leading at halftime.
• Connecticut was outscored in the second half by Notre Dame, 34-31, just the sixth time in 76 halves this season that UConn has been outscored in a half.
• Sophomore guard Bria Hartley’s 18 points pushed her above the 1,000-point threshold for her career (1,005).
-Yani Tseng does not win the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Sun Young Yoo won on the first extra hole against I.K. Kim. Those two tied at 9 under after Sunday rounds of -3, Kim missing a one foot putt on the 72nd hole to fall into the playoff. Yani's Sunday round was +1 and included a par at the par 5 18th hole; she finished one shot back. Brief story and lots of photos from Bangkok Bobby, including one of Kim after her devastating miss on 18. (Guess we have all felt that kind of pain before if not for such high stakes.)
-Hunter Mahan won down in Houston making him the first two time winner this year on the PGA. That's cool. Now on to the Masters.
-Guess what. More good weather today. Wow.
Photo: The gas station/bait shop just up the road across from the park entrance. It's under new management - Heather and Rob Douglas. They've done a pretty good job of cleaning it up and opening up the interior.
