The team that gave Notre Dame its most difficult test of the season -- the Maryland Terrapins (pictured above) -- beat the higher seeded Louisville Cardinals (in the Cards own gym) last night to advance to Sunday's Final Four game against our Fighting Irish.
These two teams last met January 27th in College Park, MD -- with the IRISH prevailing 87 - 83. This is one of only two times this season where an opponent kept the deficit to under 10 points against the IRISH. Natalie Achonwa scored 7 points and grabbed 3 rebounds in that game (playing only 21 minutes of the game) -- see box score below.
Here's the challenge -- Maryland has a big, talented line-up led by a 6'-2" All-American Alyssa Thomas who put up 29 points in the first game against our Irish. Here's their starting line-up last night against Louisville:
- Alicia DeVaughn: 6'-4" -- scored 16 against ND
- Brionna Jones: 6'-3" -- didn't start against ND -- but scored 6 off bench
- Alyssa Thomas: 6'-2" -- scored 29 against ND
- Lexie Brown: 5'-9" -- scored 9 points against ND
- Katie Rutan: 5'-9" -- didn't score
LINK: ESPN PREVIEW STORY
LINK: BOX SCORE FROM FIRST GAME: ND vs. MARYLAND
