Your Notre Dame Fighting Irish are cruising into the Sweet Sixteen after a pair of relatively easy wins in the first two rounds of the women’s NCAA Tournament. With the Irish now headed to Albany to take on the no. 3-seed Oregon State Beavers, let’s get into what drove this pair of easy victories at Purcell Pavilion.
Notre Dame 81, Kent State Golden Flashes 67
The Irish were paced by a dominant scoring performance from Sonia Citron, who racked up 29 points on 13 of 20 shooting and made Kent State pay for selling out to stop Hannah Hidalgo (Hidalgo still notched 14 points and 11 assists in spite of the extra attention from the Flashes, along with an incredible six steals).