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Notre Dame match-up energizes Diddle

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The success of the WKU women's basketball program has been established for a while now.

But despite numerous seasons of 20 or more wins, regular-season conference championships, conference tournament championships and trips to the NCAA tournament, WKU has struggled to get fans to attend its home games.

The Lady Toppers, who compiled a dominant 42-3 record inside Diddle Arena from 2014-2017, averaged less than 2,000 people per game throughout that stretch. After one home game in the 2017-18 season, WKU has a good number to start its season average with as 5,061 people packed the arena to watch the Lady Toppers battle No.