STORRS, Conn. \u2013 <\/b>\u00a0The Fighting Irish dropped an 85-47 road defeat in Gampel Pavilion on Monday evening against the No. 1 UConn Huskies in Notre Dame\u2019s final non-conference contest of the regular season. The loss drops Notre Dame\u2019s record to 12-6 on the season.<\/p>\n
Hannah Hidalgo led the Irish in scoring with 16 points while adding four rebounds, three steals and two assists. Cassandre Prosper also finished in double-figure scoring with 12 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals.<\/p>\n
HOW IT HAPPENED<\/b><\/p>\n
The top-ranked team flexed their muscles early, jumping out to an 11-1 advantage 6 minutes into the contest. The Irish offense then scored six of the next eight points to trim the score to 13-7 before the Huskies finished the quarter with the final three points to take a 16-7 lead into the second stanza.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame and UConn played an even second quarter, both sides scoring 16 points to make it a 32-23 game at the halftime intermission. The Huskies led by as many as 14 before ending the quarter on a 7-2 run to make it a nine-point game.<\/p>\n
Hidalgo scored 10 of the team\u2019s 16 points in the period off 3-of-6 shooting.<\/p>\n
The Huskies came out of the halftime break and took over the game, outscoring the Irish 27-6 over the first 8 minutes of the quarter to take a 59-29 lead. The Irish managed to score the final six points of the stanza to cut the lead to 59-35 as the contest headed into the final 10 minutes of action.<\/p>\n
UConn finished the game by outscoring Notre Dame 26-16 in the final frame to come away with an 85-47 win.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/b><\/p>\n
The Fighting Irish return to Purcell Pavilion to welcome Miami for a midweek ACC matchup at 6 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 22. The game will air on ACCN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, Conn. \u2013 \u00a0The Fighting Irish dropped an 85-47 road defeat in Gampel Pavilion on Monday evening against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":528862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55090,55076,55079,55078,55077,55080,55081,51,55089,50,55082,19414,52,2949,55087,55085,55084,55083,55086,55088,43665,54774],"class_list":{"0":"post-528861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-featured-sport-category","9":"tag-fighting-irish","10":"tag-fighting-irish-baseball","11":"tag-fighting-irish-basketball","12":"tag-fighting-irish-football","13":"tag-fighting-irish-hockey","14":"tag-fighting-irish-soccer","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-more-headlines","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-notre-dame-football-stadium","19":"tag-notre-dame","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-und","22":"tag-und-athletics","23":"tag-und-baseball","24":"tag-und-basketball","25":"tag-und-football","26":"tag-und-hockey","27":"tag-und-hockey-schedule","28":"tag-university-of-notre-dame","29":"tag-women-s-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115925182026736815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}