In what felt like a potential Final Four preview, the visiting No. 6 Notre Dame Irish, who led wire to wire, played spoiler to a crowd of 7,894 at Galen Center in Los Angeles, defeating No. 3 USC 74-61 to hand the Trojans their first loss of the season.

No. 6-ranked Notre Dame women's basketball passed its first real test of the season when it beat No. 3 Southern California, 74-61, in Los Angeles Saturday. The Irish will take a 5-0 record into the Caymans Islands Classic next weekend, when they will play No. 19 TCU on Friday and Utah on Saturday. Both games are set to tip at 5 p.m. (ET).

The sixth-ranked Fighting Irish come into the Galen Center for a 74-61 defeat of the third-ranked Trojans, who show little punch behind superstar JuJu Watkins

So far, Notre Dame is off to the start every one of its fans was hoping for in this Shamrock Series game against Army. All you really have to know is that the Irish have a 14-0 lead, but let's go into specifics anyway because every unit contributed in the first