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.

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

Nearly all the talk around NCAA women's basketball thus far has surrounded UConn's Paige Bueckers and USC's JuJu Watkins. Bueckers is of course the presumptive number one pick in the upcoming WNBA Draft and Watkins has been hyped as the closest thing to Caitlin Clark.