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

If you’re a director of basketball operations in charge of scheduling for a major Division I women’s basketball program that has a national ranking next to your name, here’s some advice when it comes to firming up a marquee home game for down the road.

All offseason long, a lot of folks around women’s college basketball offered the same concern when it came to Notre Dame’s outlook this season. The common question was that, while the Irish seemed to be incredibly talented on-paper,