GAMEDAY Womens Basketball
Notre Dame 72, Boston College 59
By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON - Olivia Miles scored 22 points with 10 assists and eight rebounds, combining with Sonia Citron to score 14 straight points in the fourth quarter when No. 9 Notre Dame pulled away from Boston College to win 72-59.
Citron finished with 23 points to help the Irish (18-2, 9-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) bounce back from their first league loss of the season, a 69-65 defeat at North Carolina State on Sunday.
Maria Gakdeng scored 16 points, T'Yana Todd had 13 and Andrea Daly scored 10 with eight rebounds for BC (14-11, 4-8). The Eagles, who beat Pittsburgh on Sunday to snap a five-game losing streak, were looking for their second victory over a Top 25 team this season, having also beaten then-No. 10 N.C. State on Jan. 5.
BC came within five points, 55-50, before the Irish ran off 14 points in a row - nine by Citron, and five by Miles.
That put an end to what had been a back-and-forth game in which the Irish opened big leads and then frittered them away.
Notre Dame led by 11 in the first quarter and held a 38-30 lead with two minutes gone in the third. BC scored 13 of the next 18 points, capitalizing on back-to-back Irish turnovers to tie it 43-all with three minutes left in the quarter.
But Natalija Marshall put back the rebound of her own miss, Miles drove to the basket, Maddy Westbeld added a pair of baskets and then Miles stole the ball and found Citron on the fast break to make it 53-43.
February 2, 2023
| Notre Dame | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| K. Watson | F | 26 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| M. Westbeld | F | 25 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| S. Citron | G | 37 | 10-18 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 3-4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| O. Miles | G | 37 | 8-14 | 5-6 | 1-4 | 0-8 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 22 |
| K. Bransford | G | 28 | 4-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 4-8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| C. Prosper | 28 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| N. Marshall | 17 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| J. Brown | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Totals | 201 | 30-58 (.517) |
8-10 (.800) |
4-12 (.333) |
15-41 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 13 | 72 | |
| Boston College | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| M. Gakdeng | C | 27 | 6-8 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| A. Daley | G | 37 | 3-6 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 2-8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| J. Lacey | G | 35 | 3-17 | 1-2 | 0-6 | 1-1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| T. Todd | G | 35 | 3-12 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| T. Mair | G | 25 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| A. VanTimmeren | 30 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | |
| A. McGee | 10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 199 | 21-59 (.356) |
14-17 (.824) |
3-17 (.176) |
13-27 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 13 | 59 | |
Officials: Karen Preato, Timothy Bryant, Alexis Perez
Attendance: 1,378