‘Real frustrated’: Everything Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey said after ACC Tournament loss to Duke
Notre Dame hoped that Sunday’s ACC Tournament championship game at the Greensboro Coliseum would be the next time it tipped off. Nope. In two weeks, it will return to South Bend as a No. 2 or 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
On Saturday, Duke defeated Notre Dame 61-56 in the league championship semifinals. Following the defeat—her team’s third in the previous five games—Nelle Ivey, the head coach of Notre
“I am just really annoyed with today’s performance. We did not seem to play defensively throughout our game. It took us some time to start going. When we return, I need to make a correction so that we may resume practicing.
However, defensively speaking, we discussed as a team and as a unit the need to always be able to rely on our defense in the event that our offense is not producing results. Today, we were unable to do so. We are really disappointed with our defensive effort today since we did not match their toughness and did not play well on the boards.
“Once more, I had far higher expectations for this kind of game. We performed below our level, in my opinion. That is frustrating. We must improve, and I am responsible for helping this squad do so so that we will be stronger after this defeat when we return to the court.
