It's been more than seven months since Notre Dame stunned everyone by knocking off UConn in the Final Four and Mississippi State in the national championship game on back-to-back Arike Ogunbowale buzzer beaters, but the Irish are still the team to beat heading into 2018–19. Here are three storylines we're eager to follow as the season tips off, as well as a preseason top 10.
Notre Dame is starting this season the way it ended last season, at No. 1. The reigning national champions usurped UConn for the top spot for the first time since 2016, the only other time Muffet McGraw’s team has received the No.