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Notre Dame visit brings spotlight to Lady Toppers

It won’t get much tougher than playing a team Tuesday night that’s won 240 games and been to five Final Fours in the last seven years.

Notre Dame, one of the nation’s powerhouse teams in women’s basketball, will play WKU on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Diddle Arena in the first of a home-and-home series. WKU will travel to South Bend, Ind., in 2018.

The sixth-ranked Fighting Irish (1-0) have played in four national championship games over the last seven years and won four straight Atlantic Coastal Conference regular season and tournament titles.

Notre Dame is the highest-ranked team to visit Diddle Arena since Louisville visited in 2013 as the No.