In what felt like a potential Final Four preview, the visiting No. 6 Notre Dame Irish, who led wire to wire, played spoiler to a crowd of 7,894 at Galen Center in Los Angeles, defeating No. 3 USC 74-61 to hand the Trojans their first loss of the season.

Everyone wanted to see the Notre Dame and USC women's basketball teams play each other. The biggest reason was to see Hannah Hidalgo and JuJu Watkins go up against each other. We got the first of what will be at least two meetings between the teams Saturday in Los Angeles,