Newsstand: Notre Dame women’s basketball has the most 2022 WNBA All-Stars
No college program is sending more former players to the WNBA All-Star Game than Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish have a quartet on their way to Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
Arike Ogunbowale of the Dallas Wings, Jackie Young of the Las Vegas Aces, Skylar Diggins-Smith of the Phoenix Mercury and Jewell Loyd all earned All-Star status. Young was voted a starter. It’s her first All-Star selection. She was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 draft and is averaging a career-best 17.8 points per game to go along with 4.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists.
Ogunbowale is averaging 19.3 points, 3.7 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game in her second All-Star season. She was the All-Star Game MVP last year. Diggins-Smith is making her sixth All-Star appearance. She’s averaging 18.8 points, 5.1 assists and 3.7 assists as a 31-year-old. Loyd is a four-time All-Star and is averaging 16.6 points, 3.6 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game.
The game tips off at 1 p.m. ET (ABC) on Sunday, July 10.
Notre Dame tweets of the day
The Irish secured another huge class of 2024 commitment Wednesday.
Gabriel Rubio’s face mask gets better each time you see it.
James Laurinaitis is all-in on his new role with the Fighting Irish.
Quote of the day
“What I do know, and what a 20-year-old Marcus Freeman would know, is that the better football player you are, the more in demand you’re going to be. So focus on being a great football player, and those opportunities that hinge on name, image and likeness will come.”
— Marcus Freeman on what he’d have thought of NIL 16 years ago.
Headlines of the day
• How Daelin Hayes helped Kyle Hamilton through first Baltimore Ravens minicamp (Tyler Horka, Blue & Gold)
• Countdown to kickoff: Notre Dame vs. Ohio State only 66 days away (Ashton Pollard, Blue & Gold)
• Why Marcus Freeman is ‘encouraged’ by Notre Dame’s progress in utilizing the transfer portal (Patrick Engel, Blue & Gold)
• One thing I like, one thing I don’t: Clemson at Notre Dame (Ashton Pollard, Blue & Gold)
• 2024 four-star WR Cam Williams commits to Notre Dame football over Michigan (Mike Singer, Blue & Gold)
• Five thoughts on WR Cam Williams committing to Notre Dame (Mike Singer, Blue & Gold)
• Five thoughts on WR Cam Williams committing to Notre Dame (Mike Singer, Blue & Gold)
• Notre Dame men’s basketball adds neutral-site game with Georgia to 2022-23 schedule (Patrick Engel, Blue & Gold)
• Notre Dame assistant Ryan Humphrey reportedly leaving Irish coaching staff (Patrick Engel, Blue & Gold)
• Why in-house candidates make sense to replace Link Jarrett as Notre Dame baseball head coach (Tyler Horka, Blue & Gold)
