{"id":169086,"date":"2019-04-05T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=169086"},"modified":"2019-04-05T23:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T04:48:40","slug":"notre-dame-faces-baylor-sunday-womens-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=169086","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame faces Baylor, Sunday, Women&#8217;s title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Notre Dame will be looking to join UConn, Tennessee and Southern Cal in winning consecutive national championships during the NCAA era in Sunday night&#8217;s title game against Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be the first championship game since 2012 when both coaches \u2014 Notre Dame&#8217;s Muffet McGraw and Baylor&#8217;s Kim Mulkey \u2014 are women.<\/p>\n<p>McGraw has addressed a number of issues recently including female assistant coaches and a lack of them in men&#8217;s college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor and Notre Dame will both be looking for a third national championship in a rematch of the 2012 title game won by the Lady Bears 80-61.<\/p>\n<p>UConn, which was beaten by Notre Dame in last year&#8217;s semifinals, captured four national straight championships from 2013-16. Tennessee went back-to-back in 2007-08, while Southern Cal won it all in both 1983 and 84.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor advanced after a 72-67 win over first-time Final Four participant Oregon in Friday&#8217;s first semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Notre Dame will be looking to join UConn, Tennessee and Southern Cal in winning consecutive national championships during the NCAA era in Sunday night&#8217;s title game against Baylor. It will also be the first championship game since 2012 when both coaches \u2014 Notre Dame&#8217;s Muffet McGraw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169087,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086\/revisions\/169087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}