<div id="subtitle">No. 4 Notre Dame bounces back from UConn loss with 78-60 win over Louisville</div><div><p>Skylar Diggins scored 20 points and Ashley Barlow added 18 to lead No. 4 Notre Dame to a 78-60 victory over Louisville on Tuesday, giving Fighting Irish coach Muffet McGraw her 600th career victory.</p><p>Melissa Lechlitner chipped in 14 points and Lindsay Schrader had 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Irish (16-1, 3-1 Big East), who bounced back from a loss to No. 1 Connecticut by dominating the second half.</p><p>Notre Dame held Louisville (10-8, 2-3) without a field goal for more than eight minutes to turn a 46-43 deficit into a 56-43 lead. The Cardinals would get no closer than nine the rest of the way.</p><p>Monique Reid led Louisville with 23 points and nine rebounds, but the Cardinals shot just 37 percent in the second half and turned it over 20 times.</p><p>Louisville has struggled one year after making the national championship game and was involved in an ugly pregame fight against Georgetown last Saturday.</p><p>Coach Jeff Walz hasn't taken and disciplinary action yet, saying he was still reviewing the tape.</p><p>If the Cardinals were still angry, it didn't show. Louisville played arguably its best 15 minutes of the season to start the game, opening a 12-point lead behind Reid and Keshia Hines.</p><p>It was exactly the kind of scenario the Irish were trying to avoid three days after falling behind UConn by 22 in the first half.</p><p>Yet the Irish steadied themselves after Louisville freshman walk-on point guard Shelby Harper went to the bench with her third foul.</p><p>Louisville had just four turnovers at the time, but turned it over six times in the final minutes of the half as Notre Dame went on a 16-4 run to tie the game at 22 at the break.</p><p>The Cardinals briefly led by five in the second half before running out of gas.</p><p>Notre Dame's defense had plenty to do with it. Gwen Rucker hit a layup to give Louisville a 46-43 lead with 16:50 to go, but the Cardinals wouldn't score again until Reid converted a 3-point play with 8:14 remaining.</p><p>By then Notre Dame had reeled off 13 straight points and the undermanned Cardinals couldn't keep pace. Reid, who was brilliant in the first half made just 2 of 8 shots in the second half.</p><p>The Irish had no such problems. Executing crisply in the halfcourt, Notre Dame found easy baskets for Schrader, Diggins and Lechlitner.</p><p>The lead ballooned to 20 in the final minutes, allowing McGraw to celebrate her milestone win.</p><p>She is the 19th women's coach to reach the 600-victory plateau and the 10th-fastest to hit the mark. She has collected 512 of those wins with the Irish. The first 88 victories of her career came while she coached Lehigh.</p><p>Tennessee coach Pat Summitt is the all-time leader with 1,021 wins through Tuesday.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=67307656&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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