Twitter goes nuts for Notre Dame winning women’s basketball championship on buzzer beater

Arike Ogunbowale somehow hit an even more incredible last-second shot in the women’s basketball national championship game than she did in the semifinal, and Twitter was hype for it.

It couldn’t possibly happen again, could it? Notre Dame advanced to the national championship game of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament by somehow downing undefeated UConn on a buzzer beater by Arike Ogunbowale. The Fighting Irish found themselves down by double digits on Sunday night to the Mississippi State Bulldogs, themselves overtime winners just to get to the final game.

Notre Dame, as it is wont to do, rallied to tie the game late. Mississippi State missed a chance to hit a potential game-winner, and after a foul, the Irish had just three seconds remaining to manufacture some magic.

Incredibly, Ogunbowale did it again, this time nailing a leaning three-pointer that hit nothing but net with just 0.1 seconds left on the clock. Despite losing four players to season-ending injuries along the way, Notre Dame won the national championship, its first since 2001.

As you might expect, Twitter lit up with reactions to Ogunbowale’s heroics.

Some people even worked in their thoughts on the Bulldogs having to come back from the locker room and complete a play to run the last tenth of a second off the clock.

Were some observers salty about the sequence in the final minute where the refs appeared to let some contact go in the open floor. Well …

Haters gonna hate. What can’t be denied is the way Notre Dame hung tough after losing so much of its rotation during the season. And Ogunbowale cemented her place as a college basketball legend by hitting buzzer beaters in two consecutive games with the highest of stakes, something no one else can really say.