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2020 – 2023
The COVID season: Ivey's first team went 10–10 in the pandemic season of 2020–21 — played, at home, before no spectators, a condition the record book notes against the season — and received no postseason bid. It is the program's only non-tournament season between 1995 and the present file.
The return: The 2021–22 team, 24–9, restored the program's standard and restored its point guard to the national record: freshman Olivia Miles became the first freshman in NCAA tournament history, men's or women's, to record a triple-double in the tournament. The season ended in the Sweet Sixteen at Bridgeport, a 66–63 loss to North Carolina State in a game Notre Dame led late.
The first Ivey title: In 2022–23 the Irish went 27–6 and won the ACC regular-season championship outright — the program's first conference title under Ivey and first since 2019 — and Ivey was the ACC coach of the year. The title was clinched in the season's last game, a 68–65 win at Louisville on February 26, 2023, and it cost the team its engine: Miles tore a knee ligament in the second quarter of that game, missed the whole postseason — Notre Dame lost its ACC tournament semifinal to Louisville and its NCAA Sweet Sixteen game to Maryland, 76–59 — and, in the end, the whole of the following season as well.
Sources:
- University record book — the 2020–21 season note (no spectators at home games); the NCAA tournament history (the 2022 North Carolina State game, 63–66; the 2023 Maryland game, 59–76); the honors list (Ivey, 2023 ACC coach of the year).
- Contemporaneous coverage (Associated Press; Sports Illustrated; Just Women's Sports) — Miles's tournament triple-double record; her February 26, 2023 knee injury at Louisville and its consequences.