NOTRE DAME, Ind. – For the 15th consecutive season, and the 17th time in school history, Notre Dame has earned a berth in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship.

The Fighting Irish are the No. 2 seed in the Kansas City Region and will play 15th-seeded Cleveland State (the Horizon League tournament champion) Sunday at approximately 2:30 p.m. at Purcell Pavilion.

The game will be televised by ESPN as part of that network’s “whiparound coverage,” while viewers in the South Bend market, as well as those watching on the Internet at ESPN360.com, will see the game in its entirety. However, the majority of ESPN viewers nationwide will be shuttled between all four games in that time slot, including the Notre Dame-Cleveland State contest.

Seventh-seeded Wisconsin and No. 10 seed Vermont will square off in Sunday’s other first-round Kansas City Region game at Purcell Pavilion (noon tipoff on ESPN2), with the two first-round winners advancing to a March 23 second-round contest at 7 p.m., with that game to be televised on ESPN2.

Single-game tickets for either of Sunday’s first-round matchups or Tuesday’s second-round game in South Bend can be purchased now ($16 adults/$11 youth college age and under) through the official Notre Dame athletics ticketing web site (www.UND.com/tickets). These single-game tickets also will go on sale Tuesday at 9 a.m. (ET) through the Murnane Family Athletics Ticket Office, either by visiting the ticket windows on the first floor of the new Rosenthal Atrium at Purcell Pavilion (accessible via Gate 9) or by calling (574) 631-7356.

In addition, ticket packages for all three games at Purcell Pavilion are now available ($32 adults/$22 youth college age and under) and can be purchased either on-line or through the Murnane Family Athletics Ticket Office – processing fees and service charges may apply.