INDIANAPOLIS – A 10-6 run over the final 3:56 Tuesday night lifted Texas A&M to its first national championship.

The Aggies (33-5) defeated the Fighting Irish 76-70.

The Aggies and Notre Dame were deadlocked at 66-66 with 3:56 remaining in the NCAA women’s national title game. Following the media time out, Texas A&M All-American Danielle Adams grabbed an offensive rebound and scored to give the Aggies a 68-66 lead.

Adams followed that up with another basket as Texas A&M went up 70-66 with just 2:40 remaining. She then blocked the Irish’s Becca Bruszewski’s shot to keep the Aggies out in front.

Notre Dame’s Devereaux Peters grabbed an offensive rebound and scored with 1:38 left on the clock to cut the lead to 70-68, but that was as close as the Irish would get.

The hero of the semifinal victory over Stanford, Tyra White hit the game’s biggest basket as she buried a 3-pointer with 1:07 remaining as the shot clock was going off. Her basket make it 73-68 and the Aggies were on there way to the national championship.

“It wasn’t even in the game plan for me to shoot that three in the second half,” White said. “I didn’t even make it in practice. In the second half, I just attacked and went at it. It didn’t feel like I was shooting 68 percent.”

A pair of Skylar Diggins free throws was all Notre Dame (31-8) could muster over the final minute of the contest.

After withstanding the early surge by Texas A&M, Notre Dame was slowly able to work its way back into the contest.

And after closing with a 10-0 run in the final 5:52 of the first half, the Fighting Irish took a 35-33 lead into the locker room at the half.

Both teams set a blistering pace early from the floor, shooting better than 50 percent from the field for much of the first half.

But while Notre Dame kept up its hot shooting, the Aggies cooled off a bit toward the end of the half and found itself behind instead of ahead of the Irish.

It was all Texas A&M for the first 10 minutes of the game. The Aggies scored first and kept on scoring, leading by 13 points with 9:52 left in the first half.

But in the final 10 minutes things changed. Notre Dame turned up its defensive intensity and seem to shake off the early jitters, which led to eight turnovers in the game’s first 10 minutes.

By the end of the half, the Fighting Irish had just one more turnovers, while the Aggies had committed eight.

Notre Dame got back in the contest by going inside to Peters. In a stretch of just under four minutes, Peters scored eight straight points for the Irish to help keep them in the game.

In the final four minutes of the first half, Diggins began to come to life, scoring six points to help the Fighting Irish keep cutting into the lead and then eventually taking the lead with 59.4 seconds remaining.

Adams finished with a game-high 30 points and grabbed nine rebounds to secure her spot as the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

White finished with 18 points, five rebounds and four assists for the Aggies, while Sydney Colson, saddled with first half foul trouble, finished with 10 points and five assists.

Diggins led Notre Dame with 23 points, while Peters added 21 points and 11 rebounds. Natalie Novosel finished with 14 points.