I only heard Notre Dame mentioned once. Was Notre Dame talked about at all during the first half of the race?
I saw decent chunks of it before.
What I recall was the female commentator, who noted that at about halfway through the race, Molly had started to set a slightly-better pace. The commentator was bemused and said that either Seidel was inexperienced or actually wanted to pick up the pace. 8^)
Note: link below requires a subscription. I haven't seen the entire race posted on YouTube, for example.
She knows a little bit about road racing.