WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw figures all the pressure is on Oklahoma in their second-round NCAA tournament game Tuesday night.

Oklahoma has the higher seed, boasts defending national player of the year Courtney Paris and could get a Sweet 16 game close to home with another victory in the Oklahoma City regional. Oklahoma's home in Norman is just 20 miles from Oklahoma City.

"I think it puts added pressure on," McGraw said. "Everybody's kind of counting on you to bring your team there so that you'll be able to help the NCAA look good on TV with all of the people in the stands."

But fourth-seeded Oklahoma (22-8) won't look past fifth-seeded Notre Dame (24-8).

"It would be great to get to the Ford Center, but we obviously have a very talented Notre Dame team to get past first," Oklahoma post player Ashley Paris said. "If we're able to get past the next round, it would be exciting and great to look forward to."

If the Sooners are to get a virtual home game, they'll have to play a virtual road game to get it. West Lafayette is just 150 miles from Notre Dame's home in South Bend.

Purdue, another Indiana team, plays Tennessee in the opener on Tuesday. Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale hopes Purdue fans will watch the second game and embrace her team.

"We're not in South Bend, we're in West Lafayette," Coale said. "There are a lot of basketball fans in West Lafayette. I know that Purdue plays right before us. Hopefully, a lot of those folks will stay around and it'll be a good crowd and there will be a lot of people chanting Boomer Sooner."

McGraw expects Purdue fans to cheer for her squad because they are both Indiana teams.

"We sure hope they're cheering for us," she said. "There's a lot of Hoosier pride. Our fans are going to come in early and cheer for them (Purdue), and we hope they do the same for us."

If Notre Dame has any chance of keeping the Sooners away from Oklahoma City, it will have to slow twins Courtney and Ashley Paris. Courtney Paris averages 18.5 points and 15 rebounds per game and Ashley averages 11.5 points and eight rebounds per contest.

"We're going to need a monumental rebounding effort against Oklahoma tomorrow," McGraw said. "They're just a great inside team, and a terrific rebounding team. I think we definitely have a lot of work to do to be able to rebound with them tomorrow."

Oklahoma has to contend with Notre Dame's depth and speed. The Fighting Irish don't shoot well from the perimeter, but they still average 77 points per game because they usually control the tempo and create turnovers and transition baskets.

The Irish are guard-oriented. Charel Allen leads the way with 14.4 points per game, Ashley Barlow averages 12 points and Tulyah Gaines averages seven points and 3.7 assists per game.

Coale was impressed with Notre Dame's 75-62 first-round win over Southern Methodist.

"They are very talented and play very hard," Coale said. "It was very obvious how hard they compete when we were sitting courtside."

Though most of the talk Monday was about Courtney Paris, the Sooners beat Illinois State 69-61 on Sunday when she took only five shots. Oklahoma believes the role players will make the difference.

"Courtney can have the game of her life, and we can still lose the basketball game," Ashley Paris said. "Courtney's a great player, but we're all pretty good in our own right, and that's what's going to get us far in this tournament."