Breana Bacon | NCAA.com | April 6, 2018 Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale surprised by Kobe Bryant on Ellen Arike Ogunbowale heroics Share Nobody is having a greater week than Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale. RELATED: Notre Dame wins 2018 Women's National Championship After hitting back-to-back buzzer beaters in the Final Four to beat UConn and then Mississippi State for the national title, the junior became an overnight celebrity. She captured the nation's attention, including her self-proclaimed idol Kobe Bryant. When you find out your basketball idol @kobebryant tweeted about you! @Arike_O #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/0eNzsB8Xcw — NOTRE DAME WBB (@ndwbb) March 31, 2018 Ogunbowale was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week and traveled to Los Angeles to tape an appearance on the Ellen Show airing Friday at 3 p.m., where Ellen DeGeneres surprised the Irish standout with a chance to meet Bryant. He came bearing gifts, sending Ogunbowale home with autographed jerseys — one for herself and the other for her dog, who she named after the Los Angeles Lakers legend. MORE: Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale puts her unforgettable stamp on a thrilling season Rapper and actor Ice Cube joined the trio on the show for a friendly game of 2-on-2 basketball. The five-time NBA champion got to witness Ogunbowale's first game-winner in person, in Columbus, Ohio, where Bryant was ironically cheering on the UConn Huskies. Although Kobe's team of choice didn't seal the win, he took to Twitter to congratulate the Notre Dame guard and offer some words of encouragement ahead of the Irish's second-ever title win. Nah... it’s complete by finishing the job on Sunday @Arike_O #MambaMentality https://t.co/pvL95JCZHn — Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) March 31, 2018 The kind words boosted Ogunbowale's confidence to knock down the shot to give Notre Dame its second national championship 17 years to the day of its first in 2001. Nobody does buzzer-beaters like Arike Ogunbowale. pic.twitter.com/M6q4VdRpKC — ESPN (@espn) April 2, 2018 Ogunbowale is sure to go down in Notre Dame history and this week will be one for her own record books, too. Colleges with the most overall No. 1 picks in NFL Draft history Here are the colleges with the most No. 1 overall picks in the NFL Draft since it began in 1936. READ MORE College basketball teams with the most WNBA 1st-round draft picks Connecticut leads all women's college basketball programs with 25 players taken in the first round of the WNBA draft. READ MORE Men's college lacrosse: Notre Dame upsets No. 1 Duke, Corrigan becomes winningest coach at a single program Notre Dame took down No. 1 Duke 13-8 in Saturday's matchup, making head coach Kevin Corrigan the winningest head coach at a single program in NCAA DI history. READ MORE