INDIANAPOLIS — The coaches might not be household names. The players aren’t well known — yet.

The national championship game between Notre Dame and Texas A&M on Tuesday night is a rare showdown in women’s basketball, the first time since 2005 that neither Tennessee nor Connecticut has been involved.

No Stanford, either, and no Baylor. No Maya Moore. No Geno Auriemma.

It’s all good. Just ask Gary Blair, Texas A&M’s entertaining and outspoken coach.

“It’s good for story lines,” Blair said. “Instead of having Brittney Griner or Maya Moore and Geno, but what’s wrong with good old Muffet (McGraw) and Gary and teams that play tremendous team basketball that do not rely on just one player?”

The two schools better known for their play on the gridiron will take the grandest stage in women’s basketball in one of the biggest surprises in NCAA tournament history.

The Irish (31-7) snapped an 0-20 skid against Tennessee in the tournament and then upset Moore and the two-time defending champion Huskies after going 0-3 against their top-seeded Big East rival this year and 0-9 before that. Texas A&M (32-5) advanced by beating Griner and her Baylor teammates after three losses this season, and then upended another top seed in Stanford in the semifinals.