A second straight NCAA tournament experience is fading fast from Irish sight

If the Notre Dame men's basketball team loses a major conference contest at home against a ranked team at the same time

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the football app is triumphing in a bowl game a thousand miles away, does the number count?

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It happened and man, is Notre Dame basketball in a deep hole. It is dark. It's cold. It's daunting.

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The Irish get it. They also realize that they won't have enough teamwork and gear to fully get out of this in time

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take this season back to where everyone thought it would go.March by any college basketball software correct enough to be covered

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The departure of this basketball team from Notre Dame might suggest something completely strange

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but appropriately familiar. We're digging, man; we are coming out of that,” said Irishman Mike Brey. “We turn that ball over (17) times,

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you'll be loose for spring loot. Let me put it that way. You will go if you want to visit Florida.

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