As I sit in the wake of yet another inexplicable loss by Notre Dame’s men’s basketball team this season, I reflect back on 45 years of fandom and my experiences both following and reporting on this program. That reflection leads me with only one sentence in response.
There’s no way.
There’s no way any Fighting Irish basketball fan of any stripe has watched this season with any degree of satisfaction. Especially coming as it does in the wake of three similar seasons where Notre Dame has cultivated an embarrassing losing streak against ranked teams and soon-to-be four years of no meaningful postseason presence at all.