The Ups
First Half Defense. The first half defense was actually pretty good. Notre Dame shot 43.8% from the field and a rather paltry 4-13 from deep, for a shaky 30.8%. We did a good job containing the Fighting Irish offense in the first half, so it’s not a though we’re utterly clueless as to what to do.
Ball Movement. 17 assists, and only 9 turnovers for the entire game. That’s extremely good, especially since we had 3 or 4 of those turnovers occurred early on. That’s good stuff. While I’m at it, I feel like I should remark that the offense in general was pretty great.