MUNCIE, Ind. — There was a point in time when James Whitford thinks his players may not have believed they could travel to face a high-major opponent and win.
It wouldn’t have been last year, when Ball State’s men’s basketball coach watched his team trounce Georgia Tech on the road by 18 points. It would’t have been the year before that, when the Cardinals went on the road and beat a Loyola Chicago team that, while it’s in the Missouri Valley Conference, had been to the Final Four the season before. But psychologically, Whitford doesn’t discount what beating Notre Dame in South Bend during the 2017-18 season meant for BSU.