BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Well, Montana State, Digger Phelps can relate.
Not that he would necessarily want to relate.
Phelps, in the first season of what proved a highly successful tenure at Notre Dame, brought his Irish into Indiana's Assembly Hall for what was fourth game ever played there on Dec. 18, 1971.
Phelps did not have much in the way of players at that juncture, and he was going against Bob Knight's first IU team, which did.
So: Indiana 94, Notre Dame 29.
When Coach Archie Miller's Hoosiers waxed Montana State, 80-35 Friday night, it marked the second-lowest point total ever posted by an IU foe in the Hall, behind only that December day in 1971.