BROOKLYN —Here are two bits of news that would hardly qualify as such were it not for events preceding them: Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 67-64 in the Tuesday afternoon session that opens the ACC tournament, and senior Bonzie Colson played 33 minutes and afterward said he felt fine.
Both of these things should happen; Pittsburgh went 0-18 against the league during the regular season and Colson, a third-team All-America last season, averaged exactly 33.0 minutes per game. But those facts were made notable by the fact that the Fighting Irish, ranked as high as No. 5 this season, had to play in that ignominious time slot in the first place as the event’s No.