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Instant Recap: Notre Dame Basketball Defeats Louisville 71-66

There are a few of us on the OFD basketball writing staff who are Bill Raftery aficionados. The Irish Catholic announcer was on the mic when I was a young kid watching Jerome Lane "send it in," and his booth with Bilas and McDonough is still the peak of ESPN basketball announcing. Coach Raf had a great call when a guy made a particularly gutsy play. He'd shout "ONIONS!" in his clipped Boston tone. Even if you weren't a huge fan of attributing courageous plays to vegetable equivalents of male anatomy, it was still fun.