When the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team lost 7 straight games after a slew of devastating injuries decimated Mike Brey’s squad’s depth and star power in January, everyone wrote off the season as a lost cause. The Irish were playing ugly basketball and despite some fantastic efforts against some very good teams, they continued to come up short, game after game. This team was destined for the NIT, or potentially no postseason tournament at all. It looked that bad.
I’m not here to say everything has turned around — the Irish’s 84-69 walloping of Florida State yesterday was just the team’s second win in the past five weeks, and ND would be the 12 seed if the ACC Tournament began right now.