One week after seeing the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s hoops team finally start to look like a Mike Brey squad again in their easy victory over the UCLA Bruins, ND fans were treated to another classic Notre Dame performance: blowing it at the end of a Crossroads Classic game.
The Irish got down BIG in their match-up with the then-10-1 Indiana Hoosiers, but then mounted a stirring comeback to seize control of the game, and a 5-point lead, with less than 4 minutes to play. Unfortunately, just like games against IU in 2015 and 2017 (and against Purdue in 2016), the Irish choked away their lead down the stretch, falling 62-60 in the final 20 seconds after the Hoosiers were able to hit a big shot that the Irish were not.