Two weeks into the 2018-19 basketball season, the Notre Dame men’s team has yet to play any substantive teams during their first four games of the year. While in recent years, that might have resulted in four wins to start the campaign, the Irish do have one blot on their record among that quartet of contests.
The fact that the Irish entered this year in a rebuilding mode means that managing to navigate the early going was not going to always be a smooth process. Two double-digit wins to get the season started offered a positive beginning, but that was dulled by a split of the next two clashes, with Notre Dame still not having left South Bend to face an opponent.