Pretty much everything we thought a Notre Dame basketball game is supposed to be played went out the door in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday night. Maybe there was some sort of electromagnetic field that was created when the power went out before the game — but something extraordinary happened for the Irish to play a game that way — and win.
Basically — if you had to map out a way for Notre Dame to win a big game, their 89-87 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights likely wouldn’t come close to what you would have imagined.