Notre Dame Men’s Basketball: Figuring Out Micah Shrewsberry’s Program for Him

Ah, the Thursday of the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. It’s the most wonderful weekend of the year for college basketball fans. And that means it’s been a dreadful weekend for Notre Dame men’s basketball fans — all twelve of them — for seven (!) of the last eight (!!) years.

It’s frankly unacceptable for the only school whose football and men’s basketball programs both rank in the top-ten winningest programs of all time in each sport. Men’s hoops used to matter at Notre Dame, and now they don’t.

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Shrewsberry didn’t inherit a good situation, to be sure.