The excitement and discussion and focus may all be on the ND football team right now with their impending Cotton Bowl match-up with Clemson just 3 weeks away, but tonight the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team will renew an old rivalry once again with the UCLA Bruins, squaring off in prime time on the west coast in Pauley Pavilion.
The Irish (6-2) enter the game hot off of a close loss to the Oklahoma Sooners in the Jimmy V Classic — ND played decently well (Juwan Durham especially showed A TON with Oklahoma’s best big man out of commission, scoring 15 points in just 15 minutes of action), but the team couldn’t buy a free throw down the stretch while the Sooners shot very well from outside all game long.