While roughly 99.9% of us were focused completely on a Cotton Bowl game that would ultimately mercilessly rip our hearts out yet again, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team improved to 10-3 on Saturday with a narrow, nearly-embarrassing victory over the winless Coppin State Eagles, who rate as one of the worst teams in Division 1 hoops.
They managed to escape, thankfully, and now, with non-conference play complete and the football season officially over, we can all pivot to watching this weird, young, inexperienced team begin its 18-game ACC schedule against the #10 Virginia Tech Hokies in Blacksburg tomorrow afternoon as we all recover from New Year’s Eve/whatever we did to forget the Cotton Bowl.