The Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team dropped another heart-breaking game to an NCAA Tournament-caliber opponent tonight, falling to the #7 Florida State Seminoles 73 to 71 at Purcell Pavilion in the penultimate game of their regular season.
The Irish had an incredible start to the game driven almost entirely by Prentiss Hubb and John Mooney, who combined to score 35 of Notre Dame’s 42 first half points in an unreal display of efficiency (13-of-17 from the field, 6-of-8 from deep).
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Hubb finished the game with 24 points, and Mooney completed the contest with 16 points and 11 rebounds in yet another of his nearly automatic double-doubles, but completely disappeared in a ROUGH second half where he did not score and had a couple bad turnovers down the stretch.