Nine games into the 2015-16 season with a 7-2 record, I still don’t know what kind of a season to expect. The losses aren’t egregiously bad, but both were winnable games that slipped through Notre Dame’s fingers when they had chances to win.
It’s hard to tell if this is simply last year’s team with Pat Connaughton and Jerian Grant subtracted and little added back to make up for what they did or if it’s a work in progress that will improve throughout the season. For six and a half games it looked like the former, but the last two and a half games have raised the possibility that the latter is the truth.