The Notre Dame Fighting Irish looked to get back into the win column against the Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday afternoon. The Hokies are yet another team analytically worse than Notre Dame but actually ahead of them in the standings, where it matters. It was a good opportunity to pick up a win back at home, but — stop me if you’ve heard this one before — the Irish let a big early lead disappear and then couldn’t save themselves from letting everything slip away in the final four minutes.
It was an inauspicious start when Markus Burton launched a three that wound up very short and the Hokies wound up getting an untouched alley-oop for Tobi Lawal.