“I’ve never had a situation like this, not five years at Delaware or 18 years (at Notre Dame) where I’ve had so many new guys.” Mike Brey said after the Fighting Irish defeated Duquesne 67-56 in their fifth game of the season. “We’re obviously in a total youth movement. We’ve sprinkled in some really good veterans, but I’ve never had it like this.”
Brey’s team was 4-1 at that point – three ragged wins against low level teams, a loss to a pretty good Radford team (still a game that an ACC team should win every time), and the just completed victory over a middle of the pack Atlantic 10 team.