Editor's note: A version of this story was included in the program at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's induction ceremony and events this week in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The week before Thanksgiving might seem an unlikely time for high drama in the course of a college basketball season. Nor would the University of Evansville seem the most likely visitor to Notre Dame's Joyce Center for what remains, now nearly a decade later, one of the most important nights of Muffet McGraw's tenure as Fighting Irish women's basketball coach.
Yet there she found herself on a Wednesday in 2008.