It was a total collapse, but I am really proud of what the guy's showed this weekend. It would have been icing on the cake for this group of young men to have hung a banner in the DES Center, who knows maybe they still can. We played through a lot of crap this year and it has been a tough team to follow, but we are seeing some great improvement.
IMO, this game was not lost at the 3 point line. Yes they hit 10, but we did hit 5. Only a 5 point difference. I believe the turnovers were 13 a piece. Yes ours seemed to come all at once, but that was not the reason we lost. Look at the free throw line. That is were the game was lost. I know they got a lot of trips to the line in the final 2 minutes while we were trying to put them on the line, but before that point they had still lived on the line. Now, to the reason, was only one team playing aggressive, no. Then why the difference, why all the ticky tack calls on one end and not the other. I am taking nothing away from Notre Dame. They are a fun team to watch and have some great shooters, but the officials had the major impact on this game. My question continues to be WHY. Seems like every team can basically dictate the style of ball they want to play and the refs choke on the whistle, then when we have the ball the refs do not pull the whistles out of their pocket. Oh for the day's when we got all the calls like Dook does today.
