Could Notre Dame basketball close out another close Atlantic Coast Conference game?

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Would you do the deal?

Would you do the deal for what you couldn’t do then for what you can do now?

Say you’re the Notre Dame basketball program and you spent those long winter nights of January and February in Atlantic Coast Conference play gut-punched by one close loss after another by one possession.

Close but not close enough again. And again.

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A one-point loss despite a chance to win at North Carolina State. A one-point loss at home to North Carolina despite leading by three with five seconds remaining. More misery followed in the weeks to come with early January losses. At home against Virginia Tech. On the road against Wake Forest. All wins that were there within reach. All meltdowns.

Close but not close enough again. And again.

If someone told you after those heartbreakers that you would have to suffer then to survive/surge now, even to the point of getting a gifted phantom foul call in the closing seconds of a first-round league tournament win, would you do it?

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Would you trade that heartache for the chance to grow from it and learn from it and be better because of it and win those close games as the season wound down?

Looks like Notre Dame made that deal.

“This whole season has been a learning experience for us,” said head coach Micah Shrewsberry. “Now you’re seeing that come out with who we are as a team.”

This Notre Dame team is closing close games.

Last week, winning by two points at home against a Stanford team that finished with a winning league record. Last weekend by two points at home against Cal in what many insist was an instant classic that staggered through four overtimes.

The latest, a third straight one-possession win Tuesday by one in the first game on the first day…

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Publish date : 2025-03-11 22:30:00

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