Against No. 1 Duke, Notre Dame basketball completely unravels

SOUTH BEND — This is what you get.

When a university pours all its time and effort and finances into your football program, this is what you get.

When you refuse to rely on the transfer portal to inject some immediate and needed athleticism and ability into your basketball roster, this is what you get.

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When the best you can do from said transfer portal are recent additions from basketball factories Lehigh and Monmouth, Northern Arizona and Madonna University, this is what you get.

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When you compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference with boys while so many others have men, this is what you get.

When you demand that head coach Micah Shrewsberry win in a way that so few high-major Division I schools can win, this is what you get.

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This is where Notre Dame is following Tuesday’s historic loss to No. 1 Duke. This is what you get. This is Notre Dame basketball today, tomorrow and likely, for years down the road. It doesn’t matter the head coach.

Hey, if football is good, Notre Dame is good.

After Tuesday, there’s nothing left to do about this college basketball season, about these last three college basketball seasons, but own it. And apologize for putting a product on the floor that is this overmatched. For focusing everything on football and so little on basketball.

Own every excruciating minute that played out in front of a sold-out Purcell Pavilion crowd, many of whom finished off a 100-56 Notre Dame loss with chants of “Let’s Go Duke!” to the point that you wondered if you were in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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This wasn’t Cameron Indoor. They live and breathe basketball there. Here, it’s become a diversion, something to pass the time between the end of the college football…

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Publish date : 2026-02-25 05:09:00

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