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Notre Dame's NCAA Hopes Are Finished

Feb 28, 2009 – 4:14 PM
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Chas Rich

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Notwithstanding the protests of Digger Phelps, the Irish's loss at UConn finishes their chances at going to the NCAA Tournament without a miracle run in the Big East Tournament. Forget the non-conference strength of schedule, which ranks at 257th. Forget an overall RPI of 72. Ignore the 3-10 record against the RPI top-50.

The reason that the Irish are done is that they finished 2-7 in the Big East in road games. Simply put, they could not win a single quality road game in conference. When you can't do that, regardless of how tough the conference schedule is, you are not an NCAA Tournament team.

No. 2 UConn 72, Notre Dame 65: Recap | Box Score | RPI | Scores

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