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The 2015 basketball team 100% belongs in this thread. by bleedsgreen04

Okafor played zero defense and we saw how Notre Dame fared against Duke at home (win), on the road (blowout loss) and at a neutral site with a lot at stake (win) in the ACCT. We all know that ND absolutely could have beaten Duke that year.

As far as Kentucky goes, Notre Dame had a 2 point lead and the ball with a minute and a half left. Grant missed a 3 and Connaughton skied up among all those trees for the rebound, and high topped his jump just wrong because the ball took a funny angle off of the rim. We would have had a fresh shot clock with the ball in the hands of a 90% free throw shooter right under the bucket with about a minute left. Instead the ball takes that funny hop and Kentucky got the board instead and tied it up soon after... we were literally one bad bounce away from beating Kentucky. What's more is we showed Wisconsin that they were mortal.

If you really wanted to shoot down the 2015 hoops team as an "almost" for the National Championship you should ask how they would have fared against Wisconsin. I think they would have won a close game, but who knows?