[81alum]

Reading the UConn board is tough - hundreds of posts about how their players choked; or ND got all the breaks from the refs - were allowed to hack UConn players at will

I think maybe they did choke a bit.  They are so used to blowing people away I'm not sure they had any experience since a year ago with playing in a tense, close game.  I was shocked by the last 5 minutes of regulation and overtime when they looked like Stanford in the bad old days, passing around the perimeter of a zone ineffectively and then committing turnovers when trying to force the ball inside, or jacking up poor shots as time ran down.  Maybe Notre Dame's zone is just really, really, really good but I don't think so. 

At least it is nice to know that others can have days like that too.

[81alum]

Reading the UConn board is tough - hundreds of posts about how their players choked; or ND got all the breaks from the refs - were allowed to hack UConn players at will

I think maybe they did choke a bit.  They are so used to blowing people away I'm not sure they had any experience since a year ago with playing in a tense, close game.  I was shocked by the last 5 minutes of regulation and overtime when they looked like Stanford in the bad old days, passing around the perimeter of a zone ineffectively and then committing turnovers when trying to force the ball inside, or jacking up poor shots as time ran down.  Maybe Notre Dame's zone is just really, really, really good but I don't think so. 

At least it is nice to know that others can have days like that too.