Gotta disagree with the highlighted above....I would bet the ND team and coaching staff knew and talked about how the refs gave them many chances to win the game...ND's center Mooney looked bewildered when he fouled out and acted like no blood no foul....ND played bumper car D and on many of the ND and 1's they got , the replay showed space between us and their players.
We had many opportunities to win the game, no doubt about that...
The Kipper T hurt bad
TF missing significant mins in the first half b/c of fouls and tweaked ankle hurt bad
The dreaded scoring drought by us hurt bad
our defense in the second half hurt bad
TF's last second shot not staying in the basket hurt the worst of all....but.....
the refs had a very high degree of influence that was suspicious at best and awfully piss poor for a power 5 high major bb game....
That is a lot of HURT in one game......