When the Notre Dame football team won the Sugar Bowl, that meant a trip to the Orange Bowl in exactly one week. That meant only half an hour would have separated that game and the women’s basketball team’s home game against Wake Forest. Needless to say, the women’s basketball interest that night would have been almost nonexistent.
So the wise decision was made for the women’s basketball team to tip off against the Demon Deacons at 5 p.m. EST Thursday instead of its original time of 7 p.m. EST. Assuming the game doesn’t go into overtime, that should mean the fans at Purcell Pavilion will have enough time to file out of Purcell Pavilion and go watch the College Football Playoff semifinal game against Penn State somewhere.
Both Notre Dame basketball teams avoided scheduling games on campus for the playoff’s first weekend in case Notre Dame Stadium ended up hosting a game. That’s exactly what happened, and the playoff has caused a basketball schedule alteration once again. Fortunately, this will be the last one because neither team is playing the night of the CFP title game.
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