Notre Dame’s NCAA Tournament journey could begin and end with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio. However, that didn’t stop a video about the Irish on the official March Madness YouTube channel from being uploaded. After all, when you have a chance to be selected for your first tournament in five years, you want to be on hand for it. If you’ve been curious as to what the team has been up to for the past couple of days, wonder no more:
Mike Brey seems to be very easygoing about the whole thing, especially after he learns that his team made the field. In fact, he said during his first news conference of the tournament that an NIT bid would have made his job a lot harder:
Mike Brey knows NCAA didn't want to hear this in his presser Tuesday, but it was truth…
"There's no way I could have got these guys to play in the NIT. And I know I probably shouldn't say that because the NCAA owns it. There's no way."#ncaaorbust
— Tom Noie (@tnoieNDI) March 15, 2022
Apparently, being named the District 2 Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) wouldn’t have been enough to motivate his team had the NCAA Tournament slipped away. Fortunately, that’s all a moot point, and the important thing is getting ready for Rutgers.
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