When Is Notre Dame Basketball Going To Be Good Again?

Another nighttime of Notre Dame basketball, and different nighttime of disappointment.

This clip it was an 81-69 nonaccomplishment astatine location to Miami arsenic nan Fighting Irish fell to 10-7 wide connected nan year, and conscionable 1-3 successful ACC play.

And mind you, of those 3 convention losses, only 1 (Clemson) has travel against a squad that is presently classed successful nan AP Poll Top 25.

It's nan latest successful a agelong drawstring of disappointment for Notre Dame men's basketball, that is approaching a decade of nan doldrums.

Things won't get easier anytime soon for Notre Dame, either, arsenic trips to Virginia Tech (13-4 overall) and No. 14 North Carolina (14-2) are connected platform successful nan adjacent week.

Feeling retired of immoderate tally astatine nan ACC by mid-January is nan caller norm, and hopes of moreover a travel to nan NIT consciousness far-fetched astatine this point.

Notre Dame is abruptly looking 1-5 successful convention play successful nan eye, arsenic things haven't gone nan Fighting Irish's measurement to date.

Things were expected to beryllium different this year, arsenic a loaded recruiting people came in. Unfortunately, it's conscionable been much of nan aforesaid for Notre Dame.

However, that's conscionable par for nan people successful nan past decade.

The highest of nan modern Notre Dame hoops era came successful back-to-back years erstwhile nan Irish reached consecutive Elite Eights nether Mike Brey successful some 2015 and 2016.

Notre Dame sewage into nan NCAA Tournament successful nan 2016-17 season, making it to nan Second Round earlier falling to West Virignia, but has been backmost conscionable erstwhile since.

The worst portion astir it though, has been really uncompetitive nan Irish person been wide successful nan ACC.

In nan 8 completed seasons since then, Notre Dame has vanished supra .500 conscionable erstwhile successful nan conference, going 15-5 successful 2021-22. It besides vanished correct astatine .500 successful 2019-20, going 10-10.

However, wide since nan commencement of nan 2017-18 season, Notre Dame has stumbled to an wide people of conscionable 62-96 (.392) successful ACC play. And let's look it, this isn't precisely nan aforesaid caliber ACC from nan late-90s aliases early-2000s that was putting retired aggregate nationalist title contenders connected a regular basis.

Listen, I get that Notre Dame hoops will besides return a backseat successful position of liking to what nan shot squad does, but tin location not beryllium a world wherever nan 2 co-exist?

I want to support giving Micah Shrewsberry nan use of nan doubt, but things simply aren't getting immoderate better.

Would different difficult reset beryllium nan correct scheme aliases would letting him thrust this large wind retired beryllium a amended idea?

I don't person that reply and I won't dress to person nan aforesaid passion for assemblage hoops that I erstwhile did, but is it excessively overmuch to inquire for Notre Dame to astatine slightest beryllium compelling until February connected nan hardwood?