Any loss is tough to watch, but we lost to a good team last night. The only bad thing about last night's loss was it followed Saturday's inexcusable loss. Notre Dame made us look silly for about a four minute stretch in the first half. They also made a good run in the second half to stretch their lead. UC did some things well last night and save Notre Dame shooting lights out at one point and some questionable calls, UC probably wins that game. They didn't though. It was two ranked teams going at it. Nothing wrong with the loss. It just sucks because we lost a game Saturday we had no business losing.
I think UC's biggest mistake in the game was letting Notre Dame wear their home whites. I think the refs got confused and gave the wrong team the home-cooking. I've watched alot of basketball and I think this is only the second time I've ever seen a team only get blown two whistles on them for an entire half (the other being the first time we played Huggs in WV and his team got called for five the whole game). Also blew an absolutlely critical call with about four minutes to go when UC got a stop and rebounded the ball and the ND player undercut the rebounder and the player lost control and the ball went out of bounds. Notre Dame got to keep the ball and burn the clock. I don't want to suggest the refs blew the game for us because we got outexecuted, but I just hate it when the the game is obviously one-sided. Puts your team at a great disadvantage and when you're struggling as we are it makes it even tougher.
