Mike Brey was everything Notre Dame hoped he’d be. But the Fighting Irish never elevated to the sport’s truly elite under his leadership, explains ByPatForde
In an increasingly complicated and compromised profession, Mike Brey kept his coaching philosophy simple and unwavering. “Go to class and don’t turn the ball over, and we’ll get along fine,” went the mantra. He ran a clean program and preferred clean basketball, and Notre Dame has benefitted greatly from his 23-year tenure.at season’s end.
Notre Dame? Never. The most athletically accomplished and ambitious of all Catholic schools traipsed into that one Final Four in 1978 and lost to Duke, which then lost to Kentucky for the title. And the Irish have never been back since. Notre Dame went into Greensboro, the traditional heart of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and won the league tournament by beating Duke and Notre Carolina on successive nights. Given a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament, the Irish beat Northeastern in the first round, survived Butler in overtime in the second, then cruised past Wichita State in the Sweet 16.
Brey brought Notre Dame back to the Elite Eight the following year as a No. 6 seed, but the underdog Irish were rolled in the second half by North Carolina. From that point forward, the magic dissipated. Just two of Brey’s next six teams made the NCAAs, and neither of those advanced past the second round.
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