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Noie: Much-needed ACC win all that matters for Notre Dame

Tom Noie
Notre Dame Insider

SOUTH BEND — It didn’t matter that they were tumbling toward historic lows for shooting and scoring and really everything else that goes with playing an unbelievably forgettable first half.

It didn’t matter that their collective struggles probably forced viewers to turn the channel and do something else other than watch more bad basketball. Didn’t matter that their own fans cheered loudly when they finally put together consecutive baskets just before halftime.

When a team that’s been as down and considered all but out the way Notre Dame was heading into Sunday’s home game against equally inefficient Georgia Tech, all that mattered was the final score.

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Notre Dame’s Juwan Durham (11) goes up for a shot between Georgia Tech’s Curtis Haywood II, left, and James Banks III (1) during Sunday night’s game in South Bend.