Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Hot! Notre Dame Makes It Nine Straight With 71 - 44 Win

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Unsure whether a layup might do or if the second required one more roof-piercing tomahawk jam, Jerian Grant shed control on the rim. So he or she gathered his bobble, dribbled on the nook in addition to unworriedly drained a 3-pointer, pausing to get outcome seeing that Purcell Pavilion gone upwards regarding grabs once again Wednesday.

If no one will be pretty sure how to calculate just what Notre Dame is definitely executing or the way it really is doing it, this is fine. No you've noticed something similar to this specific before. A 71-44 bludgeoning with Big East win, and that is a thing very little Irish group offers done, ever.

Grant brought four Irish scorers around double-figures with 20 points, your sophomore hitting 8-of-11 shots entire and also several connected with 5 various efforts from 3-point range.

He has been abetted simply by Scott Martin's 12-15 points plus tough luck apiece from Jack Cooley and Eric Atkins. The Irish were scintillating coming from begin to conclude offensively, snapping shots 61.4 percentage for any evening along with striking eleven 3-pointers to energy that bombarding.

Notre Dame ended up being again a second-half team, only this time the first one half wasn capital t a total disaster.

The Irish led through two with halftime thanks to 63.2 percent snapping shots in advance of the break, which canceled out your pummeling for the a glass by the Mountaineers (seven offensive rebounds) and a few sloppy ball-handling by the hosts (five Irish turnovers).

So once the Irish produced an additional second-half surge, the idea drowned West Virginia furiously.

A Grant tomahawk jam on the break up was one of several primary sets off as well as a Grant 3-pointer ended up being the kill result in a mammoth 20-4 run beyond halftime, rotating in which meager intermission lead right 50-32 runaway with the time frame seven second-half mins had elapsed.

A Scott Martin 3-pointer exposed a 21 issue cause together with eleven and also a half seconds left, plus all that is eventually left ended up being for your Irish to enjoy clinching inside a identify no group prior to there are been.

bchamilton@tribune.com

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