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What if the Madness was decided by Academic Progress Rate?
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Notre Dame rolled out some new unis for the conference tournament.
Therein lies the point of contention. On on side, classic and tradition. The other, new, hip style for the generation that can’t sit still. Either way, it provides fashion experts as well as average fans a topic to debate as this week’s postseason tournaments get under way this week.
“It’s cool that there are a wider variety of styles among the college teams,” Welch said. “It’s an opportunity for branding but also for a school to express itself in a way. I think you see that with the Baylor uniforms and Baylor colors. To me, it’s cool that a school like Baylor who is defining its athletic identity is making a statement like that.
“At the same time, when you look at the Notre Dame jersey, the personality and public perception of Notre Dame is already defined and they do not need really outrageous uniforms. In a way, it goes against what you think of when you think of Notre Dame.”
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YIKES: Punches were thrown during the Notre Dame-St. John’s game.
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Well played, New York Magazine.
Read the Rest: Our complete exclusive with Manti Te’o.
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Te’o said he is not currently dating anyone. But says he’s refused to allow the hoax to change him.
“The worst thing I could do in this whole situation is change who I am that has brought me to this point,” he said. “My trust in people is the same. I’m just more cautious.”
Bottom line is Te’o expects to be judged by what he did in leading Notre Dame to its first undefeated season in decades.
“I just want them to know, whoever picks me just let them know that you’re choosing someone who loves the game,” Te’o said. “I want to be the best at it.
“It’s because of my work ethic that I’ve come this far.”
— USA TODAY Sports’ Jim Corbett
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3 hours and 40 minutes. 205 total points. Breaking down Notre Dame’s five-overtime marathon win over Louisville.
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Notre Dame senior Casey Murdock hit a half-court shot to win $18,000.
The results were fantastic.
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“Our cameras at AAC are sharp! They just caught Manti Te’o’s girlfriend in section 125 on the jumbotron!” — @DallasStars
It’s official. Everyone has made fun of Manti Te’o.
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Were Manti Te’o hoax details based in fact?
She is a beautiful young woman, in her early 20s, fighting leukemia. Unlike Lennay Kekua, she is real.
Jazmine Lutu smiles back from the Facebook page of her uncle, Titus Tuiasosopo. It is her cousin, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who several media reports say orchestrated the hoax that led former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o to believe Kekua had died of the disease when she never even existed.
Tuiasosopo has yet to respond publicly to the reports.
Yet some of the false world created around Kekua seems to align with the experiences of the Tuiasosopo family. Lutu’s struggle with cancer is one of at least three parallels between actual events chronicled on the Facebook page of Titus Tuiasosopo that match fictional details in the Kekua tale. Lennay Kekua was never in a car accident, but Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was in a March wreck. A touching quotation Te’o attributed to Kekua after her reported death was the same one Titus Tuiasosopo previously posted on his Facebook page after a relative died in August.
— Rachel George, David Leon Moore, USA TODAY Sports
