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Message: [QUOTE="BRS24, post: 5320776, member: 197"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ndinsider.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2025/08/07/notre-dame-womens-basketball-pete-bevacqua-state-program-niele-ivey-hannah-hidalgo/85530746007/[/URL] [INDENT][I]“When you’re on that plane flying home from that (TCU) game and the world is changing underneath you, you have to get out ahead of it,” Bevacqua said. “Going forward, we’re going to be better prepared to manage that moment of change.” [/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]There it is − a non-National Enquirer explanation of what happened to Notre Dame. Everyone around the program was so focused on winning ― an ACC regular season championship, a league tournament championship, an NCAA regional and a national championship ― that they were oblivious to everything else in the college basketball world. [/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]The future didn’t matter. Relationships didn’t matter. At that point ― February and March ― all that mattered was winning. Change hit Notre Dame hard because Notre Dame had never been affected so much by change. It’s long been a program that players ran toward. [/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]