Category: Basketball

IRISH NEWSLINK: “#NotreDame #FinalFour Run Tainted by #NCAA’s Scheduling on #GoodFriday and #Easter; #Catholic Institution Should Have Abstained From Participating” – SCW

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NCAA Headquarters Facade

The #NCAA has created an anti-#Catholic and anti-#Christian effect by scheduling a national semifinal (#FinalFour game) on #GoodFriday in women’s #basketball. Doing so violates the solemn nature of the day and subjects Catholics to having to play on a day when they are fasting, and when they are abstaining from meat. At least the game is not at 3 p.m.,

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IRISH NEWSLINK: “No. 1 Irish Seek Program’s Second National Title this Weekend in Columbus Rivalry renewed in national semifinal vs No. 1 UConn” – UND

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Basketball Going Through Hoop and Net, adapted from image at lanl.gov

“All eyes of the NCAA Division I women’s basketball world are locked upon Columbus, Ohio, this weekend as the 2018 Final Four begins on Friday at Nationwide Arena. The No. 1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (33-3) will once again renew its rivalry with No. 1 UConn Huskies (36-0) in Friday’s second semifinal game, slated to begin at 9:30 p.m. ET

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IRISH NEWSLINK: “Princeton Preview – Five Things To Know; Notre Dame begins 2017 NCAA Tournament in Buffalo on Thursday, March 16 at 12:15pm ET” – UND

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File Photo of Basketball and Hoop with Net, adapted from image at dhs.gov

“WHO: #5 Notre Dame (25-9) vs. #12 Princeton (23-6) WHAT: 2017 NCAA West Region First Round WHERE: KeyBank Center, Buffalo, New York WHEN: Thursday, March 16, 2017, 12:15 p.m. ET NATIONAL BROADCAST: CBS with Verne Lundquist (play-by-play), Jim Spanarkel (analyst) and Allie LaForce (sideline). WESTWOOD ONE RADIO: Scott Graham (play-by-play) and Donny Marshall. Available on Sirius Channel 134. NOTRE DAME

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