Notre Dame-UAB Game Preview

The first round of the NIT is tonight, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are slated to play the UAB Blazers. Not surprisingly, fans are hoping that the “luck of the Irish” is with the team as they prepare to earn a postseason championship. On this, the most luckiest of Irish days, St. Patrick’s Day, we think our team has the edge. But just in case you need a more thorough, more fact-driven argument about why Notre Dame will win tonight (knock on clover), you can look through the very detailed pregame article at UND.com.

Or, if you’re a fan of doing your own pre-game research and team scouting, there’s always Kenpom.com, whose basketball stats will be all too valuable as the NCAA Tournament brackets get filled out. Here’s the page on the UAB Blazers. As you can see, this is a solid team, with some real strengths, especially perimeter defense.  UAB beat Arizona in the beginning of the year and then went on a tear in their C-USA schedule, winning six straight in the second half of the season.  They come into the NIT a bit wobbly, though, having lost three of their last six games.

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