The maddening statistic that more than intermittently looked like a potential dead end for the Notre Dame women’s basketball team from the outside looking in this past season — turnovers — turned out to be a red herring.
And yet perhaps something much less complicated to address than what Irish head coach Niele Ivey must actually confront heading into her sixth season leading the program.
That’s, above all, how she needs to evolve her coaching.
And that would be true whatever Olivia Miles had decided to do with her remaining year of college eligibility and freshman Kate Koval with her remaining three. And also whether or not they provide the final personnel shockwaves of this offseason, with her Miles' reported deferment of the WNBA Draft cycle to plunge into the transfer portal and Koval with the intention of transferring as well.
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What leaves no wiggle room, in terms of the future of the ND program, is that Ivey can be both part of the problem and part of the solution to the Irish flaming out in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, 71-62, to a transfer-portal spectacle in TCU that got exposed and bounced by double digits two days later in the ...
