It’s not a football game, but it’s still ultra-rare: For the second time ever, Iowa State and Notre Dame will play each other in basketball. The only other meeting was in 1979, which #5 ND won in South Bend 87-77.
It took a really, really long time during the selection show for ISU to be announced, in the bottom half of the last quadrant.
Should Iowa State win in Dayton, it would be the fourth time in five appearances that the Cyclones would play a highly ranked team in its home state, in this case Ohio State.
The Iowa State-Notre Dame game will be one of the last of the first round with an 8:45 tipoff Friday. The CBS A-team — Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg, and Tracy Wolfson — will be calling it.