Sport: Notre Dame, by a Basket

Few basketball teams ever stirred the fans or stumped the experts like this year's Notre Dame crew. One day they put on terrific second-half rallies; next day they roll up a lead and play second-half dead ducks. They have won six of their twelve games by a bare three-point margin or less.

At Louisville last week, the one-basket wonders knew they needed more than Irish luck to squeeze by once-beaten but powerful Kentucky. They relied; as usual, on the straight-down-the-middle road, feeding the ball to 6 ft. 5 in. Vince Boryla, their trigger-armed bucket man. The half-time score: Notre Dame 28, Kentucky...

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