On April 22nd Muffet McGraw shocked the college basketball world by stepping down from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish after 33 seasons in South Bend and 38 seasons overall as a head coach. As we deal with the current pandemic in a time without sports--and a college season that never concluded--it feels like a bizarre [...]

Any coach who wins a National Title at Notre Dame permanently etches their name in the tradition-laden halls of campus athletics. For Muffet McGraw that time came nearly two decades ago with a then program record 34 wins on the way to a championship. In recent years, McGraw was pushing through numerous boundaries, taking the [...]