Notre Dame lost Sunday for the fourth time in their past five games, this time at home against Louisville, to drop their record to 11-14.
Yet after the defeat, men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry, in his second season at South Bend, ripped not into his team, but into Notre Dame fans.
Upset by the support shown to Louisville in Notre Dame’s building, Shrewsberry, 48, criticized the Fighting Irish fan base and stormed out of the press conference while slamming the microphone down.
“I sat there and watched more Louisville fans in here than Notre Dame people. And that’s embarrassing,” Shrewsberry said after the loss. “That’s embarrassing for me because I’m the head coach here. Yes, I got us in this predicament, but don’t come back when we’re winning, because we’re turning this around, man. You better believe that.”
It hasn’t happened so far for Shrewsberry, who successfully got Penn State back into the NCAA tournament two years ago in his second and final season with the Nittany…
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