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Mississippi State, Notre Dame, that's the Super Regional Matchup in Starkville this weekend.

Patrick Engle joins us now on the Welcome Home Beef hotline.

He covers Notre Dame for Blue and Gold Illustrated.

Patrick, you know, Notre Dame was a team everybody thought was going to be a national seed a week ago,

and that was sort of where everybody was leaning, and of course the seating comes out,

and that doesn't happen.

And then Notre Dame just goes and absolutely dominates their regional.

50 to 5 was the combined score.

I don't want to make it sound evil or anything, but just how angry was this Notre Dame team?

Did they take it personally?

Did they feel snubbed by not getting a national seed?

Absolutely, and you heard them all weekend really lean into that bit of wanting to be a top eight seed

and feeling like, you have been one and feeling

like, you know, had they won their regional, that they would have gotten to host a super

regional.

And I think it's a combination of that and a surprising early exit from the ACC tournament.

They lost 14 to 1 to Virginia and pool play.

Just a pretty uncharacteristic, bizarre result for a team that was the top seed in that

tournament and certainly wanted to put a tournament title on its resume heading into the NCAA

tournament here.

So just kind of a combination of that of, you know, we saw, I think, both

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