There’s an element to this time of the year that involves the coincidental. And so it is that Mike Brey sounded pretty providential Tuesday night as he talked and seemingly openly campaigned for his Notre Dame team to at least warrant consideration for the NCAA Tournament.

“I was looking last night and I don’t know if this has ever happened before, but the four No. 1 seeds (ESPN) had (Pitt, UConn, Louisville, Notrh Carolina) we played six games against,” Brey said. “Has that ever happened before? Three on the road, two at home, one at a neutral site.

“We have 13 losses, but do we have a bad loss? Look at it and tell me if we have a bad loss. We don’t have enough good wins; don’t get me wrong. We’ve got work to do and we want to make it interesting.”

I don’t want to be that guy on a Wednesday, of all days, and especially when I consider the number of WVU fans I just saw outside the Garden, but Brey and a Notre Dame team that absolutely needs this game kind of sort of owns a WVU team that is already in the NCAA Tournament.