Dwight Clay stood alone in the right corner, the Notre Dame guard waving feverishly for the basketball.
A day earlier it had been quiet in the near-empty Athletic & Convocation Center when Notre Dame's brash young coach, Digger Phelps, surprised his players by bringing ladders onto the court to practice cutting down the nets.
Now a wildly partisan crowd was on its feet in the sold-out arena on the Notre Dame campus. The Irish, in the midst of a frantic rally, had scored 10 consecutive points to pull to within a point of the seemingly invincible UCLA Bruins — the seven-time defending national champion UCLA Bruins — with less than a minute to play.
Notre Dame was close to turning make-believe into reality.
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