No true basketball facility frustrates Notre Dame's Brey
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Notre Dame coach Mike Brey reacts to his team's play in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Wake Forest Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame won 88-75 pushing their record to 23-4. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)
Notre Dame is embarking on a $400 million Campus Crossroads project that will include a massive framework of steal that will eventually become nine-level Corbett Family Hall rising along the east side of Notre Dame Stadium.
The plan is supposed to take the Notre Dame campus into the future, but as far as head basketball coach Mike Brey is concerned, it will take his team's program into the past.
Prior to the Campus Crossroads project, there were plans to build a dedicated stand-alone practice facility for the men's and women's basketball programs. With the dedicated facility more than a decade overdue, those plans were scrapped when construction for the Campus Crossroads project commenced in November.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Sometimes when I look out there, I get a little frustrated," Brey told the Tribune in an interview Wednesday with WSBT's Weekday Sportsbeat. "That really pushed our practice facility plans back a couple years.
(The Elkhart Truth)