SOUTH BEND, Ind. (KRT) — Seton Hall’s players should have seen him. The Pirates could have stopped him. After all, he was shooting in plain sight, a blue No. 2 sewn onto his white Notre Dame jersey.
But if it is possible for a 6-foot-2-inch, 178-pound player to be
invisible, freshman Chris Quinn pulled off the feat Sunday afternoon in Notre Dame’s 74-64
victory over Seton Hall at the Joyce Center.
Quinn scored just six points in 19 minutes for the Irish (13-2, 1-1 in the Big East). His value, however, exceeded his numbers.
With 9:29 left in the first half, Quinn, ignored by the defense, rotated to the left wing, took a pass from point guard Chris Thomas and fired off a three-pointer, cutting the Pirates’ lead to one.
Thirty seconds later Quinn mirrored the play from the right wing. His basket not only put Notre Dame ahead 26-25, it also made it that much tougher for an already tenuous Seton Hall defense to slow Notre Dame’s scoring.
“Sometimes, when we have four shooters on the court, it confuses them a little bit,” Quinn said. “They don’t know who they have to extend on.”
Which is what happened Sunday. Though he only took (and made) two shots against the Pirates (5-7, 0-3), Quinn subsequently absorbed plenty of defensive pressure, opening up the floor for Thomas, who finished with a game-high 22, and Matt Carroll, who added 19.
“It wasn’t a really pretty game,” Carroll said. “But that’s how it is in the Big East, every game is a grind.”

— Avani Patel
Chicago Tribune; distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
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