Since you brought it up (sorta)

As a member of the Class of '86, if you had told me when I graduated that ND would win a national championship in women's basketball before they would win one in men's basketball, I would have told you that you were crazy. In fact, we played USC in women's basketball my junior year, IIRC. Consensus was that one player on the ND team (Trina Keys) could have made the USC squad, but that she would have been buried on the bench.

The lack of a basketball national championship, or even a Final Four appearance since 1978, bothers me as much as football.