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Pittsburgh’s Brandin Knight had just hit his only basket of the game and was near midcourt guarding Chris Thomas as the game clock ticked down. He smiled and started talking to his counterpart from Notre Dame.
“He said, ‘This is the way it’s supposed to be,’ ” Thomas said. “I said, ‘You’re right.’ “
Knight wasn’t smiling for long.
Thomas drove, but saw a crowd of players. At the last moment, he passed to Torin Francis under the basket. Francis scored with 0.6 seconds left to give No. 10 Notre Dame (19-4, 7-2) a 66-64 victory over fourth-ranked Pittsburgh (16-3, 6-2) on Sunday.
The Panthers had one last chance, but Jordan Cornette swatted away the inbounds pass by Jaron Brown as time expired.
