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ACC Basketball: Duke, Wake, and North Carolina headline best uniforms

By Adam Childs

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 12: Zion Williamson #1 of the Duke Blue Devils watches the action against the Louisville Cardinals at KFC YUM! Center on February 12, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - FEBRUARY 12: Zion Williamson #1 of the Duke Blue Devils watches the action against the Louisville Cardinals at KFC YUM! Center on February 12, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: Nate Laszewski #14, TJ Gibbs #10, and Prentiss Hubb #3 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish react during the second half of the game against Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Madison Square Garden on December 04, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: Nate Laszewski #14, TJ Gibbs #10, and Prentiss Hubb #3 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish react during the second half of the game against Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Madison Square Garden on December 04, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) /

Notre Dame’s football uniforms are some of the best in the game (if we don’t count their stadium series set). But unfortunately, their basketball uniforms are not. Instead of being going to the simple classic look they have tried to get to fancy and it just does not work.

The jersey is actually pretty nice. I am not a big fan of the shape of the collar but at least the color, which is a double stripe, goes all the way around. The color around the sleeve is always a win in my book and it looks good on their jersey. The letter and number font looks good and I like how is outlined in another color to help it pop. Also a fan of having the American Flag on the jersey. Overall it is good.

The problem is how good the jersey looks does not do enough to make up for their shorts. If they would have just had the classic ND logo on the sides and kept the two color waistline it would have been great. But then they decided to put stripes on the shorts that don’t connect or wrap around the whole leg. It is almost like they just haphazardly put them on the shorts. The stripe coming down the leg splits for the ND but then just stops. It would look better if it connected with the bottom stripe and that went around the whole leg. The two color stripe would look great if it did that. Instead, it just looks unfinished and messy.

Their alternate green and gold jerseys look good with the script Irish written on the chest but even those mess up the sides of the shorts. The Irish just need to take the cue from the football team and go simple and classic. Do that and they would have one of the better-looking uniforms in the ACC.