SOUTH BEND ― Maybe this is how it was all supposed to happen.

For Notre Dame basketball .

For Notre Dame football .

A couple of cruel twists of fate and an athletic door that was supposed to stay shut suddenly opens for freshman Mark Zackery IV , who has traded in his man-to-man football cover skills for his man-to-man basketball cover skills and a crash course in playing point guard at the major Division I college basketball level.

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