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Last updated: March 16, 2011 8:03 p.m.

Big challenge

Tony Krausz | The Journal Gazette

Notre Dame faces an impossing defensive figure when it opens NCAA tournament play against Akron on Friday in Chicago.

Seven-foot center Zeke Marshall has 88 blockes this season for the Zips, but Notre Dame’s big men are not too worried about facing Marshall.

“Once you get to a certain height, it really doesn’t matter any more,” Irish 6-foot-9 reserve forward Jack Cooley said. “Once you get up there, you are already up there.

“You just got to prepare like every other big man. This is a huge game, and the bigs are going to be well trained just like always.”

For more on Marshall, read Thursday’s Journal Gazette.

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The Journal Gazette's Assistant Sports Editor Tony Krausz covers The University of Notre Dame. Krausz, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a native of St. Louis, has been assistant sports editor since October 2005. Prior to joining the JG, he worked at two papers in Mississippi covering high school and college athletics.
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