The Chicago Bulls will be anxiously awaiting the results of a handful of ping-pong balls alongside 13 other teams on Monday night.

Back in 2008, the Chicago Bulls had a slim 1.7% chance of winning the NBA Draft lottery, and lucked into picking Derrick Rose at No. 1 overall. Facing the exact same long odds this year, with the lottery once again taking place in the Bulls' backyard at McCormick Place,

Counsell, a Notre Dame alumnus, also got a kick out of conversations about the pope’s alma mater. Despite growing up a relatively short distance from Notre Dame, the former Robert Francis Prevost attended another Catholic institution, Villanova in the Philadelphia area.