After two straight 20-loss seasons that saw the Mike Brey era come to a close and the Micah Shrewsberry era get off to a predictably difficult start, it feels like a long time since there was a sustained Era of Good Feelings that Irish men’s hoops fans could enjoy. With a new season about to [...]
Notre Dame men’s hoops moved to 6-1 with a dominant 70-52 win over 20th ranked Michigan State. The Irish closed out the Big Ten/ACC challenge in style, snapping a 3-game losing streak in the competition to end it on a good note and close their account at a respectable 5-5. More importantly, the Irish put [...]
Three games in, it has been a mixed bag for a Notre Dame men’s basketball team that is facing its highest pre-season expectations since the Farrell/Colson era. On the plus side, the team has shown flashes of what could be a truly elite offense, with a rotation that goes 7 deep with legitimate weapons. On [...]
With six games complete, the Notre Dame men’s hoops season is still in its very early stages. So with the obligatory small sample caveat for everything that is to follow, we do have 240 minutes’ worth of new trends and tendencies to analyze before the Irish head into the meatier portion of the nonconference schedule. [...]
Coming off the worst season in the Mike Brey era, the Irish men’s basketball team was not given an easy starting point to kick off the 2019-20 season. The #RunItBack season began in Chapel Hill, with the expanded 20 game ACC schedule pushing this big-time matchup to the very beginning of the slate. This opener [...]
Through eight games, the Notre Dame hoops team has bounced frustratingly between spells of offensive incompetence and spurts of exciting, high-level basketball. Such is the struggle with a team dependent on young talent, a challenge that Mike Brey has not recently faced in his tenure at ND. To make sense of these disparate performances that [...]
In what was I’m pretty sure the only hotly anticipated Fighting Irish matchup on Saturday, the hoops team secured a big road win over DePaul to start the 2017-18 season on the right foot. Game Summary The first half started out slowly as the Irish dealt with an excited crowd at the first ever game [...]
Coming off of their most impressive win of the season against Florida State, the Notre Dame hoops team traveled to Boston for the first of their two annual matchups against the Eagles. It was supposed to be the beginning of a much easier stretch for the Irish, who have faced the most difficult conference strength [...]
It’s no secret that the Notre Dame hoops team has been taking its lumps lately. Four consecutive losses took the Irish from a team with a top-15 ranking nationally to a team unsure if they could finish above .500 in the ACC. This drastic downturn left Tuesday’s home game against Wake Forest, perhaps an inconspicuous-looking [...]
A few days after knocking off Syracuse for the first time in ACC play, the Notre Dame hoops team had aspirations of finally shaking the Virginia monkey off their back. Unfortunately, the Irish came out with their most sluggish performance of the season, falling by an unflattering scoreline of 71-54. The contest was tense and [...]
Heading into tomorrow's Crossroads Classic match-up against Purdue, one of the prevailing pre-game questions has been one that is fairly familiar to Irish squads of the past couple of years: how can they handle a team with incredible length? It is no secret that Notre Dame's calling card for the past few years has been their devastating [...]
The 2016-17 Notre Dame basketball squad survived their first true test in the Legends Classic semifinal, withstanding a late Colorado charge to advance to the tournament's championship tomorrow night. The Irish started the contest furiously, feeding leading scorer Bonzie Colson early to grab a quick lead. Matt Farrell looked extremely confident running the Irish [...]
The NBA Summer League features a combination of exciting young talent with fringe players trying to work their way onto the end of an NBA bench. While the quality of play tends to leave something to be desired, it can be an intriguing spectacle for college hoops fans to catch up on some of their favorite [...]
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