Notre Dame Women's Basketball enters the 2024/25 season with sky-high expectations. Coming off an ACC Tournament title and a close loss in the Sweet 16, the Irish are preseason ACC favorites and ranked 5th/6th in the Preseason Coaches and AP Polls. The roster is easily the most talented of the Ivey-era. At full strength, their [...]
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 [...]
I spend a lot of time in my professional life talking to people about writing and storytelling. One of the more powerful tools to draw people in to learning (or buying) something new is to anchor a concept in a time-tested framework. If you want understand something, frame it up in a narrative arc people [...]
It was closer than we'd have liked, but the Micah Shrewsberry's ND coaching career started with a win for the Irish. Behind a record breaking night from Markus Burton, Notre Dame beat Niagara 70-63 at Purcell Pavilion. The Indiana Mr. Basketball scored 29 points to break the record for a freshman debut previously held by [...]
It's been a long two months since it was announced that Mike Brey would not return as Notre Dame's head coach. Rumors and speculation of perceived favorites were only outnumbered by the growing number of losses to close out Brey's time. But on Wednesday, Notre Dame and Jack Swarbrick got their guy. Reports filtering out [...]
Reports surfaced Thursday afternoon that long-time Notre Dame head basketball coach Mike Brey would be retiring at season's end. It is truly an understatement to call this a momentous day for a program that has been helmed by the same man for 23 seasons...23!!! https://twitter.com/tnoieNDI/status/1616181539007512577?s=20&t=rQUxYtVmnje2vZF1aoBYAA My reaction to the news was and still is fairly [...]
DISCLAIMER: I wrote this after the loss to Marquette and decided it was too negative to post. In the interest of self-care, I wasn't going to watch the Georgia game. Of course, I couldn't resist. I'll put a few post-Georgia thoughts at the end... As I've aged, my attitude has drifted to pessimism. I try [...]
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 [...]
The Irish hoops staff strikes again as guard Parker Friedrichsen committed to Notre Dame on Tuesday afternoon. Friedrichsen becomes the Irish's third 2023 commitment, just a few days after forward Brady Dunlap became the second. Friedrichsen plays his high school and AAU ball in Oklahoma, one of very few national prospects from the state in [...]
Forward Brady Dunlap pledged his commitment to Mike Brey and the Irish hoops staff on Thursday night just a few days after his official visit to South Bend. Dunlap joins local point guard Markus Burton as the second commit in Notre Dame's 2023 class. Dunlap currently plays high school ball in California and spent some [...]
The local pipeline continues for Mike Brey and his Irish hoops program, as Markus Burton committed to Notre Dame on Friday afternoon. Burton was offered earlier in the week on a visit to campus and wasted no time in declaring for the school he has "always wanted to play for". Not bad for a kid [...]
We haven't done a ton of basketball coverage here at 18 Stripes this season. For most of the year, the Irish just weren't really worth writing about; they were a decent-to-good team in what appeared to be a terrible conference, and as those teams do they ended up on the bubble for this year's NCAA [...]
Mike Brey and the Notre Dame coaching staff capped off their 2022 recruiting class with a bang on Tuesday, securing the commitment of power forward Ven-Allen Lubin. A bit of a late-riser, the 6'8" forward out of Orlando saw his recruitment take off this summer with a series of high-major offers. He seemed to impress [...]
Listen. It's been a rough couple of years for Mike Brey and company. You could be forgiven for thinking this past March that things were approaching an ugly end for Brey's tenure in South Bend. But my how things are changing. A reenergized Brey, reconfigured coaching staff, and renewed roster, featuring a much-hyped graduate [...]
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