We could come up with plenty of excuses as to why the Wednesday night tilt between the Duke Blue Devils and Notre Dame Fighting Irish Basketball would be a sleepy affair, but no list of reasons would add up to the listless performance on display in South Bend. Pick your reasons. It's the ACC opener. [...]
I think everyone is excited for the college hoops season to kick off in the next couple of weeks. But before the fun begins, Mike Brey and his Fighting Irish received a commitment Friday from Blake Wesley, an outstanding prospect from their own backyard. Blake Wesley, a 6'4" shooting guard at Riley High School in [...]
You'd be forgiven for not keeping a close eye on the ND basketball team over the last seven months. The same night the Irish knocked off Boston College in the opening round of the ACC Tournament*, Rudy Gobert tested positive for Covid-19, and sports essentially shut down for three months. While the games stopped, there's [...]
Back on May 20th there were numerous reports that the NBA is in discussions with Orlando about re-starting their season while possibly housing players and their franchise staff within the confines of Walt Disney World. It would be an unprecedented move for professional sports in North America and would include the ability to navigate numerous [...]
If you're not watching the long-awaited The Last Dance documentary about Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls what are you even doing with your life? While the ridiculousness of some of the 90's era suits and outfits have received plenty of attention throughout the episodes this is the perfect opportunity to discuss the game-changing [...]
On April 22nd Muffet McGraw shocked the college basketball world by stepping down from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish after 33 seasons in South Bend and 38 seasons overall as a head coach. As we deal with the current pandemic in a time without sports--and a college season that never concluded--it feels like a bizarre [...]
Mike Brey and his Irish staff are suddenly on fire on the recruiting trail. Notre Dame hoops recruiting has not missed a beat despite, well, no one being able to travel or actually be near one another. The good news continued on Saturday when, just over a week after the commitment of small forward Tony [...]
A global pandemic has halted the entire world economy and all of our lives, but college hoops recruiting trudges on nearly unabated. Mike Brey and his Irish hoops crew were able to make a key addition to the program Friday when 2020 recruit Tony Sanders pledged his commitment to Notre Dame despite being unable to [...]
Most years, today would mark the true beginning of the one of the best 4-day weekend in the sports calendar. The NCAA tournament would tip with 32 first round games spread across 8 sites and two days of wall to wall hoops. Beers would be drank, wings would be eaten and millions of hours of [...]
Welcome to the finale of the ND Basketball's Missed Leap series, where we're discussing the causes of Notre Dame basketball's failure to take advantage of its back-to-back Elite Eight trips in 2015-16 and make a more lasting impact on the college hoops scene at large. I'll concede up front that this last thing that slowed [...]
Welcome to Part 2 of ND Basketball's Missed Leap. (By the way, if Notre Dame wants to keep winning games in the final seconds, we're totally willing to extend this series as long as necessary to keep that going.) Last week in our series on what happened to keep Notre Dame basketball from making The [...]
It's sort of hard to believe we ended up here. Notre Dame men's basketball made two straight Elite Eights in the 2015 and 2016 seasons, something no other program could claim. Since those runs, ND has played in precisely two NCAA tournament games, both in 2017 (a fine team in its own right that just [...]
On the last day of the 2010s, it seems appropriate to look back at the decade in men's hoops. While this year's team has shown some flashes, it's largely been blowouts of overmatched opponents and frustrating losses otherwise. Instead, let's look back at happier times and remember 10 years filled with seven NCAA bids, two [...]
So it's been quite a week for this Irish hoops program, hasn't it? Let's run through the depressing stuff: An embarrassing, unacceptable, nationally-televised, blowout loss to a Maryland team that has since been shown to not be all that impressive, after which head coach Mike Brey admitted that the Terps "broke us" A loss to [...]
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. [...]
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