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. [...]
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 [...]
For the second time in as many official visit weekends, Notre Dame hoops has scored a commitment to its 2020 class. New Jersey big man Matt Zona committed to the Irish on Monday night, filling a much-needed spot in the future frontcourt for Irish head coach Mike Brey. Notre Dame offered Zona in July and [...]
The Notre Dame hoops program seems to be gaining a little steam heading into an important bounce-back season. At long last, the Irish have secured their first commitment in the 2020 class in Philadelphia power forward Elijah Taylor. Taylor committed to Notre Dame on Thursday following his official visit this past weekend. When he cancelled [...]
It is quite well-documented that it has been a minute since Notre Dame hoops has landed a commitment from a high school recruit. That unfortunate streak came to an end over the weekend, as local standout J.R. Konieczny pledged his commitment to the Irish. Konieczny, now a junior at nearby St. Joseph High School in [...]
After one of the poorest seasons of the Mike Brey era, an empty recruiting class, and a few eyebrow-raising recruiting misses, it just feels like Notre Dame hoops needed a win. They earned a significant one on Friday night when Stanford transfer Cormac Ryan announced that he had committed to Notre Dame following a campus [...]
It was a remarkably successful draft night for the Notre Dame women’s basketball program. All five of this year’s starters were selected among the top 20 picks, including Jackie Young with the #1 overall pick. They will have a quick turnaround as preseason games will begin in less than a month, with the regular season [...]
In a game that took Irish fans on quite the emotional roller coaster, the Irish couldn’t quite pull off a win against Baylor in the National Championship game. The second half magic they’ve relied on in the Tournament (both this season and last) finally ran out despite an impressive comeback effort in the fourth quarter. [...]
The Irish once again came away with the win over UConn in the Final Four, making them 5-1 against the Huskies in this round of the tournament. Now they will have a chance to defend their title on Sunday against Baylor. Final Four: 1 ND vs. 2 UConn Notre Dame and UConn met for the [...]
Getting to the Final Four isn’t easy, and the Irish were reminded of that this weekend. In dramatic fashion, they defeated 4-seed Texas A&M in the Sweet Sixteen and 2-seed Stanford in the Elite Eight to earn the team’s seventh Final Four spot in nine seasons. They will face UConn on Friday in a rematch [...]
Notre Dame picked up comfortable wins in each of the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament this week. They will now make the short trip to Chicago to face Texas A&M in the Sweet Sixteen. Round 1: 1 ND vs. 16 Bethune-Cookman Apparently there were some worries going on behind the scenes in the [...]
For the fifth time in their six years in the ACC, the #4 Irish have won the conference tournament. They did so with decisive wins over #18 Syracuse in the semifinal and #3 Louisville in the final. The offense is certainly rolling for ND as they await the NCAA Tournament. ACC Semifinal: #4 ND vs. [...]
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