Playing only six players after losing two starters to illness and injury, Notre Dame found a way to win their first ACC game against Boston College. A few hours before the game, ND announced that Juwan Durham would miss the game with an ankle injury. Thirty minutes before tip, TJ Gibbs started showing signs of [...]
The top ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish used a huge second half from senior Arike Ogunbowale to give previously undefeated #2 Louisville their first loss of the season. The senior guard scored 26 of her 30 points in the second half giving the Irish a win in their second #1 v. #2 game of the [...]
Despite a strong effort by the Irish, multiple scoring droughts doomed ND to a 72-62 loss to Syracuse. The Irish started strong, and led much of the first half. Notre Dame dominated inside as the combination of Juwan Durham and John Mooney helped to unlock the Cuse 2-3 zone. Durham flushed an alley-oop to open [...]
In his four years in South Bend, Rex Pflueger has been part of some amazing moments. His emergence as a defensive stopper was critical to ND's deep post-season run in 2016. He secured Notre Dame's second consecutive Sweet Sixteen birth with his tip-in to beat Stephen F. Austin that year. By Pflueger's sophomore year, he [...]
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 [...]
So, the football team is 12-0, which is awesome. But don’t forget that a new season has begun for the reigning national champions (writing that will never get old) – the women’s basketball team. They had a busy, celebratory offseason that included (among other things) a trip to the ESPYs, a European tour, appearances by [...]
I promised myself I wouldn't do it. One of the fun things about writing about sports is projecting and predicting. We try to extrapolate future successes and failures out of single data points. We look for the patterns and indicators of future triumphs and tragedies. I'm not actually sure why we do it. Perhaps it [...]
Despite starting their season two months later and facing a much easier schedule, the Irish basketball squad, unlike the football team, is no longer undefeated. With their loss last week to Radford and less than impressive wins over three other opponents, fans of the program are rightly concerned. One of the captains decided to transfer?!?! [...]
I haven't had a chance to pick up Mike Brey's book yet. I'm willing to wager the line "Get old. Stay old," appears in the text somewhere. Good coaches have a philosophy that brings success. Great coaches sustain success by adjusting to the realities around them. Indeed, Mike Brey oversaw a golden era of Notre [...]
With the regular season starting tonight against Illinois-Chicago, here is part two of the 18 Stripes basketball season preview. In case you missed it, here's part one which focuses on individual players. Additionally, the Irish played an exhibition against Central State last week. Here's a quick recap of a somewhat sloppy affair, and a look [...]
The Irish defeated the Central State Marauders 76-54 at Purcell Pavilion on Thursday night in their only stateside exhibition. While the game was sloppy at times, especially in the first half, the contest provided a first look at a number of new faces for ND. Although the team will look different come conference play, we [...]
With the football team sitting at 8-0, you could be forgiven for not realizing that Fighting Irish Basketball is about to begin. The season kicks off with an exhibition between the Irish and Central State tonight (7:00 ET - ESPN3). Even though it's just a scrimmage against a D-II school, there's worse ways to use [...]
It's NBA Draft night! Move over Woj, Jonathan Givony, and Shams - the 18 Stripes MB Mock Draft is here to get you ready for one of the most entertaining and dramatic nights of the NBA season. In a loaded year, there's a ton of questions - where will all the talented bigs go, and [...]
Fair or not, the University of Notre Dame has often been accused of catering too much to the football program. In recent months, the school has announced another multi-million practice facility heavily revolved around the football team adding additional space connected to the Gug and a new indoor practice facility across the street. This is [...]
Any coach who wins a National Title at Notre Dame permanently etches their name in the tradition-laden halls of campus athletics. For Muffet McGraw that time came nearly two decades ago with a then program record 34 wins on the way to a championship. In recent years, McGraw was pushing through numerous boundaries, taking the [...]
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