This is the final part of our 18Stripes basketball round table. Part one was focused on hot topics from the offseason and the stellar Irish recruiting class. In part two, we covered the Irish roster from top to bottom. The last portion will take a look at the schedule and overall outlook for the season. [...]
It's a great time to be a Notre Dame fan. Not only are we in the midst of a much better football season than many of us expected, but now we get to add the fun of basketball into the mix. The women's basketball team will begin their season this Saturday afternoon against the Mount [...]
Mike Brey's Irish basketball squad finished up their exhibition season with two easy wins over Bethel and Cardinal Stritch. On Friday night, despite help from new assistant coach LaPhonso Ellis, the Irish beat crosstown Bethel 88-59. They followed it up with a 90-46 blowout of Cardinal Stritch on Tuesday. These two wins were in addition [...]
This is the second in our series of season kick-off round tables for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball season. In Part 1, we covered hot topics from the off-season. In Part 2, we run down the Irish roster and look at how the piece parts might fit together for Mike Brey and his staff. [...]
The 2017-18 Notre Dame Men's Basketball Team tips off their second exhibition game Friday evening at 7PM Eastern. It will be the first opportunity for Irish fans unable to make it to the JACC to see the Irish play. The game will be streamed on ACC Extra, which is typically available on the ESPN streaming [...]
With the eyes of most college hoops focused on headlines with words like "FBI Investigations" and "NCAA Commission," the Irish basketball squad kicked off preseason practice. After an open practice for season ticket holders last Wednesday night, Mike Brey's squad finished up their tenth practice of the preseason. Fans visiting for the USC game had [...]
It's been a crazy week for the college hoops world, but hidden in all that came some great news for Notre Dame hoops, as Nate Laszewski committed to the Irish on Wednesday afternoon. The 6'10" forward from Massachusetts committed to the Irish over conference foes Wake Forest and North Carolina. Laszewski completes a dynamite recruiting [...]
College basketball fans might want to mark down September 26th 2017 as a day that will go down in infamy. Ten individuals, including 4 active assistant coaches were indicted on federal corruption charges Tuesday. Accused of perpetuating a system that funneled blue-chip basketball recruits to certain programs, agents, and footwear companies, these 10 men likely [...]
With Irish eyes focused on the start of the football season, it's probably not the best time for a state of the program post about Mike Brey's hoops squad. Still, with classes back in session on campus and preseason previews starting to trickle out, it's as good a time as ever for a quick recap [...]
Mike Brey has done it again. The Irish hoops program gained another commitment on Thursday afternoon in Pittsburgh-area combo guard Robby Carmody. The 6'4", 200 pound Carmody joins Prentiss Hubb in Notre Dame's 2018 recruiting class and transfer Juwan Durham as big additions to the Irish roster this offseason. God, Country, Notre Dame. pic.twitter.com/J3EthOpUJ9 — [...]
The big offseason for Irish head coach Mike Brey continues. Just a couple of weeks after Brey picked up his first commit for the 2018 class, on Saturday he received the commitment of transfer big man Juwan Durham. Durham will transfer to South Bend from UConn, where he spent his freshman year this last season. Durham [...]
Not many people want to be connected to Washington, D.C. these days, but Irish head coach Mike Brey is making that connection work in a big way. After pulling 2017 guard D.J. Harvey out of DeMatha, Brey picked up his first 2018 recruit on Wednesday night in Prentiss Hubb. Let's make it official!🍀🏀#GoIrish @NDmbb pic.twitter.com/FTw9Ta3tlF [...]
Mike Brey has had a hell of a run in the ACC so far. The Irish have won 43 regular-season ACC games, 37 of those over the last 3 years. Notre Dame owns 6 ACC post-season victories in our short history, again, all over the last three years. In those same three seasons, Brey's team [...]
Player movement is part of big-time college basketball. Already this off-season, both Virginia and Duke have seen players leave programs with eligibility remaining. Irish fans will recall both Alex Dragicevich and Cameron Biedscheid departing early. Tuesday evening, the Notre Dame Men's Basketball twitter account posted a statement from Coach Mike Brey indicating that current sophomore, Matt [...]
It was a rough end to the weekend for the Irish women's basketball team. Notre Dame collected an impressive Sweet Sixteen win over Ohio State on Friday. However, on Sunday, for the second year in a row Stanford ended Notre Dame's season in Lexington's Rupp Arena. Friday: Notre Dame vs. Ohio State Friday's game against [...]
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