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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, the good Lord certainly has a sense of humor. After migrating with the 18 Stripes crew to our current home 2.5 years ago, I am finally writing my first official article for this site...and it just so happens that today is the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers and journalists. [...]
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 [...]
When it became clear that Bonzie Colson and Matt Farrell were each going to be out for an extended period of time, most Irish fans prepared for the worst. We prepared to blow the 12-point halftime lead against North Carolina State, but instead the Irish pushed the final margin to 30. We again braced ourselves [...]
In what was I’m pretty sure the only hotly anticipated Fighting Irish matchup on Saturday, the hoops team secured a big road win over DePaul to start the 2017-18 season on the right foot. Game Summary The first half started out slowly as the Irish dealt with an excited crowd at the first ever game [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Despite a nervous final few minutes, the Irish sailed to their 10th league victory on Saturday against the N.C. State Wolfpack. V.J. Beachem led the Irish with what felt like an easy, even boring, 27 points on 10/16 shooting, including 7/12 from deep. The Irish led throughout and used a 12-4 run over the last [...]
Due to a water main break near UNC’s campus, Notre Dame had to wait through a 19-hour postponement and relocation fifty miles up the road from Chapel Hill to Greensboro, but Sunday afternoon the Irish finally took the floor against the Tarheels. Any good memories the Irish had left over from their 2015 ACC Tournament [...]
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