Notre Dame Basketball Archive
Hoops Week in Review
The Irish pulled off the trifecta this week by knocking off IPFW, Kennesaw State, and finished the busy stretch off by taking down the Purple Eagles of Niagara. Notre Dame now sits at 12-1 on the season with their only loss of the year coming to a solid St Joe squad in overtime. Senior forward [...]
Crossroads Classic
After a wild game in the previous session that saw #1 Indiana get knocked off in overtime by the Butler Bulldogs, it was Purdue’s and Notre Dame’s turn to hit the floor in the “Crossroads Classic” in Indianapolis. While the game did not match the intensity and drama of its predecessor, it still provided moments [...]
Crossroads Classic Preview
The #22 ranked Irish are starting to wind down their OOC schedule, with their latest victory coming in the form of an 84-57 drubbing of Brown. Notre Dame was led by reserve forward Cameron Biedscheid, who put up 17 points in just over 17 minutes and Jack Cooley had another solid performance underneath the rim [...]
Hoops Roundup
The 2012 Irish squad are sitting at 7-1 right now with its latest victory coming at the hands of the defending national champion Kentucky Wildcats. While the Wildcats are young and raw, they are still very talented, but t he Irish took advantage of the Kentucky youth and inexperience to notch their 7th win of [...]
History Need Not Be A Burden
Special To UHND.com While doing research for the documentary, Echoes Awakened: The Year That Changed The Face of Notre Dame Football, I discovered that the subject of the documentary – the 1964 Notre Dame team – and the Fighting Irish of 2009 had a few things in common. Teams looking for new beginnings after suffering [...]
Golden Tate Earns AFCA Coaches’ All-American Honors
Golden Tate’s remarkable season earned the Irish junior an All-American honor from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) this week. The All-American team is selected by the member coaches. Tate’s 18 touchdowns this season and highlight-reel catches made him an easy choice for the award. Tate joins Alabama’s Mark Ingram as one of only two [...]
Brey Linked to UVA Opening?
ESPN’s Andy Katz reported on Tuesday that Mike Brey would be interested in the head coaching vacancy Virginia. With expectations sky high for Notre Dame this year, the heat could be turning up on Brey this off-season. Brey has Notre Dame in the NIT Final 4 in year when the actual Final 4 was supposed [...]
Notre Dame NIT Final 4 Bound
Notre Dame won it’s third straight NIT game on Wednesday night to advance the Final 4 of the NIT next week in New York. The Irish held off a late Kentucky comeback attempt to win 77-67 in front of the first good sized crowd at the Joyce Center for the NIT and have earned a [...]
Notre Dame Will Host Kentucky Wednesday
With Kentucky upsetting Creighton in second round NIT, Notre Dame will get a third NIT game at the Joyce Center this Wednesday night. Tipoff for the game is 7:00 and the game will be televised on ESPN2. Attendance has been extremely low for the first two rounds with just a little over 8,000 people turning [...]
Dozens More Watch Notre Dame Hold Off New Mexico
The good news is that attendance for Thursday night’s second round NIT matchup with New Mexico was up roughly 50% from Tuesday night’s first round win over UAB. The bad news is that even with the increase, the Joyce Center still had about 8,000 empty seats Thursday night to see a Notre Dame last second [...]
Dozens Watch Irish Advance
Notre Dame held off UAB on Tuesday night to advance to the 2nd Round of the NIT with a 70-64 victory. The few, and I do mean few, fans who made it out for the St. Patrick’s Day first round matchup saw a back and forth game in which the Irish were unable to pull [...]
Irish Headed to NIT
Notre Dame’s disappointing basketball season will be capped off with a trip to the NIT as a #2 in the NCAA’s consolation tournament. Notre Dame received a St. Patty’s day matchup with UAB on Tuesday at the Joyce Center. While a game on St. Patrick’s Day for Notre Dame will make Irish fan’s St. Patty’s [...]
Notre Dame’s Bubble Officially Burst
A very disappointing basketball season ended Wednesday night with yet another very disappointing loss. Notre Dame fell to West Virginia in the 2nd round of the Big East Tournament to fall to 18-14 on the season thus officially bursting their bubble. The Irish had slim tournament hopes before the Big East Tourney began, but a [...]
Hoops Team Drops 4th in a Row
Mike Brey’s lineup shakeup didn’t do too much to stop Notre Dame’s losing streak Monday night. The Irish hoops team fell to #8 Marquette 64-71 for their second consecutive home loss. Here are some notes from the loss. Luke Zeller played reasonably well in his 3rd career start with 8 points and 8 rebounds, but [...]
Peoples, Zeller Get The Start Vs. Marquette
Mike Brey said changes were coming to the starting lineup Monday and those changes were Jonathan Peoples and Luke Zeller starting in place of Ryan Ayers and Zach Hillesland. Peoples is making his first career start while Zeller is making his third. I had hoped that Brey would give seldom used sophomore Tyrone Nash a [...]
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