Now is not the time for despair. I'll be the first to admit, I woke up a little morose this morning after watching the Irish last night. It was the first time this year Mike Brey's team couldn't close the deal in an ACC game. As disappointing as it was to see the Irish fall [...]
For the first time in their history, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball team sits at 4-0 in conference play. Mike Brey's team surged late to break the Miami Hurricanes' 22 game home winning streak. Following the pattern of the preceding three games, this one featured stretches of brilliance, periods of frustration, and clutch delivery [...]
Hello friends. What a start to 2017 for Irish hoops, huh? I was traveling all last week, so I wasn't able to watch the entirety of either Louisville or Clemson in real time. I'm finally got home and was digging in to KenPom numbers this morning. Both the Louisville and Clemson games are testaments to [...]
Great fight to the final minute. We are just getting started. pic.twitter.com/JOZQ69solW — Notre Dame MBB (@NDmbb) December 10, 2016 There are no ties in basketball, and there isn’t a column in the standings for moral victories. The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish now stand at 9-1 on the 2017 season after falling 66-74 [...]
Mike Brey likes to divide up his Fighting Irish basketball season into “segments.” If you listen to his comments to his team after their November 26th win over Chicago State, he asks them to finish this segment strong with a win over Iowa on Tuesday the 29th. Looking at the Irish schedule, he appears to [...]
Much has been made of Mike Brey’s “get old, stay old” philosophy guiding the Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball program. One only needs to look to the rafters of Purcell Pavillion to see the team’s first conference championship banner and consecutive Elite Eight banners to validate Brey’s approach. Those teams were dominated by veterans playing [...]
Welcome to exhibition basketball, where the scores are made up and points don’t matter. Mike Brey and his Notre Dame Fighting Irish squad opened the season with an exhibition versus D2 Mercy College Tuesday evening. The Mavericks were run out of the gym by Notre Dame, who piled up the 119-58 victory. Mercy sports a [...]
In part 1 of our first 18Stripes basketball roundtable, we looked at the rising seniors and juniors. In this part, we try to break out our crystal ball and project performance for the younger end of Mike Brey's roster. The sophomore class of Rex Pflueger, Matt Ryan, and Elijah Burns had very different freshmen experiences. [...]
We gathered a few of your favorite Notre Dame basketball writers to kick off our hoops coverage at 18Stripes. In our first round-table discussion we take a tour of the 2016-17 Fighting Irish roster and bust out our crystal ball to look at the year ahead. Part 1 covers the upper-classmen and part 2 will [...]
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