Notre Dame Basketball

Notre Dame Basketball Used To Being Disrespected, Won't Slow Them // Uhnd.com

... and was the only player in the conference to average a double-double.  Wouldn’t ya know that kind of effort was only good enough for a 3 rd place finish in the ACC Player of the Year standings? Shocking, right. Two years ago the Irish were also picked to finish 7 th in the ACC. They finished 3 rd in the regular season that year too and then went on to beat Duke and North Carolina on back to back nights to win their first ACC Championship. After beating the Tar Heels for that first ACC crown, they proceeded to make their first trip to the Elite 8 in 36 years.  The Irish battled the #1 ranked and heavy favored Kentucky Wildcats down to the last second before falling by two points 68-66. Last year Notre Dame earned their #6 seed for the Tournament with a much less impressive resume than they had this year, but that didn’t stop them from making another run.  After 36 years between trips to the Elite ...

Uconn, Notre Dame, South Carolina And Baylor Earn No. 1 Seeds For 2017 Ncaa Division I Women's Basketball Championship

...  On the other end of the spectrum, Elon and Texas Southern are both making their first NCAA Tournament appearance. Thirty-two conferences were granted automatic bids for the championship and the remaining 32 teams were selected at-large. RELATED:  All 32 2017 NCAA tournament automatic qualifiers. First- and second-round games will be played at 16 home sites Friday, March 17 through Monday, March 20, with the 16 second-round winners moving on to the four regional sites.  The Lexington Regional (Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky) and the Oklahoma City Regional (Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) will be played on Friday, March 24 and Sunday, March 26, while the Bridgeport Regional (Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Connecticut) and the Stockton Regional (Stockton Arena, Stockton, California) will be held Saturday, March 25 and Monday, March 27.  The four regional winners will advance to the 2017 NCAA Women’s Final Four, March 31 and April 2 in Dallas (American Airlines Center). In the 35-year history of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball ...

Mitty Boys Oust St. Joseph Notre Dame

... Joseph Notre Dame High School gym in Alameda, Calif., on Friday, March 10, 2017. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group). Archbishop Mitty's Charles Meng (13) passes the ball over St. Joseph Notre Dame's Adam Campos (20) in their Nor Cal boys quarterfinal basketball game Friday night. Mitty beat St. Joseph 67-61. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group). St. Joseph Notre Dame's Darne Duckett (11) makes a shot against Archbishop Mitty's Riley Grigsby (11) in the first half of Nor Cal boys basketball game at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School gym in Alameda, Calif., on Friday, March 10, 2017. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group). Archbishop Mitty's Joseph Vaughn (10) drives to the hoop against St. Joseph Notre Dame's Adam Campos (20) in the first half of Nor Cal boys basketball game at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School gym in Alameda, Calif., on Friday, March 10, 2017. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group). Archbishop Mitty's Joseph Vaughn (10) drives past St. Joseph Notre Dame's Tyler Woods (10) in the first half of Nor Cal boys basketball game at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School gym in Alameda, Calif., ...

Bodensteiner Builds Brackets

... particularly appreciates the way in which NCAA staffers collaborate with the committee. "The NCAA staff guides us logistically and plays devil's advocate. Someone will say, ‘You said this about team X, are you being inconsistent with this about team Y?'. "But, at the end of the day, it has to be the committee's work and the committee has to be comfortable. "I'll look forward to improving my game-watching in the future now that I've got a little more of a strategy. I may have over- or under-watched this year, but I'll certainly tweak some things moving forward.". A Notre Dame graduate and also holder of an MBA from Notre Dame and a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Bodensteiner spent 12 years in the Office of the General Counsel at Notre Dame before joining the Irish athletic staff in 2009. The end product of her first year of work will be the announcement of the women's NCAA bracket Monday night. Then she and ...

Notre Dame Men Have Become Conference Basketball Tournament Semifinal Regulars

... At the time, Notre Dame led by only eight points. Back-rimming a reverse dunk likely would have awoken the Cavalier crowd, and the Cavaliers. Instead, it bumped the Irish lead to double digits, where it remained for the final 18:16. Brey allowed Pflueger to experiment in the open floor after his close-down defensive effort on second team All-ACC guard London Perrantes, who finished 1-of-9 from the field. “Rex worked so hard guarding Perrantes, he had the green light to do whatever right there,” Brey said. “That’s our boy. It’s a Hollywood thing.”. It’s all good. Tempers got a little heated in the closing minute Thursday when Virginia was looking to foul, stop the clock and force the Irish to close it out from the free throw line. Cavaliers forward Mamadi Diakite grabbed Irish guard Matt Farrell by the chest and shoulders and swung him around hard. ...

Mount Notre Dame Basketball Team Embraces Tradition While Preparing For Friday Night

... Harlan for the ’07 team. Rogers knows when there is a special group and this year’s team fits the bill. Saturday’s regional final win against Mason was a perfect example. The Cougars trailed most of the night but didn’t lose their resolve. “Our girls got really locked in,” Rogers said. “Everybody wants to win. It’s just one of those things. They can feel it. The girls can feel they have something special. They are all focused on grinding out possessions offensively and defensively.”. The Cougars are led by several players including Marshall, who averages 14.4 points. She’s really stepped up her point guard duties in place of the injured Makira Cook, who is out for the season after being hurt in mid-February. “Gabbie has totally evolved her game into making people better,” Rogers said. Sophomore forward Julia Hoefling averages 10.1 points and will step up in clutch moments for the team. Junior forward Abby Voss scored a game-high 16 points against Mason and could very well be a key player ...

Notre Dame Hangs On To Beat Princeton 60-58

... point guard, who hit six of nine for 16 points. He wore a scowl as he nearly left the floor through the wrong exit after Cannady's miss. Ferrell finished with 16 points but in a game the Fighting Irish (26-9) nearly squandered an 11-point second half lead. Notre Dame improved to 9-2 in its past 11. The Fighting Irish have also won seven of nine tournament games over the past three years, and they are the only team to reach the Elite Eight in each of the past two seasons. Notre Dame led 59-54 with 1:10 left when Colson hit a pair of free throws. The Tigers scored the next two baskets. Pete Miller put back a missed Cannady 3-pointer with 54 seconds left. Farrell missed a 14-footer, and the Tigers cut the lead to 1 when Miller scored again, this time putting back a miss by Steven Cook. "No matter how it looked, we got the win and that's all that matters," Colson said. Spencer Weisz led Princeton with 15 points. The Ivy League champion Tigers (23-7) had a 19-game winning streak going into the NCAA Tournament. "We had a ...

Former Reserve Matt Farrell Enjoying Breakout Season For Notre Dame

... an early season nonconference game, but on the biggest stage. Coach Mike Brey inserted the 6-foot-1 guard into the lineup for last season's NCAA tournament first-round game against Michigan. "I wasn't more nervous," Farrell said. "I just got to go out there and play with guys that I had been around for two years. It was going out there, being confident and having fun with the guys around me. "That's translated into this year.". Farrell started all four games during Notre Dame's run to the Elite Eight. It was the springboard for a breakout junior season. Farrell is averaging 14.2 points and 5.5 assists for the fifth-seeded Irish (25-9), who play 12 th-seeded Princeton (23-6) in a West Region first-round game at 11:15 a.m. Thursday in Buffalo, N. Y. "I'm even more comfortable now," Farrell said. "I'm excited moving ...