By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Just when you think you’ve seen it all in sports, Saturday’s college basketball games come along. First came unranked Wisconsin’s improbable win over No. 3 Michigan. When is the last time you saw a player tie a game or win one with a halfcourt shot? If you’re talking Big […]
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By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Fresh off one of the worst home defeats under Coach Mike Brey, Notre Dame finds itself in late January searching for answers. The 24th-ranked Fighting Irish were pummeled Monday night by unranked Georgetown, 63-47, prompting Brey to say the game was like “men vs. boys,” when he stepped to the […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor INDIANAPOLIS ” It was obvious from the outset of the Notre Dame-Purdue game which was the veteran team and which one was young, inexperienced and still learning how to play. The Irish started a graduate student, a senior and two other juniors, while the Boilermakers’ starting lineup featured one […]
By Doug Griffiths The last time Notre Dame and Purdue played one another in men’s basketball in the regular season, Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States and the United States had yet to put a man on the moon. Yes, it’s been more than 45 years since the two instate rivals met on […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor We don’t know a whole lot about Mike Brey’s veteran Fighting Irish basketball team seven games into the season. Other than its a team that would be undefeated if it weren’t for a late second-half meltdown against St. Joseph’s in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, we simply don’t know […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Notre Dame continued to pad its record by beating lesser competition on Saturday afternoon, but give the Irish a break teams get fat on cupcakes this time of the year. The latest cupcake the Irish consumed was Saint Francis of Pennsylvania. Notre Dame improved to 5-1 on the season […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor Each game the Irish seem to be led by a different player. If it’s not forward Jack Cooley, it’s Jerian Grant. If it’s neither one of those two, it’s Garrick Sherman. That trend continued Wednesday night as Notre Dame got a game-high 18 points in as many minutes from […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Assistant Editor No. 20 Notre Dame got a career night from senior center Garrick Sherman and cruised to an 84-57 victory tonight in Purcell Pavilion. Sherman scored as many points as he had minutes. He finished with 22 points, hitting 8-of-10 shots from the floor, knocked down 6-of-7 free throws and […]
By DOUG GRIFFITHS ISL Correspondent Notre Dame coach Mike Brey has high hopes for his 13th Fighting Irish men’s basketball team and they’re warranted. Coming off a 22-12 2011-12 season, which included a third-place finish in the mighty Big East with a 13-5 record, the Irish return all five starters and enter this season ranked […]
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