NOTRE DAME MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES 1 2020-21 SCHEDULE Date Day AP C Opponent Network Time/Result 11/28 SAT 13 12 at Michigan State Big Ten Net L, 70-80 12/2 WED Western Michigan RSN 7 p.m. 12/4 FRI 13 14 Tennessee ACC Network 8 p.m. NOTRE DAME BELLARMINE 12/5 SAT Purdue Fort Wayne 11 a.m. FIGHTING IRISH KNIGHTS 12/6 SUN Detroit Mercy ACC Network W, 78-70 2020-21: 2-4, 0-1 ACC 2020-21: 1-2, 0-0 ASUN HEAD COACH: Mike Brey HEAD COACH: Scott Davenport 12/8 TUE 22 20 & Ohio State ESPN2 L, 85-90 CAREER RECORD: 538-289 / 26 CAREER RECORD: 365-111 / 16 12/12 SAT Kentucky CBS W, 64-63 RECORD AT ND: 439-237 / 21 RECORD AT BU: Same 12/16 THU 21 23 * Duke ESPN L, 65-75 SERIES HISTORY 12/19 SAT ^ vs. Purdue ESPN2 L, 78-88 4-0* | Home: 4-0 | Away: 0-0 | Neutral: 0-0 12/22 TUE * at Syracuse ACC Network PPD BREY VS. DAVENPORT/BELLARMINE: 2-0/2-0 BREY VS. ASUN: 8-0 12/23 WED Bellarmine 12 p.m. ND ALL-TIME VS. ASUN: 8-0 12/30 WED 16 15 * Virginia ACC Network 6 p.m. *two exhibition wins in 2006, 2019 1/2 SAT * at Pittsburgh ACC Network 2 p.m. Full series history available on page 5 of this notes package 1/6 WED * Georgia Tech RSN 7 p.m. BY THE NUMBERS: IRISH vs KNIGHTS 1/10 SUN 24 * at Virginia Tech ACC Network 6 p.m. Bellarmine is in its first year of Division I competition as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference. The Knights 1/13 WED 16 15 * at Virginia ACC Network 8:30 p.m. 1 have visited Notre Dame four times previously, including two exhibition games with the Irish last season and 1/16 SAT * Boston College ACC Network 4 p.m. in 2006. 1/18 MON at Howard The Irish and Knights share two mutual opponents this season. Bellarmine lost 76-54 to Duke in their season 2 opener and defeated Howard 84-63. 1/24 SUN * at Miami ACC Network 6 p.m. It took a little more than five hours for Notre Dame to schedule Bellarmine after the first ACC road trip of the 1/27 WED 24 * Virginia Tech RSN 7 p.m. 5 season, set for Syracuse on December 22, was postponed due to contact tracing issues between the Orange 1/30 SAT 17 17 * at North Carolina ACC Network 8 p.m. and their previous opponent, Buffalo. 2/2 TUE * Wake Forest ACC Network 7 p.m. Notre Dame is 9-13 all-time in games played on December 23 - a date that featured a number of marquee matchups for the Irish through the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. The Irish are on a four-game win streak on 2/6 SAT * at Georgia Tech ACC Network 8 p.m. 9 December 23 and are 2-0 under Mike Brey on December 23 - the most recent a 75-68 win over Columbia in 2/9 TUE 20 25 * at Duke ESPN/2 9 p.m. 2005. 2/14 SUN * Miami ACC Network 6 p.m. The Irish are 10th in the country in free throw percentage at .818. Trim the national list to teams that have 2/17 WED * Clemson RSN 7 p.m. 10 played at least five games and Notre Dame is fifth in the country. The Irish are just head of Virginia (.813) for the ACC lead in free throw percentage. 2/23 TUE * at Louisville ACC Network 8 p.m. Points scored off the bench by junior Nikola Djogo vs. Purdue last Saturday. Still fighting the effects of a 2/27 SAT * at Boston College ACC Network 2 p.m. 11 sprained ankle suffered in the season opener at Michigan State, Djogo hit three three-point field goals to hit 3/3 WED * NC State ACC Network 7 p.m. double figures in a game for the first time since his career-high 21 points at Boston College on Feb. 2, 2019. 3/6 SAT 21 21 * Florida State ESPN/2 12/2 p.m. Notre Dame is 12th in country in three-point field goal percentage at .411 - just ahead of Florida State at .410 12 for the ACC lead. 3/9 FRI ACC tournament begins It will end up to be 14 days between games for Bellarmine, who have had games with Middle Tennessee and AP = AP rankings | C = Coaches poll ranking | rankings indicated are from when game 14 Miami (Ohio) canceled recently due to COVID-19 protocol issues. The Knight last played Dec. 9. was played | RSN = Regional Sports Networks * - Atlantic Coast Conference game In his 21st season at Notre Dame (the longest tenure of any ND men’s basketball coach), Mike Brey also & - 2020 ACC/Big Ten Challenge has the ninth-longest tenure of any Division I head coach. Brey will face three of the coaches with longer ^ - 2020 Crossroads Classic (Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN) 21 tenures than himself this season (Jim Boeheim, Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo). Greg Kampe, Bob McKillop, Fran All times listed are ET O’Hanlon, Mark Few, Mike McConathy and James Jones make up the other coaches who have been at their Game canceled due to COVID-19 safety guidelines current school longer than Mike Brey. A recent project by CBSSports.com ranked the ‘Greatest College Basketball Programs Ever’ with Notre Dame NOTRE DAME BASKETBALL placing 23rd on the list and sixth in the ACC. Notre Dame will face eight of the teams ranked above them 23 RADIO NETWORK this year a total of nine times: No. 19 NC State, No. 14 Michigan State (0-1), No. 12 Ohio State (0-1), No. 11 PLAY BY PLAY: Jack Nolan Syracuse, No. 6 Louisville, No. 3 Duke (0-1, twice), No. 2 North Carolina, No. 1 Kentucky (1-0). ENGINEER: Bob Henning Junior Trey Wertz, who transferred from Santa Clara during the offseason and was activated by a blanket Affiliates: WSBT-AM 960/FM 96.1 (South Bend, IN) | WMVP-AM 27 waiver for all 2020 first-time Division I transfers on December 16, scoring 27 points in his first start for the 1000 (Chicago, IL) | WKJG-AM 1380 (Fort Wayne, IN) | WEFM- Irish against Purdue last weekend. FM 95.9 (Michigan City, IN) | KQTM-FM 101.7 (Albuquerque, Shooting percentage from the field (11-20, .550) and three-point range (6-11, .545) for guard Trey Wertz in NM) | WPSL-AM 1590 & WSTU-AM 1450 (West Palm Beach/ 55 his first two games in an Irish uniform. Fort Pierce, FL) Total victories in the history of Notre Dame men’s basketball, as the Irish became the eighth program to reach 1,900 victories in 2019-20 (Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, Temple, Syracuse and UCLA have all reached 1906 that plateau). The Irish were 12th all-time in college basketball victories when Mike Brey took over the program in Notre Dame Men’s Basketball Athletic Communications 2000-01 – they have since passed Oregon State, Pennsylvania, St. John’s and Indiana on the all-time wins list into Alan Wasielewski, Associate Athletics Communcations Director eighth place. [email protected] | c: 574-532-4167 | @NDmbbSID 2 NOTRE DAME MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES PRONUNCIATIONS 2020-21 NOTRE DAME ROSTER Rod Balanis - Rod Buh-LAHN-iss No. Name Cap. Pos Class Year Elig. Year Ht. Wt. Hometown High School Robby Carmody - Robby CAR-muh-dee Nikola Djogo - Knee-Cola Joe-Go 2 Trey Wertz G JR Transfer 6-5 195 Charlotte, NC Providence Day School Nixon Dorvilien - Nixon door-VILL-ee-an 3 Prentiss Hubb C G JR JR 6-3 175 Upper Marlboro, MD Gonzaga Juwan Durham - JUH-wan Durham 5 Cormac Ryan C G JR SO 6-5 195 New York, NY Milton Academy (MA) Nate Laszewski - Nate La-SHEH-skee Harold Swanagan - Harold SWON-uh-gan 11 Juwan Durham C F GR SR 6-11 231 Tampa, FL Tampa Prep Alan Wasielewski - Alan Waz-uh-lou-skee 12 Tony Sanders Jr. G FR FR 6-7 202 Miami, FL Gulliver Prep 13 Nikola Djogo C G GR SR 6-8 230 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Athlete Institute Prep MEDIA INFORMATION 14 Nate Laszewski F JR JR 6-10 227 Jupiter, FL Northfield Mount Herman (MA) 2020-21 Credentials 22 Elijah Taylor F FR FR 6-8 231 Philadelphia, PA Imhotep Charter Please fill out a request at 23 Dane Goodwin G JR JR 6-6 200 Upper Arlington, OH Upper Arlington und.com/credentials 24 Robby Carmody G JR SO 6-4 215 Mars, PA Mars Area Media Tools 25 Matt Zona F FR FR 6-9 243 Blauvelt, NY Bergen Catholic (NJ) Game notes, full game books, headshots, broadcast rosters, ac- tion photos and archived press conferences are available at 31 Elijah Morgan G SO SO 6-1 165 New Orleans, LA Jesuit und.com/pressbox Glenn and Stacey Murphy Head Men’s Basketball Coach Mike Brey George Washington ‘82 21st year at ND Virtual Media Opportunities Associate Head Coach Rod Balanis Georgia Tech ‘93 21st year at ND After each game Glenn and Stacey Murphy Head Men’s Bas- Assistant Coach Ryan Humphrey Notre Dame ‘02 Fifth year at ND ketball Coach Mike Brey will be available approximately 5-10 minutes after the game’s completion at Interim Assistant Coach Scott Martin Notre Dame ‘12 Second year at ND und.com/mbbmedia Director of Basketball Operations Harold Swanagan Notre Dame ‘02 12th year at ND Athletic Trainer Nixon Dorvilien Park University ‘01 Second year at ND Weekly media opportunities will be scheduled throughout the season and announced via e-mail (see below for distribution list re- Strength and Conditioning Tony Rolinski Penn State ‘91 24th year at ND quest).