TABLE OF CONTENTS/2016-17 ROSTER Contents Page No. Contents Page No. Table of Contents and 2016-17 Roster 1 1,000 Point Scorers 55-56 2016-17 Media Information 2 All-Americans 57-58 Award Winners 59-65 Coaches and Support Staff 3 Irish In The NBA 65-67 Head Coach Mike Brey 3-5 All-Time Roster 67-72 Associate Head Coach Rod Balanis 5-6 All-Time Record By Season 73-119 Assistant Coach Ryan Humphrey 6-7 NCAA Tournament Results 120-121 Assistant Coach Ryan Ayers 7-8 All-Time Series By Opponent 122-152 Support Staff 8-10 CREDITS The Fighting Irish 11 The 2017 Notre Dame Men’s Basketball Media Guide is a copyright produc- Student-Athletes 11-22 tion of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish Media, 112C Joyce Center, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. History and Records 23 This publication was compiled and written by Associate Athletics Individual Records 23-35 Communication Director Alan Wasielewski, edited by Assistant Athletics Communication Director Robby Hamman and designed by Creative and Team Records 36-38 Brand Program Manager Tim ‘Oak’ O’Connor. Purcell Pavilion Records 39-40 Special thanks Mike and Susan Bennett from Lighthouse Imaging and Jeff Individual Records By Class 41-46 Myers for their photographic contributions. Year-by-Year Records 47-54 © University of Notre Dame, Fighting Irish Media, 2017. All rights reserved. 2016-17 NOTRE DAME MEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER No. Name Position Eligibility Height Weight Hometown High School 0 Rex Pflueger Guard Sophomore 6-6 202 Dana Point, CA Mater Dei 1 Austin Torres Forward Senior 6-7 241 Granger, IN Penn 2 Temple ‘T.J.’ Gibbs Guard Freshman 6-3 200 Scotch Plains, NJ Seton Hall Prep 3 V.J. Beachem (C) Forward Senior 6-8 201 Fort Wayne, IN New Haven 4 Matt Ryan Forward Sophomore 6-7 228 Cortlandt Manor, NY Iona Prepatory 5 Matt Farrell Guard Junior 6-1 178 Bridgewater, NJ Point Pleasant Beach 12 Elijah Burns Forward Sophomore 6-8 235 Troy, NY Blair Academy (N.J.) 13 Nikola Djogo Guard Freshman 6-7 203 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Athlete Institute Prep 21 Matt Gregory Forward Junior 6-8 201 Avon, IN Cathedral 23 Martinas Geben Forward Junior 6-10 255 Vilnius, Lithuania St. Maria Goretti 32 Steve Vasturia (C) Guard Senior 6-6 212 Medford, NJ St. Joseph’s Prep 33 John Mooney Forward Freshman 6-9 245 Orlando, FL Lake Brantley 34 Patrick Mazza Forward Graduate 6-10 255 Glen Ellyn, IL Glenbard West 35 Bonzie Colson (C) Forward Junior 6-5 225 New Bedford, MA St. Andrew’s School (R.I.) Head Coach Mike Brey George Washington ‘82 17th year at Notre Dame Associate Head Coach Rod Balanis Georgia Tech ‘83 17th year at Notre Dame Assistant Coach Ryan Ayers Notre Dame ‘09 First year at Notre Dame Assistant Coach Ryan Humphrey Notre Dame ‘02 First year at Notre Dame Director of Basketball Operations Harold Swanagan Notre Dame ‘02 Eighth year at Notre Dame Video Coordinator Eric Atkins Notre Dame ‘14 First year at Notre Dame PRONUNCIATIONS Nikola Djogo - Knee-Cola Joe-Go Martinas Geben - Mar-TIN-ess Gebb-in Steve Vasturia - Steve Vas-STORE-ee-uh Rod Balanis - Rod Buh-lahn-iss Ryan Ayers - Ryan Airs Ryan Humphrey - Ryan HUMP-free Harold Swanagan - Harold SWON-uh-gan Alan Wasielewski - Alan Waz-uh-lou-skee 1 NOTRE DAME BASKETBALL RADIO NETWORK Colorado Springs, Colo. KWHS-TV 51 The Notre Dame Men’s Basketball Radio Network is produced by Fight- ing Irish Media and features play-by-play announcer Jack Nolan, in his Denver, Colo. KETD-TV 53.2 35th year of announcing Notre Dame Basketball on radio or television, Detroit, Mich. Fox Sports Detroit and four former Irish alumni as analysts: LaPhonso Ellis (1992), Jordan Cornette (2005), Colin Falls (2007) and Zach Hillesland (2009). Florida Sun Sports Network Harrisburg, Pa. TCN Philadelphia Notre Dame Basketball Network Affiliates: Online WatchND.tv Honolulu, Hawaii KWHE-TV 14 Sirius/XM: Channel Number TBA Houston, Texas Root Sports Southwest South Bend, Ind.: WSBT AM 960 / FM 96.1 Huntsville, Ala. WYAM-TV 51 Chicago, Ill.: ESPN AM 1000 Indianapolis, Ind. WHMB-TV 40 Indianapolis, Ind.: WXNT AM 1430 Jasper, Ind. WJTS-TV 27 Fort Wayne, Ind.: WFGA FM 106.7 Las Vegas, Nev. KEEN-TV 17 Michigan City/Gary, Ind.: WEFM FM 95.9 New England CSN New England Merrill, Wis.: WMZK FM 104.1 New Orleans, La. Cox Sports Television Rockford, Ill.: WLUV AM 1520 New Orleans, La. WHNO-TV2 20 Wheeling, W.V.: WKKX AM 1600 New York, N.Y. SportsNet New York Woodstock, Ontario, Canada: CJFH-FM FM 94.3 Madison, Wis. CW57 Sports Middle East METV THE MIKE BREY RADIO SHOW Midwest Fox Sports Midwest The Mike Brey Radio Show is broadcast live from O’Rourke’s Public Oregon/Washington CSN Northwest House just south of the Notre Dame campus in Eddy Street Commons from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET. Irish fans can join Notre Dame head coach Philadelphia, Pa. CSN Philadelphia Mike Brey for the show, which also features a member of the current Irish team as a guest and is broadcast live on WatchND.tv and locally in Pittsburgh, Pa. Root Sports Pitt the Notre Dame area on WSBT Radio AM 960/FM 96.1. Rochester, N.Y. WRWB-TV 16 The Mike Brey Radio Show Dates: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 San Francisco, Calif. CSN California Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017 South Bend, Ind. WNDU-TV 16 Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 St. Croix, V.I. WCVI-TV 23 Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 Toledo, Ohio WMNT-TV Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 Tulsa, Okla. KWHB-TV 47 Thursday, March 3, 2017 Wichita, Kan. KGPT-TV 49 Family Entertainment INSIDE NOTRE DAME BASKETBALL United States Inside Notre Dame Basketball is the official coaches television show Television for head coach Mike Brey and the Fighting Irish hoops team. Produced Washington, D.C. CSN Washington DC throughout the season by Fighting Irish Media, it is available to network and local cable affiliates throughout the country. The 30-minute show is Wilkes-Barre, Pa. WQMY-TV/My TV hosted by veteran play-by-play announcer Jack Nolan, who joins Mike Worldwide WatchND.tv On-Demand Brey to breakdown the games from the previous week, previewing Notre Dame’s upcoming opponents along with exclusive features from inside Xfinity Xfinity On-Demand the Irish basketball program. Primary Men’s Basketball Contact: Inside Notre Dame Basketball Affiliates Alan Wasielewski, Associate Athletics Communcation Director Birmingham, Ala. WBPN-TV 27 [email protected] O: 574-631-8458 | C: 574-532-4167 Chicago, Ill. CSN Chicago @NDmbbSID Clarksburg, W.V. TKMi Broadcasting Secondary Men’s Basketball Contact: Robby Hamman, Assistant Athletics Communications Director Cleveland, Ohio SportsTime Ohio [email protected] O: 574-631-8032 | C: 574-808-9575 2 2016-17 COACHES AND STAFF into the University of Delaware and the George Washington University MIKE BREY Athletics Halls of Fame. Head Coach AN ATHLETIC FAMILY 17th Season at Notre Dame Brey was a standout guard in his collegiate playing days, competing for three seasons at Northwestern Louisiana State (now Northwestern State) ABOUT from 1977-80, leading the team in assists and steals all three years. He In 16 seasons as head men’s basketball coach at the University of Notre played his final collegiate season at George Washington in 1980-81 after Coaches and Support Staff Dame, Mike Brey has guided the Fighting Irish to 356 victories, an average sitting out the 1979-80 season as a transfer. He averaged 5.0 points and of 22 victories per season, three trips to the NCAA Sweet 16, back-to- 4.8 rebounds per game for the Colonials, serving as team captain and being back NCAA Elite Eight appearances in 2015 and 2016 and the 2015 ACC named team MVP. Championship. Second on the all-time wins list at Notre Dame and boasting Brey comes from an athletic family of educators. His late father, Paul, 455 career wins as a head coach, Brey has led the Irish through two of the was a high school athletics director in Maryland while his mother, the late most memorable seasons in Notre Dame basketball history in 2014-15 and Betty Mullen, was the women’s swimming coach at George Washington. 2015-16. Betty was perhaps the family’s most accomplished athlete, as she attended In 2014-15, the Irish captured the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Purdue University and swam for the AAU team in West Lafayette, Indiana. championship en route to a final 32-6 record - the 32 victories representing For a time, she held the world record in the butterfly events and competed the second-most for an Irish men’s basketball team. The team advanced for the United States at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Betty’s to the Elite Eight of the 2015 NCAA Championship for the first time since brother, Jack Mullen, played guard at Duke University and was a member of 1979 and finished fifth in the final USA Today/Coaches poll and eighth in the school’s first ACC championship team in 1950. the Associated Press ranking. It marked the first time since the 1978-79 Brey’s mother passed away on March 21, 2015, hours before Notre Dame campaign that a Notre Dame squad finished in the top 10 of the final defeated Butler 67-64 in overtime of the NCAA Tournament in Pittsburgh, national rankings. Brey also led the Irish to the second-best season Pennsylvania. He coached the game that night as a tribute to his mother turnaround from the previous year, as Notre Dame improved to win 17 more and the inspiration she provided to him throughout his career, with the Irish games than it did in 2013-14.