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 8 p.m. 12/2 WED Western Michigan RSN 7 p.m. 12/8 TUE 23 24 & Ohio State ESPN2 7:30 p.m. NOTRE DAME #13/12 MICHIGAN STATE 12/12 SAT 10 9 Kentucky CBS 12 p.m. FIGHTING IRISH SPARTANS 12/16 THU 9 8 * Duke 2019-20: 20-12, 10-10 ACC 2019-20: 22-9, 14-6 Big Ten HEAD COACH: Mike Brey HEAD COACH: Tom Izzo 12/19 SAT ^ vs. Purdue CAREER RECORD: 536-285 / 25 CAREER RECORD: 606-232 / 24 12/22 TUE * at Syracuse RECORD AT ND: 437-233 / 20 RECORD AT MSU: Same 12/30 WED 4 4 * Virginia BIG TEN NETWORK SERIES HISTORY 1/2 SAT * at Pittsburgh PLAY BY PLAY: Lisa Byington 60-36 | Away: 25-23 | Home: 35-11 | Neutral 0-2 1/6 WED * Georgia Tech ANALYST: Stephen Bardo BREY VS. IZZO: 1-1 Direct TV Channel 610 BREY VS. BIG TEN: 33-27 1/10 SUN * at Virginia Tech Dish Network Channel 410 ND ALL-TIME VS. BIG TEN: 277-237-1 1/13 WED 4 4 * at Virginia Comcast Xfinity Channel 256 Full series history available on page 7 of this notes package 1/16 SAT * Boston College 1/18 MON at Howard BY THE NUMBERS: IRISH at SPARTANS 1/24 SUN * at Miami Notre Dame led the country in three statistical categories last season: assist/turnover ratio (1.68), least 1/27 WED * Virginia Tech 1 amount of personal fouls committed per game (12.4) and fewest total fouls committed (397). 1/30 SAT 16 16 * at North Carolina Notre Dame finished second in the country in turnovers per game in 2019-20 (9.8) behind Liberty’s 9.4 aver- 2/2 TUE * Wake Forest 2 age. That marks the sixth consecutive the Irish have ranked in the NCAA top 10 in least amount of turnovers per game. 2/6 SAT * at Georgia Tech Only three active power conference players have amassed more than Prentiss Hubb’s 293 career assists - 2/9 TUE 9 8 * at Duke 3 Pittsburgh’s Xavier Johnson (312) and Florida’s Tyree Appleby (297). 2/14 SUN * Miami While it is safe to assume that the Associate Press preseason rankings will change, but at the start of the 2/17 WED * Clemson season, Notre Dame is set to face five AP ranked teams before the first of the year - No. 13 Michigan State, No. 5 23 Ohio State, No. 10 Kentucky, No. 9 Duke and No. 4 Virginia. Should the five teams remained ranked, it will 2/23 TUE * at Louisville be the most ranked teams Notre Dame will face in a season, before January, in program history. The Irish faced 2/27 SAT * at Boston College four such teams before January 1 in 1974-75, 1976-77, 1990-91 and 1999-2000. 3/3 WED * NC State Notre Dame is 19-1 in season openers in the Mike Brey era, which enters its 21st season in 2020-21. The one 3/6 SAT 21 18 * Florida State 19 set back came last season on the road at No. 9/11 North Carolina 76-65. 3/9 FRI ACC tournament begins A recent project by CBSSports.com ranked the ‘Greatest College Basketball Programs Ever’ with Notre Dame 23 placing 23rd on the list and sixth in the ACC. The opponent on Saturday night, Michigan State, was selected AP = AP rankings | C = Coaches poll ranking | rankings are from when game was 14th. played | RSN = Regional Sports Networks * - Atlantic Coast Conference game You have to go back 27 years in the Irish record books to find a season start as late as November 28th. The & - 2019 ACC/Big Ten Challenge 1993-94 Irish, under third-year coach John MacLeod, defeated Valparaiso 95-74 at Purcell Pavilion. In terms ^ - 2019 Crossroads Classic (Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN) 27 of a season start away from campus later than Nov. 28, the year before (1992-93) the Irish opened up in the Rosemont Horizon against Loyola Chicago. Finally, looking for the most recent latest start for Notre Dame on the road on an opponent’s home court - 1987-88 when the Irish fell to No. 5/3 Indiana in Bloomington 76-59. Notre Dame and Michigan State will be meeting for the 97th time on Saturday, with the series dating all the way back to 1908. The two teams met quite often from 1910-1979, including several seasons of home- 97 and-home matchups. Since 1979, the two teams have met just twice, splitting a pair of home ACC/Big Ten Challenge games in 2014-15 and 2017-18. Career assists in ACC regular-season games for junior Prentiss Hubb, the most among any returning ACC 178 player and 10th all-time on the career conference-game charts at Notre Dame. Hubb’s 293 career assists in all games rank just behind Pittsburgh’s Xavier Johnson with 312. NOTRE DAME BASKETBALL RADIO NETWORK Only two Notre Dame players have blocked 200 shots during their time in an Irish uniform. Jordan Cornette PLAY BY PLAY: Jack Nolan (2001-05, 201) and LaPhonso Ellis (1988-92). While the truncated 2020-21 season doesn’t help graduate 200 student Juwan Durham, he could become the third player to reach 200 blocks. With a 2.2 bpg average in ENGINEER: Bob Henning his career, Durham is on pace to add 60 blocks to his career total - putting him above 180. An increase in his Affiliates: WSBT-AM 960/FM 96.1 (South Bend, IND) | average per game could put the school blocked shot record in reach. WMVP-AM 1000 (Chicago, IL) | WKJG-AM 1380 (Fort Wayne, IN) | WEFM-FM 95.9 (Michigan City, IN) | KQTM-FM 101.7 With 437 wins at Notre Dame, Mike Brey is 10th in the country for the most coaching wins of all active 437 coaches at their current school. He is 22nd of all active coaches in career wins with 536. (Albuquerque, NM) | WPSL-AM 1590 & WSTU-AM 1450 (West Palm Beach/Fort Pierce, FL) Total victories in the history of Notre Dame men’s basketball, as the Irish became the eighth program to reach ND at MSU also available on Sirius/XM Internet Channel 983 1,900 victories in 2019-20 (Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, Temple, Syracuse and UCLA have all reached that plateau). The Irish were 12th all-time in college basketball victories when Mike Brey took over the program in 1904 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 2019-20 SEASON SUPERLATIVES 13 Nikola Djogo C G GR SR 6-8 230 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Athlete Institute Prep 14 Nate Laszewski F JR JR 6-10 227 Jupiter, FL Northfield Mount Herman (MA) TEAM 22 Elijah Taylor F FR FR 6-8 231 Philadelphia, PA Imhotep Charter Points 110 Detroit Mercy 12/10 23 Dane Goodwin G JR JR 6-6 200 Upper Arlington, OH Upper Arlington Rebounds 54 Marshall 11/15 24 Robby Carmody G JR SO 6-4 215 Mars, PA Mars Area Assists 33 Detroit Mercy 12/10 25 Matt Zona F FR FR 6-9 243 Blauvelt, NY Bergen Catholic (NJ) Turnovers 15 Twice 31 Elijah Morgan G SO SO 6-1 165 New Orleans, LA Jesuit Blocks 10 Alabama A&M 12/29 Glenn and Stacey Murphy Head Men’s Basketball Coach Mike Brey George Washington ‘82 21st year at ND Steals 12 Toledo 11/21 Associate Head Coach Rod Balanis Georgia Tech ‘93 21st year at ND FG 41 Detroit Mercy 12/10 Assistant Coach Ryan Humphrey Notre Dame ‘02 Fifth year at ND FGA 76 Marshall 11/15 Interim Assistant Coach Scott Martin Notre Dame ‘12 Second year at ND FG% .594 Detroit Mercy 12/10 Director of Basketball Operations Harold Swanagan Notre Dame ‘02 12th year at ND 3FG 20 Detroit Mercy 12/10 Athletic Trainer Nixon Dorvilien Park University ‘01 Second year at ND 3FGA 39 Twice Strength and Conditioning Tony Rolinski Penn State ‘91 24th year at ND 3FG% .513 Detroit Mercy 12/10 Director of Academic Services for Student-Athletes Pat Holmes Notre Dame ‘79 18th year at ND FT 22 Three times Equipment Manager Joseph Nagle Ball State ‘08 10th year at ND FTA 27 at Florida State 1/26 FT% 1.000 (8-8) Detroit Mercy 12/10 2020-21 ROSTER - IRISH ITEMS Bench Points 45 Detroit Mercy 12/10 1st Half Pts 49 Detroit Mercy 12/10 Projected Starting Lineup 2nd Half Pts 61 Detroit Mercy 12/10 Pos Name Notes INDIVIDUAL G Prentiss Hubb leading returning assist man in ACC play • has started 61 of his 65 career played • improved 3FG% from .262 as a rookie in ‘18-’19 to .344 last season • on pace to be the 13th Notre Dame Points 28 Mooney twice player to hit 400 career assists • posted eight game of 20-plus points last season Pts 1st Half 19 Hubb FSU G Cormac Ryan sat out 2019-20 as a transfer from Stanford • provides an extra ball handler in the offense and Pts 2nd Half 20 Hubb at GT is a career .316 3FG shooter • brings toughness and leadership to the court and the locker room Rebounds 19 Mooney Louisville G Dane Goodwin flashed ability to score in bunches last season • leading returning 3FG shooter (.365 career, Assists 11 Hubb Det.