| NOTRE DAME | GAME DAY INFORMATION |
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| Date | Wednesday, December 30, 2020 |
| Time | 6:00 p.m. ET |
| Site: | Purcell Pavilion • Notre Dame, IN |
| TV: | ACC Network • Mike Monaco (Notre Dame '15) • Jordan Cornette (Notre Dame '05) |
| Radio: | Notre Dame Basketball Radio Network • Jack Nolan (play-by-play) Available worldwide on und.com. |
BY THE NUMBERS: IRISH vs. CAVALIERS
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Notre Dame and Virginia are meeting for the 17th time on Wednesday evening, with the Irish looking to post their first victory over the Cavaliers in regular-season ACC play. Notre Dame’s two victories in the series came in 1981, a 57-56 win over top-ranked Virginia at the Rosemont Horizon, and a 71-58 victory in the 2017 ACC tournament in The Barclays Center. |
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The Irish are fifth in the country in free throw percentage at .822. Trim the national list to teams that have played at least five games and Notre Dame is third in the country. The Irish are just head of Virginia (.809) for the ACC lead in free throw percentage. |
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Successful field goal attempts without a miss vs. Bellarmine for junior forward Nate Laszewski, as he connected on five two-point field goals and two three-point field goals. He is the 11th Notre Dame player to finish a game perfect from the field with at least seven field goal attempts and the first to do it since V.J. Beachem went 7-for-7 against Michigan in the 2016 NCAA tournament. Laszewski ended the game with 16 points and eight rebounds. |
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Junior guard Prentiss Hubb is ninth in the country in minutes played per at 37.4, followed by classmate Dane Goodwin in 12th place at 37.3. |
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12.9 |
Notre Dame’s NCAA-leading fouls per game number, as the Irish continue their tradition of not fouling the opponent to allow easy points late in a contest. Notre Dame’s 12.9 leads the country for teams who have played multiple games (CS Fullerton has played one game and committed 11 fouls) and puts the Irish on pace to lead the country in least amount of fouls committed for the fifth consecutive season. |
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Notre Dame is 16th in country in three-point field goal percentage at .409 and is the only team in the ACC shooting over .400 from deep this season (Wake Forest is second at .392). |
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A recent project by CBSSports.com ranked the ‘Greatest College Basketball Programs Ever’ with Notre Dame placing 23rd on the list and sixth in the ACC. Notre Dame will face eight of the teams ranked above them 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 Syracuse, No. 6 Louisville, No. 3 Duke (0-1, twice), No. 2 North Carolina, No. 1 Kentucky (1-0). |
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Points scored in Notre Dame’s last two home games by Dane Goodwin. Against Duke on Dec. 16, Goodwin scored 25 points on 10-of-12 shooting, then ended up 8-10 against Bellarmine on Dec. 23 to finish with a team-high and career-high-matching 27 points. Goodwin is 18-22 (.818) from the floor in the last two Irish home games. |
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Nate Laszewski is fifth in the country in effective field goal percentage (.759), shooting 35-54 from two-point range (.648) and 12 for 21 (.571) from three-point range. |
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201 |
Career blocked shots by ACC Network analyst Jordan Cornette (ND ‘05) who will be on the call Wednesday night with fellow Notre Dame alum Mike Monaco (ND ‘15). The uncertainty of the 2020-21 season and how many games will be played will likely keep Cornette at the top of the ND blocked shots career list. Graduate student Juwan Durham has 144 (2.18 per game) and is on pace to add 38 more to that total this season. |
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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 that plateau). The Irish were 12th all-time in college basketball victories when Mike Brey took over the program in 2000-01 – they have since passed Oregon State, Pennsylvania, St. John’s and Indiana on the all-time wins list into eighth place. |
HUBB POSTS 10 CAREER 20-POINT GAMES AGAINST POWER CONFERENCE TEAMS
Junior Prentiss Hubb has logged a team-high 10 20-point games in his career, all of which have come against ‘Power Conference’ opponents.
Hubb’s career 20-point games:
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Date |
Opponent |
FG |
3FG |
FT |
TR |
AST |
TO |
STL |
PTS |
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11/6/19 |
at No. 9/11 North Carolina |
8-17 |
5-9 |
1-2 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
22 |
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12/14/19 |
UCLA |
6-12 |
5-10 |
3-5 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
20 |
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1/4/20 |
at Syracuse |
7-16 |
6-12 |
2-2 |
2 |
9 |
4 |
1 |
22 |
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1/8/20 |
at NC State |
9-14 |
4-7 |
2-2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
24 |
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1/15/20 |
at Georgia Tech |
8-16 |
3-8 |
6-8 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
25 |
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1/25/20 |
at No. 5/6 Florida State |
7-16 |
5-11 |
5-5 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
24 |
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2/17/20 |
North Carolina |
7-17 |
2-9 |
4-5 |
1 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
20 |
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3/4/20 |
No. 7/8 Florida State |
8-13 |
5-9 |
3-3 |
1 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
24 |
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11/28/20 |
at No. 13/12 Michigan State |
7-22 |
4-11 |
5-7 |
6 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
23 |
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12/8/20 |
No. 22/20 Ohio State |
8-17 |
5-9 |
5-5 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
26 |
DURHAM ALREADY AMONG TOP SHOT BLOCKERS IN NOTRE DAME HISTORY
Blocked shots are one of the youngest official NCAA official statistics, only becoming a part of a game boxscore for the 1985-86 season. With that in mind, it is still noteworthy that graduate student Juwan Durham has already established himself as one of the top shot blockers in Notre Dame history.
In 2018-19, Durham swatted 63 shots which ranks fifth on the Notre Dame single-season blocked shots list, he followed up with 66 as a senior last season.
Durham has pushed his career blocked-shot average to 2.2 and is one of just three Notre Dame players to average over 2.0 blocks per game in their career:
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Player |
Seasons |
Blocks Per Game |
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Ryan Humphrey |
2000-02 |
2.8 |
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JUWAN DURHAM |
2018-current |
2.2 |
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LaPhonso Ellis |
1988-92 |
2.1 |
Durham’s 144 total blocks at Notre Dame currently rank him sixth all-time (see sidebar, page 4). Jordan Cornette is the Notre Dame blocked shots record holder with 201 from 2001-05.
JUNIOR CLASS MAKING THEIR MARK
Notre Dame’s junior class (Dane Goodwin, Prentiss Hubb, Nate Laszewski) is poised to build upon the program’s tradition of a sharp increase in productivity during a student-athlete’s third year in the program. Goodwin, Hubb and Laszewski have seen an increase in points per game, rebounds per game and minutes played through Notre Dame’s first seven games of the season:
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Player |
19-20 ppg |
20-21 ppg |
+ |
19-20 rpg |
20-21 rpg |
+ |
19-20 mpg |
20-21 mpg |
+ |
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Dane Goodwin |
10.8 |
16.1 |
5.3 |
3.8 |
5.4 |
1.6 |
26.2 |
37.4 |
11.2 |
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Prentiss Hubb |
12.1 |
16.4 |
4.3 |
2.4 |
3.6 |
1.2 |
35.2 |
37.5 |
2.3 |
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Nate Laszewski |
7.4 |
14.6 |
6.8 |
4.7 |
8.5 |
3.8 |
21.0 |
33.3 |
12.3 |
IRISH BOAST SOLID RECORD FOR ANNUAL HOME-AND-HOME ACC SERIES
Since joining the ACC for the 2013-14 season, Boston College and Georgia Tech have been designated as the ‘traditional’ yearly rivals for Notre Dame in the league. Each season, the Irish have met the Eagles and Yellow Jackets for home-and-home series. Notre Dame boasts the best record in the league against its designated repeat opponents since 2013-14 (records below are regular-season meetings only):
RECORD VS. ACC ANNUAL HOME-AND-HOME OPPONENTS SINCE 2013-14
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Team |
Opponent |
Opponent |
Record |
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NOTRE DAME |
Boston College |
Georgia Tech |
22-6 |
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Duke |
North Carolina |
Wake Forest |
20-8 |
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Florida State |
Miami |
Clemson |
18-10 |
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Syracuse |
Boston College |
Pittsburgh |
20-8 |
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North Carolina |
Duke |
NC State |
18-10 |
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Virginia |
Virginia Tech |
Louisville |
19-9* |
* – Virginia repeated with Maryland in 2013-14
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTED BY 1,000 POINT SCORERS
Notre Dame has produced 64 1,000 point scorers throughout the history of the program with 23 of those players reaching that statistical milestone during the Mike Brey era (2000-01 – current). Of the 85 players who have suited up for Notre Dame under Mike Brey, 36 of them were recruited by the staff and exhausted their eligibility with the Irish – 20 of those players have scored more than 1,000 points in a career.
Since 2000-01, Notre Dame leads all ACC teams in 1,000 point scorers (23) and is second in the country over that time frame to Villanova.
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School |
All-Time 1,000 Point Scorers |
1,000 Point Scorers since 2000-01 |
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North Carolina |
77 |
20 |
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Louisville |
69 |
18 |
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Duke |
67 |
20 |
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NOTRE DAME |
64 |
23 |
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Villanova |
64 |
24 |
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Syracuse |
62 |
19 |
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Kansas |
61 |
19 |
A DECADE OF ‘NO FOUL’ CONTINUES
One of the mantras of Notre Dame basketball under Mike Brey has been to keep the amount of opponent foul shots down. Defend without fouling is a way of life for Irish basketball and the statistics bear out that trend.
In the last 11 years, Notre Dame has failed to finish among the top 10 in least amount of personal fouls committed just twice. They have also led the country in least amount of personal fouls three times.
The NCAA has been tracking the least amount of fouls committed in a season since 1993. Notre Dame is the only team since 1993 to lead the country in least amount of fouls more than twice (four times) and could be on pace to make it six times this season.
NOTRE DAME FOULS PER GAME NATIONAL/CONFERENCE FINAL RANKING
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Year |
Fouls Per Game |
NCAA Raking |
Conference Ranking |
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2009-10 |
15.1 |
10 |
2 |
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2010-11 |
15.2 |
11 |
1 |
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2011-12 |
13.8 |
1 |
1 |
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2012-13 |
14.1 |
8 |
1 |
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2013-14 |
16.2 |
15 |
5 |
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2014-15 |
15.1 |
6 |
1 |
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2015-16 |
15.1 |
1 |
1 |
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2016-17 |
14.9 |
4 |
1 |
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2017-18 |
13.1 |
1 |
1 |
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2018-19 |
13.8 |
1 |
1 |
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2019-20 |
12.4 |
1 |
1 |
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2020-21 |
12.9 |
1 |
1 |
FOUR VETERANS NAMED TEAM CAPTAINS FOR 2020-21
Glenn and Stacey Head Men’s Basketball Coach Mike Brey has announced four student-athletes to serve as team captains for the University of Notre Dame men’s basketball team.
Graduate students Nikola Djogo and Juwan Durham, along with juniors Prentiss Hubb and Cormac Ryan, will make up a four-player group of captains in 2020-21.
All four Irish players will be serving as team captains for the first time in their careers.
IRISH RECEIVE COMMITMENTS FROM TWO AREA PROSPECTS
Rising high school seniors J.R. Konieczny (Ko-nez-nee) and Blake Wesley, both from South Bend, Indiana, have signed National Letters of Intent to play basketball at the University of Notre Dame.
Rated among the top 150 high school players in the 2020-21 class, Konieczy (Kah-nez-nee) is a four-star recruit according to ESPN.com and earned third-team all-state honors as a junior in 2019-20. He averaged over 24 points a game last season, including a 42-point outburst in the 2020 sectional semifinal – a performance that earned him the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Player of the Week honors.
A consensus four-star recruit, Wesley is ranked 96th nationally by Rivals and 113th by 247Sports. An honorable mention all-state selection as a junior in 2019-20, Wesley led all local area players with a 26.0 points-per-game average last season.