| NOTRE DAME | GAME DAY INFORMATION |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, December 19, 2020 |
| Time | 2:30 p.m. ET |
| Site: | Bankers Life Fieldhouse • Indianapolis, IN |
| TV: | ESPN2 National Broadcast • Jordan Bernfield (play-by-play) • Robbie Hummel (analyst) |
| Radio: | Notre Dame Basketball Radio Network • Jack Nolan (play-by-play) Available worldwide on und.com. |
BY THE NUMBERS: IRISH vs. BOILERMAKERS
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4 |
The program tradition of not committing personal fouls has continued for the Irish in 2020-21. As of the games from December 16, the Irish are fourth in the country in opponent free throw rate at 18.8 – behind Vanderbilt (14.7), Virginia (16.8) and Appalachian State (17.5). Notre Dame is ranked fourth in the country and first in the ACC in personal fouls per game at 13.0. |
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9.2 |
Junior forward Nate Laszewski has pulled down at least eight rebounds in all five Irish games this season. He is currently third in the ACC at rebounds per game with a 9.2 average. |
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10 |
Notre Dame will be taking part in its 10th Crossroads Classic this weekend. The Irish are 4-5 in the event and 3-1 against Purdue. |
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13.5 |
Junior guard Dane Goodwin is averaging 13.5 ppg in the Crossroads Classic (two games played), shooting .588 from the field (10-17) and .444 (4-9) from three-point range. |
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17 |
The Crossroads Classic, began in 2011, is a call back to the Hoosier Classic, which featured Notre Dame, Indiana and Purdue throughout the 1940s and 50s. The format was similar, with Butler and Notre Dame never playing each other but matching up with the Hoosiers and Boilermakers. Over 17 events, Notre Dame was 9-8 in the Hoosier Classic (7-2 vs. Purdue, 1-6 vs. Indiana and 1-0 when Illinois replaced Indiana one year). |
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19.4 |
Junior guard Prentiss Hubb is tied for the ACC lead in points-per-game at 19.4 (with Georgia Tech’s Moses Wright). |
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21 |
In his 21st season at Notre Dame (the longest tenure of any ND men’s basketball coach), Mike Brey also has the ninth-longest tenure of any Division I head coach. Brey will face three of the coaches with longer tenures than himself this season (Jim Boeheim, Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo). Greg Kampe, Bob McKillop, Fran O’Hanlon, Mark Few, Mike McConathy and James Jones make up the other coaches who have been at their current school longer than Mike Brey. |
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23 |
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 (twice), No. 2 North Carolina, No. 1 Kentucky (1-0). |
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25 |
Dane Goodwin is coming off a season-high 25 points against No. 21/23 Duke on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Goodwin shot 10-of-12 from the field and connected on four-of-six three point field goals. |
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45 |
Notre Dame and Purdue will be meeting for the 45th time on Saturday, with the Irish holding a 23-21 advantage in the series. The series began in 1916 and saw the Boilermakers claim a victory in each of the first eight meetings between the two teams. Notre Dame earned control of the series with 16 wins in 19 meetings between 1933 and 1954. |
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56 |
Nate Laszewski is 46th in the country in 3FG% at .562 (9-16) this season. Of those national leaders who have connected on at least nine 3FGM, Laszewski ranks 20th and is the top ACC player on that leaderboard. |
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82 |
Notre Dame is fourth in the country and first in the ACC in free throw percentage at 81.6% – and no Irish player is shooting less than 73% from the charity stripe. |
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1906 |
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. |
CROSSROADS CLASSIC HISTORY
The Crossroads Classic will be held in Bankers Life Fieldhouse on December 19, 2020, for the 10th consecutive season featuring Notre Dame, Butler, Indiana and Purdue. The Irish and Bulldogs rotate between facing the Hoosier and Boilermakers each season.
Butler and Indiana are 6-3 in the event, followed by Notre Dame (4-5) and Purdue (2-7). Notre Dame will face Purdue at 2:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, December 19, 2020 on ESPN2.
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Date |
Opponent |
City |
Site |
ND Rank |
Opp Rank |
W/L |
ND |
Opp |
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12/17/2011 |
vs. Indiana |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
18 / 20 |
L |
58 |
69 |
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12/15/2012 |
vs. Purdue |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
22 / 24 |
W |
81 |
68 |
|
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12/14/2013 |
vs. Indiana |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
W |
79 |
72 |
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12/20/2014 |
vs. Purdue |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
21 / 21 |
W |
94 |
63 |
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12/19/2015 |
vs. Indiana |
Indianapolis, IN |
Banker sLife Fieldhouse |
L |
73 |
80 |
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12/17/2016 |
vs. Purdue |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
21 / 21 |
15 / 16 |
L |
81 |
86 |
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12/16/2017 |
vs. Indiana |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
18 / 18 |
L OT |
77 |
80 |
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12/15/2018 |
vs. Purdue |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
W |
88 |
80 |
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12/21/2019 |
vs. Indiana |
Indianapolis, IN |
Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
L |
60 |
62 |
IRISH IN THE CROSSROADS
Graduate student Nikola Djogo will be playing in his fourth Crossroads Classic on Saturday afternoon, while four other Irish players will be competing in their third event. A breakdown of the Notre Dame veterans and their statistics in the Crossroads Classic.
|
Player |
GP |
MP |
FG |
3FG |
FT |
O-D-R |
PF |
AST |
TO |
STL |
BLK |
PTS |
PPG |
|
Nikola Djogo |
3 |
13 |
1-3 |
1-2 |
0-0 |
1-1-2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1.0 |
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Prentiss Hubb |
2 |
64 |
3-12 |
0-6 |
6-7 |
0-1-1 |
5 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
6.0 |
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Juwan Durham |
2 |
28 |
6-11 |
0-0 |
7-7 |
2-4-6 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
19 |
9.5 |
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Nate Laszewski |
2 |
41 |
4-9 |
2-6 |
3-3 |
3-11-14 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
13 |
6.5 |
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Dane Goodwin |
2 |
57 |
10-17 |
4-9 |
2-3 |
1-6-7 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
26 |
13.0 |
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:
|
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 |
|
12/14/19 |
UCLA |
6-12 |
5-10 |
3-5 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
20 |
|
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:
|
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 |
|
LaPhonso Ellis |
1988-92 |
2.1 |
Durham’s 140 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. A history of the ‘junior year leap’ is broken down on page 6 of this notes package, but Goodwin, Hubb and Laszewski have seen an increase in points per game, rebounds per game and minutes played through Notre Dame’s first three games of the season:
|
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 |
15.4 |
4.6 |
3.8 |
5.0 |
1.2 |
26.2 |
38.5 |
12.3 |
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Prentiss Hubb |
12.1 |
19.4 |
6.7 |
2.4 |
3.4 |
1.0 |
35.2 |
37.2 |
2.0 |
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Nate Laszewski |
7.4 |
14.6 |
7.2 |
4.6 |
9.2 |
4.6 |
21.0 |
34.4 |
14.4 |
RYAN, WERTZ HOPE TO BUILD OFF NOTRE DAME TRADITION OF TRANSFER IMPROVEMENT
Transfers have become a normal part of college basketball over the past couple of decades and the Notre Dame basketball program, under Mike Brey, has brought in seven student-athletes prior to Cormac Ryan and Trey Wertz .
Those seven players ended up improving across the board in their first season in an Irish uniform, compared to their final season at their previous school.
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Name |
Prev School |
Year |
MP |
Pts |
Year |
MP |
Pts |
MP+ |
Pts+ |
|
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Ryan Humphrey |
Oklahoma |
1998-99 |
831 |
343 |
Notre Dame |
2000-01 |
863 |
410 |
3.8% |
19.5% |
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Dan Miller |
Maryland |
2000-01 |
676 |
174 |
Notre Dame |
2002-03 |
1195 |
473 |
76.6% |
171.8% |
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Dennis Latimore |
Arizona |
2002-03 |
277 |
74 |
Notre Dame |
2004-05 |
596 |
203 |
115.1% |
174.3% |
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Ben Hansbrough |
Miss. State |
2006-07 |
1005 |
314 |
Notre Dame |
2009-10 |
1241 |
419 |
23.4% |
33.4% |
|
Scott Martin |
Purdue |
2007-08 |
700 |
272 |
Notre Dame |
2010-11 |
1008 |
319 |
44.0% |
17.2% |
|
Garrick Sherman |
Mich. State |
2010-11 |
410 |
107 |
Notre Dame |
2012-13 |
467 |
211 |
13.9% |
97.2% |
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Juwan Durham |
UConn |
2016-17 |
232 |
45 |
Notre Dame |
2018-19 |
413 |
154 |
78.2% |
242.2% |
|
Cormac Ryan |
Stanford |
2018-19 |
685 |
209 |
Notre Dame |
2020-21 |
185 |
51 |
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Average Improvement |
50.7% |
107.9% |
Among these previous transfers are the 2011 BIG EAST Player of the Year (Hansbrough), three team MVPs (Humphrey, 2002, Hansbrough, 2011, Martin, 2012). Wertz was declared eligible on December 16, 2020, via a blanket waiver from the NCAA for all first-time Division I transfers who were on campus in the fall of 2020.
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
|
Team |
Opponent |
Opponent |
Record |
|
NOTRE DAME |
Boston College |
Georgia Tech |
22-6 |
|
Duke |
North Carolina |
Wake Forest |
20-8 |
|
Florida State |
Miami |
Clemson |
18-10 |
|
Syracuse |
Boston College |
Pittsburgh |
20-8 |
|
North Carolina |
Duke |
NC State |
18-10 |
|
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.
|
School |
All-Time 1,000 Point Scorers |
1,000 Point Scorers since 2000-01 |
|
North Carolina |
77 |
20 |
|
Louisville |
69 |
18 |
|
Duke |
67 |
20 |
|
NOTRE DAME |
64 |
23 |
|
Villanova |
64 |
24 |
|
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
|
Year |
Fouls Per Game |
NCAA Raking |
Conference Ranking |
|
2009-10 |
15.1 |
10 |
2 |
|
2010-11 |
15.2 |
11 |
1 |
|
2011-12 |
13.8 |
1 |
1 |
|
2012-13 |
14.1 |
8 |
1 |
|
2013-14 |
16.2 |
15 |
5 |
|
2014-15 |
15.1 |
6 |
1 |
|
2015-16 |
15.1 |
1 |
1 |
|
2016-17 |
14.9 |
4 |
1 |
|
2017-18 |
13.1 |
1 |
1 |
|
2018-19 |
13.8 |
1 |
1 |
|
2019-20 |
12.4 |
1 |
1 |
|
2020-21 |
13.0 |
4 |
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.