Feb. 14, 2017
By: Robby Hamman
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team will have nine of its 11 regular season games be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks, with five set to air on ESPNU. Notre Dame’s five games on ESPNU are the most of any team in the country.
Saturday’s season opener, the Patriot Cup in Frisco, Texas against Georgetown, will be broadcast live on ESPNU at 2 p.m. inside the Ford Center at The Star, which is the Dallas Cowboys newly constructed $1.5 billion facility. Quint Kessenich (play-by-play), Paul Carcaterra (analyst) and Sheehan Stanwick-Burch (sidelines) will be on the call for the contest.
Other Irish games to air nationally on ESPNU come against Virginia (3/18 at 6 p.m.), Syracuse (4/1 at noon), Duke (4/8 at noon) and North Carolina (4/22 at noon).
The Irish will have four games picked up by ACC Network Extra/WatchESPN. Those contests include matchups against Michigan (2/26 at 2 p.m.), Maryland (3/4 at noon), Ohio State (3/25 at 2 p.m.) and Marquette (4/11 at a time TBA).
Notre Dame’s game at Denver on March 12 at 3 p.m. is scheduled to be broadcast on Altitude TV.
The Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament on April 28 and 30 will have all three of its games air on ESPNU.
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The University of Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team pursues excellence on and off the field through the three pillars in which the program is built: Character, Culture & Community. These three foundational values guide the promise of the program, which is to provide its student-athletes with the most compelling and enriching experience in all of college athletics. Through academics, competition, service and travel, the program aims to immerse its players in situations that enhance their student-athlete experience to help them become the people, students and teammates they aspire to be.
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Robby Hamman joined Fighting Irish Media as athletics communications assistant director in September 2016, coordinating efforts for the volleyball and men’s lacrosse program. Hamman is a 2010 graduate of Bethel College, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in sport management and business administration, and earned his master’s degree in business administration from Defiance College in 2013.