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Irish Head To Charlotte For ACC Tournament

Game 32: 2019 ACC Tournament – No. 15 Notre Dame (13-18, 3-15) vs. No. 10 Georgia Tech (14-17, 6-12)
Date Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | Approximately 2:30 p.m. ET
Location Spectrum Center | Charlotte, NC
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IRISH HEAD TO CHARLOTTE FOR ACC TOURNAMENT 

The University of Notre Dame men’s basketball team (13-18, 3-15 ACC) begins post season competition on Tuesday, March 12, facing No. 10 seed Georgia Tech (14-17, 6-12) on ESPN at 2 p.m. ET (game time will most likely tip around 2:30 p.m. ET). The Irish will be looking for their ninth ACC Championship victory in six tournament appearances.    

BY THE NUMBERS – IRISH IN CHARLOTTE
 

2

Only two players in the nation have scored 430+ points, grabbed 330+ rebounds, connected on 30+ three-point field goals and have 40+ assists – junior John Mooney and South Dakota State’s Mike Daum. 

6

With 348 rebounds this season – John Mooney is now sixth on the single-season rebound total list during the Mike Brey era (since 2000-01). He is just three rebounds behind Luke Harangody (351) and six behind Jack Cooley (354) to move into fourth place (see page 8 side bar for the top 10). 

7.3

Increase in rebounds per game for John Mooney this season (from 3.9 in 2017-18). He has also increased his scoring 8.5 points (5.6 to 14.1) and has 18 more double-doubles than last season (1). 

8

Notre Dame is 8-4 all-time in the ACC tournament, failing to win a tournament game just once (the team’s first season as a part of the league in 2013-14). The Irish won the 2015 ACC Championship and advanced to the 2017 ACC Championship game. 

9.4

John Mooney pulled down 9.4 defensive rebounds in ACC play this season – since 1996-97 only Tim Duncan (10.6 in 1996-97) has eclipsed that mark and it is a full rebound 9.4 vs. 8.4 for the next highest (Luke Maye this season, Alvin Jones from GT in 2000-01 and Sean May from UNC in 2004-05). 

12.6

John Mooney averaged 12.6 rebounds in conference play this season – a mark that led all major conference players – and was fourth in the country for all conference players. 

13

John Mooney finished with 13 double-doubles in ACC play this season – a mark surpassed by only Tim Duncan’s 15 double-doubles in league play during the 1996-97 season (see page 5 for more). 

13.9

Notre Dame is third in the country in fouls committed per game at 13.9 – just behind national leaders Loyola Chicago and Dayton at 13.8. The Irish are sixth in the country in turnovers per game with a 9.5 average. 

23

Freshman Nate Laszewski scored a career-high 23 points in the regular-season finale at Pittsburgh on Saturday, recording the first 20-point game of his career. Laszewski was six-for-nine from three point range and scored 12 consecutive points to help cut an eight-point Pitt lead with 6:56 remaining to one point with 1:14 left. 

55

The Irish have been struck by the injury bug this season – losing 55 games from either full-time projected starters (senior Rex Pflueger 21 games, sophomore D.J. Harvey 2 games, junior T.J. Gibbs 1 game) or players who started multiple games this season (freshman Robby Carmody 22 games, junior Nikola Djogo 4 games, junior Juwan Durham 5 games). Save for Gibbs (who missed one game with the flu), all of the players listed above will not be available for the ACC tournament.

97

Due to a series of injuries, the Irish back court of junior T.J. Gibbs and freshman Prentiss Hubb have combined to play 97% of of a possible 560 minutes over the past seven games for the Irish. Gibbs (272) and Hubb (271) have combined for 543 minutes in the past seven games – while dishing out 56 assists. Hubb, as of March 10, is second in the nation for total minutes played by a major conference true freshman with 1,032. 

110

Four freshman – Prentiss Hubb (39), Dane Goodwin (36), Nate Laszewski (35) and Chris Doherty (4) combined for 114 minutes played against Pittsburgh on Saturday. That is the most for three true freshman in a game during the Mike Brey era. 

 

IRISH HAVE SHORT BUT STRONG HISTORY IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT

Notre Dame is finishing its sixth season as a member of the ACC and has already compiled a distinguished resume at the league tournament. The Irish are 8-4 all-time in the championship competition, including the 2015 title (defeating both Duke and North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina) while also advancing to the 2017 championship game against Duke. 

NOTRE DAME ACC TOURNAMENT HISTORY

Date

City

Site

Opponent

ND Rank

Opp Rank

W/L

ND

Opp

2014

3/12/2014

Greensboro, NC

Greensboro Coliseum

Wake Forest

L

69

81

2015

3/12/2015

Greensboro, NC

Greensboro Coliseum

Miami

11 / 9 

W

74

64

3/13/2015

Greensboro, NC

Greensboro Coliseum

Duke

11 / 9

2 / 2

W

74

64

3/14/2015

Greensboro, NC

Greensboro Coliseum

North Carolina

11 / 9

19 / 19

W

90

82

2016

3/10/2016

Washington, DC

Verizon Center

Duke

19 / 20

W OT

84

79

3/11/2016

Washington, DC

Verizon Center

North Carolina

3 / 3

L

47

78

2017

3/9/17

Brooklyn, NY

Barclays Center

Virginia

22/16

21/21

W

71

58

3/10/17

Brooklyn, NY

Barclays Center

Florida State

22/16

16/17

W

77

73

3/11/17

Brookyn, NY

Barclays Center

Duke

22/16

14/14

L

66

75

2018

3/6/18

Brooklyn, NY

Barclays Center

Pittsburgh

W

67

64

3/7/18

Brooklyn, NY

Barclays Center

Virginia Tech

W

71

65

3/8/18

Brooklyn, NY

Barclays Center

Duke

5/4

L

70

88

MR. MOONEY ONE OF EIGHT MAJOR CONFERENCE PLAYERS AVERAGING A DOUBLE-DOUBLE

Junior forward John Mooney (dubbed Mr. Mooney by Notre Dame Basketball Radio Network Analyst Zach Hillesland) has compiled 19  double-doubles this season that have pushed his season averages to 14.1 (ppg) and 11.2 (rpg) – one of only two ACC players averaging a double-double. He joins seven other players across the country from a major college basketball conference to average 10+ points and 10+ rebounds per game. 

MAJOR CONFERENCE PLAYERS AVERAGING A DOUBLE-DOUBLE

Player

Team

Points

Rebounds

JOHN MOONEY

NOTRE DAME

14.1

11.2

Jordan Murphy

Minnesota

14.5

11.7

Dedric Lawson

Kansas

19.1

10.6

Bruno Fernando

Maryland

14.0

10.5

Luke Maye

North Carolina

14.6

10.5

Zylan Cheatham

Arizona State

11.6

10.4

Derek Culver

West Virginia

12.1

10.2

Ethan Happ

Wisconsin

17.9

10.2

Notre Dame vs. GEORGIA TECH SERIES HISTORY

  • The Irish and Yellow Jackets will be meeting for the 21st time on Tuesday afternoon with Georgia Tech leading the all-time series 11-9. 
  • Georgia Tech and Boston College make up Notre Dame’s ACC home-and-home annual series. The Irish lead the ACC series 7-5 against Georgia Tech. 
  • Home court advantage means more in this series than possibly any other ACC opponent for the Irish, Notre Dame is 8-2 against Georgia Tech in Purcell Pavilion but just 1-8 in McCamish Pavilion (including losses in the four most recent visits to Atlanta). 
  • Both teams have held serve on their home court in the ACC series, as Notre Dame is 6-0 at home against Georgia Tech, while the Yellow Jackets are 5-1 against the Irish in McCamish Pavilion. The lone visiting team victory occurred by eventual ACC Champion Notre Dame at Georgia Tech on Jan. 14, 2015, 62-59. 
  • Notre Dame and Georgia Tech will be meeting for the first time in the ACC tournament on Tuesday.