Where #1 Goes to LOSE! -- WOW!!!

Nine times in the 107 year history of Notre Dame basketball, the #1 team in the nation has come to campus to play the IRISH.  And, now SEVEN OUT OF NINE TIMES -- the IRISH BEAT #1!

My wife Susan and I are spending our first weekend at Notre Dame (after starting the new job at ND on Monday) and we watched the IRISH beat MICHIGAN (3 - 1) last night in hockey at a sold-out Compton Family Ice Arena...

And, we just watched the IRISH beat undefeated and #1 SYRACUSE (67 - 58) in a sold-out Purcell Pavillion!  The eighth time Notre Dame has beaten a #1 in basketball -- which ties them for fourth all time!

What a first weekend on the job!

The photo was taken by Susan at game's end -- what a scene!

GO IRISH!

LINK:  ESPN BLOG STORY

LINK:  LOCKER ROOM AFTER BIG WIN!

LINK:  COACH BREY PRESS CONFERENCE

LINK:  IRISH CONNECTION RECAP -- YOU'LL LOVE THIS!

Irish vs. #1 Syracuse: 6 PM ET on ESPN

Mike Brey's Fighting Irish take on their toughest test this evening when Jim Boeheim's (pictured) #1 ranked and undefeated -- Syracuse Orangemen come to Purcell Pavillion.  The game tips off at 6 PM ET TODAY on ESPN.

As I sit here (writing this blog post) ESPN's "High Def" production trucks are rolling onto campus.  Should be quite the show!

Here's a story published this morning by the Syracuse Post Standard -- you'll enjoy!

LINK:  NOTRE DAME -- WHERE #1 TEAMS GO TO LOSE

Will Twitter Take a College Dream Away?

A high school football star in New Jersey (ranked #40 in the country by ESPN) finds himself expelled from his high school and possibly off the recruitable lists of many of the top colleges in America for a series of "tweets" on the TWITTER social media channel.

Notre Dame is one of the schools that has been recruiting Yuri Wright -- a Army All-American DB out of Don Bosco Prep.

Here's a link to the ESPN.COM story about Yuri Wright's situation:

LINK:  A TWITTER OUTCOME