Here's the television replay of Lindsay Allen's alley-oop pass to Jewell Loyd in Notre Dame's 69 - 53 win today in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship game! Loyd was named the ACC Tournament MVP!
Muffet's Fighting Irish overcame a lack luster first half to pull away and beat #10 Duke by a score of 69 - 53. Jewell Loyd and Kayla McBride combined for 51 points -- just two shy of the entire Blue Devils team.
The win leaves Notre Dame 32 - 0 -- with a couple of trophies from the Atlantic Coast Conference in their inaugural season. Now it's NCAA Tournament time! GO IRISH!
Muffet's Fighting Irish are on quite a roll these days...
31 - 0 on the season!!!
Notre Dame raced out to a 12 - 0 lead then 42 - 15 just before the first half was over -- as they cruised to a 83 - 48 win over 14th North Carolina State. The victory puts Notre Dame into the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Championship Final tomorrow evening against #10 Duke.
Here's the highlights, post game press conference and a news story linked below:
Former Notre Dame All-American QB Brady Quinn got married yesterday to long-time girlfriend Alica Sacramone (photo above). Sacramone won an Olympic Silver Medal in gymnastics at the 2008 Olympics.
#2 ranked Notre Dame plays #14 North Carolina State this afternoon at 5 PM ET in a sem-final game of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. You can watch the game live on ESPNU.
Former Notre Dame defensive lineman Louis Nix met with Chicago's 87.7 "The Game" to talk about his time in South Bend and the upcoming NFL Draft. He's always entertaining:
Notre Dame won their first ever Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament game tonight 83 - 57 over the Seminoles. Not a bad start for the Fighting Irish! North Carolina State is up next tomorrow at 5 PM ET on ESPNU.
19,000 people die each year in the United States from a bacteria called MRSA. Yesterday, two Notre Dame chemists Mayla Chang and Shariar Mobashery (photo above) announced they have discovered a new class of antibiotics that can fight this bacteria.
Adidas, outfitting Notre Dame men's basketball for the last time -- as Under Armour takes over July 1st -- has provided Brey's Fighting Irish with this look for the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.
I like everything but the zebra shoes -- and I hope they gave them a "white and gold" version of the shoes in the upper right of the photo, like they did Muffet's team...
Former Notre Dame All-American, Super Bowl Champion and captain of the New York Football Giants -- Justin Tuck, is being encouraged to explore free agency...
The #2 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish are going to look real sharp in their uniform combination for the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament! I love it!
A couple of weeks ago -- Notre Dame junior swimmer Emma Reaney set a new AMERICAN RECORD in the 200 Yard Breaststroke at the 2014 ACC Championships! Here's a video of Notre Dame Women's Swimming Coach Randy Barnes and Emma watching the race together for the first time.
After today's morning practice "indoors" at the Loftus Sports Complex -- Notre Dame head football coach met with Fighting Irish Digital Media's Jack Nolan to talk about his team.
The ACC made the official announcement this morning -- Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw was named the 2014 ACC COACH OF THE YEAR! Muffet's #2 ranked Irish finished the regular season at 29 - 0 with a 52 game regular season winning streak.
This is the sixth time Muffet has earned conference coach of the year honors -- but, obviously the first in the Atlantic Coast Conference!
2014: Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year
2013: Big East Conference Coach of the Year
2001: Big East Conference Coach of the Year
1991: Midwestern Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year
1988: North Star Conference Coach of the Year
1983: East Coast Conference Coach of the Year (Lehigh Head Coach)
Former Notre Dame football player and current Denver Broncos' captain -- David Bruton, visited Hillcrest Elementary in Northglenn, CO today to talk about the importance of breakfast. Thought you'd enjoy this story!
Detroit outfielder and father to Notre Dame wide receiver Torii Hunter, Jr. -- Torri, Sr. -- kissed a live alligator yesterday at the Tiger's Spring Training facility in Lakeland, FL. Click on the story linked below to find out why...
The national media made the trek to South Bend this week to capture the return of Everett Golson to Notre Dame football. Here is Sports Illustrated's take on the Fighting Irish's QB:
Notre Dame fans -- you're going to enjoy this "inside access" with Coach Brian Kelly as he talks about Everett Golson's return to the Fighting Irish with ESPN's Todd Blackledge. Good stuff here!
Notre Dame Football kicked off Spring Practice this morning -- and after today's session Coach Kelly met with the media. Here's a link to that conversation:
For Notre Dame football fans -- today is a special day!
Spring Practice kicked off at 7:30 AM this morning -- INSIDE -- here in "balmy" Notre Dame, IN. Today was the coldest March 3rd in the history of keeping track of these kinds of things...
All eyes were on some new faces -- Everett Golson, Coach VanGorder and Coach Fleur -- check on the media coverage below:
It seems appropriate that ESPN kicks-off its tour of college football teams in the country -- today on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Tom Rinaldi and Todd Blackledge were seen here today interviewing Brian Kelly, Everett Golson and taking in the first Spring practice for the Fighting Irish.
Here's a link to Rinaldi's and Blackledge's interview of Everett Golson:
The Fighting Irish are down in Chapel Hill, NC to play the Tarheels on national TV tonight at 7 PM ET on ESPN. Word is the weather is quite bad in the area so it will be interesting to see how many of the 21,750 "Carolina blue" seats have people in them in the "Dean Dome" tonight.
Here's a preview of tonight's match-up -- click on the link below:
The University of Notre Dame released its ten year strategic plan "A Legacy Expanded" this morning. It's the result of a two-year conversation that took place among every college, school and division at Notre Dame -- about the future of this great university.
You're going to want to watch the video of Fr. Jenkins, C.S.C. meeting with campus representatives -- which is the first link and then visit the Strategic Plan website, the second link.
Now, I'm sure if Notre Dame did play in the SEC we would be favored to win their women's basketball tournament -- see last line of copy on today's ESPN Women's Basketball home page!
This season will go down in history -- the first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame go 29 - 0 !!! That's 52 consecutive regular season wins for Muffet's gang!
This was also the 9th win this season against a ranked opponent as North Carolina State came into the game ranked #13. Notre Dame disposed of them early in the second half, taking an eight point halftime lead and stretching it to 30, before emptying the bench and winning 84 - 60. Notre Dame outscored their opponents by 527 points on the season -- an average margin of victory of 18.17 points per game. DOMINATION!
It's now time for the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament -- see link to preview below!
The Bengal Bouts Heavyweight Champion is none other than Daniel Yi -- a four-time champion! The 12th "four-time" champ in the 84 year history of the Bengal Bouts at Notre Dame!
That's Daniel Yi landing a right hook in the photo above in his 2012 Bengal Bouts championship!
The Observer (Notre Dame's student paper) published a nice story about Yi... And, I captured some video from the fight on my iPhone -- click on the links below:
The "FIGHTING IRISH" will live up to their name this afternoon in Purcell Pavilion as the Finals of the BENGAL BOUTS will begin at 2 PM ET. If you can't make it to the University of Notre Dame campus to watch them live -- you can catch them on ESPN3.
Here's the list of the FINAL BOUTS in today's BENGAL BOUTS:
This photo was taken of poster featuring former Notre Dame All-American Skylar Diggins in a Nike store in Tokyo, Japan. It looks like she made a great business decision signing with Jay Z and Roc Nation.
Brianna Turner (with ball in photo above) finished her high school basketball career last night -- with a "double-double" (17 points and 17 rebounds), a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, a FINALS MVP (that's Brianna holding her award in the photo above), and a win over MaxPreps #1 ranked team in women's high school basketball -- who was on a 105 game winning streak...
Turner, considered by many the #1 incoming women's college basketball recruit, will be wearing a Notre Dame jersey this fall!
Here's the media reaction this morning to Manvel's 58 to 53 win over Duncanville in the Texas 5A State Championship Final:
Notre Dame's top women's basketball recruit Brianna Turner (Manvel High School) just led her team tonight to their first ever STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! Beating two time defending Texas 5A State Champion and MAXPREPS #1 ranked team in the country -- Duncanville 58 - 53!!!
In the process they broke Duncanville High School's 105 game winning streak!!!
Brianna -- who many think is the #1 incoming recruit in the country -- led her team with a "double-double" scoring 17 points and grabbing 17 rebounds. She was also named PLAYER OF THE GAME for the State Championship Final!
CONGRATULATIONS BRIANNA!
Key game stat: four of the five Duncanville starters fouled out in this game -- I'm sure the locals will not be happy about this!
Kevin Corrigan's Fighting Irish traveled to Chapel Hill today to take on the #2 ranked North Carolina Tarheels -- and #11 Notre Dame beat them 11 - 10 !!! The Irish were down 7 - 3 at halftime but rallied for the big win in their first ever ACC game!
Here are the highlights along with a link to photos of the game:
Jeff Jackson's 14th ranked Fighting Irish traveled to Boston to take on the #1 team in college hockey tonight -- and they beat the Eagles of Boston College in OT 2 -1 !!!
It was a huge win for Notre Dame as they make a late run at a NCAA Tournament selection.
The win also broke BC's nineteen game unbeaten streak! Here's a replay of the winning goal and the game highlights:
It's Notre Dame Women's Basketball day at the ND GO IRISH BLOG...
The second highest rated recruit in Muffet's 2014 recruiting class is Kathryn Westbeld from Fairmont, OH. Westbeld was recently selected to play in the McDonald's All-American game along with fellow Irish commit Brianna Turner.
Here's a local Ohio TV station's news story on Kathryn's selection:
Notre Dame women's basketball will welcome point guard Mychal Johnson to the Fighting Irish this August. Johnson, in a recent ESPN interview, was filmed doing a standing BACK FLIP! She's going to be a great addition to our women's basketball program!