Notre Dame QB Maliz Zaire's Media Session

The confident, left-handed sophomore QB -- fighting for the starting gig -- sat down and took questions from the media...

Muffet & Starting Five Met With the Media Today

The Fighting Irish are in Oklahoma City today getting rested and ready to play Baylor tomorrow night -- to earn a trip to next week's FINAL FOUR in Tampa. 

Notre Dame Beats #1 & Undefeated Syracuse!

It took 2 OT's -- but the #2 Fighting Irish beat #1 ranked Syracuse today 13 - 12 -- to move themselves into an expected #1 ranking when the next rankings come out!

Notre Dame BB Recruit in Slam Dunk Contest!

Notre Dame incoming hoops recruit Rex Pflueger will be competing next week in the American Family Insurance High School Slam Dunk Contest -- televised on CBS at 3:30 PM ET on April 5th.

The video above is of a dunk contest the 6'-6" guard won in December!

Inside ND's Sweet Sixteen Win Over Stanford!

Notre Dame Football -- Wired For Sound!

Notre Dame Lacrosse -- #1 in the Country!

The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame came into their game today against #1 and UNDEFEATED Syracuse -- ranked second in the country...

Well, 154 minutes later -- in Double OT -- Notre Dame leaves the game the new #1 team in college lacrosse!

A goal in the 2nd OT won the game for Notre Dame 13 - 12 over Syracuse!

LINK:  SCOREBOARD

Notre Dame vs. Kentucky: Fuzzy Math Analysis

Here's my attempt to give Notre Dame fans some hope today as we await the 8:49 PM ET tip-off against #1 and undefeated Kentucky.  No one is giving us a chance tonight...

NOT SO FAST MY FRIENDS!

Here's a look at how Notre Dame and Kentucky played in games this season vs. common opponents -- the only true measure we have to compare these two teams outside of nine (9) "Big Mac" All-Americans vs. one (1) "Big Mac" All-American...

Enjoy!

OPPONENT:  NORTH CAROLINA

• Kentucky beat North Carolina 84 - 70 /  @ home
• Notre Dame beat North Carolina 71 - 70 / @ NC
• Notre Dame beat North Carolina 90 - 82 / @ ACC (in North Carolina)

OPPONENT:  LOUISVILLE

• Kentucky beat Louisville 58 - 50 / @ Louisville
• Notre Dame beat Louisville 71 - 59 / @ Louisville

FUZZY MATH ANALYSIS:

So, here's my "fuzzy math" look at the match-up between Notre Dame and Kentucky using data from the games played this season against common opponents.

It should be noted that it's generally regarded that a home court provides a team with a FOUR POINT (3.7 to be precise) advantage.  So, if you take this "advantage" into consideration -- we've played these two teams quite evenly:

• Kentucky was 10 points better than North Carolina
• Notre Dame 8.5 points better than North Carolina (averaging the two games)
• Kentucky was 12 points better than Louisville
• Notre Dame was 16 points better than Louisville
• In totality -- Kentucky was 22 points better -- Notre Dame was 24.5 points better

Now, there might be a couple of you out there who might not agree with my hypothesis -- but, hey you should give me some credit for the creativity in this argument for giving us Notre Dame fans hope tonight...

So, here's the bottom line: Notre Dame should be a TWO AND A HALF POINT favorite over Kentucky!

FYI:  Vegas has Kentucky an 11 point favorite -- I guess they don't use fuzzy math...

In the photo above -- that's Coach Brey telling Coach Calipari -- WE GOT YOU!

Calipari and Players Talk Notre Dame Game

Here's a replay of Kentucky's time in front of the media yesterday afternoon in Cleveland.

Calipari talks about how they will prepare for Notre Dame -- and his "sales pitch" to his team and their families on playing time and the NBA...

LINK:  CALIPARI

LINK:  KENTUCKY PLAYERS