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Kickoff times, TV networks announced for Vols’ first two home games

Tennessee announced kickoff times and TV networks for the Vols’ first two home games in 2024.

Tennessee will kick off its 2024 football season on Aug. 31 against Chattanooga at Neyland Stadium.

The 2024 campaign will be the fourth for the Vols under head coach Josh Heupel. Heupel compiled a 27-12 (14-10 SEC) record from 2021-23 at Tennessee.

A kickoff time was announced on Thursday for the Tennessee-Chattanooga game. The 44th meeting between the Vols and Moccasins will kick off at 12:45 p.m. EDT and will be televised by SEC Network.

Tennessee also announced a kickoff time for its contest with Kent State on Sept. 14. The Week 3 non-conference matchup is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. EDT and will be televised by SEC Network.

READ: Tennessee’s 2024 football schedule

Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire

Alabama basketball set to host Kent State as a part of 2024-25 non-conference schedule

Alabama basketball adds Kent State Golden Flashes to 2024 non-conference schedule

The Alabama Crimson Tide basketball program is coming off of arguably the best season in school history after making their first-ever Final Four appearance. However, this is still the beginning phase of Nate Oats’s tenure in Tuscaloosa as his ultimate goal is to win a national championship.

Oats and his staff are still eagerly awaiting Mark Sears and Jarin Stevenson’s NBA draft decisions, which should come in the following days, but regardless of their decisions, the roster is in great shape. Keeping Grant Nelson around for one more year was the decision that got the ball rolling, then Oats went to work in the portal adding four valuable transfers and an outstanding recruiting class.

Heading into the 2024 season, the Crimson Tide will certainly have a case to be the top ranked team in the country. Oats and Alabama have made a huge emphasis on playing a tough out of conference schedule to help prepare them for the post season, and so far it has paid massive dividends.

For this upcoming 2024-25 season, the Crimson Tide have added a game against the Kent State Golden Flashes. The flashes are coming off of a 17-17 season in 2023-24, but look to be a much stronger team this upcoming season.

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Notre Dame Football Offers West Virginia Grad-Transfer

Notre Dame hasn’t been as active in the transfer portal this spring as last but they did extend an offer to a Big 12 defender on Tuesday.

Notre Dame football hasn’t seen the anywhere near the same amount of departures via the transfer portal immediately following spring practice as they did a year ago.  It was then the likes of [autotag]Tyler Buchner[/autotag], [autotag]Logan Diggs[/autotag], [autotag]Lorenzo Styles[/autotag], and others left.

So far for Notre Dame it has been just defensive back [autotag]Micha Bell[/autotag] and punter [autotag]Bryce McPherson[/autotag] who entered near the end of camp.

Notre Dame is on the prowl to find replacements apparently as Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish made an offer to a Big 12 veteran on Tuesday.

Montre Miller, who spent last year at West Virginia after spending the start of his college career at Kent State entered the portal on Tuesday.  It was seemingly just hours later that he announced a scholarship offer from Notre Dame on his social media.

Between 2021 and 2022 at Kent State, Miller made 99 tackles, forced a pair of fumbles while also recovering a pair, intercepted six passes, and was responsible for 19 pass breakups.

No word on how seriously he’s considering the Notre Dame offer but he did also announce offers from Mississippi State, UConn, and Texas State as of Tuesday night.

We’ll keep you posted at Fighting Irish Wire to anything that happens here or with any other Notre Dame transfer portal happenings.

Photos of Notre Dame’s first-round NCAA Tournament win vs. Kent State

See how the Irish’s first tournament game looked.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – After Notre Dame wrapped up its final regular-season game, [autotag]Niele Ivey[/autotag] addressed the Purcell Pavilion crowd. While she didn’t say so directly, she more or less pleaded with the NCAA Tournament selection committee to give the Irish a top-four seed so that they could host the first weekend. Just to remove any doubt, the Irish won the ACC Tournament, and it became impossible for the committee to ignore them after that.

The Irish ultimately earned a No. 2 seed, so their fans fans found themselves back where they were three weeks ago. They provided a tough environment for Kent State in this first-round game, and the Irish rode that to an 81-67 win. That means they’ll get to see the team one final time this season in Monday’s second-round game and surely will be no less vocal.

If you missed the start to the Irish’s latest quest for their third national championship, here are a few examples of what it looked like:

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Notre Dame knocks out Kent State to begin NCAA Tournament

One down, five to go.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – A No. 2 seed never had lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Notre Dame had no intention of becoming the first team to do that as it battled Kent State at Purcell Pavilion. With most of the crowd backing them, the Irish held a comfortable lead almost the entire game and advanced to the second round with an 81-67 victory.

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Unlike last year’s first-round game against Southern Utah that pretty much was decided from the opening tip, the Irish (27-6) allowed the Golden Flashes (21-11) to score the first basket of this game and even keep the lead for the first three-and-a-half minutes. But the Irish were finished with generosity after that and proceeded to score 18 unanswered points with sound offense and forcing tough shots on defense.

The Irish mostly coasted from there, leading by as much as 21. There was a brief scare in the fourth quarter when the Flashes cut that lead to 12, but it was a passing threat at best. This wasn’t going to be anything but an Irish victory, especially with them scoring 23 points off 16 Flashes turnovers.

[autotag]Sonia Citron[/autotag] was by far the Irish’s best player with a game-high 29 points. Several of her buckets came on passes from [autotag]Hannah Hidalgo[/autotag], who achieved a double-double in her first NCAA Tournament game of 14 points and 11 assists despite shooting only 5 of 14 from the field. She also had six steals, five of them coming in the third quarter.

[autotag]Anna DeWolfe[/autotag] scored 10 of her 12 points in the first half, providing an early offensive spark along with Citron. [autotag]Maddy Westbeld[/autotag] flirted with her own double-double with nine points and a team-high 10 rebounds.

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Purcell Pavilion sold out for Notre Dame’s first NCAA Tournament game

Hope you have your ticket already.

After Notre Dame played its final regular-season home game at Purcell Pavilion, [autotag]Niele Ivey[/autotag] hoped to be back for the NCAA Tournament. Thankfully, she coached the Irish to the finish needed to make that happen. And now on top of that, their first-round game against Kent State has been sold out, so Ivey will get that loud South Bend crowd she loves so much:

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It’s not known how much of that sellout crowd will stick around to watch Saturday’s second game between Ole Miss and Marquette. But for the first game at least, a loud partisan crowd will be on hand, so the Golden Flashes will have more than only the Irish to deal with. That’s just what the Irish have been playing for all year, and they have the luxury for the second straight year.

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Notre Dame earns No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament, hosts Kent State first

Did you expect them to be seeded this high?

Not long ago, Notre Dame was seen as nothing more than a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Some bracketologies had the Irish as low as a No. 6. Since then, the Irish have won eight straight games and the ACC Tournament championship. That was enough for the selection committee to make them the No. 2 seed in Albany Regional 1., the highest seed for any ACC team.

The result is the Irish will get to host the first two rounds of March Madness. They’ll begin their run to a national championship against No. 15 seed Kent State. The winner of that game will face the winner of the other first-round game in South Bend between Ole Miss and Marquette. The Irish’s only previous meeting with the Golden Flashes was a 66-41 victory in the first round of the 1996 WNIT.

While the seeding isn’t a complete surprise, it’s an improvement from most bracketologists’ final projections. One of, if not the only one that had the Irish as a No. 2 seed was College Sports Madness. ESPN, CBS Sports and Her Hoop Stats all projected the Irish as a No. 3. Needless to say, the Irish did everything they needed to be a tournament host and then some.

The one hiccup for the Irish is that they were seeded in the same bracket as South Carolina, the top overall seed and heavy favorite to win the national championship. Perhaps seeing the Gamecocks in the season opener in Paris will give them an advantage for what to expect. But they have a few other games to win before it gets to that point, and that’s why they play them.

So make your plans to be in South Bend this coming weekend. The Irish will need all the support they can get as they begin that national title run.

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Breaking: Colin Ferrell hired as the next Rutgers football defensive line coach, per report

Rutgers football has hired Colin Ferrell as its next defensive line coach.

Colin Ferrell, an experienced assistant coach with strong ties to New Jersey, will be Rutgers football’s defensive line coach, replacing Marquise Watson.

The news was broken on Tuesday morning by ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Born in New Jersey (Hamilton), Ferrell is an energetic coach and known as a strong teacher. He is a former standout defensive lineman at Kent State who signed with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent.

Ferrell has been with Kent State since 2012. In 2017, he served as the program’s interim head coach. He has further ties to New Jersey, having coached at The Hun School (Princeton, New Jersey) early in his career.

A source confirmed Thamel’s report of Ferrell’s hire as well as a new role for Watson.

 

Last season, Watson was unable to coach the defensive line due to a health condition. Jared Keyte, a former defensive coordinator at Maine and an assistant at Rutgers, stepped up to coach the defensive line in Watson’s abscence.

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As he continues his recovery, will transition to an off-the-field role.

Former Michigan State football walk-on WR Sebastian Brown commits to Kent State

Former Michigan State football walk-on WR Sebastian Brown commits to Kent State

A former Michigan State football player has found his next home. On Friday, Sebastian Brown, who was once the quarterback at Cass Tech, will transfer to Kent State. Brown had originally entered the portal on Dec. 9.

Brown came to MSU as a walk-on despite have offers from multiple FCS and FBS programs. He will now look for a bigger role after spending the last four seasons at MSU and playing in three games.

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MBB Recap: Shorthanded Ducks outlast Kent State

Oregon finished the non-conference season strong with an 84-70 win over Kent State.

In a game where every player’s mind could have been somewhere else, the Oregon Ducks men’s basketball team focused and defeated Kent State 84-70.

This was the last non-conference contest of the season and right before everyone went home for the holidays. Oregon finished the non-league portion of the schedule 8-3 as it will soon prepare for the grind that is the Pac-12.

Jermaine Couisnard finished with a double-double of 27 points and 10 rebounds and Jackson Shelstad added 15 points and five assists.

Although the Ducks had a goose egg for three-pointers in the second half, they were able to compensate by going to the free-throw line and making 19-of-25 from the stripe.

Kent State stayed in the game with 11 threes, but it wasn’t nearly enough.