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Every ACC basketball team in the NCAA Tournament’s info for your brackets

March Madness indeed

The tournament starts on Tuesday with the play in games, the Irish included in the field. Overall, five ACC teams moved on from the regular season play into March Madness. Here are each of those five teams, with their seed, which bracket they’re in, their opponent, which network they’re playing on, and when and where they’ll start the tournament. (Some of these times are subject to change).

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ESPN projects one Notre Dame player to get selected in NBA Draft

WIll he stay or off to the NBA???

The Irish have been enduring a NBA Draft selection drought since 2016, when Demetrius Jackson was selected in the second round with the 45th overall pick by the Boston Celtics. The last first round selection was a year before with Jerian Grant going 19th overall to the Washington Wizards.

ESPN’s Jonathan Givony and Mike Schmitz believe that the drought will end this year. They have Irish guard Blake Wesley going 30th overall to the Oklahoma City Thunder in their latest mock NBA Draft (insider).

The Irish freshman has had a very solid season, averaging 14.7 points-per-game while chipping in 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists. Wesley is shooting 41.1% from the field and oozes with potential.

Wesley will have a big time decision to make at the end of the season, will he return to the Irish and improve on his draft stock or test the NBA waters after just one year in South Bend?

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Pat Forde suggests Notre Dame’s Mike Brey’s time is coming to an end

Could this be the end of Mike Brey’s tenure at Notre Dame, Sports Illustrated Pat Forde suggests it just could be.

As the NCAA college basketball season is nearing an end, Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde looked at multiple team’s coaching situations as the year is finishing up. Forde ended up looking at the Irish’s situation with Mike Brey and suggested that the 21-year tenure in South Bend might be coming to an end.

In no way does Forde have any insider information as to what Brey’s future holds, but “at age 61, Brey could coach a while longer if he wants. but he also would be a natural on TV and might be tired of fighting some of the recruiting wars.”

The glory years of Brey’s tenure were in 2014-16, with Elite-8 appearances in both season along with an ACC conference tournament title in ‘15. The last NCAA appearance was in 2017, although you could argue the Irish were poised to make a return last year had the NCAA tournament not been canceled.

It has been a bit of a struggle this season, the Irish have sputtered to a 7-10 overall record, just 4-7 in conference. Although Brey might not be riding off into the sunset after this season, at his age of 61, there might not be much more coaching left in his future. He just signed a contract extension through the 2025 season and if I had to guess, Brey rides out his contract then heads off to enjoy retirement in the booth.

Notre Dame: This Week in Twitter

Another week of Notre Dame centric tweets can be seen right here.

Let’s take a look back at this week’s action on Notre Dame Twitter:

 

Happy Birthday transfer safety Nick McCloud

Happy Birthday to incoming freshman tight end Michael Mayer

Head Football Coach Brian Kelly changes his profile pic

Notre Dame Football account does the same

Kelly has been impressive during his tenure with the Irish

Head Baseball Coach Link Jarrett hired a year ago Sunday

Former Notre Dame basketball star John Paxson on his time in South Bend

Lou Holtz sticking up for the Fighting Irish nickname

Notre Dame Earns Senior Day Win Over Virginia Tech

Don’t expect Saturday’s win to be replayed on ESPN Classic anytime soon as the teams combined for 26 assists but 25 turnovers.

After a 2-6 start in ACC play things looked bleak for Notre Dame basketball in 2020. Although ultimate goals weren’t reached in the regular season and plenty of heartbreak was had in close calls, the regular season ended Saturday with a 64-56 Senior Day win over Virginia Tech. With the win Notre Dame finishes the regular season 19-12 overall and 10-10 in conference play.

Don’t expect Saturday’s win to be replayed on ESPN Classic anytime soon as the teams combined for 26 assists but 25 turnovers. The Irish and Hokies also combined to shoot under 40% from the floor.

With the rough there was still good, especially in the form of TJ Gibbs for Notre Dame as the senior guard led all scorers with 22 points.

John Mooney had a rare day that didn’t end with a double-double as he scored just seven points but pulled down 13 boards.

Notre Dame was in control virtually all afternoon and allowed just 17 first half points to Virginia Tech, who finishes the regular season 16-15 and 7-13 in ACC play.

With the win Notre Dame secures the seventh seed in the ACC Tournament and will be in action Wednesday when they play one of North Carolina, Boston College or Virginia Tech again.

Aside from running the table in the ACC Tournament it would appear Mike Brey and the Fighting Irish will be headed to the NIT for the second time in the last three seasons.