The Irish's luck Runs Out

The Florida Gators had their first reps last night, they got to play the Northwestern state Demons. The Gators played some of their best basketball with Patric Young and Erik Murphy playing explosively well together. Young had 9 rebounds and 16 points, Murphy had 18 points and 8 rebounds. The final score of the game was 79-47.

The Ohio State Buckeyes played some great basketball against the Iona Gaels, the Buckeyes' elite players Sam Thompson, DeShaun Thomas, and Aaron Craft played very well together in their teams win. Thhomas had 24 points leading all players this game, Sam Thompson was a close second with 20 and a leader in rebounds with 10. Craft had a great game as the facilitator he is, Craft had 7 assists and 6 steals. The Gaels guard Tavon Sledge had 20 points for his Gaels. The final score would end up being Iona 70-Ohio State 95.

The three point shooting teams Notre Dame and Iowa State played on Friday. Notre Dames' whole team was cold except for Jack Cooley and Ton knight both with 14 points. Melvin Ejim a tall forward was guarded by Jack Cooley and he likes the three ball so it lead to Cooley being taken away from the hoop and he couldn't get rebounds. Ejim had 17 points and 8 rebounds that game.

That is the end of the round of 64, the scores from the round of 32 will be out as soon as possible!

By David B.

Big East Thriller

  A classic rivalry took place; Louisville at Notre Dame.  Most of their recent meetings have gone into overtime, but this game was even more special.  Five overtimes.  With a low-scoring game, the halftime score would be 27-24 Notre Dame.  The Fighting Irish were really fighting for this win.  Louisville came out hot in the second half.  The Cardinals forced turnovers early in the second half, including a great steal leading to a dunk plus the foul.  The second half was all Louisville, until the last :50 seconds.  The reason being was Jerian Grant.  He scored 12 points in a span of about :50 seconds.  Grant had three three-pointers and a layup, plus a foul.  Jerian had a total of 19 points, 6 assists, and 4 rebounds.  He didn't score until the last minute.  Grant did foul out, but the Irish kept on fighting.  In fact, Notre Dame linebacker, Manti Te'o, was at the game, and was spotted when Louisville was coming out of he tunnel for the second half.  Pat Connaughton led the Irish in rebounding and assists.  he had a total of 16 points, 7 assists, and 14 rebounds; a double-double.  The reason the Irish won this game was Garrick Sherman.  He had the tip-in in the fourth overtime to send the game into the fifth overtime.  Scoring 20 points to go along with 6 rebounds, Sherman is going to be a great part of Notre Dame.  Jack Cooley had a total of 11 points, 1 assists, and 11 rebounds.  Again, another double-double.  Chane Behanan led Louisville in points and rebounds, with 30 points, 15 rebounds, and 1 assist.  Gorgui Dieng had a team lead 5 assists to go along with 17 points and 13 boards.  Russ Smith took most of Louisville's last shots, but none of his shots fell in.  He had a total of 21 points, 3 assists, and 10 rebounds.  The final score would be 104-101 Notre Dame in a thriller.  One of the referees was a referee for two games in one day.  He was a referee in the Depaul and Marquette game.  The referee drove three hours to South Bend, Indiana.  The referee that was supposed to be there was caught up in the snowstorm affecting all of the Northeast.  This game was the longest in Big East history in the regular-season.  The longest ever in Big East history was in the Big East Tournament in Madison Square Garden.  The matchup was Syracuse and Uconn in the semifinals of the Big East Tournament.  It went into six overtimes, with Syracuse on top.  The Irish have been golden all year long.  The following picture is Garrick Sherman in an interview with ESPN about his late tip-in.

By Ameen I.

Weekend Alert

The NCAA has an exciting weekend ahead of them, with two of the top teams in the nation facing off. The (1) Indiana Hoosiers and the (10) Ohio State Buckeyes. The Buckeyes do have some trouble not relying on Deshaun Thomas to much. When they have a great point guard Aaron Craft. Thomas and Craft played exceedingly well against the Michigan Wolverines when Craft had 8 assists and 11 points. While Thomas had 17 points leading Ohio State. The Hoosiers also have a great team with a young guard, Yogi Ferrell who is a great facilitator and he might have some trouble against possibly the best on ball defender in the NCAA, Aaron Craft.

The NCAA also has the (25) Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the (11) Louisville Cardinals. The Cardinals have a point guard Russ Smith who is once again a top player for the Cardinals and he will be a large factor in Louisville's offense. As he averages 18.2 points per game and 2.2 steals per game. Also Peyton Siva has an average of 10.6 points per game and 6.1 assists per game. On the other hand the Fighting Irish have Jack Cooley their leading scorer with 14.8 points per game and Jarian Grant who has 5.6 assists per game to go with 12.7 points per game.

By David B.

Fighting Irish Can't Fight 'Cuse

The Syracuse Orange had a little battle of brothers of their own after the Harbaugh Bowl on Sunday. The 'Cuse's freshman starter Jerami Grant faced off against his brother Jerian Grant of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In the battle of points Jerian wins as he had 15 and Jeremi had a season high of 14 points.

The real weapon for the 'Cuse was C.J Fair who had 18 points and 10 rebounds. Fair also had great defense with 3 steals and 1 block. Plus, Micheal Carter-Williams contributed the way he always as he had 8 assists, but only 5 points. The Irish had plenty of Jack Cooley who had 10 points and 11 rebounds. He also had 3 blocks, but that wasn't even the most for a single player. It was Rakeem Christmas who had 4 blocks for the 'Cuse and Rakeem had 12 points.

The final score of this game would be Syracuse 63 and Notre Dame 47. The record for Syracuse is now 19-3 and Notre Dame's record is 18-5.

By David B.

Final Peeks

Get one last shot at seeing the Notre Dame Preview starting at 00:28 seconds. This is by the ACC Now. Also see information on departing Syracuse Coach, Doug Marrone. Youtube.com/ACCnow

BCS National Championship: Preview

Notre Dame has had an incredible undefeated season. They overcome hard tasks such as beating the number 6 ranked Stanford Cardinals. The Cardinals put up a great fight only losing 20-13 in OT, but Notre Dame fought just as hard until the end pulling off the win.

Notre Dame has the best defense in the whole division 1. Teams against the Fighting Irish average only 10.3 points per game, this is number 1. This defense also only allows 286 yards of total offense per game. One example of how great this defense is looking at Manti Te'o's stat sheet. Interceptions-7, Sacks-4, but one thing that isn't on the stat sheet is that he has heart. He inspires his team, he's like Ray Lewis in the locker room and in the huddle. Manti Te'o has proved what he can do in the huddle by inspiring this Notre Dame team to win games. In fact he lead them to win, ALL of them.

Then, there is this amazing offense the Alabama Crimson Tide. Lead by quarterback, AJ McCarron, he has the second highest QBR with 173.1. He is only behind Geogia's Aaron Murray. Now, McCarron has to have some good wide reciever to throw to. That is where Amari Cooper comes in he has 895 yards this season on only 53 receptions. Giving him an average of 16.9 yards a catch!

Predict the score in the comments!

 

               By David B.

Notre Dame Defense

As almost everybody knows that Notre Dame's defense is an impenetrable force. Does everybody know why? That's what I'm here to tell you.

Notre Dame only has giving up 1 touchdown for more than 20 yards. Meaning that Notre Dame simply doesn't give up big chunks of yards making harder to dig away at the defense and get points. Did you know that getting to the 20 yard line of the 76% touchdown prevention in the red zone Fighting Irish is like getting to your own 41 yard line against the average FBS team(40% TD prevention in red zone). Good luck Alabama Crimson Tide you are going to need it in the BCS Championship against this hard hitting, undefeated defense.

         By David B.