Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball

Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
	2025–26 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team
University	University of Notre Dame
First season	1896–97; 130 years ago
Athletic director	Pete Bevacqua
Head coach	Micah Shrewsberry ; 3rd season, 41–56 (.423)
Location	Notre Dame, Indiana
Arena	Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center ; (capacity: 9,149)
NCAA division	Division I
Conference	ACC
Nickname	Fighting Irish
Colors	Blue and gold;
All-time record	1,989–1,144–1 (.635)
NCAA tournament record	40–41 (.494)
NCAA Division I tournament Final Four
	1978
Elite Eight	1953, 1954, 1958, 1978, 1979, 2015, 2016
Other NCAA Division I tournament results
Elite Eight	1953, 1954, 1958, 1978, 1979, 2015, 2016
Sweet Sixteen	1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1987, 2003, 2015, 2016
Appearances	1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022
Pre-tournament Helms national champions
	1926–27, 1935–36
Conference tournament champions
	ACC: 2015
Conference division champions
	Big East West: 2001
Uniforms

UniversityUniversity of Notre Dame

First season1896–97; 130 years ago

Athletic directorPete Bevacqua

Head coachMicah Shrewsberry
3rd season, 41–56 (.423)

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of NCAA Division I. On September 12, 2012, Notre Dame announced they would be moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference; they joined the conference on July 1, 2013.

The school holds two retroactively awarded national championships in basketball from the Helms Foundation: for the 1927 (19–1 overall record) and 1936 (22–2–1 overall record) seasons.^[2] They have also played in the NCAA tournament 37 times, good for 9th all time,^[3] and reached the Final Four in 1978. The Irish hold the record for most Tournament appearances without a championship or championship game appearance, one of five teams (along with Texas, Temple, Illinois and Oklahoma) to have 30 or more appearances without a title and one of three teams (along with Texas and Temple) to have more than 30 appearances without either. They are also the first Big East team to go undefeated at home two straight seasons.^[4]

The Fighting Irish play their home games in the Purcell Pavilion at the Edmund P. Joyce Center. Since moving to the Purcell Pavilion in 1968, they have had 44 winning seasons, including 5 in which they were undefeated at home (1973, 1985, 2006, 2007, and 2010). Jeff Sagarin and ESPN listed the program 12th in the college basketball all-time rankings in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia.^[5] The Fighting Irish are currently coached by Micah Shrewsberry.

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Year	Seed	Round	Opponent	Result
1953		First Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	Eastern Kentucky Penn Indiana	W 77–57 W 69–57 L 66–79
1954		First Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	Loyola (LA) Indiana Penn State	W 80–70 W 65–64 L 63–71
1957		First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game	Miami (OH) Michigan State Pittsburgh	W 89–77 L 83–85 W 86–85
1958		First Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	Tennessee Tech Indiana Kentucky	W 94–61 W 94–87 L 56–89
1960		First Round	Ohio	L 66–74
1963		First Round	Bowling Green	L 72–77
1965		First Round	Houston	L 98–99
1969		First Round	Miami (OH)	L 60–63
1970		First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game	Ohio Kentucky Iowa	W 112–82 L 99–109 L 106–121
1971		First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game	TCU Drake Houston	W 102–94 L 72–79^OT L 106–119
1974		First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game	Austin Peay Michigan Vanderbilt	W 108–66 L 68–77 W 118–88
1975		First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game	Kansas Maryland Cincinnati	W 77–71 L 71–83 L 87–95
1976		First Round Sweet Sixteen	Cincinnati Michigan	W 79–78 L 76–80
1977		First Round Sweet Sixteen	Hofstra North Carolina	W 90–83 L 77–79
1978		First Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National 3rd Place Game	Houston Utah DePaul Duke Arkansas	W 100–77 W 69–56 W 84–64 L 86–90 L 69–71
1979	#1	Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	#8 Tennessee #5 Toledo #2 Michigan State	W 73–67 W 79–71 L 68–80
1980	#4	Second Round	#5 Missouri	L 84–87^OT
1981	#2	Second Round Sweet Sixteen	#10 James Madison #6 BYU	W 54–45 L 50–51
1985	#7	First Round Second Round	#10 Oregon State #2 North Carolina	W 79–70 L 58–60
1986	#3	First Round	#14 Arkansas–Little Rock	L 83–90
1987	#5	First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen	#12 Middle Tennessee #4 TCU #1 North Carolina	W 84–71 W 58–57 L 68–74
1988	#10	First Round	#7 SMU	L 75–83
1989	#9	First Round Second Round	#8 Vanderbilt #1 Georgetown	W 81–65 L 74–81
1990	#10	First Round	#7 Virginia	L 67–75
2001	#6	First Round Second Round	#11 Xavier #3 Ole Miss	W 83–71 L 56–59
2002	#8	First Round Second Round	#9 Charlotte #1 Duke	W 82–63 L 77–84
2003	#5	First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen	#12 Milwaukee #4 Illinois #1 Arizona	W 70–69 W 68–60 L 71–88
2007	#6	First Round	#11 Winthrop	L 64–74
2008	#5	First Round Second Round	#12 George Mason #4 Washington State	W 68–50 L 41–61
2010	#6	First Round	#11 Old Dominion	L 50–51
2011	#2	Second Round Third Round	#15 Akron #10 Florida State	W 69–56 L 57–71
2012	#7	Second Round	#10 Xavier	L 63–67
2013	#7	Second Round	#10 Iowa State	L 58–76
2015	#3	Second Round Third Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	#14 Northeastern #6 Butler #7 Wichita State #1 Kentucky	W 69–65 W 67–64^OT W 81–70 L 66–68
2016	#6	First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	#11 Michigan #14 Stephen F. Austin #7 Wisconsin #1 North Carolina	W 70–63 W 76–75 W 61–56 L 74–88
2017	#5	First Round Second Round	#12 Princeton #4 West Virginia	W 60–58 L 71–83
2022	#11	First Four First Round Second Round	#11 Rutgers #6 Alabama #3 Texas Tech	W 89–87 ^2OT W 78–64 L 53–59

Rank	Player	Year	Opponent	Points
1.	Austin Carr	1970	Ohio	61
T-4.	Austin Carr	1970	Kentucky	52
T-4.	Austin Carr	1971	TCU	52
9.	Austin Carr	1971	Houston	47
T-11.	Austin Carr	1970	Iowa	45

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1968	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals 3rd Place Game	Army Long Island Dayton Saint Peter's	W 62–58 W 62–60 L 74–76 W 81–78
1973	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final	USC Louisville North Carolina Virginia Tech	W 69–65 W 79–71 W 78–71 L 91–92
1983	First Round	Northwestern	L 57–71
1984	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final	Old Dominion Boston College Pittsburgh Southwestern Louisiana Michigan	W 67–62 W 66–52 W 72–64 W 65–59 L 63–83
1992	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final	Western Michigan Kansas State Manhattan Utah Virginia	W 63–56 W 64–48 W 74–58 W 58–55 L 76–81 OT
1997	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Oral Roberts TCU Michigan	W 74–58 W 82–72 L 66–67
2000	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final	Michigan Xavier BYU Penn State Wake Forest	W 75–65 W 76–64 W 64–52 W 73–52 L 61–71
2004	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Purdue Saint Louis Oregon	W 71–59 W 77–66 L 61–65
2005	First Round	Holy Cross	L 73–78
2006	First Round Second Round	Vanderbilt Michigan	W 79–69 L 84–87
2009	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals	UAB New Mexico Kentucky Penn State	W 70–64 W 70–68 W 77–67 L 59–67
2018	First Round Second Round	Hampton Penn State	W 84–63 L 63–73

Tradition^[3]	Number^[3]	National Rank^[3]
All-time NCAA Tournament bids	36	9th
All-time NCAA Tournament wins	38	T–24th
All-time wins	1,866	8th
All-time winning percentage	.649	12th

Date	Opponent	Score	Streak before ND loss
February 2, 1948	#1 Kentucky	64–55	11^[8]
March 1, 1948	NYU	64–59
March 12, 1954	#1 Indiana^[a]	65–64	2^[9]
January 23, 1971	#1 UCLA^[b]	89–82	19^[10]
January 19, 1974	#1 UCLA^[b]	71–70	88
March 5, 1977	#1 San Francisco	93–82	29
February 26, 1978	#1 Marquette	65–59	5^[11]
February 27, 1980	#1 DePaul	76–74 (2OT)	26^[12]
December 27, 1980	#1 Kentucky^[c]	67–61	7^[13]
February 22, 1981	#1 Virginia	57–56	28^[14]
February 1, 1987	#1 North Carolina	60–58	16^[15]
February 8, 2005	#4 Boston College	68–65	20^[16]
January 21, 2012	#1 Syracuse	67–58	20^[17]
February 6, 2016	#1 North Carolina^[d]	80–76	0^[18]
November 22, 2017	#6 Wichita State^[e]	67–66	4^[19]

Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball

Postseason

NCAA tournament results

NCAA tournament seeding history

NIT results

Traditions

Accomplishments

National Championships

Upsets of Number 1's and unbeatens

Coaches

Current coaching staff

All-time coaching records

Players

Current roster

ACC and Big East Awards

Conference Coach of the Year

Conference Player of the Year

Conference Rookie of the Year

Conference Most Improved Player

ACC Tournament MVP

Conference All-Tournament First Team

ACC All-Tournament Second Team

All-Conference First Team

All-Conference Second Team

All-Conference Third Team

All-Conference Honorable Mention

Conference All-Rookie/All-Freshman Team

National awards

Coaching awards

Player awards

Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

Fighting Irish currently in the NBA

Fighting Irish currently in other leagues

See also

References

External links

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Tenure	Name	Years	Record	Pct.
1896–1897	Unknown	1	2–1	.667
1897–1898	Frank E. Hering	1	1–2	.333
1898–1899	J. Fred Powers	1	2–0	1.000
1907–1912	Bertram Maris	5	78–20	.796
1912–1913	Bill Nelson	1	13–2	.867
1913–1918	Jesse Harper	5	44–20	.688
1918–1920	Gus Dorais	2	7–23	.233
1920–1923	Walter Halas	3	25–39	.391
1923–1943	George Keogan	20	327–97–1	.771
1943–1944, 1946–1951	Moose Krause	6	98–48	.671
1944–1945	Clem Crowe	1	15–5	.750
1945–1946	Elmer Ripley	1	17–4	.810
1951–1964	John Jordan	13	199–131	.603
1964–1971	John Dee	7	116–80	.592
1971–1991	Digger Phelps	20	393–197	.666
1991–1999	John MacLeod	8	106–124	.461
1999–2000	Matt Doherty	1	22–15	.595
2000–2023	Mike Brey	23	483–280	.633
2023–present	Micah Shrewsberry	3	41–56	.423
Totals	19 coaches	122 seasons	1989–1144–1	.635

v t e Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
Venues	Notre Dame Fieldhouse (1898–1968) Joyce Center (1968–present)
Rivalries	UCLA
Culture & lore	Notre Dame Leprechaun Crossroads Classic
People	Head coaches Statistical leaders
Seasons	List of seasons 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1907 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26
Helms national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearance in italics

v t e Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball
Current teams	Boston College Eagles California Golden Bears Clemson Tigers Duke Blue Devils Florida State Seminoles Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Louisville Cardinals Miami Hurricanes NC State Wolfpack North Carolina Tar Heels Notre Dame Fighting Irish Pittsburgh Panthers SMU Mustangs Stanford Cardinal Syracuse Orange Virginia Cavaliers Virginia Tech Hokies Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Championships & awards	Regular season champions ACC tournament Coach of the Year Player of the Year Rookie of the Year All-ACC 50th Anniversary Team
Conference challenges	ACC–SEC Challenge (2023–present) ACC–Big Ten Challenge (1999–2022)
Seasons	1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26