Men's Basketball: Irish prepare for Providence
An end-of-season trip to Providence could have been divined as an easy win to finish an 11-day road trip. Think again — after all, this is the Big East.
An end-of-season trip to Providence could have been divined as an easy win to finish an 11-day road trip. Think again — after all, this is the Big East.
Seeking to avoid back-to-back losses on the road, Notre Dame cruised past West Virginia Tuesday night in a 72-60 victory to close out its two-game road trip.
Freshman standout Nicole Zhang had an impressive showing for Notre Dame at the Central District Invitational at the River Wilderness Course in Parrish, Fla., while the No. 15 Irish took 11th place as a team, in a field of 15.
The biggest challenge for Notre Dame in the offseason isn't practice schedules or conditioning. It's the daunting South Bend winter weather — a challenge Notre Dame's southern competitors do not have to address.
Wins at No. 3 and No. 5 singles were not enough to lift the Belles in their season opener at Olivet Nazarene on Friday, when Saint Mary's fell to the Tigers, 7-2, in Park Forest, Ill.
The No. 15 Irish hoped to tee off the spring season with a quick start but instead find themselves tied with No. 13 Arkansas for 11th in a field of 15 after the first two rounds of the Central District Invitational at the River Wilderness Course in Palm Harbor, Fla.
Making their season debut at the annual Big East/Big Ten Challenge in St. Petersburg, Fla., the Irish dropped their opener to Michigan State on Friday before rattling off consecutive wins against Purdue on Saturday and Penn State on Sunday.
Saint Mary's closed a record-breaking regular season Saturday with a 77-65 win over Kalamazoo, winning its 18th game of the year for a new program record for single-season wins to surpass the 2008-09 team's mark of 17.
Despite a fifth-place finish at the MIAA championships last weekend, Saint Mary's left the
Four Notre Dame fencers traveled to Dallas, Texas, last week to compete in the United States Fencing Association Junior Olympics. Entering with high hopes, the Irish emerged with two top-10 finishes through Monday morning, as freshmen Mike Rossi and Abigail Nichols finished seventh and ninth in men's epee and women's sabre, respectively.
Making their season debut at the annual Big East/Big Ten Challenge in St. Petersburg, Fla., the Irish dropped their opener to Michigan State on Friday before rattling off consecutive wins against Purdue on Saturday and Penn State on Sunday.
No. 8 Notre Dame's second loss to Connecticut and the end of its nine-game win streak didn't sit well with the Irish. But they have the chance to take another step toward a second-place finish in the Big East when the Irish take on
Notre Dame fell to 1-2 on the season with its second straight loss to a nationally ranked opponent on Saturday. No. 2 Northwestern defeated the No. 10 Irish 14-11 in the Loftus Center behind three goals from sophomore Erin Fitzgerald and nine saves from junior goalkeeper Brianne LoManto, as the Wildcats continued to torment the Irish after knocking them out of the NCAA tournament last season.
Notre Dame's streak of Big East Championship dominance came to an end Saturday when the Irish finished the championship meet with 655.5 points, second to Louisville's 820.5.
In January, Connecticut's NCAA record 90-game winning streak had just been snapped, and the Irish were trying to give the Huskies their second loss in three games. The strong effort of the Huskies in the final two minutes led to a 79-76 victory in a heartbreaking defeat for Notre Dame.
The Notre Dame women's golf team will escape the wet and blustery weather of South Bend as they compete in the Central District Invitational. The tournament, hosted by Michigan State, will be held at the River Wilderness Country Club in Parrish, Fla., Monday and Tuesday.
The Irish failed to defend their 2010 Big East title this past weekend, placing second at the Big East Championships held in Akron, Ohio.
In a rematch of last season's national championship game, the No. 6 Irish dominated No. 5 Duke for a 12-7 victory in their season opener at the inaugural Sunshine Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., as the Notre Dame offense came to life in a big way in the fourth quarter.
No. 8 Notre Dame's seven-game winning streak came to a halt Saturday after the Irish's 72-58 loss to West Virginia.
For the second consecutive season, Notre Dame finished as the runner-up in the Big East championships behind Louisville, who hosted this year's tournament, as swimmers set six school records in the four-day event.