SMC Basketball: Belles earn No. 3 seed in playoffs
Saint Mary's earned the No. 3 seed in the MIAA playoffs and will play host to Albion in the first round.
Saint Mary's earned the No. 3 seed in the MIAA playoffs and will play host to Albion in the first round.
After a few months spent practicing in the Rolfs Golf Facility, the Irish are happy to be competing in the Central District Invitational in Parrish, Fla., in a two-day event at the River Wilderness Country Club. Notre Dame came out of Monday's competition in 11th after two rounds of play.
With a two-game losing streak hovering over its head, No. 7 Notre Dame finds itself in unfamiliar territory heading into the last week of the regular season. Fighting for a top seed in the Big East Championship, the Irish (23-3, 10-3 Big East) will have their first chance to exorcise their demons as they host Marquette tonight for Senior Night.
With the beginning of the 2010 season comes a number of firsts for the No. 3 Irish. Not only did they take down now-No. 8 Duke in the season opener, the first time the Irish have defeated a team that was ranked in the top two of the national polls in program history, but Notre Dame is also one of seven teams in the newly-formed and highly competitive Big East men's lacrosse league.
The Irish traveled to Hempstead, N.Y. for today's 3:30 p.m. clash at Hofstra to open their spring season. It will be the Pride's second match after opening the season with a 21-3 dismantling of Saint Mary's (Calif.).
Notre Dame last won its first three games of the season in 2004. This weekend the Irish did just that, by a combined score of 39-10.
Saint Mary's defeated conference foe Albion 62-47 for the first time since February 2007 and did so by a comfortable margin as the Belles closed out their regular season with a road victory, clinching the third seed in the conference tournament.
The Irish must be thinking they're trapped in the movie "Groundhog Day," because they keep playing the same game again and again.
The Irish dropped a tough match Saturday against No. 25 Washington by a score of 4-3.
After taking home the last two Big East championships, the Irish settled for second after Louisville prevailed Saturday at Trees Pool in Pittsburgh. Louisville finished with a score of 808 points. Notre Dame finished with 758 points, ahead of Pittsburgh with 535.
For the first time in program history, Notre Dame beat the top-ranked team in the country. No. 17 Notre Dame followed a 5-2 victory over Illinois Saturday with a 5-2 upset of No. 1 Northwestern Sunday.
In a program first, the No. 9 Irish beat a top-two team Saturday with an 11-7 victory over second-ranked Duke in the season opener.
Though the bad weather forced a cancellation of its last game, it didn't hinder Notre Dame's ability to win games this weekend and end the team's four-game losing streak at the Mizuno Classic in Hattiesburg, Miss.
With five individual titles and 15 all-Big East selections, the Irish men claimed the 2010 Indoor Big East championship this weekend for the fourth time in eight seasons. The women's squad also made an impressive showing, finishing sixth.
With a 76-66 loss at Georgetown Saturday, Notre Dame's second defeat in a row, the No. 4 Irish fell to fourth in the Big East, behind the No. 14 Hoyas.
The Irish men retained their lead in the overall standings at the Big East Championships in Pittsburgh Thursday.
After suffering their first loss of the season against North Carolina on Jan. 31, the Irish host Illinois Saturday and top-ranked Northwestern Sunday.
Saint Mary's concludes its regular season in an important conference battle at Albion Saturday.
With only two weekends left in the regular season and Notre Dame looking up from 10th place in the conference standings, the Irish are simply seeking momentum, beginning in a two-game series this weekend at Bowling Green.
The Irish head to Washington this weekend to close out their five-match road series as they take on the Huskies.