Newsstand: Former Notre Dame guard Cormac Ryan transfers to North Carolina
Former Notre Dame guard Cormac Ryan appears to have picked a lane for 2023-24. It will put him on a collision course with his old team.
Ryan committed to transfer to North Carolina Thursday for his sixth and final season of college basketball, he announced on his Instagram page. Staying in the ACC means he will face the Irish at least once next season. Neither team’s 2023-24 schedule has been released.
Ryan returning to Notre Dame for his final season felt like a long shot even before the Jan. 19 announcement that Mike Brey would step aside as head coach at the end of the year. The widely held expectation was that he would move on with the Irish’s five other fifth-year seniors. To professional basketball. To the next phase of his life. To another college stop. To somewhere else.
The change made his exit even more likely. It arrived March 24, two days after the Irish hired Micah Shrewsberry as head coach. Ryan gave himself multiple options when he decided to leave. He entered his name in the transfer portal and in the NBA Draft pool while keeping his college eligibility. North Carolina was interested from the beginning.
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The 6-foot-5, 196-pound Ryan averaged 12.3 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game this season. He shot 40.9 percent from the field, 34.4 percent on 3-pointers and 82.7 percent from the free throw line. He played three seasons for the Irish after sitting out 2019-20 as a transfer from Stanford. His most memorable performance was a 29-point explosion in Notre Dame’s 78-64 win over No. 6 seed Alabama in the first round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament.
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