What to know about Notre Dame men’s basketball vs. North Dakota
Notre Dame men’s basketball crossed the 80-point threshold three times last season. The Irish have done that in all three games so far this year.
Under second-year head coach Micah Shrewsberry, Notre Dame is 3-0 after passing its first road test with flying colors. The Irish beat Georgetown 84-63, and they’ll look to make it four in a row Tuesday night against North Dakota.
The offensive firepower, as Shrewsberry stressed throughout the offseason, is no accident. But the Irish have also kept their defensive identity.
“Last year, all of our time was spent on becoming a good defensive team, because I thought that was the only way we could hang in the games, the only game we could stick around,” Shrewsberry said after the win over Georgetown. “We had to make it a game in the mud, try to score in the 60s and play in the 60s.
“As we’ve gotten better offensively, our defense hasn’t shifted at all. We want to play in the 80s. We want to hold you in the 60s.”
Shrewsberry and company have two more tune-ups this week before their first two ranked games of the season in Las Vegas, where they’ll face No. 24 Rutgers and No. 7 Houston. Here’s everything you need to know about the first one.
Notre Dame vs. South Dakota game information
- Teams: Notre Dame (3-0, 0-0 ACC) vs. North Dakota (2-1, 0-0 Summit League)
- Time: 7 p.m. ET
- Date: Tuesday, Nov. 19
- Location: Purcell Pavilion in South Bend
- Streaming: ACC Network Extra
- Radio: 960 WSBT-AM in South Bend
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• North Dakota was picked sixth (out of nine teams) in the Summit League despite finishing second to South Dakota State last season.
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• Through three games, the Fighting Hawks’ star has been 6-foot-6 junior guard Treysen Eaglestaff. Eaglestaff is averaging 27.3 minutes and 20.0 points per game, both of which are team highs by a significant margin.
• In their lone matchup against a high major (or at least high major-adjacent, depending on what you think of the Mountain West), North Dakota lost 82-56 at Colorado State.
• Notre Dame’s “big three” of sophomore guards Markus Burton and Braeden Shrewsberry and junior forward Tae Davis are off to terrific starts, but the three graduate transfer additions made the difference in Washington, D.C.
• Guard Matt Allocco led the Irish with 17 points and 4 three-point field goals, while forward Burke Chebuhar scored 9 — all from beyond the arc — in just 10 minutes. In 15 minutes, forward Nikita Konstantynovskyi totaled 8 points and 8 rebounds, including a team-high 3 on the offensive glass.
“I thought when those two guys got in, they really settled us,” Shrewsberry said, referencing Chebuhar and Konstantynovskyi. “We use our bigs as ball-handlers, as passers, everything else. To have two fifth-year seniors come in, they weren’t shook by the pressure. And that’s when we started really taking the lead out a little bit.”
