Georgetown, Notre Dame reportedly agree to home-and-home series

Old Big East foes Georgetown and Notre Dame have agreed to a home-and-home men’s basketball series, according to a report from college basketball insider Jon Rothstein.

The Fighting Irish will host the game this season while the Hoyas will host the matchup during the 2024-25 season.

Both programs have new head coaches this year. Ed Cooley was hired as the new head coach at Georgetown while Micah Shrewsberry took over this offseason as the leader of the Notre Dame program.

The two teams faced each other in the old Big East Conference before the original league disbanded after the 2012-13 season. The Hoyas stayed in the Big East while Notre Dame joined the ACC.

Neither program had a 2022-23 season to remember. Georgetown went 7-25 on the year, an ever-so-slight improvement on its 6-25 record the previous year. The program’s struggles led to the firing of head coach and program legend Patrick Ewing.

Notre Dame finished the season with a 11-21 record, the worst mark in the history of the program under Mike Brey. Brey announced he would leave the program at the end of the season, and he is now an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks.

Georgetown won the last matchup versus Notre Dame in 2013

Notre Dame and Georgetown last faced off on Jan. 21, 2013, at the Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Ind. Otto Porter Jr. led the way for the Hoyas with 19 points and nine rebounds as they won 63-47.

Georgetown led by as many as 22 points in the second half during the game, causing the home fans to be quiet.

“It was an eerie feeling to be out of it for the last ten minutes of the game in our home building,” former Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey said after the game. “It was creepy. It was eerie. It was not pleasant. It was very foreign territory for all of us, fans included. Unless we can get our gears going it could happen again in this league. Last I checked, we have a pretty meaty February schedule with who is yet to come through here.”

The first meeting of the two teams came on Jan. 5, 1948, when Notre Dame won 77-69 at home.

This year’s matchup will be the 30th between the two teams in history. Georgetown holds the current advantage with 16 wins and 13 losses. The Hoyas have a record of 8-5 at home and the Fighting Irish have an 8-6 record at home.