Three-star guard Braeden Shrewsberry confirms he will play for dad at Notre Dame
Micah Shrewsberry gestured to the Purcell Pavilion court and the stands around him in his introductory press conference and called it one of his sons’ next stop. The expectation from the moment he was hired as Notre Dame head coach was that his oldest son, Braeden Shrewsberry would follow him. He all but confirmed that was the plan just minutes into his March 30 introduction.
“Braeden, future home here, gets a chance to get up and shoots some threes here,” Shrewsberry said.
It’s now official. Braeden will play for his father at Notre Dame, he announced Monday on social media. He’s a three-star guard from State College Area (Pa.) High School and originally signed with Penn State when his dad was the Nittany Lions’ head coach. Notre Dame hired the elder Shrewsberry March 22. Braeden requested and was granted his release in the following days.
The 6-foot-2, 170-pound Shrewsberry is the No. 222 overall player and No. 50 shooting guard in the 2023 On3 Industry Ranking. He also had offers from Xavier, George Washington and St. Joseph’s. He originally committed to Penn State in November 2021, right as his father began his first season as the team’s head coach. He played his first two years of high school basketball for West Lafayette (Ind.) while Micah was an assistant at Purdue.
Shrewsberry averaged 17.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.1 steals per game as a senior at State College Area. He averaged 20.8 points per game as a junior in 2021-22. He played AAU ball for adidas-sponsored program Indiana Elite.
Notre Dame has six scholarship players after adding Shrewsberry. He joins Mishawaka (Ind.) Penn three-star guard Markus Burton as the Irish’s second incoming freshman. Burton signed with the program in November when Mike Brey was the head coach and stuck with his pledge through the coaching change.
The Irish return senior forward Matt Zona, senior guard Tony Sanders Jr. and junior guard JR Konieczny. Their lone transfer addition so far is former Northwestern guard Julian Roper II.
Notre Dame has lost five players to the transfer portal since the end of the season: freshman guard JJ Starling, freshman forward Dom Campbell, freshman forward Ven-Allen Lubin, fifth-year guard Robby Carmody and fifth-year guard Cormac Ryan. Starling (Syracuse), Campbell (Howard), Ryan (North Carolina) and Carmody (Mercer) have chosen new destinations.
Penn State had three 2023 signees before Micah Shrewsberry left: Braeden Shrewsberry, Zionsville (Ind.) three-star guard Logan Imes and Wolfeboro (N.H.) Brewster Academy four-star forward Carey Booth. Imes and Booth were also released from their letters of intent, and Notre Dame is recruiting both. The former was Shrewsberry’s AAU teammate.
