Newsstand: Notre Dame MBB to play San Diego tournament in 2024
Notre Dame men’s basketball will compete in a regular-season tournament in San Diego next season, the program announced Tuesday. The Irish will compete alongside Purdue, Arkansas and BYU in the Rady Children’s Invitational on Nov. 28-29, 2024, at LionTree Arena at UC San Diego.
“We are fired up to have these premier college basketball programs and institutions with amazing traditions and fan bases set to play in San Diego next year,” Sports San Diego (the organization that produces the tournament) Mark Neville said. “We are extremely proud of this 2024 field.”
Sports San Diego partners with Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego to put on the tournament.
Notre Dame leads BYU in the all-time series 5-3, and the Irish are 0-1 against Arkansas (71-61 loss in St. Louis in 1978). The Irish last faced Purdue in December 2020, and the Boilermakers won, 88-78.
Irish head coach Micah Shrewsberry could face his old team — he was a Purdue assistant from 2011-13 — in Year 2 of his tenure in South Bend.
Notre Dame tweets of the day
Javontae Jean-Baptiste: future NFL player, according to Marcus Freeman.
Irish guard Olivia Miles is a preseason honorable mention All-American, according to the Associated Press.
Post-bye week games have been kind to the Irish in the past 72 years.
Quote of the day
“He gives you time off, lets you get around your family and be a dad and do some things — we got to go evaluate [Irish Illustrated reporter Tim O’Malley]. I’ve never had that treatment like that, to be able to have the time off that we had off to be able to work, but also get away and go love our families, our kids. [We] kind of do some things that normal dads get to do. And that was refreshing and also pretty cool.”
— Notre Dame offensive coordinator Gerad Parker on how the bye week is different under Marcus Freeman.
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