Newsstand: Notre Dame men's basketball to face Butler in preseason action
Micah Shrewsberry‘s Notre Dame men’s basketball program will head a couple hours south to face the Butler Bulldogs in preseason action. The two Hoosier State programs will battle on Oct. 17. Tipoff time and television information are not available yet but will be announced at a later date.
For the 2026-27 season, the two teams will play in South Bend for an exhibition game as well.
Shrewsberry was an assistant on the Butler staff from 2007-2011, which included the Bulldogs’ runs to the 2010 and 2011 national championship games.
Below is notes on Notre Dame and Butler men’s hoops series, via the Bulldogs school website:
- Butler and Notre Dame have played 103 times previously in the regular season and postseason.
- The teams have not met since March 21, 2015 when Notre Dame posted a 67-64 overtime win in the NCAA Tournament Round of 32.
- The teams have not played on campus since Feb. 15, 1995, which was a 76-60 Butler win at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
- The first game played at Hinkle Fieldhouse featured Butler hosting Notre Dame March 7, 1928 (a 21-13 overtime win by the Bulldogs).
- Tony Hinkle’s final game as the head coach at Butler came against Notre Dame at Hinkle Fieldhouse Feb. 23, 1970 as a sold-out crowd of 15,000 fans were on hand. Austin Carr scored 50 points for the Fighting Irish in Notre Dame’s 121-114 win.
- Butler and Notre Dame first met Jan. 27, 1909.
- The only other meeting between the 1995 game at Hinkle and the 2015 NCAA Tournament game was a neutral-site contest as part of the NIT Season Tip-Off (Preseason NIT) at (then) Conseco Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis Nov. 13, 2006. Butler won that match-up, 71-69.
Notre Dame tweets of the day
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“Coach Marcus Freeman’s QB competition seemingly resolved itself in the spring as redshirt freshman CJ Carr seized control of the race, prompting veteran Steve Angeli to portal his way to Syracuse. [Jeremiyah] Love is a Heisman contender, TE Eli Raridon is poised for a breakout and former Virginia WR Malachi Fields arrives this summer.”
— The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel
