Notre Dame men's basketball announces 2022-23 non-conference schedule
Notre Dame men’s basketball will begin the season with a home game-heavy non-conference schedule. The Irish will play five straight contests at Purcell Pavilion to open the season and eight of the first nine at home, they announced Monday when unveiling the full non-league slate.
The full 11-game out-of-conference schedule includes nine home dates and two neutral-site contests.
Notre Dame opens its season at home against Radford Nov. 10, followed by Youngstown State Nov. 13, Southern Indiana Nov. 16, Lipscomb Nov. 18 and Bowling Green Nov. 22. They leave South Bend for the first time to play St. Bonaventure Nov. 25 in Belmont Park, N.Y. That’s a neutral-site game and the headline matchup of the Gotham Classic.
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Notre Dame returns home to plays Michigan State Nov. 30 as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. It has a week off before hosting Boston University Dec. 7 and Marquette Dec. 11. The latter is the start of a home-and-home series that will end in Milwaukee next season. Marquette was originally scheduled to host the first leg, but the teams agreed to flip that order earlier this year.
The Irish are off for a week again before a Dec. 18 meeting with Georgia at State Farm Center in Atlanta. That’s part of the annual Holiday Hoopsgiving event. The final non-conference game is Dec. 27 against Jacksonville.
The ACC has yet to release its pairings and conference schedules for this season. Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey said earlier this month the Irish will play three conference games in December, though, an increase from the usual two. The annual road game at Georgia Tech is a logical choice to follow the matchup with Georgia. Notre Dame plays the Yellow Jackets and Boston College – its two protected ACC home-and-homes – twice each season.
Absent from the non-conference schedule, as expected, was the final game in a three-year series with Kentucky. It was supposed to be at a neutral site, but Brey and Wildcats coach John Calipari pushed it to a later date with the possibility it might not happen at all. The series began in 2020 with a 64-63 Irish win at Kentucky. Notre Dame also won last year’s matchup, 66-64 at Purcell Pavilion.
The Crossroads Classic doubleheader with Notre Dame, Purdue, Butler and Indiana also ended last season after 11 years.
Further away, Notre Dame has reportedly agreed to play in the 2023 Legends Classic in Brooklyn, N.Y., along with Auburn, Oklahoma State and St. Bonaventure. The Irish will play two of those teams.
