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Newsstand: Syracuse men’s basketball transfer to have in-home visit with Notre Dame

IMG_9992by: Tyler Horka04/06/23tbhorka
Joseph Girard, Syracuse Orange guard
Joseph Girard (Icon Sportswire / Getty Images)

Notre Dame men’s basketball has some roster reconstruction to do under new head coach Micah Shrewsberry. The Irish could bolster one of the many open scholarship spots with a transfer from Syracuse.

According to Jon Rothstein, Joseph Girard III will host Irish coaches for an in-home recruiting visit. Girard will also visit with Clemson and BYU, per Rothstein. Today marks the end of a dead period in men’s basketball recruiting. Coaches can have in-person contact with recruits from now through April 9. There is another dead period from April 10-13, but it opens back up between April 4 and May 17.

In four years at Syracuse, Girard averaged 13.2 points, 3.6 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game. He started in 123 of 125 appearances. As a senior this past season, he averaged a career-best 16.4 points per game on a career-best 40.3 percent shooting. He hit 38.1 percent of his shots from three-point range and 85.7 percent of his free throws.

There are only five scholarship players (Matt Zona, Tony Sanders Jr., JR Konieczny, Ven-Allen Lubin and incoming freshman Markus Burton) on the Irish roster going into 2023-24 because of a mass exodus to the portal. Shrewsberry needs a heavy haul from the transfer market. Bringing in a sharpshooter like Girard would be a good start.

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