The third-seeded Red Raiders (26-9) take on 11th-seeded Notre Dame (24-10) at 4:10 p.m. (PT) in the NCAA Tournament Second Round at the Viejas Arena on the San Diego State University campus. Tech advanced in the West Region bracket with a 97-62 win over Montana State on Friday, while the Irish earned a 78-64 victory over Alabama on Friday in San Diego after an 89-87 double-overtime win over Rutgers on Wednesday night in Dayton, Ohio in a First Four matchup. The top defensive unit in the nation, the Red Raiders scored the most points of any team in the First Round of the tournament.
"We're so excited to make it through the first round," Texas Tech coach Mark Adams said. "Now we've got an opponent that's got a lot of experience, won a lot of games, a team that has a lot of momentum. They've won two games this last week and are playing with tremendous confidence. They have a great coach in Coach Brey. We have our hands full, but excited about the challenge."
TTU advanced to the second round for the fourth straight NCAA Tournament by setting a program record with the 35-point win and 97 points in a tournament game. The 97 points, 23 assists and 12 made 3-pointers were also all season-highs for the Red Raider offense which put up 52 points by halftime against the Bobcats. In the program's 19th NCAA Tournament, Tech is now 18-20 all-time in tournament play and is seeking its fifth trip to the Sweet 16 (1996, 2005, 2018, 2019). The win over Montana State also assures that the team will not have lost back-to-back games all season.
Notre Dame is 1-0 all-time against Tech with an 88-63 win back on December 6, 1976 in South Bend. Rick Bullock led the Red Raiders in that game with 20 points while Mark Adams was a student at Tech.
Bryson Williams leads the current rendition of the Red Raiders with 13.9 points per game this season after scoring 20 points against Montana State, while five players are averaging over 8.5 points per game with Terrence Shannon, Jr. (10.8), Davion Warren (9.9), Kevin Obanor (9.9), Kevin McCullar (9.7) and Adonis Arms (8.5). Tech had six players score in double figures in the opening round win over the Bobcats with Williams and Shannon both scoring 20, Arms at 15 and McCullar, Warren and Obanor both at 10 points. Obanor notched his 33rd career double-double and the 13th in program history with 11 rebounds and 10 points.
Tech remains at No. 1 in Kenpom.com defensive efficiency in a season where the Red Raiders are limiting opponents to only 60.4 points per game, are holding teams to 38.4 percent shooting and are forcing 16.1 turnovers per game. Warren leads the team with 52 steals with two more on Friday, while Marcus Santos-Silva has 26 blocks for the Red Raiders who have limited 15 opponents under 60 points and five under 50 this season. Tech is an experienced team with four players having scored over 1,000 points in their careers with Williams leading the way with 2,114 followed by Warren (1,942), Arms (1,678) and Santos-Silva (1,236). Shannon, who has played all three of his collegiate seasons at Tech, has 904 points for the most in a Red Raider uniform on this year's team.
TECH IN THE TOURNAMENT
The Red Raiders are now 9-3 over the past four tournaments which is the second most wins nationally with Gonzaga and Michigan tied for the most with 11 after first-round wins. Baylor, Houston and Duke each have eight during that span. After the 2020 tournament was canceled due to COVID, the program returned last season to advance to the 2021 NCAA Second Round after a win over Utah State before falling to Arkansas. Tech has now made the NCAA Tournament in 1954, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1973, 1976, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Tech matched the program record for their highest seeding and will look to continue program success in the tournament that had them reach the 2018 Elite 8 and the 2019 NCAA National Championship Final.
QUICK FACTS
Matchup: No. 11 Notre Dame (24-10) vs. No. 3 Texas Tech (26-9)
Location: San Diego, California
Venue: Viejas Arena
Tip: 12:45 p.m. (CST), Sunday
TV: TNT
TV Talent: Lisa Byington (play-by-play), Steve Smith and Avery Johnson (analyst), Lauren Shehadi (reporter)
Westwood One National Radio: Dave Pasch (play-by-play), PJ Carlesimo (analyst)
Radio (Texas Tech Sports Network): 97.3 Double T FM
Radio Talent: John Harris (play-by-play), Chris Level (analyst)
Series History: Notre Dame leads 1-0
POLL/STAT REPORT
Texas Tech is in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed in the West Region but also at No. 12 in the final Associated Press Top 25 and No. 11 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll that were released on Monday. The Red Raiders have now been ranked for 14 straight weeks after beginning the season as unranked team. Along the polls, Texas Tech remains at No. 1 in the Kenpom.com adjusted defensive efficiency rating and is now at No. 9 in the NCAA NET Rankings and overall in the Kenpom.com. Statistically, the Red Raiders are sixth nationally by limiting opponents to only 38.4 percent shooting and 11th with teams being limited to an average of 60.3 points per game. TTU held Iowa State to 41 points in the Big 12 Championship quarterfinals to establish a new program record against a Big 12 opponent for fewest points allowed. Tech has been ranked as high as No. 9 this season and has now entered the top-10 of the rankings in four of the past five seasons and has accomplished it this year by working their way up from beginning as an unranked team. Tech was not ranked for the first five weeks of the season before entering at No. 25 on December 13 following a win over Tennessee in the Jimmy V Classic. TTU spent four straight weeks at No. 25 before moving to No. 19, No. 18, No. 13, No. 14 and No. 9 in the national poll. Tech was at No. 14 last week before reaching the Big 12 Championship final for the second time in program history with a quarterfinal win over Iowa State and semifinal victory over Oklahoma. Tech fell to No. 6 Kansas last Saturday in the championship game in Kansas City.
Tech's highest AP ranking in program history came at No. 6 in February of 2018 (16th Week Poll) and the program spent one week at No. 7 last season before dipping back. The 2018-19 team was No. 8 in the final week of the regular season and No. 7 throughout the postseason that led to the 2019 National Championship Final.
MAKING HIS MARK
Adams has been named the Associated Press Big 12 Coach of the Year and has established the best record for a first-year Tech head coach with the 26-9 record. Bob Knight finished with a 23-9 in his first season (2001-02) for the previous best record by a coach leading the program in his first season. Adams and the Red Raiders have long since surpassed their win total from the past two seasons after going 18-11 (2020-21) and 18-13 (2019-20). The program record for wins came in the historic 2018-19 season where the team went 31-7 and advanced to the NCAA Championship Final. The win over Baylor at home on February 16 gave the program its 16th season with 20 or more wins.
2021-22 AWARDS / WATCH LISTS
Mark Adams: Associated Press Big 12 Coach of the Year; USBWA All-District Coach of the Year; Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List
Bryson Williams: All-Big 12 1st Team; Big 12 All-Newcomer Team; Associated Press All-Big 12 1st Team; Big 12 All-Tournament Team; USBWA All-District; NABC All-District; Big 12 Newcomer of Week (1/31, 2/21)
Kevin McCullar: All-Big 12 Honorable Mention; Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Semifinalist; Academic All-Big 12 (1st Team)
Kevin Obanor: All-Big 12 Honorable Mention; Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (1/24)
Adonis Arms: All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Terrence Shannon: Big 12 All-Tournament Team; Academic All-Big 12 (1st Team)
Marcus Santos-Silva: All-Big 12 Honorable Mention; Academic All-Big 12 (2nd Team)
Clarence Nadolny: Academic All-Big 12 (2nd Team)
RED RAIDER ROSTER REPORT
The Tech roster of 14 is made up of five returners, six NCAA Division I transfers, one junior college transfer, a walk-on who joined at midterm and one high school signee. An experienced team, the Red Raiders have four super seniors in Davion Warren, Bryson Williams, Marcus Santos-Silva and Adonis Arms and five players who are currently in graduate school in Kevin Obanor, Warren, Williams, Santos-Silva and Arms. The program has five players who have played over 100 games in their career in Obanor (121), Warren (154), Williams (156), Santos-Silva (161) and Arms (138).
Williams leads Tech with 13.9 points per game this season after going for 20 points on 8-for-10 shooting on Friday (4-for-5 on 3-pointers) in the win over Montana State in his first NCAA Tournament game. He matched a Tech program record by hitting four 3-pointers in the NCAA Tournament game which also matched his season-high. A fifth-year senior, he has earned All-Big 12 First Team, Big 12 All-Newcomer Team, Big 12 All-Tournament Team and NABC All-District honors. He was coming off a team high 17 points in the Big 12 Championship final against Kansas where he was 8-for-17 from the field. A starter in all 35 games who averaged 16.1 points per game in Big 12 play, Williams has now scored 2,114 points in his career with 487 coming this year in a Red Raider uniform. He has now scored in double figures in 26 games this season and in 105 in his career. He scored a season-high 33 points in the double-overtime loss at Kansas on January 24 where he was 14-for-19 from the field and 4 of 4 on 3-pointers and also scored 21 points on 8 of 9 shooting at TCU on February 26. He also dropped 17 points in the most recent nationally ranked wins over Texas and Baylor. He leads Tech by shooting 42.7 percent on 3-pointers (38-for-89), including going 22-for-52 (42.3 percent) in Big 12 games. Williams began his career with two seasons at Fresno State in his hometown before playing the past two at UTEP. He has played in 156 games in his career and has made 840 shots and come down with 892 career rebounds. Along with Williams, the Tech history book has Matt Mooney, Devaugntah Williams, Cory Carr and Jason Sasser with four 3-pointers in tournament games.
Shannon went off for 20 points and matched a career-high with six assists in the win over Montana State where he was 3-for-4 on 3-pointers and 7 of 8 from the free-throw line. Over the past five games, Shannon is now 11-for-18 on 3-pointers. He also led the Red Raiders last season with 20 points against Arkansas in a second round loss after scoring 10 points in the first round against Utah State. He has now scored in double figures in all three of his NCAA Tournament games. Last week in Kansas City, Shannon scored 15 points and had three steals in the Big 12 Championship quarterfinal win over Iowa State and then added 14 points in the championship final against Kansas where he was 3-for-4 on 3-pointers. He is averaging 10.8 points per game this season and has scored 904 points through 81 games in his Red Raider career. A junior from Chicago, Shannon is in his third season playing at Tech after he explored the NBA Draft process last summer before electing to return to Lubbock. He has 12 games in double-figure scoring through 24 games played this season, including a season-high 23 points in the home win over West Virginia where he hit three 3-pointers and was 6-for-7 at the free-throw line. Shannon also scored 20 points in the home win over TCU in the first matchup between the two teams this season by going 7-for-9 from the field with two 3-pointers. For his career, Shannon has made 299 shots including 71 3-pointers after going 6-for-9 from beyond the arc in the three Big 12 tournament games and then 3-for-4 on Friday. He was named to the All-Big 12 Third Team last season as a sophomore and was an All-Big 12 Preseason selection. Shannon has one double-double this season with 18 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Tennessee in the Jimmy V Classic after recording his first double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds last season at LSU in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. Shannon was named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team. After his 20 points against Iowa State, he has now led Tech in scoring seven times this season and 16 times in his career. Shannon is only the sixth Red Raider to have two or more 20-point performances in NCAA Tournament games along with Jarrett Culver, Ronald Ross, Jason Sasser, Harold Hudgens and Keenan Evans. Culver has the program record with 29 points in a first-round win over Northern Kentucky in 2019.
Obanor recorded his 33rd career double-double and fourth straight in NCAA Tournament play with 11 rebounds and 10 points in the win over Montana State. He has now scored in double figures in five straight games after leading Tech with 11 points in the semifinal win over OU and then also scoring 11 points against Kansas in the tournament final. He recorded three double-doubles in last year's NCAA Tournament while playing at Oral Roberts, including an opening-round game where he had 30 points and 11 rebounds against Ohio State. He also had 10 points and six rebounds in the quarterfinal win over Iowa State last Thursday after a 16/10 double-double at OSU in the regular-season finale. The double-double in Stillwater was his second double-double of the season and 32nd of his career. He has started all 35 games this season and is averaging 9.9 points and leads the team with 180 rebounds (5.1 per). His 11 rebounds in the NCAA Tournament First Round against the Bobcats led the team which was the ninth time this season he's been the team leader in rebounds in a game. Obanor also led Tech with 23 points and 13 rebounds in the home win over Baylor to record his first double-double of the season on February 16. A senior from Houston, Obanor is in his first season at Tech after playing three years at Oral Roberts where he was a two-time All-Summit League selection and was named to the NABC All-District team. He averaged 18.7 points and 9.6 rebounds last season as a junior and recorded three double-doubles in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. Obanor has recorded 18 double-figure scoring performances this season with his 23 against the Bears and 20 against Lamar being his season-highs. He leads Tech with 45 made 3-pointers this season with a season-best five 3-pointers in the home win over Texas. Against BU in his first double-double performance, Obanor was 4-for-7 on 3-pointers and is now 167-for-422 (39.6 percent) on 3-pointers through 121 career games. He comes into the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament with 1,651 points and 864 career rebounds.
Arms went for 15 points, five rebounds and three assists in the win over Montana State on Friday after he had eight rebounds and four assists in against KU in the Big 12 Championship final. A fifth-year senior in his first season at Tech, Arms earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection after playing last season at Winthrop where he played in one NCAA Tournament game – scoring 10 points in a loss to Villanova. He is currently averaging 8.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. His 93 assists leads the team after having 11 in three games at the Big 12 tournament and then three more on Friday in San Diego. Arms recorded his Big 12-highs in scoring with 15 points in the home win over Baylor and then also scoring 15 points at TCU. Arms has now scored 1,678 points in a career that includes two seasons at Mesa Community College (Arizona), one at Northwest Nazarene (Idaho) and last season at Winthrop. Arms is a Milwaukee native who moved to Arizona as a 12-year-old and has made his way up from junior college, NCAA DII to the Big 12. He had a season-high 16 points and seven assists in the win over Mississippi State by going 3-for-5 on 3-pointers in the Big 12/SEC Challenge and has 10 games with three or more assists – including a season-high seven assists against MSU in that same 16-point performance. Arms has started the last 15 games and in 23 of 35 this season.
McCullar contributed 10 points, four assists and two steals in the win over Montana State. He is currently leading the Red Raiders with 3.2 assists per game and is also at 9.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game. McCullar also scored 10 points last season in the 2021 NCAA Tournament First Round win over Uta State. He provided 11 points, three assists, three rebounds and two steals in the quarterfinal win over ISU before scoring eight points and leading Tech with five assists in the Big 12 Championship final against KU. An All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection, he has now scored in double figures in 15 games this season and in 33 in his career. McCullar has scored 645 points and has 346 rebounds through 76 games in his career. A junior from San Antonio who was a 2021 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection and was a Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Semifinalist (1 of 10), he's led Tech in scoring six times this season and 11 times in his career. Against the Longhorns in Lubbock, McCullar had a career-high 12 made free throws in a 12 of 15 display from the stripe. He is second on the Red Raiders with 87 total assists, including having three or more assists in 18 of 27 games played this season. McCullar scored a career-high 24 points in the non-conference portion of the season against Grambling and also went for 21 points against Arkansas State. McCullar is the only current player who was on the 2019 NCAA Final Four team where he was a redshirt freshman. He had enrolled at midterm after graduating high school early. He also has 149 assists, 107 steals and three double-doubles in his career going into the second round of NCAA Tournament. McCullar has scored in double figures in each of his three NCAA Tournament games with a high of 15 in the second round last season against Arkansas.
Warren went for 10 points in the win over Montana State where he also added two assists and two steals. A fifth-year senior from Buffalo, New York making his first trip to the NCAA Tournament, Warren leads Tech with 52 steals this season with six games of three steals or more. He swiped a season-high four steals against K-State in the home finale on February 28 where also scored a season-high 23 points in the win before turning 23-years-old the next day. His 23 points against the Wildcats came with him going 9-for-11 from the field with two 3-pointers. He also led Tech in scoring after going for 16 points in the win over Oklahoma on February 22 where he was 7-for-9 from the field. A starter in 33 games this season, Warren played as a reserve for the first time this season in the Big 12 Championship final last Saturday and then again against Montana State. He is averaging 9.9 points per game and has scored in double figures in 19 games. He scored a previous season-high 19 points in the second game of the season against Grambling and finished Big 12 play averaging 9.6 points per game. Warren is in his first and final year at Tech after playing two seasons at Olney Central College and the past two at Hampton. He was the nation's 13th best scorer last season after averaging 21.2 points per game at Hampton. Warren is currently at 1,942 career points when combining junior college, Hampton and 347 points this season. He comes into his first NCAA Tournament third on Tech's roster with 58 assists, including a season-high five assists at Kansas and in the season-opener against North Florida way back on November 9, 2021. Warren is currently 126-for-272 from the field this season with 28 3-pointers.
Santos-Silva earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection and came into the NCAA Tournament off a game against Kansas in the Big 12 Championship final where he had eight points, six rebounds, two blocks and two steals. He had two points and two blocks in the win over Montana State. Santos-Silva is averaging 4.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game and leads the Red Raiders with 26 blocked shots after having six in four games so far in the postseason. He recorded his first double-double of the season and 13th of his career by going for 10 points and 10 rebounds in the first win over Oklahoma State on Jan. 13 in Lubbock. A super senior from Taunton, Massachusetts who played three seasons at VCU, he has produced 1,236 points, 150 blocks and 952 rebounds through his team-high 161 games in his collegiate career. Santos-Silva had a season-high of 12 rebounds coming in the win over Lamar and 13 points in the opener against North Florida. Santos-Silva has 27 games in his career with double-digit rebounds after his 10 against OSU and has 11 games with four or more rebounds this season. He currently has 376 offensive rebounds in his career. Santos-Silva started all 29 games for Tech last season and had played a reserve role in 33 of 35 this season with a start coming on senior night against K-State. He has 13 double-doubles in his career, including going for 26 points and 22 rebounds in a win over Rhode Island while playing at VCU. He is currently 71-for-120 (55.4 percent) from the field this season and 509-for-898 (56.7 percent) for his career. Santos-Silva, who has a bachelor's degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness from VCU, was named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team as a graduate student at Tech. He was also an Atlantic 10 All-Academic selection before transferring.
Tech's bench is strong with talent in Mylik Wilson, Daniel Batcho, Clarence Nadolny, Chibuzo Agbo and KJ Allen who are poised to make impacts whenever they get on the court. Nadolny did not play against Montana State as a precaution to an injury, but has scored 14 points off the bench in the win at Texas in 20 minutes of play in Austin and a career-high 17 points in the win over No. 6 Kansas in Lawrence by going 6 of 13 from the field in 34 minutes of play on his resume. Nadolny is averaging 3.7 points, 1.0 assists and 1.0 steals per game. Nadolny had made three straight starts to open Big 12 before playing the past 17 back as a reserve. He finished Big 12 play with 4.6 points and was second on the team with 20 steals in conference play. Nadolny scored in double figures for the second time in his career against Baylor in Waco where he went for 11 points on 5-for-6 shooting. A junior from France, Nadolny is in his third season at Tech and has played in 79 games – getting his first start of his career in the conference opener at Iowa State. He had a career-high four steals in the loss at Iowa State where he also had nine points. Nadolny missed the first three games of the season due to off-season hip surgery but has played in all 31 since.
Wilson had two points and two steals in the win over Montana State where he also threw down a 360 dunk in the final minute that was called off due to a travelling violation being called. It will live on despite whistle. Prior to the NCAA Tournament, he matched a season-high with three blocked shots against K-State in the home finale, including rejecting a 3-point attempt by Nijel Pack with 13 seconds remaining to try and tie the game. He now has 17 blocks this season and 60 in his career. A transfer from Louisiana, he currently has 221 assists after three against KU in the tournament finals, 750 points and 363 rebounds through 85 games played in his collegiate career. He scored a season-high 12 points against Mississippi State where he was 6 of 6 from the free-throw line. Wilson, who had a season-high four steals against UT in Lubbock and had five rebounds against the Longhorns in Austin, missed five games after minor knee surgery but has now played 21 in a row – returning to lead Tech with five assists in the win over Kansas on January 8 in his first game back. He is at 2.7 points and 1.8 rebounds in 30 games played. Wilson started five of the first six games of the season and had a season-high seven assists in the opener against North Florida. He scored a career-high 30 points two seasons ago while at Louisiana in a game at Appalachian State on January 6, 2020.
Batcho is a freshman from Paris, France who transferred from Arizona where he redshirted last season before deciding to transfer while Agbo is a sophomore who has played in 45 games as a Red Raider. Batcho recorded a career-high four blocks at WVU where he also had six points and three rebounds in 13 minutes of play and secured a career-high 11 rebounds in the win over Tennessee in the Jimmy V Classic win. He had four rebounds in the win over Montana State on Friday in 14:47 of play. Batcho also had 10 rebounds and scored six points in the win over Omaha after producing eight rebounds and eight points against Incarnate Word in his breakout game at Tech. The tallest Red Raider at 6-foot-11, Batcho is averaging 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 points per game. Agbo scored a career-high eight points in the win over Montana State where he was 2-for-2 on 3-pointers and 3 of 3 from the field in six minutes of play. A San Diego native, Agbo's homecoming topped his previous season-high of seven points against Omaha earlier this season after he had six points in the 2021 NCAA Tournament against Arkansas where he hit two second-half 3-pointers in the second-round matchup. Allen is in his first season at Tech after transferring from East Los Angeles College where he averaged 18.5 points and 9.3 rebounds, had 11 double-doubles and starred in the Netflix series Last Chance U: Basketball during his freshman season of 2019-20. Allen recorded career-high eight rebounds and matched a season-best with six points against K-State in the home finale. Three of his eight rebounds against KSU were on the offensive end of the court to give him 12 offensive rebounds this season. He is averaging 2.1 points and 1.9 rebounds per game this season in 19 games played after playing for 3:38 in the first round of the tournament.
A true freshman from Lubbock, Ethan Duncan is redshirting this season after suffering an off-season shoulder injury that required surgery. Austin Timperman made his debut against EWU after becoming eligible at midterm. A walk-on from The Woodlands, Timperman transferred to Tech as a student last year after being in UTSA's team during the 2019-20 season where he played in six games. Sardaar Calhoun entered the transfer portal on Jan. 11 and is no longer with the team. At midyear, Tech added Jaylon Tyson to the roster after he decided to transfer from the University of Texas. Tyson will be able to practice with the team, but is not eligible to play until the 2022-23 season.
NOTRE DAME REPORT
Notre Dame enters the game coming off an 89-87 double-overtime win over Rutgers in the First Four and a 78-64 win over Alabama in Friday's matchup to improve to 24-10 on the season. The Fighting Irish are led by freshman guard Blake Wesley who is averaging 14.5 points per game. An All-ACC Second Team and All-ACC Freshman Team member, Wesley is the only true freshman in the country with 450 points, 100 rebounds, 75 assists, 50 made three-pointers and 40 steals. Senior guard Dane Goodwin is second on the team in scoring putting up 13.6 points per game. The All-ACC Third Team honoree, Goodwin was the only player in the nation to shoot 50 percent from the field, 44 percent from three, 84 percent from the free-throw line while averaging over 13 points per game. The third-leading scorer for the Fighting Irish is graduate senior forward Paul Atkinson Jr. who is averaging 12.6 points per game. The All-ACC Honorable Mention and Yale transfer, Atkinson Jr. also leads the team in rebounding averaging 7 per game and blocks with 21. Atkinson Jr. led all scorers in their win over Rutgers with 26 points including the game-winning bucket with 1.4 seconds left. Senior guards Prentiss Hubb and Cormac Ryan fill out the rest of the starting five for Notre Dame. Hubb and Ryan also average over 8 points per game putting up 8.9 and 9.2, respectively. Ryan led all scorers in Friday's game win over Alabama putting up 29 points including seven threes. The senior guards combine for 8 rebounds and Hubb leads the team in assists with 137, averaging 4 per game. Senior role players Nate Laszewski and Trey Wertz are the first, and usually only, guys off the bench for the Fighting Irish. Running a seven-man rotation, both Werz and Laszewski average over 18 minutes per game and combine for 13.5 points per game. Laszewski, a big man, is second on the team in rebounds averaging 6.6 per game. Six of the seven regular players for Notre Dame average over eight points per game, Wertz's 4.0 is the lowest on the team.
Head coach Mike Brey is in his 22nd season with Notre Dame, making the tournament for the 13th time under his tenure. The Fighting Irish are 15-12 in the tournament under Brey with their last two wins. This is Notre Dame's first NCAA Tournament appearance since the 2016-17 season where they lost in the round of 32 to West Virginia. Notre Dame finished third in the ACC standings posting a 22-10 (15-5) regular-season record. Notre Dame is 1-0 all-time against the Red Raiders with their last matchup coming in 1975 when the Fighting Irish won 88-63.
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