NCAA Tournament March Madness

#92 Notre Dame

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Projection: likely out

Notre Dame’s résumé is defined more by competitive losses to high-end opponents than by a true marquee win, which helps explain the current projection. The Irish showed they could hang with elite company in a close road game at Ohio State and they tested blue-bloods in neutral-site meetings with Kansas and Houston, but their best victories are against the likes of Stanford and TCU on the road and Missouri at home and those results lack the heft of a signature scalp. That balance is worsened by a home blowout to Duke and damaging road setbacks at North Carolina and Louisville along with losses to Virginia and Miami, a pattern that reveals inconsistency in conference play and poor results away from home. With few remaining opportunities to add a resume-changing victory the clearest path back runs through a deep run in the league postseason, otherwise the mix of middling top wins and several bad losses leaves exclusion as the more likely outcome.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3LIU Brooklyn217W89-67
11/7Detroit222W102-70
11/11E Illinois324W78-58
11/16@Ohio St26L64-63
11/19Bellarmine278W86-79
11/24(N)Kansas19L71-61
11/25(N)Rutgers129W68-63
11/26(N)Houston6L66-56
12/2Missouri50W76-71
12/5@TCU44W87-85
12/10Idaho165W80-65
12/13Evansville307W82-58
12/21PFW261L72-69
12/30@Stanford59W47-40
1/2@California71L72-71
1/10Clemson38L76-61
1/13Miami FL29L81-69
1/17@Virginia Tech56L89-76
1/21@North Carolina30L91-69
1/24Boston College152W68-64
1/27Virginia20L100-97
1/31@Syracuse80L86-72
2/4@Louisville16L76-65
2/7Florida St65L82-79
2/10@SMU43L89-81
2/14Georgia Tech164W89-74
2/21@Pittsburgh99L73-68
2/24Duke1L100-56
2/28NC State36W96-90
3/4Stanford59L86-78
3/7@Boston College152L77-69