NCAA Tournament March Madness

#82 Notre Dame

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Projection: likely out

Notre Dame’s resume reads like a team with flashes but too many damaging defeats to feel secure, because its best moments — a neutral-site victory over Rutgers and true road wins at TCU and Stanford — demonstrate it can win away from home, yet those are outweighed by neutral losses to elite opponents and ugly conference setbacks such as the losses at Virginia Tech and North Carolina and the puzzling loss to a low major that a committee will not overlook. Home setbacks to programs like Clemson and Miami blunt the value of wins over Missouri and Boston College, and the narrow defeats at Ohio State and California only underscore inconsistency rather than elite upside. With the remainder of the schedule featuring a home date with Virginia, trips to Syracuse and Louisville and high-profile home games against Duke and NC State, Notre Dame still has clear opportunities to redefine its resume, but it must produce signature road or neutral victories and avoid more bad losses to move off the bubble.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3LIU Brooklyn216W89-67
11/7Detroit279W102-70
11/11E Illinois306W78-58
11/16@Ohio St39L64-63
11/19Bellarmine290W86-79
11/24(N)Kansas14L71-61
11/25(N)Rutgers160W68-63
11/26(N)Houston7L66-56
12/2Missouri56W76-71
12/5@TCU49W87-85
12/10Idaho193W80-65
12/13Evansville287W82-58
12/21PFW224L72-69
12/30@Stanford79W47-40
1/2@California63L72-71
1/10Clemson30L76-61
1/13Miami FL38L81-69
1/17@Virginia Tech57L89-76
1/21@North Carolina29L91-69
1/24Boston College147W68-64
1/27Virginia1624%
1/31@Syracuse7536%
2/4@Louisville1811%
2/7Florida St10368%
2/10@SMU3519%
2/14Georgia Tech13476%
2/21@Pittsburgh10146%
2/24Duke310%
2/28NC State2633%
3/4Stanford7960%
3/7@Boston College14760%