NCAA Tournament March Madness

#63 Notre Dame

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Projection: likely out

Notre Dame’s résumé is built on a few clear highs and some damaging lows: the road victory at TCU, the home win over Missouri and the neutral-site win over Rutgers demonstrate the team can beat quality opponents away from home and in neutral settings, while the neutral losses to Kansas and Houston and the tight defeat at Ohio State expose a tendency to come up short against upper-tier competition. Those good wins prove the program is capable of signature results but the bad losses create a credibility gap because they came when the team needed to show it could consistently beat top teams. The remaining slate presents obvious ways to close that gap with expected home results against Idaho, Evansville and PFW and important conference tests such as Clemson and Miami at home plus road chances at Stanford, California, North Carolina, Louisville and Duke where wins would erase the wobble and losses would leave the résumé light on the kind of sustained quality a committee rewards.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3LIU Brooklyn233W89-67
11/7Detroit310W102-70
11/11E Illinois330W78-58
11/16@Ohio St37L64-63
11/19Bellarmine283W86-79
11/24(N)Kansas18L71-61
11/25(N)Rutgers127W68-63
11/26(N)Houston8L66-56
12/2Missouri38W76-71
12/5@TCU53W87-85
12/10Idaho20992%
12/13Evansville29596%
12/21PFW25695%
12/30@Stanford8048%
1/2@California7142%
1/10Clemson2243%
1/13Miami FL3549%
1/17@Virginia Tech7243%
1/21@North Carolina2724%
1/24Boston College13884%
1/27Virginia1941%
1/31@Syracuse6239%
2/4@Louisville1415%
2/7Florida St9474%
2/10@SMU4232%
2/14Georgia Tech13382%
2/21@Pittsburgh9553%
2/24Duke419%
2/28NC State3448%
3/4Stanford8069%
3/7@Boston College13866%