2017-2018 Notre Dame Men's Basketball

[Irish YJ]

Folks may be falling off the "Fence" which is good. Most of the "In for Now" is probably still in. Baylor just made a statement and probably moves up.

StBon and Davidson in OT.
BSt and SDSt just started.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Folks may be falling off the "Fence" which is good. Most of the "In for Now" is probably still in. Baylor just made a statement and probably moves up.

StBon and Davidson in OT.
BSt and SDSt just started.

On the fence losses are good then they can get out of the way for us to move up

 

[Irish YJ]

On tap for tonight... all road games.

In for now
TEAM RPI SOS NEXT GAME
BUTLER (19-10) 35 20 WED, 9:00pm ET @ St. John's
FLORIDA ST. (19-9) 48 75 WED, 9:00pm ET @ Clemson
TEXAS A&M (18-11) 26 7 WED, 8:30pm ET @ Georgia


On the fence
TEAM RPI SOS NEXT GAME
PROVIDENCE (18-11) 43 23 WED, 6:30pm ET @ Xavier
SYRACUSE (18-11) 46 15 WED, 9:00pm ET @ Boston College

 

[NDGOLDEN]

San Diego st beat Boise last night so that’s another big one.

 

[RDU Irish]

BC would be a pretty brutal loss for Syracuse - I still can't root for BC though.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

BC would be a pretty brutal loss for Syracuse - I still can't root for BC though.

Haha as much as I don’t want to either unfortunately their defiantly out so we need cuse to lose. The way it looks it looks like we will end up the 10 seed

 

[irishfan]

Haha as much as I don’t want to either unfortunately their defiantly out so we need cuse to lose. The way it looks it looks like we will end up the 10 seed

10 seed does look very likely assuming we finish 1-1. The only way we could be at the 11 seed (and have a more favorable path to the ACC Semis assuming NC State wins out and is the 3 seed) would be if Cuse beats BC and Clemson to end the season. The trade off with that more favorable path obviously is that Cuse then improves their bubble standing greatly.

Assuming we go 1-1 and finish as the 10 seed, we play Pitt first and then take on the 7 seed, who should be a team pretty safely in the tourney (VT/Miami/Clemson type), so it's a chance to pick up a solid win. After that, we'd play the 2 seed who will be either Duke or UNC depending who wins their game Saturday night. I'd like to think a win there would be good enough to get us in but who knows. We;d maybe need to beat the winner of the 3/6 seed game after.

 

[Irish YJ]

Another decent site talking about bubble teams. Still not seeing ND mentioned anywhere yet as on the bubble.

https://bracketville.wordpress.com/bubble-banter/

 

[RDU Irish]

SUPER excited for Bonzie tonight - gets to start senior night and hopefully log enough minutes to dust the rust off.

 

[irishfan]

SUPER excited for Bonzie tonight - gets to start senior night and hopefully log enough minutes to dust the rust off.

Same. 15-20 mins tonight hopefully. Then potentially up him to 25-30 for UVA if it is close and the foot is responding well. If I were Brey I’d debatably rest him for 1st round of ACC tourney assuming we are playing Pitt, Wake, or GT.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Same. 15-20 mins tonight hopefully. Then potentially up him to 25-30 for UVA if it is close and the foot is responding well. If I were Brey I’d debatably rest him for 1st round of ACC tourney assuming we are playing Pitt, Wake, or GT.

That’s actually not a bad idea assuming we get the 10 or 11 seed I would do that for sure and maybe use him sparingly cause you know he is gonna want to play no matter what haha.

I am also so pumped to see him. He just brings an extra fire to this team. You know he is gonna give it his all every min. Can’t wait to see him

 

[Irish YJ]

On tap for tonight... all road games.

In for now
TEAM RPI SOS NEXT GAME
BUTLER (19-10) 35 20 WED, 9:00pm ET @ St. John's
FLORIDA ST. (19-9) 48 75 WED, 9:00pm ET @ Clemson
TEXAS A&M (18-11) 26 7 WED, 8:30pm ET @ Georgia

On the fence
TEAM RPI SOS NEXT GAME
PROVIDENCE (18-11) 43 23 WED, 6:30pm ET @ Xavier
SYRACUSE (18-11) 46 15 WED, 9:00pm ET @ Boston College

Butler -2.5 (projected as 8 seed) - hard for me to cheer for Butler to lose. St John's has the ability to beat or lose to anyone so hard to project this one. Truly a schizo team. I'm thinking St. Johns gets a narrow revenge victory for the 20+ pt beat down that Butler put on them in Indy.

FSU +3 (projected as 9 or 10 seed) - beat Clemson at home a few weeks ago by 2. Everyone should be cheering for Clemson tonight as FSU is a team that could drop out of contention with a loss here and a shitting showing in the ACC Tourney. Would drop them to 8-9 in conference. BC up next in FL for FSU. Betting Clemson handles their business by 10+. Go Tigers.

TAMU +1.5 (projected as 9 or 10 seed) - a loss would drop them to 7-10 in conference play. One of the easier teams to drop out of contention. @AL next... Go Dawgs. I hate saying that...

Providence +10.5 (projected as 10 seed) - Plays at home vs St John's next. Go X

Cuse +1.5 (projected as 12 seed) - Another team that cold be out of contention with a L. 7-9 in conference play. I think a loss at BC and they are out. At home vs Clemson next. Go BC

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Butler -2.5 (projected as 8 seed) - hard for me to cheer for Butler to lose. St John's has the ability to beat or lose to anyone so hard to project this one. Truly a schizo team. I'm thinking St. Johns gets a narrow revenge victory for the 20+ pt beat down that Butler put on them in Indy.

FSU +3 (projected as 9 or 10 seed) - beat Clemson at home a few weeks ago by 2. Everyone should be cheering for Clemson tonight as FSU is a team that could drop out of contention with a loss here and a shitting showing in the ACC Tourney. Would drop them to 8-9 in conference. BC up next in FL for FSU. Betting Clemson handles their business by 10+. Go Tigers.

TAMU +1.5 (projected as 9 or 10 seed) - a loss would drop them to 7-10 in conference play. One of the easier teams to drop out of contention. @AL next... Go Dawgs. I hate saying that...

Providence +10.5 (projected as 10 seed) - Plays at home vs St John's next. Go X

Cuse +1.5 (projected as 12 seed) - Another team that cold be out of contention with a L. 7-9 in conference play. I think a loss at BC and they are out. At home vs Clemson next. Go BC

Yes to all of those. And everyone one of those could easily happen

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Bonzie is not human

 

[Henges24]

Nice to have back an offensive identity. Too bad it's a little too late.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Nice to have back an offensive identity. Too bad it's a little too late.

Too late or perfect timing? We shall see

 

[Irish YJ]

Probably too late unless we can beat some Cavalier ass.
Regardless, the homer in me sees possibilities until they lose to UVA and lose in the Tourney... lol

 

[irishfan]

Need to have a strong 20 minutes here so we can at least go to UVA with a lot of confidence.

 

[Crazy Balki]

I'd say two wins in the ACC tourney gets them in the NCAA dance, regardless of what happens v. Virginia.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

I'd say two wins in the ACC tourney gets them in the NCAA dance, regardless of what happens v. Virginia.

I agree with you 2 or 3. We are only barely out of the tournament by many analysts saying we are “next four out”. That means we are only 7 teams behind. The committee is gonna see how different we look with bonzie. Will they give us the benefit of the doubt idk let’s hope so

 

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

So glad to see Bonzie back. Go Irish!

 

[NDGOLDEN]

So according to lunardi 1 win in acc tourney then we are in the talk to make it. 2 wins we are possibly in. Win 3 automatically in

 

[Irish YJ]

So according to lunardi 1 win in acc tourney then we are in the talk to make it. 2 wins we are possibly in. Win 3 automatically in

Would depend IMO on who the wins are over... For instance a first round win over GT, Wake, or Pitt again, is not doing anything for us. We need a few good wins, and some help from other teams to get in the conversation.

Xavier looks like they'll down Providence. Up 8 with 2 minutes to go.
LSU, who is trying to get into the conversation, is going into OT @SCar

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Would depend IMO on who the wins are over... For instance a first round win over GT, Wake, or Pitt again, is not doing anything for us. We need a few good wins, and some help from other teams to get in the conversation.

Xavier looks like they'll down Providence. Up 8 with 2 minutes to go.
LSU, who is trying to get into the conversation, is going into OT @SCar

I agree but it’s what lunardi said and he’s right most of the time so

 

[Irish YJ]

I agree but it’s what lunardi said and he’s right most of the time so

Not a big fan of Lunardi. For a NE guys, he sure fluffs a lot of SEC johnsons these days.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Not a big fan of Lunardi. For a NE guys, he sure fluffs a lot of SEC johnsons these days.

Fair enough but he’s extremely accurate on his picks so.
Bonzie 21 mins 12 pts 9 rebs. Looked great and still has an amazing touch around the net. Hopefully get that to 35mins on Saturday

 

[Irish YJ]

Fair enough but he’s extremely accurate on his picks so.
Bonzie 21 mins 12 pts 9 rebs. Looked great and still has an amazing touch around the net. Hopefully get that to 35mins on Saturday

Very nice night for BC getting back into the swing of things. If only he would have had 2 more points so ND would have covered lol.

 

[Woneone]

Ponds is out tonight against Butler. That sucks.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Ponds is out tonight against Butler. That sucks.

Shit that’s not good

 

[Irish YJ]

FSU@CLEM is tight close to half
TAMU@UGA is tight early in second
Cuse@BC - BC up a few at half
But@StJ's - StJ's up 3 at half

Xavier over Providence