Roster looks talented

And if defense is our biggest question mark, that's probably a good sign. ND always has been elite in settled 6-on-6 defense since I started following the program about 15 years ago.

It is difficult to repeat, though. No one has repeated since Duke (uggh!) in 13-14, unless you count Virginia in 19-21 (no tournament in 2020 due to COVID).

One thing I worry about is that ND will see this national championship as vindication of its scheduling. I think we need to add two more games to the schedule (fwiw, I think Duke schedules too many games but ND doesn't schedule enough.) With the current schedule, we're only a really bad season from Syracuse, Ohio State or Michigan away from Marquette, or worse yet, Cleveland State, counting against our RPI and SoS.

Agree that ND Could Use Another Game or Two. Roadtrip!

...and I have (yet) another suggestion for it:

- Follow the Muffet Mcgraw model of scheduling a game in a player's home area/region her senior (or last) year as a way of making it easy to bring the family/friends to a game.

In this case, I'm thinking it could also be a recruiting tool; namely, schedule a long weekend of two games in the NYC region (either two against Long Island schools such as Hofstra, St. John's or Stony Brook) or one each in Long Island or New Jersey (Rutgers or Princeton). Given how many players we have from Chaminade (Rockville Centre in Nassau), St. Anthony's (Suffolk County) and New Jersey (Seton Hall Prep), lots of interest there. Plus, huge recruiting and/or brand building for some of the public school programs.

If Jack wants to fill the plane, double up with Halfpenny's girls team which has numerous players from both areas, too.

Venue-wise, Hofstra and Rutgers area easy to get to and Stony Brook/Princeton are not that difficult, either.

Just FYI

Chaminade is in Mineola. St Agnes was in Rockville Center. Used to have a great basketball team. Remember team with Pete Crotty (ND), Frankie Alagia, (St. John's),and Charlie Mahoney (Manhattan).

Thx. MPG Reminded Me, Too. Wasn't Glenn Jackson ...

...on that St. Agnes team, too? Good outside shooter.

Might be wrong

But I believe he came a little later.

Good ideas. One more suggestion

An early-season road trip to Jacksonville every year. That will reduce, if not eliminate, any concerns about playing indoors in the early part of the season.

That's Solid....and Warm, as You Say.

Halfpenny alternates trips to northern Florida and Virginia during spring break to get some blood flowing. Could easily see Coach C. scheduling Jacksonville and maybe another northern visitor.

I like the idea of an annual game on Long Island and one in

New Jersey. As a side note, Chaminade is in Mineola while the Kavanaghs are from Rockville Centre.

For trivia fans, here are my memorized stops on the LIRR South Shore line:
Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, Baldwin, Freeport, Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh, Seaford, Massapequa, Massapequa Park, Amityville, Copaigue, Lindenhurst, change at Babylon for points east.