Cornette said 2021 is at the Garden on Twitter. Haven’t seen anything from Notre Dame on that. I’m sure he might know something.
We may get a really bad remaining OOC schedule for 2021.
Kentucky at the Garden
Maui invitational
Indiana/Purdue down in Indy
ACC/Big N (maybe)
That's a good slate. I suspect the rest is going to suck though, to make up for it.
...then bemoan that the fact that the ones other than Kentucky, Maui, Purdue/Indiana, and another Big 10 team are going to suck? Come on, maaaaaaan!
Especially if the bottom end kills our computer rankings, per usual.
That was the point. Those are some great games. I hope the rest isn't RPI 300+ filler. I hope we don't try to soften the rest too much, but I won't hold my breath.
How about an excellent one that far surpasses what we're used to?
I believe there is no scheduled Crossroads game as of now in Indy in 2021 but I could be wrong.
So, there will be at least two more.
was thinking it was in its final year.
available at the arena, too. But great to see it on the schedule.
PS - IMHO, I think we are among the "blue blood" teams, but I guess that is debatable. Here's a list of 20 blue blood teams, and we ain't on it.
Ralph Jackowski (see link) a member of the ND 1934/35 ND Frosh football and basketball teams.....a HB in football from Chicago St Rita
Played one yr of varsity BB at ND & ND 'B' team in football as a soph. = then transferred to KY -where he also played both sports
Bill Clinton's unofficial alma mater- Morehead State.
Proffitt was the 4th member of one of the unheralded HS class with Abro/Scott/Nash.
link is from a Kentucky BB site
click on the score of each game to see the box score
Austin had some big games vs Kentucky
23, 43, 52 (in NCAA tourney), and 50 pts
Carr also scored 41 pts for the ND Frosh vs the Ky Frosh (ND Frosh won 101-75)
That ND Frosh team (with Collis Jones & Carr) only lost 1 game...that loss was the game before this Kentucky Frosh victory- when ND Frosh lost to Marquette Frosh & Dean 'the dream' Meminger 77-80...Carr had 29 pts & Meminger had 37....and Collis Jones had 18 pts-playing for the first time ever at forward(Jones had only played center in HS)
ND Frosh had a later rematch with the Marquette Frosh (who were undefeated)....this time ND won 98-83...leading the entire game....Carr scored 33 & Meminger had 42 for the losers
ND Frosh usually played the Marquette Frosh twice (back in the day before Frosh became eligible for the varsity)- home & away
Just curious
Anyone else remember John Shumate and Larry? McNeil getting tossed out of a Marquette-ND Frosh game for fighting??
Don’t remember who started what, but John Shumate was never one to back down. ND really missed his on-court toughness the following year when he was sidelined by blood clots. The 1971-72 season with just 6 wins would not have been that dismal had he been playing.
One upside to freshman ineligibility in that era was the opportunity provided by the Frosh games to eyeball the newcomers playing extended minutes in competitively-balanced games. In addition to Shumate and Larry McNeil, the other clear talent on the floor that night was a lightning-quick MU guard named Marcus Washington. Missing from the floor that night, sadly, was ND’s answer to Washington - Sam Puckett, the Chicago legend in the 1970 recruiting class who never saw one minute on the court at ND, freshman or varsity. To get a wistful feeling of what might have been, see the 1997 Chicago Trib article linked below.
site game in 2021. Is the YUM Center ready to serve as the neutral site?
Especially because (I believe) Crossroads isn't happening in 2021.
2021 is the last year. Doubt it gets renewed.
I've always wondered this because you are far from the first person on here that points to the non-neutral Freedom Hall games as reason to loathe/hate/dislike Kentucky. I understand that these games were about as far from "neutral" as you can get, but it's not like UK pulled a fast one on ND. I'm sure ND knew the situation they were signing up for... and honestly, ND football has the same advantages at it's "neutral" games.
A lot of people here dislike UK because of this, but it has always seemed strange to me. Maybe because i wasn't alive during those games to see what it was like.
4 straight losses in de facto road games in L’ville. IIRC, Irish had a shot at a # 1 ranking going into 3 of those games. Joe B Hall was a smug, arrogant di**wad who ran a dirty program. Robey was their Laimbeer equivalent & I didn’t care for Kyle Macy either.
I still wish 78 team could have played them for NC on an actual neutral court, and beating them the year after I graduated did my heart glad.
He was too much of a coward to play at the Fieldhouse, and ND (as an independent) needed quality games. So Rupp demanded neutral-site games but wanted them all within the state of Kentucky.
The contract came up for renewal in Digger's early years, and in a fit of hubris, he chose to renew it. Bad decision.
about it when he addressed a class (Sociology of Sport) of mine fall ‘77. He agreed to extend contract after 12/73 win in ND’s best year and an off UK year.
There were a # of hoopsters (including Laimbeer, Flowers & CarpenterIIRC) in that class. I specifically recall Montana was in it. Not every day that you have 1 of the most famous heroes in NFL history & 1 of most infamous villains in NBA history in same class.
I wish Hunter Thompson at written a "Fear and Loathing in Louisville" book on that series.
make each game feel more fresh too!
Ryan
Wertz
Carmody
Sanders or JR
Taylor
UK's starting line up just finished their soph seasons in HS
Duke