Notre Dame Insider

1 week ago | ndinsider.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND —Six weeks before training camp opens on July 31, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman used the P-word in a recent interview with Joel Klatt, lead football analyst for Fox and host of “Big Noon Conversations.”That word wasn’t “podcast.” It was “panicking,” as in precisely what Freeman hopes his team will avoid in the Aug. 31 season opener at Miami in prime time.  “I look at that big game and say, ‘OK, what do I need to do to prepare this team for that big one?’ “ Freeman said.

2 weeks ago | ndinsider.com | Tom Noie

SOUTH BEND – In some ways, they have been homes away from home for Notre Dame basketball since 2000. 25 in 25: Remembering the top 25 Notre Dame basketball games over the last 25 seasonsPlaying in a conference – the Big East until 2013 and the Atlantic Coast Conference since – often takes the Irish to the same places to play the same teams every year. Ten trips here one year, ten trips there the next.

2 weeks ago | ndinsider.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND — Injuries have limited Charles Jagusah to just three games on the offensive line for Notre Dame football through his first two seasons. But that hasn’t stopped the coaching staff from dropping his name in the same sentence as the first offensive lineman off the board in April’s NFL Draft. Former LSU left tackle Will Campbell, the Tigers’ first consensus All-America offensive lineman in 20 years, went fourth overall to the New England Patriots.

4 weeks ago | ndinsider.com | Tom Noie

SOUTH BEND – Every Notre Dame basketball season is a journey. Rankings roulette: Who are the top 25 Notre Dame basketball players over the last 25 seasons? With the book closed on the 2024-25 season, we’re a quarter of the way through the 2000s with 25 journeys down. Which were the best? The worst? Just kind of ... there? The following are the rankings of the first 25 seasons of Notre Dame basketball in the 2000s. Seasons are slotted from worst (25th) to best (first).

1 month ago | ndinsider.com | Mike Berardino

SOUTH BEND —Notre Dame football will play under the lights at home three times this fall, starting with the home opener against Texas A&M on Sept. 13. In addition to that 7:30 p.m. kickoff, the seven-game home slate for the Irish includes 7:30 starts against USC on Oct. 18 and Navy on Nov. 8. Notre Dame has won 13 of its past 15 nighttime kickoffs at Notre Dame Stadium, dating to 2017. The only stumbles came against Ohio State (2023) and Stanford (2022).