Working on mysteries without any clues while covering just about everything, particularly Notre Dame men's hoops, for the South Bend Tribune since 1992.
BREAKING: Source tells South Bend Tribune that
#NotreDame
coach Mike Brey will retire at end of season.
Brey plans to tell team after practice today.
The winningest coach in program history will have spent last 23 seasons at Notre Dame.
Story coming soon.
#NotreDame
coach Mike Brey was approached by Illinois coach Brad Underwood just before Monday's game.
I see you're losing your football coach, Underwood said.
What the #$%& are you talking about Brey said.
And that's how the Brian Kelly news traveled in Champaign.
Duke losing at home draws
#NotreDame
into tie for first place in
#ACC
, which means…
#NotreDame
beats Louisville at Purcell Pavilion on Wednesday,
#Irish
move into sole possession of first place
#thatsright
Recruiting all of Friday in Kansas City, word is that
@NDmbb
coach Mike Brey has been asked at least 25 times one question:
What league are you going to be in?
Brey's stock answer - "Any one we want."
#allrightythen
Word from
#NotreDame
at 6:34 on a Sunday night is that there are whistles and loud music and yelling and a whole lotta sounds that lead you to believe 0-2
@NDFootball
is on the practice field in some capacity
Photo provided …
Current
@NDmbb
coach Micah Shrewsberry extended an invitation to former Irish HC Mike Brey to visit team hotel tonight in advance of Tuesday's game at Georgia Tech.
Shrewsberry and Brey are expected to spend some time together tonight in Atlanta.
#classmove
Source close to
@NDFootball
tells NDI that coaching staff was caught completely off guard by Drew Pyne announcement on transfer.
This was something that might happen down the road, like closer to spring. Not the second day of December.
Word from
@NDmbb
coach Mike Brey is that he went over to the campus dining halls this afternoon and stood on tables two separate occasions to drum up support from student body for Wednesday's home game - and the rest of the season really - against Clemson...
Column: Brian Kelly said after
@NDFootball
lost at home to No. 7 Cincinnati that it failed at the basics of the game.
So it's time to go back to those basics - and settle on one quarterback. It's time for Drew Pyne.
Here:
Multiple sources tell
@SBTribune
that former
@NDmbb
coach Mike Brey plans to join Atlanta Hawks as assistant coach for Quin Snyder next season.
No college head coaching job. No TV.
Brey has bought a house in ATL ... will be escaping snowy South Bend in mid-May.
An interesting hoops stat to start the day:
Since 2020, Team A and Team B have played twice. Team A has won both, including on Team B homecourt for first time in history.
Since 2020, Team A has two NCAA Tournament wins; Team B has one.
Team A: Notre Dame
Team B: Kentucky
Mike Brey: "Sometimes we're treated by the officials like we haven't brought football as a full member, but yet we get a full share of the ACC Network TV. Are you kidding me? I'm frustrated, man." Was incredulous that officials hit Irish bench with technical from across court
Just going to leave this quote here from
#Duke
coach Mike Krzyzewski - “There aren’t as many programs as there are teams. And
#NotreDame
is a great program.”
Word from
@NDmbb
that former power forward LaPhonso Ellis is next up for Ring of Honor induction, which happens at halftime of Dec. 11 game against Kentucky.
As good as he was as a player (and he was really good), he's 10 times better a person. There's nobody better.
#phonz
Will think about these two guys -
@JerianGrant
and
@pconnaughton
- and that dream postseason ride a lot this week as
#ACC
tournament returns to Greensboro Coliseum for first time since 2015. And this....
Top four teams in
@theACC
now a combined 11-1 in
@MarchMadnessMBB
with each of the four having won at least two games.
One day, someone’s going to wonder how the $&@&$ the team that finished second with 15 league wins (Notre Dame) was basically the last team in the field
🤡🤡🤡
Source: Video of
@NDmbb
coach
@NDMikeBrey
leaving LaLumiere with point guard JJ Starling…
No lie…That is the car Brey used to ferry Starling back to
#NotreDame
campus to begin his official visit this weekend
This place is all quiet now, but if its not off the chain up for grabs Monday after what you’ve watched for the last four years…
Then it’s not on the head coach or the senior guard or the lack of a bench you’ve all vented about.
It’ll be on you.
Can
#Irish
fans bring it???🏀
Awesome/unbelievable achievement, but no.
@NDmbb
beating Duke and North Carolina on consecutive nights in Greensboro to win the 2015 ACC men's basketball championship is the clear No. 1.
It cannot not be for a league that made its bones in men's basketball.
.
@MarkPacker
says Notre Dame's biggest ACC accomplishment since joining is
@NDBaseball
's upset of No. 1 Tennessee to advance to the
#MCWS
.
Do you agree? 🤔
Column:
#NotreDame
football needed one video and only 60 seconds to nearly crash all of social media Friday morning.
Gotta admit - it was worth it. It was good. So is Marcus Freeman. Better climb aboard. He and the Irish are going places.
Here:
Exclusive: Former
@NDmbb
coach Mike Brey left town in May for a new basketball coaching chapter with the Atlanta Hawks.
He hasn't talked about the past, the present or the future since. Until now.
A lengthy Mike Brey Q and A. Here:
Don't underestimate what a veteran, senior-saturated lineup means to a program that believes it can get to Omaha. True.
Also, don't underestimate what Link Jarrett means. What he's done in three seasons is nothing short of stunning.
The guy's a wizard.
For everyone upset about timing of Mike Brey retirement breaking news, please take this into consideration:
@ndmbb
practice starts at 3:30. Breaking news tweet was sent at 4:10. The Irish are/were already in practice. Don't think they're following Twitter on court.
Carry on...
Mike Brey quote on his
#NotreDame
hoops program - "When the lights are bright and the stage is big, the freakin' Irish deliver." Totally opposite of
#Irish
football team....another big game, another big collapse....😳
Column: It's been one crazy ride for former
#NotreDame
PF
@Bcolson_35
. He's gone from injured, to undrafted, to the G League and now getting taste of
#NBA
with
@Bucks
. He's living the life. And loving it. Here:
Year No. 26 on the
@NDmbb
beat officially tips tonight. New head coach, new staff, new roster, new direction.
Never gets old. Let’s see where it all goes…🏀🏀🏀
New
@NDmbb
guard
@_TDub3
says he actually committed to Irish coach Mike Brey on Wednesday, but delayed announcement couple days...says he took virtual tour of campus on Zoom call for about an hour. "I really love Coach Brey and his staff."
Watching Bulls opener and starting to wonder if it's all been downhill for Jabari Parker since this saturday afternoon at
#NotreDame
against
@PlanetPat5
Within five minutes of first tweet about about Micah Shrewsberry to
@NDmbb
, one of the first to "like" post was future
#Irish
point guard and
@The_Pennant
senior
@markussburton
.
Yeah, think he's excited to hear the news of his new head coach.
Leaving here late Wednesday was weird. It was the season’s last home game. It was Mike Brey’s last home game.
What will this place look/feel like come November?
What will
@NDmbb
look/feel like?
The head coach, the roster, the culture, all of it
Intrigue abounds…
#Irish
senior Rex Pflueger sets school record for games played today (140) with final start on Senior Day. Breaks previous mark held by Pat Connaughton.
LaLumiere combo guard J.J. Starling makes it official - he's committed to
#NotreDame
. Starling committed via Instagram Live
Massive pickup for Mike Brey, who everyone said couldn't/wouldn't recruit.
#NotreDame
going to finish regular season 22-9, 15-5 and second place in the
@theACC
with 78-54 victory over Pittsburgh.
Robby Carmody gets in for final six seconds
Mike Brey said afterward he did the worst coaching job he's ever done this week in his time at
#NotreDame
. Was too disconnected from his team. Wasn't plugged in to gauge their psyche. That's a massive red flag.
Leaving this quote from Tom Izzo here...
“Don’t underestimate how good Notre Dame is. “We beat a damn good team. (Mike Brey's) team, I think, will be playing a long time come March and April."
BREAKING:
#NDI
has learned that
@NDmbb
assistant coach Ryan Humphrey is expected to leave the program for another coaching opportunity.
Humphrey has spent last six seasons on staff of coach Mike Brey, who's long considered Hump a rising star in profession.
Just asked
@NDmbb
legend Digger Phelps a hypothetical - if something like this transpired after a game vs UCLA when he was coach, and he acted like Juwan Howard, would Phelps have job next day?
His response? No way
Said Fathers Hesburgh and Joyce wouldn’t stand for it. Ever
Mike Brey knows NCAA didn't want to hear this in his presser Tuesday, but it was truth...
"There's no way I could have got these guys to play in the NIT. And I know I probably shouldn't say that because the NCAA owns it. There's no way."
#ncaaorbust
Writing it now, so might as well say it...
Trey Wertz is to the Notre Dame men's basketball team what Drew Pyne was to the Notre Dame football team. Good kid. Good player. But there's a certain ceiling.
Give the ball to J.J. Starling. Tomorrow.
Before it's too late.
Twenty-three of the top moments of Mike Brey's 23 seasons at
@NDmbb
.
This list could've gone 123 deep.
Looking back, it's staggering to think of everything he did at a football school.
Here:
Mike Brey on NIL - "It's really not name, image and likeness right now...it's really pay for play. This is a really tricky one and we're all kind of hanging on for dear life on it."
Yep.
Micah Shrewberry from today's media session: "You are what you emphasize and for us, we need to have a defensive DNA from the start with our team. That gives us a chance every single night. All we want is a chance every single night. If we have a defensive DNA, that will happen."
Source:
@NDmbb
power forward Paul Atkinson, Jr., will not seek a fifth year through NCAA appeal. College career is complete.
Next stop for Atkinson, Portsmouth Invitational.
Atkinson averaged 12.5 ppg., 6.9 rpg., in 27.6 minutes. Shot .586 from floor, .750 from foul line.
Source tells NDInsider that
@NDmbb
hoops close to adding a home game Dec. 4 with Tennessee. Teams have met only once (1979).
That would give Irish a non-conference slate of Michigan State, Ohio State, Tennessee, Kentucky, Purdue and at Howard on MLK Day with 20 ACC games.
This is two hours before tonight’s
@NDmbb
game.
That’s not many students, sure, but this is rare for even this many to be in line so early.
Might be a good night..😁🏀
Column: This one was going to be a laugher, a game so decidedly one-sided that many would wonder why it was on national TV.
It was all that and more for
@ndwbb
- for all the right reasons. For all the the winning reasons. Thanks for playing, UCONN.
Here:
👀
Penn State PF Kebba Njie is in the transfer portal.
A 6-foot-10, 237-pounder from Centerville, Ohio who played at La Lumiere School LaPorte, Njie averaged 3.4 points and 3.5 rebounds in 14.3 minutes his first season.
#NotreDame
moves to 13-6 overall, 6-2 in
#ACC
with 73-65 win over North Carolina State.
That's three in a row and nine of 10 for the Irish, now tied with Duke for second place.
One down, two really big ones to go for
#Irish
in homestand
New
@AP_Top25
is out, and
#NotreDame
not in it.
#Irish
is also receiving votes category. Would be No. 32 if poll went that deep.
#Irish
have won four straight, eight of nine and 14 of 16
Mike Brey said today he likes being in weeds (unranked) as March nears
Why is
@rexpflueger
on the floor? That's why. two huge, huge, huge plays in the latter stages, getting the tie-up to give
#Irish
possession, then knock-away in closing seconds....
We are heartbroken to report that Lou Somogyi passed away yesterday morning at the age of 58. He posted an article just before 9:00 a.m. and went to play tennis. He died of an apparent heart attack after finishing up.