Sunday, March 24, 2013

Notre Dame Beats UT Martin 97 - 64 in NCAA


The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame won their first game of the NCAA Tournament by 33 -- as they put away University Tennessee Martin in Iowa City.

Freshman Jewell Loyd led the IRISH with 27 points on 10 for 15 shooting from the floor.  Notre Dame will play the winner of the Miami, FL vs. Iowa game on Tuesday night.

LINK:  ESPN COVERAGE

LINK:  POST GAME PRESS CONFERENCE 

LINK:  BOX SCORE

Skylar Diggins' NCCA Tourney Blog for ESPNW


Notre Dame All-American Skylar Diggins is back with the gang at ESPNW -- publishing a blog about her experiences for what IRISH fans hope will be a long NCAA run.  Here's yesterday's blog post:

LINK:  SKYLAR DIGGINS' BLOG

Notre Dame Wins Last-Ever CCHA Mason Cup!





Jeff Jackson's #9 ranked Fighting Irish hockey team won the last ever MASON CUP today over Michigan by the score of 3 - 1 -- as the CCHA played it's final game at Joe Louis Arena after 42 years.  It's the third CCHA TITLE for Notre Dame.

IRISH goalie STEVEN SUMMERHAYS was OUTSTANDING --- making some huge saves in the third period!

Notre Dame as the CCHA Champion gets an automatic bid to the NCAA National Championship -- which begins next week.  The IRISH will go into the tournament having won nine straight games!

Michigan -- which had won nine straight -- had to beat ND to earn a bid to the NCAA Championship.  The IRISH put an end to Michigan's 22 year streak of making the NCAA tournament.

The NCAA Hockey National Championship field will be announced this evening at 9 PM ET on ESPNU.


LINK:  GAME HIGHLIGHTS 

LINK:  POST GAME CELEBRATION 

The Dance Begins @ 5 PM Today for Lady Irish


Muffet McGraw's Fightin' Irish tip off their annual run for a National Championship today in Iowa City at 5:05 PM ET against the University of Tennessee Martin.  UTM has two 20+ point scorers in their starting line-up who are in the TOP TEN in the country in scoring.  No other team in the country can make this claim...

Should be an interesting match-up.  The game will be televised LIVE on ESPN2.

LINK:  NOTRE DAME vs. UTM

Homecoming: Zbikowski is a Chicago Bear!!!


Former Notre Dame football star Tommy Zbikowski -- signed a one-year contract today to play safety for the Chicago Bears.  Zibby grew up in the Chicago suburbs -- so it's pretty cool!

LINK:  ZIBBY IS A BEAR