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Let's use this thread for anything related to the 2025 season for Notre Dame baseball.

The ACC released today its preseason poll from the conference's 16 head coaches. Notre Dame was ranked 15th with 44 total points. Only Boston College was voted lower with 31 points. Virginia was projected to finish first with Florida State in a close second.

The preseason poll from Baseball America includes seven ACC teams: No. 5 Virginia, No. 6 Florida State, No. 8 Clemson, No. 10 Duke, No. 12 North Carolina, No. 16 NC State and No. 17 Wake Forest.

Notre Dame will open its season on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, to start a three-game series against North Florida in Jacksonville. Notre Dame's first home game is scheduled for March 5 against Eastern Michigan. The Irish will begin ACC play at Wake Forest on March 7.

2025 ACC Baseball Predicted Order of Finish

1. Virginia (13) – 251
2. Florida State (2) – 230
3. North Carolina – 217
4. Clemson (1) – 214
5. Duke – 182
6. Wake Forest – 171
7. NC State – 168
8. Stanford – 143
9. Louisville – 128
10. Georgia Tech – 113
11. Miami – 87
12. Virginia Tech – 85
13. California – 60
14. Pitt – 52
15. Notre Dame – 44
16. Boston College - 31

Important links: Roster | Schedule | Poll

Let's use this thread for anything related to the 2025 season for Notre Dame women's lacrosse.

Last season ended with a heartbreaking 15-14 loss to Michigan in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Irish prepared for the 2025 season with an exhibition against the Wolverines this past Saturday. No word on the results of the exhibition.

Notre Dame's season will get started in earnest on Feb. 7 at Northwestern, the national runner-up last season.

USA Lacrosse Magazine ranks Notre Dame No. 13 heading into the season and wrote a preview on the Irish here. It also named Notre Dame defender Grace Weigand as an honorable mention for its Preseason All-America teams.

KANE Women's Division I Media Poll also ranked Notre Dame at No. 13 in the preseason.

Important links: Roster | Schedule | Poll

Notre Dame men's basketball will finish its regular season road schedule later today at Wake Forest.

The Irish (12-16, 6-11 ACC) have won only three road games all season. Wake Forest (19-9, 11-6 ACC) is 11-3 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston Salem, N.C., this season. But two of Wake Forest's home losses came in February at the hands of Florida State, 72-70, and Virginia, 83-75.

The Demon Deacons are on a two-game losing streak with a road loss at NC State followed by the home loss to Virginia.

Wake Forest's offensive attack is led by guard Hunter Sallis. The 6-foot-5 senior averages 18.6 points and 2.9 assists per game. Guard Cameron Hildreth (6-4) adds 15.0 points per game while shooting 34.6% from 3. The Demon Deacons struggle from the outside with a 28.8 shooting percentage from 3.

Former Notre Dame signee Parker Friedrichsen is averaging 3.4 points in 15.4 minutes per game.

Notre Dame season stats:



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We'll use this thread to update any measurements, testing results or workout highlights for Notre Dame's eight former players who were invited to this year's NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.

Testing and results get underway Thursday starting with the defensive linemen and linebackers at 3 p.m. EST. Defensive backs and tight ends are scheduled for Friday (3 p.m.). Quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers are scheduled for Saturday (1 p.m.). Offensive linemen wrap things up Sunday (1 p.m.).

Notre Dame's eight NFL Combine invitees are defensive tackles Howard Cross III and Rylie Mills, linebacker Jack Kiser, cornerback Benjamin Morrison, safety Xavier Watts, tight end Mitchell Evans, quarterback Riley Leonard and wide receiver Beaux Collins.

Notre Dame missed three 3-pointers on its final possession in a fitting conclusion to another road loss for the Irish.

Let's use this thread for anything related to the 2024-25 season for Notre Dame hockey, which got underway this weekend.

Notre Dame was picked to finish fifth in its conference via the Big Ten Hockey Coaches Preseason Poll in the final season for Notre Dame head coach Jeff Jackson. The Irish weren't represented by a player on the two Preseason All-Big Ten teams. Ohio State was the only other program with no preseason all-conference players.

Notre Dame was ranked No. 19 in the country in the first U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) poll of the season. It dropped to No. 20 in the first update with games played elsewhere before Notre Dame started its season.

Let's use this thread for anything related to the 2025 season for Notre Dame softball.

We're probably not going to have updates on every game in this thread, but this will be the home for anything interesting happening with the Irish program under first-year head coach Kris Ganeff, a longtime assistant for previous head coach Deanna Gumpf. The latter retired upon the conclusion of last season.

Notre Dame was voted to finish 11th in the ACC this season in a preseason poll of the conference's coaches. The ACC has 15 softball programs.

2025 ACC Softball Preseason Coaches Poll
1. Duke - 193 points (11)
2. Florida State - 183 points (4)
3. Virginia Tech - 165 points
4. Stanford - 143 points
5. Virginia - 140 points
6. California - 130 points
7. Clemson - 126 points
8. Georgia Tech - 87 points
9. North Carolina - 85 points
10. Louisville - 73 points
11. Notre Dame - 72 points
12. Boston College - 66 points
13. NC State - 65 points
14. Syracuse - 31 points
15. Pitt - 16 points
(first-place votes)

Important links: Roster | Schedule | Poll

In a rematch of last year’s men’s lacrosse national championship, No. 2 Maryland flipped the result on No. 1 Notre Dame.

The Terrapins handed the Irish an 11-10 loss at Atlanta’s Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday. Notre Dame, the two-time defending national champions, suffered its first defeat since an 11-10 overtime loss to Georgetown on Feb. 25 of last year. The Irish beat the Terrapins twice last season, including a 15-5 victory in the title game.

Notre Dame (3-1) failed to find consistency on its attack while committing 17 turnovers. On the other end, Notre Dame goalie Thomas Ricciardelli allowed more goals (11) than shots saved (nine).

The Irish jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals from attackers Jake Taylor and Chris Kavanagh in the first 2:03 in the game, but Notre Dame only scored consecutive goals on two more occasions and never more than two in a row.

Maryland (5-0) took its first lead with 6:50 left in the second quarter when Daniel Kelly scored his first of three goals. Notre Dame responded with Taylor’s second goal and Max Busenkell’s first to take a 5-4 lead into halftime. Busenkell scored off an impressive assist by fellow midfielder Will Angrick who maintained possession after getting knocked to the ground on his back.

Notre Dame outshot Maryland 22-11 in the first half, but only 10 of ND’s shots were on goal compared to nine for Maryland.

The Terrapins started to assert control of the game in the second half with a 3-0 run to take a 7-5 lead with 4:02 remaining in the third quarter. Then a two-goal run early in the fourth quarter gave Maryland a 10-7 lead with 11:36 remaining in regulation.

Back-to-back goals by Kavanagh, who scored four in the game, in less than a minute pulled Notre Dame within one with 6:06 left. Then Kelly, who finished tied for a team-high in goals with Eric Spanos, gave the Terrapins an important two-goal lead on a short-handed goal with 5:22 left.

Notre Dame sophomore Jordan Faison, a two-sport athlete who also plays wide receiver for the Irish football team, scored his second goal of the game with 1:33 remaining. After Will Lynch, who finished 16-of-22 on faceoffs, gave the Irish the ensuing possession, Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan called timeout with 1:22 remaining.

Notre Dame’s best chance to tie it came on a close look by Kavanagh, but Maryland goalie Logan McNaney kicked away the shot and Maryland was awarded possession on the ricochet out of bounds with 20.5 seconds left. McNaney’s 16 saves went a long way in Maryland’s victorious effort.

Notre Dame will look to rebound next Saturday when it hosts No. 17 Ohio State (6-1) at 2 p.m. EST on ACC Network.

BOX SCORE: Maryland 11, Notre Dame 10

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Pictured: Max Busenkell (in white)

Four-star wide receiver Brody Keefe is putting together his spring visit schedule. These are the three dates he shared with @samspiegelman:

Florida on March 8
Notre Dame on March 28-29
Georgia on April 12

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1 vs 2 on ACCN. ND already up one.

ESPN's College GameDay will be at Notre Dame on Sunday prior to the women's basketball game against No. 25 Louisville.

Football coach Marcus Freeman will be the guest picker with the ESPN basketball crew.

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Riley Leonard only attempted 43 passes of 20-plus yards last season at Notre Dame, but he's out to show that wasn't a product of his ability to do so.

“A lot of people think my arm might be a little bit weaker, but all that matters is that I think I got a strong arm,” Leonard said. “I’m ready to prove a lot of people wrong.”

I'm down in Indianapolis this morning to cover the NFL Combine.

DL Howard Cross III, DL Rylie Mills and LB Jack Kiser spoke to reporters yesterday and are able to do their workouts later today. Mills won't work out. I'm not positive about Cross and Kiser.

Today's interviews will be with S Xavier Watts, TE Mitchell Evans and CB Benjamin Morrison.

Watts said he won't do any of the workout portion tomorrow and will focus on ND's Pro Day.

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The first Power 4 firing is in.

UNC is firing head coach Mack Brown.

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We'll update this thread with other big coaching news this offseason.

Here's an overview of all the coaching changes, based on reputable reports.

"I came out of the season pretty unscathed playing 16 games coming off a knee injury," TE Mitchell Evans said. "I feel pretty good."

That's why Evans plans to participate fully in Friday's NFL Combine workout.

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That includes you, Big Boz.

Bill Connelly of ESPN released Friday his initial in SP+ rankings ahead of the 2025 season. Connelly uses returning production, recent recruiting and recent history in building his projections.

Connelly's reminder on SP+:

"It's a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking. Along those same lines, these projections aren't intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the season. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather."

Connelly's projections have Notre Dame ranked No. 5 in the initial SP+ rankings for 2025. Notre Dame has an SP+ of 23.4 The offensive SP+ is 37.3, which is ranked 10th. The defensive SP+ is 13.9, which is ranked 8th. The special teams SP+ is -0.2, which is ranked 106th.

The four teams ahead of Notre Dame: No. 1 Ohio State (28.0), No. 2 Alabama (26.1), No. 3 Penn State (25.3) and No. 4 Georgia (24.5).

Where Notre Dame's 2025 opponents are ranked:

No. 14 Miami
No. 12 Texas A&M
No. 116 Purdue
No. 35 Arkansas
No. 31 Boise State
No. 45 NC State
No. 30 USC
No. 68 Boston College
No. 63 Navy
No. 53 Pittsburgh
No. 57 Syracuse
No. 88 Stanford

Full SP+ breakdown is here behind the ESPN+ paywall.

More work ahead for Martin and Freeman.