Confirmed through a source at ND. Outgoing AD Jack Swarbrick will be around the office in a supporting/emeritus role until June 30.

It was announced on June 8 that Bevacqua would be Swarbrick's successor sometime in the first quarter of 2024. We now know that date to be March 25. Since July 1, Bevacqua has been in the role of special assistant to the president for athletics.

It seems very common now for players to pull there leg up and pat the bottom of their shoes. Hidalgo does it a lot. Is there something gained by doing this or it like wearing purple shoes?

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2025 three-star linebacker Ko'o Kia announced his commitment to Notre Dame on X/Twitter Monday evening.

"He can blitz off the edge and he's also super comfortable dropping in coverage, defending the pass or coming up and making a play on the ball," Rivals national recruiting analyst Adam Gorney said. "He causes a lot of problems off the edge because he's agile and physical but a lot of his sacks are coming off quarterbacks holding onto the ball way too long."

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After splitting its two games last week, Notre Dame men's basketball returns to the floor on Monday for a quick turnaround after Saturday's loss vs. Florida State. The Irish (7-10, 2-4 ACC) are at Boston College (10-6, 1-4 ACC).

In its last few losses, Notre Dame has been hindered by slow starts to the second half. Freshman point guard Markus Burton, who averages a team-high 16.2 points per game, will look to spearhead the effort to fix that against Boston College alongside regular starters J.R. Konieczny, Kebba Njie and Carey Booth.

The Irish are shooting 40% from the field and 29% from the 3-point line. Freshman shooting guard Braeden Shrewsberry was named ACC Rookie of the Week on Monday for his performance last week which included a career-high 25 points against Georgia Tech. Sophomore forward Tae Davis missed Saturday with an ankle injury and is considered day-to-day heading into Monday evening. Davis averaged 8.3 points and 5.8 rebounds in his first 16 starts of the season.

ND is holding its opponents to 65.2 points per game, which is nearly 14 points fewer than Boston College's team average of 78.9 points per contest. Notre Dame's post defense will need to be prepared for the Eagles leading scorer, Quinten Post, who stands 7-foot, 235-pounds and averages a team-high 16.9 points per game. Junior guards Claudell Harris Jr. and Jaeden Zackery and sophomore forward Devin McGlokton also average at least 10 points per contest.

Boston College has lost three of its last four, with its last win coming against Georgia Tech, 95-87. The Irish needed overtime to defeat the Yellow Jackets 75-68 last Tuesday for head coach Micah Shrewsberry's first true road win at ND.

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... that Tommy Rees is the front-runner for the open Washington HC job.

He was back at Notre Dame this past weekend with his brother. This is what he said after the visit as it became clear Notre Dame was emerging as the frontrunner:

"It’s been amazing," Kia said. "I’m loving it. I had great meetings with coach Freeman, coach Golden and coach Bullough. Their pitch has been that Notre Dame is a special place that’s incomparable to anywhere else. Right now, Notre Dame is standing out the most."

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Before Notre Dame 2025 linebacker target Josiah "Ko'o" Kia flew back to Hawaii on Monday, I had an opportunity to discuss his weekend visit, interaction with the coaching staff and more on a call earlier this afternoon.

Ko'o is the younger brother of Kahanu Kia, who signed with the Irish in the 2021 recruiting class and returned to ND this weekend. Per Rivals, Ko'o is a three-star linebacker and the No. 3 player in Hawaii. He has 18 total offers including Notre Dame, California, Hawaii, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, USC and Utah. Ko'o attends Honolulu Punahou.

The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Ko'o received an offer from Notre Dame last January and was sent a recruiting graphic from the Irish last August.

On his visit:

"We came down, landed and it was real snowy," Ko'o told Inside ND Sports. "It was really cold. That was new to me being from Hawaii. But throughout the visit, I had a really great time ... had a lot of fun. I got to meet with all the coaches that I would be working with ... I got to see all the facilities and everything."

On his time with graduate assistant Max Bullough:

"I just had a lot of fun being with him because it was just straight ball. We we're just talking football. I definitely soaked up and learned a lot. And I can tell he has a lot to give in terms of football knowledge and things like that."

On his potential fit in the Irish defense:

"One thing they said they liked is my versatility. My sophomore year, I played off-ball outside linebacker. This past year, I played outside linebacker as well as on the edge. And this upcoming year, I'll probably move to inside. I think they plan on having me as an inside backer. I think it's good for me to be able to play all over. That will just help me get on the field as quick as possible wherever I end up."

Ko'o said he does not have a timetable for cutting his list or making a commitment but said last weekend's visit helped him a lot in getting a better understanding of Notre Dame.

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Notre Dame men’s basketball freshman shooting guard Braeden Shrewsberry was named ACC Rookie of the Week on Monday.

In two games, Shrewsberry averaged 16.5 points including a career-high 25 points in Notre Dame’s overtime win at Georgia Tech last Tuesday. Shrewsberry shot 7-of-14 from the 3-point line last week with five made 3-pointers against the Yellow Jackets.

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Notre Dame 2025 cornerback target Mark Zackery included the Irish in his top 10 schools on Monday.

Zackery, a four-star out of Indianapolis Ben Davis, picked up an offer last spring and visited Notre Dame last June, July and September.

The Irish join Cincinnati, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, Penn State, Tennessee and USC as Zackery’s finalists. Zackery told Inside ND Sports in June his dream school growing up was the Buckeyes.

Per Rivals, the 6-foot, 160-pound Zackery is the No. 196 overall player and No. 21 cornerback in the 2025 recruiting class. His primary recruiter is cornerbacks coach Mike Mickens.

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Zackery led Ben Davis to the IHSSA Class 6A state championship as a junior. He played both ways and finished with 39 tackles, four interceptions, eight pass breakups, three fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles. At wide receiver, he caught 53 passes for 823 yards and eight touchdowns.

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Several early enrollees of Notre Dame's 2024 recruiting class who signed last December have taken to Instagram and posted pictures marking their arrival on campus.

2024 four-star WR signee Cam Williams, 2024 five-star LB signee Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa and 2024 four-star RB signee Kedren Young

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2024 four-star WR signee Micah Gilbert

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2024 four-star RB signee Aneyas Williams

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Notre Dame football 2024 five-star LB signee Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa played an impactful role for the West team in Saturday's All-American Bowl. Inside ND Sports gives additional takeaways on Viliamu-Asa, Kedren Young and Bryce Young.

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It was just reported that saban has hired him as his new chauffeur. Go Irish

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Below is a lightly edited transcript of Micah Shrewsberry's postgame press conference following Saturday's 67-58 loss to Florida State.

Questions are paraphrased.

MICAH SHREWSBERRY

Opening statement:

“Congrats to Florida State. I thought they came in here and really took it to us early. I didn’t think we responded very well early either. That’s a coaching issue. I have to get these guys ready to go. I have to get them fired up to play. Spend more time doing the things that we need to do to make us a better team and be able to respond from success. We had success, and I thought we stayed in the success instead of moving to what’s next. That got us early in the game.”

Could you sense that the energy and focus was lacking early?

“Unfortunately, yes. There’s no excuses. You don’t make excuses. You have to play the game no matter what happens. But I thought the moment Tae Davis got hurt in practice, the air just left the entire building. We were super energetic leading up to that point. We were guarding our asses off in what we were doing. And he went down and it like sucked the air out of the whole thing and we never got it back. Maybe I need to do more to help them in that way. You try to keep going. You have to practice, because you have to be able to prepare for Florida State. You have to be able to practice. But that’s part of, I guess, having a young team. We didn’t respond well to success. We didn’t respond well to adversity. That carried over for us at the start. That’s on me. I saw it coming. You could see it. You could sense it. You try and talk to guys about it. Hey, hey, hey. But also, you have to be a player-led team. It’s not always a coach-led team. You have to try and get the right guys to really rally this group when you see it. I didn’t think our energy was there. Obviously, our focus. You’re 1-of-8 from the free-throw line in the first half – that’s focus. You go 19-for-21 the other day, but you miss free throws the game before that. So it’s not a technical issue. I’m shooting free throws the same exact way. It’s a focus issue. It’s a discipline issue of me choosing to go box out or me choosing not to box out when the shot goes up. Everybody knows Florida State’s going to rebound. Sending four guys to the glass. Everybody but Darin Green is going to the glass. So if I’m guarding Darin Green, I don’t have to turn and check. He ain’t going. He’s getting back on defense. The other four guys are going to the glass every single time. It’s a choice: Do I go hit my man or do I not go hit my man? Ten offensive rebounds in the first half, we made that choice to not go hit our man. That crushed us.”

How frustrating is it to not have the extra gear to take the lead once you’ve made a run to cut it close?

“We got the extra gear. We’re using that extra gear to catch up. Then we’re running out of juice. Don’t put yourself in that hole. Play at the level you’re supposed to play at. And now be in the game. So that juice you have to go from 14 to 5, won’t you take it from a tie game to a seven-point lead, won’t you take it from down two to up five. We’re using that extra juice to come back. We shouldn’t be putting ourselves in that hole. That’s where we have to be a little bit better.”

At what point does the talent level limit you in situations like this?

“I can’t take anything away from Florida State. But it’s another game you should have won. If you do what you’re supposed to do. Now, they’re different. They play a style of basketball that’s so different than everybody else in the league that you have to prepare for them in a different way. It really puts you in a mental strain. This ain’t a game for sets. I told our guys when we came back for Georgia Tech, we took the day off and then we came back to practice, what you did offensively from the start of the season, scrap it. It ain’t going to work against these dudes. You have to come up with something else. You spend so much time as a group getting to the point where you don’t have to think and you start playing off instincts. They have to go back and think again. Now we’re not playing at the same speed. We’re not playing the way we have been, because we’re thinking too much. That’s what they force you to do. It’s a talent issue, because we have young talent. We made young mistakes. Green gets a 3 in transition when we know that’s how he really hunts 3s in transition. But it’s a young mistake that we take the corner away and we don’t take him away. That’s a young mistake. As we get older, we’ll take those away. But we’re in games, we’re playing in games, we’re doing the right things. I’m not an excuse-maker. I deal with what you got. We’re going to play hard and we’re going to try and win every single game. We’ve had a chance to win every single game in this league if we just do what we’re supposed to do.”

What did you try to do to improve the second-half start?

“We’ve changed our halftime locker room routine. We’ve changed when I go talk to the team. We’ve tried playing music at halftime. I don’t know what it is. It’s our guys just being able to somebody just grab us and pull us all together before we go back out there and say, ‘Hey, man, come on. This is it. This is our push. This is our chance to start well.’ We’re just not doing it. Maybe we don’t need to go out there at all. Maybe we just stay out there, warm up, talk on the bench like a YMCA team or something. I don’t have an answer for that right now. We’re trying different things. We’re trying to do stuff. Tae being hurt limits who you start, who you play and how you rotate. So that hurt us a little bit with changing personnel. I’m going to start cutting up oranges and giving them to people.”

Do you think you’re being hard on yourself or have you identified the problem you need to fix?

“I’m always going to shoulder the blame. Win or lose, you always go with the game plan. You always think about adjustments that you should make. You always think about the subs that are going in and out. You always think about the runs that happen. I’ll be the first to admit, I can be better. I make mistakes. I’m always going to do that. I’m never putting anything on our guys. They’re trying. They make mistakes too. I need to do my part to get them ready. I need to do my part to have them where their juice is right. If they don’t have enough juice, then that’s on me. I need to change how we practice. I need to change what we do in shootaround.”

Is there anything you can do to help Kebba Njie and Matt Zona’s free-throw shooting?

“No. Kebba was 0-for-3, but he was like 4-for-4 or 6-for-6 last game. Zona — we shoot free throws in practice, after practice, during practice. We’re on break. Guys are allowed to get in the gym and shoot on their own too. There’s guys on our team that spend a lot of time in this gym and work. You’re free to do it. Sometimes it’s a little bit of pain of discipline or pain of regret. But they’re not trying to miss free throws. It’s not intentional. You feel bad for them. I hate that they do it at home, because everybody groans. Like dude missed one free throw to start the game and everybody’s like, ‘Ughhhh.’ How’s he supposed to feel shooting the second one? Just let us get some confidence, a little bit of confidence. Because you once you start doing it, it starts snowballing. And everybody feels that weight. Everybody feels that weight a little bit. I felt like it was that way. J.R.’s a good free throw shooter. He goes 1-for-3. Kebba’s a good free throw shooter. Zona’s a good free throw shooter. It just came back to bite us today.”

Is there a guy you have in mind that you want to get this team going? Or is just somebody do it and do it quick?

“Best teams are player-led teams. We haven’t had that person, right? Yet. Quite yet. Everybody’s in different roles. Everybody’s trying to feel out that different role and what they’re doing. Sometimes that chance for me to step up and be a leader, I’m still making sure I’m trying to do my job the right way. It’s hard to lead other people. Sometimes it’s hard to lead other people when you don’t play as much. Sometimes it’s really hard to lead other people when you make mistakes. You’re still trying to figure it out. That’s kind of where we are right now. So just collectively. I think we’ll get better holding each other accountable as we’re able to do our own job. But right now, we’re kind of focused on doing our job, because we’re not always quite sure if I’m doing my own job. It’s hard for me to tell you that like, ‘Hey, man, pick your stuff up,’ if I’m still worrying about am I supposed to be trapping the box on a rotation? Am I supposed to be dropping and hitting a big? Where do I go during this play? It’s hard for me to hold somebody accountable. It’s hard for me to lead somebody, when I’m still trying to figure everything out.”

What is the status of Tae Davis?

“He landed funny yesterday. He wanted to play today. He’s day-to-day. We’ll see. It’s a quick turnaround playing Boston College on Monday. I appreciate that, ACC. Last I checked, us and Boston College are the only two teams in the league that play on one-day rest this whole season. Not that I went through everybody’s schedule and checked that to see if anybody else played on a one-day rest. But we do. And there’s no excuses for us. But hopefully he can take the rest of today and tomorrow and be back to help us. If not, we have to fight. No excuses. Zero excuses for us to not to go there and fight.”

How do you help the team regain that focus in a quick turnaround?

“It starts with right now. We’re doing what we need to do to get our bodies right and be at 100%. We have to play the right way. Guys had to play more minutes. Doing that and then putting a game plan together and then quickly trying to figure out what we’re doing defensively and what we’re doing offensively. You’re coming off a loss. That should get everybody’s attention. Right away, it should get everybody’s attention to where it needs to be. So that will be a big part of it. We’ll be fired up to play.”

The snow outside won't prevent Notre Dame men's basketball from hosting Florida State today in Purcell Pavilion.

The Irish (7-9, 2-3 ACC) will try to create a winning streak after picking up a conference road win at Georgia Tech on Tuesday. The Seminoles (9-6, 3-1) came to South Bend with a three-game winning streak of their own with ACC home wins over Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

It's been an up-and-down season for Florida State with losses to Florida (69-68), Georgia (68-66), North Carolina (78-70), South Florida (88-72), SMU (68-57) and Lipscomb (78-75).

The Seminoles are led by forward Jamir Watkins (6-foot-7) and guard Darin Green Jr. (6-5). Watkins averages 13.1 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. Green scores 12.9 points with volume shooting from 3 (40-of-96).

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Diggs, who transferred to LSU from Notre Dame, ran for 653 yards this season...

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"I’m going to start cutting up oranges and giving them to people," Micah Shrewsberry said.

Anything to try to solve some of Notre Dame's recurring problems.

Here's what we learned Saturday against Florida State.

1. Tae Davis means a lot to this team
2. Notre Dame’s needs an on-floor leader
3. Size can give the Irish fits
4. Free-throw problems haven’t been fixed
5. Second-half starts remain an elusive issue

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The National Weather Service of Northern Indiana has announced a wind chill advisory for tomorrow, Sun. Jan. 14, for areas that encompass the University of Notre Dame. We ask all fans attending the Fighting Irish women’s basketball game versus the Miami Hurricanes to exercise caution and safety during their commute.

Fans unable to attend the game are now eligible to exchange their tickets for an upcoming game of their choice. Single-game tickets are non-refundable, however, they may be exchanged for any upcoming regular-season home game here.

Walk-up admission for fans without tickets will be complimentary.

If you still plan to attend the game, we encourage all fans to take necessary measures to stay safe in the winter weather! Here are a few tips:

● Dress warmly and stay dry. To maintain body heat when going outdoors, dress in several layers including a hat, a scarf or knit mask to cover your face and mouth, mittens, sleeves that are snug at the wrist, and a water-resistant coat and boots

● Walk carefully on snowy, icy walkways

● Keep extra blankets, flashlights with extra batteries, matches, a first aid kit, snow shovel, rock salt, and special-need items in your car

● Give yourself extra time to clear your car’s windows, mirrors, lights, and tailpipe of snow and ice

● When driving, stopping distances can be 10 times longer when it’s icy. Gentle maneuvers and slow speeds are the key to safe driving in ice and snow

The University has also taken numerous safety precautions — parking lots and sidewalks will be cleared and salted, fans will not need to wait outside of the Joyce Center, and parking shuttles will be operating on campus — and is prepared to welcome fans as safely and comfortably as possible.

You can catch the game on television on the CW and radio locally on 99.9 WQLQ-FM. The game is set to tip off at noon ET.