Wednesday offers first peek at Notre Dame men's basketball team for 2023-24 season
Notre Dame men's basketball vs. Hanover
∎ WHAT: Exhibition
∎ WHERE: Purcell Pavilion (9,149)
∎ WHEN: Wednesday at 7 p.m.
∎ TV: None
∎ RADIO: None
∎ ONLINE: Follow every Notre Dame game with live updates from Tribune beat writer Tom Noie at X (formerly Twitter) at twitter.com/tnoieNDI
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∎ NOTING: Hanover’s roster features 21 players for 2023-24 season, all of whom hail from either Indiana or Kentucky. Fourteen of the 21 are guards with the tallest player on the roster being 6-foot-8 (Jackson Bobo). … Jon Miller, a 1997 Hanover graduate, is entering his 16th season as head coach. He’s only the program’s third head coach since 1965. Notre Dame has had six over that period. … The Panthers finished 17-10 overall, 12-6 in league play and 6-5 on the road in 2022-23. They averaged 74.1 ppg., and allowed 67.2. They led the league in scoring margin (6.9) and 3-point percentage (.370). They were second in 3-point field goal percentage defense (.337) and assist/turnover ratio (1.23). ... Guards Ty Houston and Max Greenamoyer, now both seniors, ranked first and second on the squad in scoring last season at 16.3 and 14.4 points per game. … … Hanover was picked this season to finish third, with one first-place vote, in the 10-team Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. … Notre Dame was picked to finish last − 15th − in the Atlantic Coast Conference. ... Hanover is a Division III private school with an enrollment of 1,070 student located in Hanover, Indiana, … Notre Dame head coach Micah Shrewsberry is a 1999 Hanover graduate. A three-year starter and tri-captain, Shrewsberry led the conference in free throw percentage and assists his senior season. … Irish associate head coach Kyle Getter is a 2001 Hanover graduate. … These teams have never met. ... This is Notre Dame’s lone exhibition of preseason after it participated in a secret scrimmage Oct. 22 at Xavier. … Hanover opens the regular season Nov. 9 vs. Spalding University. … Notre Dame opens the regular season Monday at home against Niagara.
∎ QUOTING: “Every single one of these games is important to me. I want our guys to feel the same exact way. There’s nobody above us; there’s nobody that’s beneath us. They all require the same effort and energy to win.”
-Irish coach Micah Shrewsberry
-Tom Noie
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