For the first time since the 2016-2017 season, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team has made the NCAA Tournament field of 68.
On the NCAA Tournament Selection Show just now on CBS, it was announced that Notre Dame had earned a bid to the Big Dance as one of two teams in the play-in game for the 11-seed in the West region, facing off against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in Dayton on Wednesday night.
The Irish finished the regular season with a 22-9 overall record and a 15-5 record in the ACC, good enough to tie them with the North Carolina Tar Heels for second place in the conference and earning them the 2-seed in this past week’s ACC Tournament due to their head-to-head win over UNC.