Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball | |||||||||
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| University | University of Notre Dame | ||||||||
| First season | 1896–97 | ||||||||
| All-time record | 1976–1126–1 (.637) | ||||||||
| Athletic director | Pete Bevacqua | ||||||||
| Head coach | Micah Shrewsberry (2nd season) | ||||||||
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference | ||||||||
| Location | Notre Dame, Indiana | ||||||||
| Arena | Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center (capacity: 9,149) | ||||||||
| Nickname | Fighting Irish | ||||||||
| Colors | Blue and gold | ||||||||
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| NCAA tournament Final Four | |||||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||
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| Pre-tournament Helms champions | |||||||||
| 1927, 1936 | |||||||||
| Conference tournament champions | |||||||||
| 2015 | |||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||
| 2001 | |||||||||
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish Men's Basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of NCAA Division I. On September 12, 2012, Notre Dame announced they would be moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference; they joined the conference on July 1, 2013.
The school holds two retroactively awarded national championships in basketball from the Helms Foundation: for the 1927 (19–1 overall record) and 1936 (22–2–1 overall record) seasons. They have also played in the NCAA tournament 36 times, good for 9th all time, and reached the Final Four in 1978. The Irish hold the record for most Tournament appearances without a championship or championship game appearance, one of five teams (along with Texas, Temple, Illinois and Oklahoma) to have 30 or more appearances without a title and one of three teams (along with Texas and Temple) to have more than 30 appearances without either. They are also the first Big East team to go undefeated at home two straight seasons.
The Fighting Irish play their home games in the Purcell Pavilion at the Edmund P. Joyce Center. Since moving to the Purcell Pavilion in 1968, they have had 44 winning seasons at the Purcell Pavilion, including 5 undefeated seasons at home (1973, 1985, 2006, 2007, and 2010) and have had only 4 losing seasons at the Purcell Pavilion (1971, 1981, 1992, and 1995). Jeff Sagarin and ESPN listed the program 12th in the college basketball all-time rankings in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia. The Fighting Irish are currently coached by Micah Shrewsberry.