A Diagnosis of What's Ailing Notre Dame Basketball

The Athletic's Sabreena Merchant joins to discuss what is hopefully a blip season for the Fighting Irish women's team, including praise for Hannah Hidalgo, questions about roster construction, Niele Ivey's performance and whether women's basketball generally is in a bit of a rut. Then (42:30) Sam Werner (Three-Point Jesus podcast) and Joe Schueller (18 Stripes) discuss what has gone awry in Micah Shrewsberry's third season and where the men's program goes from here. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here:

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A Diagnosis of What's Ailing Notre Dame Basketball is an episode from Rakes Report: A Notre Dame podcast by Christopher Wilson.

This episode is 01:21:19 long.

This episode was published on Jan 28, 2026.

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