Notre Dame coach Mike Brey to step down: Winningest coach in Combating Irish historical past is out at finish of season

Notre Dame males’s basketball coach Mike Brey plans to step down on the finish of the 2022-23 season, this system introduced Thursday afternoon. Brey, 63, is within the midst of his twenty third season main the Notre Dame program.

“It has been an incredible run for me and our program over the previous 20 years, however it’s time for a brand new voice to guide this group into the longer term,” Brey mentioned in a press release launched by the college. “I need to thank our student-athletes, assistant coaches and help employees who’ve performed such a key function within the tradition we now have created.”

The Irish, off to a 9-10 begin this season this season, are 481-269 since Brey took over at Notre Dame in 2000. The winningest coach in program historical past, he led the Irish to an ACC Match title in 2014 within the first and solely 30+ win season underneath his steerage in what was the height level of his tenure. That sparked a three-year run by which the workforce made the NCAA Match in three straight seasons and went 82-28.

Notre Dame within the time since has made only one NCAA Match look in that span and never superior past the second weekend of the event since consecutive Elite Eight appearances in 2015 and 2016. This system gained 24 video games final season and appeared to be on the upswing after an 11-win 2020-21 season, however in 19 video games this season Notre Dame has struggled and is only one recreation above final place within the ACC.

“Mike (Brey) and I’ve talked usually in recent times a couple of future transition in this system’s management and through our most up-to-date dialog we reached the mutual conclusion that the top of this season represented the best time,” Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick mentioned. “That Mike is the winningest coach within the 119-year historical past of Notre Dame males’s basketball speaks to his talent as a trainer of the sport. His even larger legacy, nonetheless, lies in his achievements as an educator and mentor of the younger males who performed for him. In that sense, he represents this College in addition to any coach I’ve labored with throughout my time at Notre Dame. And for that cause, I look ahead to working with Mike to outline his future function inside Notre Dame Athletics.”

An exasperated Brey, after falling at dwelling Tuesday to a down Florida State in Notre Dame’s fourth loss in its final 5 outings, appeared to foreshadow the transfer following the loss to the Seminoles earlier within the week. In his postgame press convention he lamented his lack of ability to assist this workforce win video games and confirmed frustration in himself for not pushing the best buttons to show issues round.

“I definitely have not been in a position to assist them a lot. I advised them that. I mentioned, ‘I’ve achieved a horrible job with you, fellas.'” he mentioned. “I [told the team], ‘I misinterpret you.’ I believed we might be able to compete. That is the boss’s accountability. Completely accountable. Completely accountable.” 

Brey led the Irish to consecutive Elite Eight appearances in 2015 and 2016 however made only one NCAA Match look within the final six seasons. 

Brey’s illustrious teaching profession started as an assistant underneath Corridor of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski within the Eighties earlier than spreading his wings and taking his personal head teaching gig at Delaware in 1995. He went 99-52 in 5 seasons there and twice made the NCAA Match earlier than leaping to take the Notre Dame job. 

Constant profitable as a stabilizing drive outlined Brey’s teaching profession at each Delaware and at Notre Dame the place he gained massive and helped information this system’s by means of uncertainty. Within the mid-Nineties he was a key drive in main Delaware from the NAC to the AEC, and after one season gained consecutive regular-season titles within the new league. At Notre Dame he additionally helped lead this system to a brand new convention because it transitioned from the Huge East to the ACC in 2013. The primary season within the ACC resulted in a 15-17 season earlier than a career-best 32-win season.

Amongst energetic NCAA coaches at their present Division I colleges, Brey’s 481 wins with Notre Dame ranks sixth-most. His 580 profession wins are tied for Seventy fifth-most all-time with Fran Dunphy. 

“I depart this place with immense gratitude to the College and I am pleased with the whole lot we have completed collectively,” Brey mentioned. “I look ahead to working with Jack in any function that may assist the Notre Dame household.”