Notre Dame’s Brey says ‘we lost momentum,’ time is right
Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey looks on in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jacob Kupferman]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Mike Brey says he started thinking the time was right to step down as Notre Dame men’s basketball coach in March on the plane ride home following the Irish’s NCAA Tournament run. He says he was certain by last week. Brey also says losses in seven of eight Atlantic Coast Conference games tells him that the program had lost momentum and that a new voice was needed to lead the Irish. He will step down at the end of the season after winning a school-record 481 games and leading the program for a school-record 23 years.
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Notre Dame's Ven-Allen Lubin (2) looks to the basket as Florida State's Caleb Mills, right, tries to knock the ball away from him during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
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