Game Thread | Auburn vs. Notre Dame | Legends Classic
Auburn (1-1) vs. Notre Dame (1-1) | Legends Classic
Date: November 16
Time: 9:00 PM ET
Where: Barclays Center | Brooklyn, N.Y.
TV: ESPN2 | Dave O’Brien and Jon Crispin
Line: Auburn -14.5
O/U: 145.5
QUICK FACTS
- Notre Dame and Auburn will meet for the first time on Thursday evening.
- Micah Shrewsberry enters the game 38-32 as a head coach, while Bruce Pearly boasts a career record of 636-257.
- Markus Burton leads all D1 freshmen in scoring at 23.0 ppg.
- Carey Booth is one of five freshmen in the country averaging at least 15.0 ppg, 7.0 rpg and shooting .450 from 3.
- Notre Dame is also the only school in the country that has two freshmen averaging at least 15.0 ppg.
PROJECTED STARTERS
Notre Dame
| Name | Points | Rebounds | Assists |
| Markus Burton | 23.0 | 4.5 | 3.0 |
| Braeden Shrewsberry | 3.5 | 2.0 | 0.5 |
| Julian Roper II | 10.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 |
| Tae Davis | 5.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 |
| Matt Zona | 3.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 |
Auburn
| Name | Points | Rebounds | Assists |
| Tre Donaldson | 4.5 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
| Denver Jones | 10.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 |
| Jaylin Williams | 6.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 |
| Chris Moore | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Johni Broome | 17.0 | 11.0 | 2.0 |
TEAM STATS
| STAT | AUBURN | NOTRE DAME |
| Scoring Offense | 84.0 | 65.5 |
| Scoring Defense | 79.5 | 67.0 |
| FG% | 42.9% | 44.1% |
| Rebounds | 42.0 | 36.5 |
| Assists | 19.5 | 9.5 |
| Steals | 5.5 | 2.5 |
| Blocks | 8.5 | 2.0 |
NOTABLE MICAH SHREWSBERRY QUOTES
On potentially having a different starting lineup:
”We’ll find out. That’s what practices are for. These guys are going to tell me who is going to start. There’s nothing that starts at the beginning of the year and is like set and how we’re playing the rest of the year. Every day is an opportunity for you to earn something. That’s why practices are so important. There are important for us to learn, but important for guys to still compete and get better, but also establish who they want to be. If they want more, go and get more in practice.”
On Auburn forward Johni Broome:
”Does little bit of everything. Shown he's an NBA big guy. We've got to be good; we've got to be disciplined. We've got to keep him off the glass. It's a total team effort. Not one-on-one. It's on us as a team. Help each other. We have to put it all together to try and slow him down.”
On early impressions of Notre Dame’s bigs:
”Now we're stepping up to a totally different weight class. NBA player. Cardwell - plays as hard as anybody we’ve seen. We have to match their effort. We don't match their effort, we don't match their intensity, then they're going to dominate us in that paint. It's a total team effort. When the shot goes up, it's a choice - do you want to win, do you not want to win? Am I hitting somebody or am I getting hit?”
Injury update on forward Kebba Njie:
”He got to see the doctor yesterday and got his cast off. Now it’s about health. How’s everything healing. How he’s feeling. The one thing I’m never going to do is put games or anything else ahead of anybody's health. I want him to be 100 percent healthy. I want him to feel like I’m ready to play before we ever put him out there.
“There is no timetable on when he comes back or when he plays. It’s really like when he is able to play, when does the doc says yes, he’s good to go’ and when Kebba says yes he’s good to go and then I’ll feel comfortable putting him out there.”
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