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Pitt to Face Notre Dame in Mike Brey's Final Home Game

The Pitt Panthers will have a chance to send legendary Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey out in his final home game.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt to Face Notre Dame in Mike Brey's Final Home Game
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PITTSBURGH -- Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey sent shockwaves throughout the ACC when he announced that he would retire at the end of the season after more than two decades leading that program and 28 years as a Division I head coach. And the Pitt Panthers will get a chance to spoil the end to his final season when they visit South Bend to face the Irish for the final home game of Brey's career. 

Pitt visits South Bend, Indiana on March 1 to play their penultimate game of the regular season and it will also be Brey's final home game . This comes one year after the Panthers hosted Mike Krzyzewski for the final ACC road game of his illustrious career at Duke. 

When he took over as head coach of the Irish in 2000, they hadn't made an NCAA Tournament in a decade. But Brey led the program to the Big Dance in each of his first three seasons and a Sweet Sixteen in 2003. The former Duke assistant and Deleware head coach ends his time at Notre Dame as the program's all-time winningest coach. 

Under his leadership, the Irish own an .805 winning percentage at home, which doesn't bode well for the road warrior Panthers, who own the best road record in ACC play so far this season. 

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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