Notre Dame and Boyd-Buchanan are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2021, but not for long. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are taking a road trip to take on the Boyd-Buchanan Buccaneers at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both are strolling into their matchups after big wins in their previous games.
Notre Dame is headed into the game after thoroughly thrashing Collegedale Academy: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Notre Dame blew Collegedale Academy out of the water with a 68-32 final score. The Fighting Irish pushed the score to 53-19 by the end of the third, a deficit the Collegedale Eagle had no chance of recovering from.
| 01/27/25 vs Collegedale Academy | 15 |
| 01/24/25 vs Grace Baptist Academy | 20 |
| 01/21/25 @ Tellico Plains | 26 |
| 01/20/25 @ Collegedale Academy | 31 |
| 01/18/25 @ Knoxville Catholic | 17 |
Cooper Campbell and Gaas Herman were among the main playmakers for Notre Dame as the former posted 17 points and the latter had 15 points. Herman has been hot for a while, having posted 15 or more points the last 18 times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Dax Brown, who put up nine points.
Meanwhile, Boyd-Buchanan had already won eight in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 35.1 points) and they went ahead and made it nine on Tuesday. They breezed by the Seahawks to the tune of 62-22. Given the Buccaneers' advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee basketball rankings (they are ranked 55th, while the Seahawks are ranked 233rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Notre Dame pushed their record up to 11-13 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 71.3 points per game. As for Boyd-Buchanan, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record this season.
Notre Dame lost to Boyd-Buchanan on the road by a decisive 53-37 margin in their previous matchup back in December of 2024. Can Notre Dame avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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