{"id":324948,"date":"2025-10-06T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/324948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:03:20","slug":"notre-dame-mens-basketball-ranked-no-8-in-usa-todays-preseason-acc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/324948\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame men&#8217;s basketball ranked No. 8 in USA Today&#8217;s preseason ACC rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Notre Dame football tries to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/where-did-notre-dame-move-195542981.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:get back into the College Football Playoff race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get back into the College Football Playoff race<\/a> after an 0-2 start, basketball season is quickly approaching.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/notre-dame-fighting-irish\/3509\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fighting Irish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fighting Irish<\/a> men&#8217;s basketball program has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/story\/sports\/college\/basketball\/2025\/10\/06\/where-is-notre-dame-basketball-in-usa-today-acc-preseason-poll-duke-north-carolina-state\/86545227007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:picked to finish No. 8;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">picked to finish No. 8<\/a> out of 18 teams in USA Today&#8217;s preseason rankings. Additionally, junior guard Markus Burton was named to the 2025-26 preseason all-ACC first team. Burton averaged 21.3 points per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Irish are <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/acc-releases-full-regular-season-235305635.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:looking to bounce back after a 15-18 campaign;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking to bounce back after a 15-18 campaign<\/a>. Along with Burton, returnee Braeden Shrewsberry is a key piece as he <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/notre-dames-braeden-shrewsberry-cleared-181002934.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:gets back to 100 percent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gets back to 100 percent<\/a> after an injury, while transfer imports Carson Towt (Northern Arizona) and Matthew MacLellan (Madonna University) as well as true freshman Jalen Haralson look to help the Irish move up the league standings under Micah Shrewsberry, who is 28-38 overall in two seasons in South Bend.<\/p>\n<p>How well the freshman wing Haralson adjusts to the college level could be the team&#8217;s X-factor. Haralson is the program&#8217;s highest-rated recruit of the internet era and was a McDonald&#8217;s All-American who can play multiple positions.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishWireND\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@IrishWireND;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@IrishWireND<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheFightingIrishWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Notre Dame news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Follow Dave on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Miller_Dave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miller_Dave;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miller_Dave<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingirishwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/fighting-irish\/mens-basketball\/2025\/10\/06\/notre-dame-basketball-ranked-eighth-usa-today-preseason-poll\/86550107007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Notre Dame is ranked No. 8 in USA Today preseason basketball poll;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Notre Dame is ranked No. 8 in USA Today preseason basketball poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Notre Dame football tries to get back into the College Football Playoff race after an 0-2 start,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,18380,12485,2562,20716,33800,18732,8784,29041],"class_list":{"0":"post-324948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-braeden-shrewsberry","10":"tag-college-football-playoff","11":"tag-fighting-irish","12":"tag-markus-burton","13":"tag-micah-shrewsberry","14":"tag-notre-dame-football","15":"tag-preseason-rankings","16":"tag-usa-today"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115328542911645932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}