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came to Notre Dame at 172 pounds and has since bulked up to 187. "I probably tried one time and it didn't work out and I didn't really like it, so I shied away from it in high school," Biedscheid said. "But when I got here, Tony Rolinski, our strength and conditioning coach, just makes weight lifting fun and enjoyable and you want to get better. Without him, I'd prob- ably still be 172." In recent years, Brey has turned to freshmen Nov. 10 Evansville$ Nov. 12 Monmouth$ Date Opponent Oct. 29 Quincy^ Nov. 2 or first-year players out of sheer need. Atkins got his feet wet behind former Irish point guard Ben Hansbrough in 2010- 11, appearing in all 34 games and received the team's Outstanding Play- maker Award after aver- aging 5.8 points and 3.2 assists per game. He took over for Hansbrough full-time last season and barely ever left the floor. Grant played for the first time last winter and started 33 of 34 games, pouring in 12.3 points and distributing five as- Cardinal Stritch^ MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Time (ET)/TV 7 p.m. 9 p.m. TBA 2012-13 NOTRE DAME Dec. 15 vs. Purdue% Dec. 17 IPFW Brown Seton Hall* Rutgers* Nov. 16 vs. St. Joseph's# 9:30 p.m./TruTV Nov. 17 vs. Florida State/BYU# TBA/TruTV Nov. 21 George Washington Nov. 24 St. Francis (Pa.) Nov. 26 Chicago State Nov. 29 Kentucky@ Dec. 8 7 p.m. Dec. 19 Kennesaw State Dec. 21 Niagara Jan. 5 Jan. 7 Jan. 12 Jan. 15 at St. John's* Jan. 19 at Cincinnati* Connecticut* 4:30 p.m./ESPN2 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m./ESPNU TBA/BEN 7 p.m./ESPN2 TBA/BEN 7 p.m./ESPN2 TBA/BEN 7 p.m./ESPNU 7 p.m./ESPN2 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 1 p.m. Date Opponent Jan. 21 Georgetown* Jan. 26 at USF* Jan. 30 Feb. 2 Feb. 4 Feb. 9 Villanova* at DePaul* at Syracuse* Feb. 13 DePaul* Time (ET)/TV 7:30 p.m./ESPN TBA/BEN Feb. 16 at Providence* Feb. 18 at Pittsburgh* Feb. 24 Cincinnati* Louisville* 6 p.m. or 9 p.m./ESPN 7 p.m./BEN TBA/BEN 7 p.m./ESPN2 2 p.m./ESPN2 7 p.m./ESPN March 2 at Marquette* 2 p.m./ESPN/ESPN2 March 5 St. John's* March 9 at Louisville* March 12-16 Big East Championship! 7 p.m./ESPN 2 p.m./CBS 7 p.m./ESPN2 4 p.m./CBS TBA ^ Exhibition; $ CVC Classic; # CVC Classic championship rounds in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Notre Dame, BYU, Florida State and St. Joseph's); @ SEC/Big East Challenge; % Close The Gap Crossroads Classic in Indianapolis (Notre Dame, Purdue, Butler and Indiana); * Big East game; ! at Madison Square Garden in New York. sists per outing. Brey doesn't need the same production from Biedscheid and Auguste this year, but he hopes to benefit from their abili- ties off the bench. "I'm very excited be- cause I've seen [several] practices with Zach Au- guste and Cameron Bied- scheid," Brey said. "They will be a part of things. A lot of the teaching these first couple days, I'm going to be focused on them. Those guys gotta play. After that, there's not a whole lot left." ✦