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the uptick, but will need some time to develop for the Fighting Irish." The group is also ranked No. 10 na- tionally by Scout.com and No. 11 by Rivals.com. With little time to cele- brate before focusing on the 2014 class, Brey took a few minutes to revel in his latest catch. "It's a very, very powerful day for MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Date Opponent Oct. 29 Quincy^ Nov. 2 2012-13 NOTRE DAME Nov. 10 Evansville$ Nov. 12 Monmouth$ Nov. 16 vs. St. Joseph's# our program, signing these four young men," Brey said. "It's interesting on signing day, when you kind of take a deep breath as a staff for maybe a couple hours, you look back at all the work and all the evaluation that went into this, and it's a total team ef- fort with our staff. I can't say enough about my assistants and the work they did on this class. "The thing is, you take about a three- hour break and enjoy it, and then you start working on the next class. By 5 o'clock tonight, I'm making recruit- ing calls. But I'm proud of this group, think they're a great fit. When you plug them in on the back end of our current freshmen, and you look at that nucleus playing together eventually in our program and playing in the ACC, I'm extremely excited about that." Jackson (6-2, 185) is ranked 59th overall in the 2013 class according to 247Sports, and will take over at the point once current junior Eric Atkins exhausts his eligibility. "That was a key one for us; a lot of work went into that one," Brey said of Jackson, a star at nearby Mishawaka Marian High. "We're thrilled to have him and thrilled he decided to stay home. "We always felt we were in pretty darn good position with him. We Cardinal Stritch^ Time (ET)/TV W, 111-52 W, 70-56 W, 68-59 W, 84-57 Nov. 17 vs. Brigham Young# W, 78-68 Nov. 21 George Washington Nov. 24 St. Francis (Pa.) Nov. 26 Chicago State Nov. 29 Kentucky@ Dec. 8 L, 79-70 (OT) 7 p.m. Dec. 15 vs. Purdue% Dec. 17 IPFW Brown Dec. 19 Kennesaw State Dec. 21 Niagara Jan. 5 Jan. 7 Seton Hall* Jan. 12 Jan. 21 Georgetown* Jan. 26 at USF* Jan. 30 Feb. 2 Feb. 4 Feb. 9 Jan. 15 at St. John's* Jan. 19 Rutgers* Villanova* at DePaul* at Syracuse* Feb. 13 DePaul* at Cincinnati* Connecticut* 4:30 p.m./ESPN2 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m./ESPNU 7 p.m./ESPN2 7 p.m. 1 p.m. 7 p.m./ESPNU TBA/BEN 7 p.m./ESPN2 TBA/BEN 7:30 p.m./ESPN TBA/BEN 7 p.m./ESPN2 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 champi- onship 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.