DOUBLE TAKE -- Notre Dame freshman RHP Ryan Sharpley and junior 3B Evan Sharpley became the first set of brothers to start the same game (vs. Lehigh) since at least 1968. Frank and Bill Orga each earned monograms during the `68 season, but archives can't confirm whether or not they started in the same game. The Irish have had 13 sets of brothers who both have earned monograms with ND baseball. Of those, only four earned monograms for the same season:

1968 - OF/1B Frank Orga and OF Bill Orga (Pittsburgh natives)
1939 - OF Roy Pinelli and SS Ray Pinelli (San Francisco)
1913 - SS Samuel Newning and 3B Harry Newning (Houston)
1908-09 - LHP Francis Scanlan and C Ray Scanlan (Syracuse)

There have been only two sets of monogram-winning baseball brothers at Notre Dame since the early 1980s and all four were drafted (Scott and Steve Sollmann/Ryan and Tim Kalita). Scott's career started three years after Steve's final season at Notre Dame and Ryan narrowly missed pitching on the same staff as Tim (who signed in '99, Ryan was a freshman that following fall).

LILLEY LITTERED THROUGHOUT IRISH RECORD BOOKS - Notre Dame senior SS Brett Lilley is all over the Irish career record book. Lilley ranks tied for second all-time in career on-base percentage (.484), seventh in sacrifice bunts (29) and tied for sixth in total sacrifices (36). He is also on pace to finish his career among the top time all-time in the following categories: games played, games started, consecutive games started, at-bats, hits, runs scored, walks and assists.

ON-BASE REGULAR - Senior Brett Lilley entered his final season in 2008 with the chance to etch his name throughout the Notre Dame record book. The feisty infielder has started all 190 games in which he has played over his career (would move into the top 10 of most career starts with 17 more starts) while owning a .346 career batting average and the second-best career on-base percentage (.484) in the Irish baseball record book. A large chunk of his times on base have come via the hit-by-pitch (85), placing him second in NCAA history and seven back of the record (his former ND teammate Cody Rizzo is third all-time with 84). Lilley became the seventh Notre Dame baseball player ever to be named all-BIG EAST three or more times, earning third team honors in 2007 while leading the Irish in 11 categories and ranking second in five others. His BIG EAST-leading .512 on-base percentage in 2007 ranked 11th in the nation and is seventh in Notre Dame history (second-best since the early 1990s) while his 27 HBPs ended up being fourth-most among the nation's players in 2007. Lilley also ended up with the sixth-best batting average among BIG EAST players (.371), also ranking ninth in runs (55) and 11th in walks (31), and he reached base in all but three of the 56 games in 2007- including a stretch to end the season that saw him reach in each of the final 20 games.

WEILAND QUICK NOTES - Junior RHP Kyle Weiland returns to the back end of the bullpen in 2008. Due to injuries and lack of depth last year, Weiland was forced to move into the starting rotation. He went 5-3 with a 5.66 ERA over 13 appearances and six starts. As a closer in 2006, Weiland ranked among the nation's elite freshmen, receiving top Freshman All-America honors from Baseball America (one of 14 on the first team), Collegiate Baseball and the The Rosenblatt Report/Rivals.com while also being invited to the annual USA Baseball National Team trials. A second team all-BIG EAST selection that year, the lanky 6-foot-4 righthander finished third nationally with a school-record 16 saves and compiled a 2.37 ERA that ranked fourth-best on the Irish staff. His 30 appearances were one shy of the Irish freshman record (31) set by current big-leaguer Aaron Heilman in 1998 (when he led the nation with a 1.61 ERA). In addition to posting nearly a 2.5-to-1 strikeout-to-walk average (48/20) in 2006, Weiland logged 11 more innings (49.1) than hits allowed (39, with only one home run) and limited opponents to a .224 opponent batting average that ranked third-best ever by a Notre Dame freshman behind Heilman's .198 in `98 and the .201 allowed by Larry Mohs in `94. Weiland converted all but one of his save opportunities en route to nearly doubling Heilman's freshman save record (9) while his 16 saves were three better than the previous overall Irish record (13), set by J.P. Gagne in 2003.

MR. DURABLE -- Senior SS Brett Lilley takes the term "everyday player" to another level. Lilley has started 190 consecutive games (every game in which he has played over his career). He has started 70 consecutive games at shortstop.

DOUBLE DUTY -- The Irish baseball team has historically featured a number of student-athletes that also competed in football. The 2008 season is no different. Junior 3B/DH Evan Sharpley (QB), sophomore RHP Eric Maust (P) and freshman OF Golden Tate (WR/KR) will each make major contributions this spring.

FIRST TIME A CHARM, LITERALLY -- Junior 3B/DH Evan Sharpley could not have picked a better time to drill his first career home run. Sharpley's solo, walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning capped off a come-from-behind 11-10 victory over Maine on March 4.

MOST RECENT IRISH WALK-OFF BOMBS --

IRISH DONE IN BY LONG BALL -- Notre Dame has already surrendered 16 home runs on its first 14 games (on pace to give up nearly 64 long balls). The Irish have allowed a home run in eight of their 14 games. In fact, Notre Dame has yielded multi-home runs on six different occasions. The Irish allowed just 20 and 18 home runs, respectively, during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. The most home runs ever allowed by a Notre Dame squad is 55 set during the 1999 season. Ironically, the Irish went 43-18, captured the BIG EAST regular season title and reached the NCAA Regionals.

AROUND THE HORN -

FREQUENT FLYERS - Notre Dame has already done its fair share of travelling over its first 14 games of the season. The Irish, who recently finished off an eight-game, nine day swing of games in Florida and Texas, return to the Longhorn State for three more games last weekend. Notre Dame is about to embark on a stretch of eight more games in nine days (including six on the road. The Irish have logged more than 10,939 miles (not including this weekend's trip) of total team travel this season (listings indicate round trip miles):

	                Air (Road)
Tampa, Fla.	        2,346 (238)
Palm Beach, Fla.	2,630 (244)
Corpus Christi, Texas	2,709 (96)
San Antonio, Texas	2,484 (192)
Washington, D.C.	1,406 (192)
Total Round Trip Miles	12,345 (962)

Who's Hot -- Senior Brett Lilley enters this weekend with a eight-game hitting streak ... Lilley actually has a hit in 13 of Notre Dame's 14 games this season (hitless against Boston College on March 2) ... 11 of the 14 games Lilley has just a single hit (including his last seven outings) ... Sophomore A.J. Pollock is hitting .400 (8-for-20) over his last five games ... Pollock has recorded two multi-hit games of his last three outings, four of six and five of eight ... Freshman Greg Sherry has registered a hit in five of the seven games he has started (three games with two or more hits) ... Sophomore Billy Boockford has registered an RBI in three consecutive games (had just one RBI over the first 11 games of the season) ... Junior Kyle Weiland has fanned 12 batters this season over just 7.2 innings ... Weiland has actually struck out eight of the last 15 batters he has faced.

Last Five Games
A.J. Pollock .400 (8-for-20, 5 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBI)
Jeremy Barnes .368 (7-for-19, 4 R, 1 HR, 6 RBI)
Greg Sherry .333 (5-for-15, 5 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI)
Brett Lilley .294 (5-for-17, 5 R, 1 2B, 5 RBI)
Billy Boockford .294 (5-for-17, 4 R, 3 RBI)
Sean Gaston .267 (4-for-15, 2 R, 1 3B, 3 RBI)
Ross Brezovsky .143 (2-for-14, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI)

Last 10 Games
A.J. Pollock .395 (17-for-43, 8 R, 4 2B, 1 HR, 7 RBI)
Jeremy Barnes .344 (11-for-32, 5 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 9 RBI)
Brett Lilley .270 (10-for-37, 11 R, 1 2B, 5 RBI)
Billy Boockford .267 (8-for-30, 4 R, 3 RBI)
Sean Gaston .258 (8-for-31, 5 R, 1 3B, 5 RBI)
Ross Brezovsky .167 (5-for-30, 5 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBI)

PHELPS Named To Clemens Award Watch List -- Junior RHP David Phelps has been named to the preseason watch list for the 2008 Roger Clemens Award, given annually to the top pitcher in collegiate baseball. The watch list will be narrowed down to 10 semifinalists in mid-May and then to three finalists in early June. The 2008 winner will be announced in early summer.

IRISH OFFENSE, EARL WEAVER -- Notre Dame entered the 2008 season with a total of 23 career home runs from returning players. Of those 23 long balls, 14 or just 60-percent have been of the three-run variety. Senior SS Brett Lilley has drilled four career home runs and three of them have driven in three runs, including his go-ahead bomb against Iowa on Feb. 23. Senior OF Ross Brezovsky has hit eight career bombs and three are three-run taters. Interestingly, five of Notre Dame's seven home runs are solo shots this season.

HITTING STREAKS -- Heading into this weekend's opening BIG EAST series with Georgetown, three Notre Dame players carry hitting streaks of three games or more.

Player Statistics During Streak
Brett Lilley (8) .300 (9-for-30, 9 R, 1 2B, 5 RBI)
A.J. Pollock (3) .462 (6-for-13, 4 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBI)
Sean Gaston (3) .364 (4-for-11), 2 R, 1 3B, 3 RBI)

IRISH NOTES FROM WHATABURGER CLASSIC --

IRISH NOTES FROM PALM BEACH CHALLENGE --

NOTRE DAME NOTES FROM CLEARWATER CLASSIC --

ON DECK -- After the three-game BIG EAST series with Georgetown this weekend, Notre Dame will will play Ball State (March 25) and Wisconsin-Milwaukee (March 26) before opening the conference home schedule with Cincinnati (March 28-30).

RANKINGS -- Notre Dame is unranked in each of the four polls. Georgetown is also unranked.

FREEBIES UPDATE - Over his years as a head coach, Notre Dame skipper Dave Schrage has utilized a formula to measure how many free bases a team allows during a given year. The formula adds walks allowed, errors, stolen bases allowed, hit batters, wild pitches, passed balls, and balks and divides that total by the number of games played. In 2007, the Irish allowed nearly 8.7 "freebies" per game. By comparison, Notre Dame's 2006 team allowed just 6.2 per game en route to totaling 45 wins. The Irish did not open the season very well in the department, allowing 10.7 per game over their first three games, but have since lowered the average to 7.4.

Freebies	ND 2008	        ND 2007	        ND 2006
Walks Allowed	53	        191	        170
Errors	        14	        83	        68
SB Allowed	10	        73	        65
Hit Batters	17	        61	        50
Wild Pitches	5	        45	        23
Passed Balls	2	        27	        6
Balks	        2	        5	        7
TOTAL	        103 (7.4/gm)	485 (8.7/gm)	389 (6.2/gm)

PLENTY OF WAYS TO FOLLOW THE IRISH - Notre Dame baseball fans will have several options for tracking the 2008 season on a game-by-game basis, through live streaming video (Notre Dame home games only), live-audio broadcasts, GameTracker live stats, free Irish Alert text messages and the ND Sports Hotline:

PHELPS COPS TOP PRESEASON HONOR - Notre Dame junior right-handed pitcher David Phelps - one of two Irish pitchers ever to post 100-plus strikeouts and an ERA under 2.00 during the same season - has been named to the 2008 preseason watch list for the Brooks Wallace Award.

Phelps earned first team all-BIG EAST Conference honors in 2007, joining former All-Americans Aaron Heilman (in '99) and Chris Niesel (in '03) as the youngest Notre Dame pitchers ever named to the BIG EAST's top team (each earned the honor as sophomores). Heilman is the only other Notre Dame pitcher ever to reach 100 Ks while also having a sub-2.00 ERA in the same season (111 Ks, 1/74 ERA; as a senior in 2001).

Phelps finished the 2007 season as the league leader in overall ERA (1.87; good for 14th in the nation) and strikeouts (102; sixth in ND history) while ranking third among BIG EAST pitchers with 110.1 innings pitched, seventh in low opponent batting average (.236) and eighth in wins (8-5). He was one of only six pitchers in the nation who entered the 2007 postseason with an ERA under 2.00, eight or more wins and 90-plus strikeouts.

Phelps posted the 11th-best season ERA in the Notre Dame record book and eighth-best of the aluminum-bat era (since the early 1980s). He led the 2007 Irish staff in ERA, wins, strikeouts, innings, starts (15; sixth in the BIG EAST), Ks looking (42) and groundouts (119), also ranking third in low opp. batting avg. He had 15 more innings pitched than hits allowed (96) and finished with the staff's second-best K-to-walk ratio (3.4; 102/30) - while his nine-inning averages included a team-best 7.1 innings per start, 8.3 Ks (2nd on the team) and 2.5 walks (3rd-lowest on the staff), plus 7.8 hits per 9 IP.

The fifth different Notre Dame pitcher ever to reach 100 strikeouts in a season, Phelps reached double-digit strikeouts three times during the 2007 regular season and then had a 9-K game in the BIG EAST Tournament versus Villanova. He totaled five complete games in the 2007 season and is is one of only three Notre Dame pitchers to post four or more nine-inning complete games in a season. The only Notre Dame pitchers to total more strikeouts in a season than Phelps are Heilman (118 in '99 and '00; 111 in '01), Jeff Manship (111 in '06) and Tamayo (106 in '01).

SCHOLARLY STANDOUT - In addition to his impressive accomplishments on the field as a three-time all-BIG EAST performer, senior SS Brett Lilley has reached near-perfection in the classroom during his first three years at Notre Dame. The College Sports Information Directors of America recognized Lilley's excellence as a student-athlete by naming him a first team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American, in recognition of his 3.81 cumulative grade-point average as an accounting major. Lilley - whose older sister Tricia was an Academic All-America shortstop on the 2006 Purdue softball team - quickly returned to campus following the end of Notre Dame's 2007 season, in order to begin taking the first of three summer-school courses that will allow him to graduate one semester early (following the 2007 fall semester). He then intends to enroll in the intensive one-year master's in accountancy program at Notre Dame, with the plan being to start those classes in the 2008 spring semester before concluding sometime later that calendar year (pending a possible stint in pro baseball during the summer of '08).

Lilley has compiled a 3.95 GPA over his past three semesters at Notre Dame, despite taking an overworked load of 21 classes and 60 credit hours in that three-semester span. His stellar run in the classroom began in-season during the 2006 spring semester, as Lilley posted a 4.0 GPA despite taking an 18-credit load. The following fall, he ramped up to 21 credits but still managed to post a 3.95 (with six A grades and a B-plus) before adding a 3.95 in the recently-completed 2007 spring term (again with 21 credits, with all As except for a B-plus in a 1.5-credit course). Lilley's 21 grades over the span of those three semesters includes 19 As and the pair of B-plus marks while his 36 total classes at Notre Dame now have included 25 As, five A-minuses, four B-plus grades, a B and a B-minus. He is the 18th different Notre Dame baseball player to be named an Academic All-American (10th to be on the first team) and in 2008 could become the seventh ever to repeat that honor. Notre Dame baseball players now have combined to earn Academic All-America honors 11 times in the current decade. Lilley was among the youngest players among the 13 who were named to the elite 2007 first team Academic All-America squad that included eight seniors and five juniors, meaning that he could be a leading candidate for Academic All-American of the Year candidates in 2008. Phelps - who took a 3.36 cumulative GPA into the 2007 spring semester (as a double major in psychology and computer applications) - earlier had joined Lilley in earning first team Academic All-District honors and thus advanced to the Academic All-America ballot, which produced only three sophomores among the 39 final Academic All-Americans.

ACE PRODUCTION - Despite playing a minimal role as a freshman on the 2006 Notre Dame squad, junior RHP David Phelps returned for a sophomore surge in 2007 that saw him emerge as the unquestioned leader of the Irish pitching staff. As college baseball headed into NCAA Tournament play, Phelps held the rare distinction of being one of six pitchers in the nation with an earned-run average under 2.00 (1.88; 10th-best in the nation), eight or more victories (8-5) and 100-plus strikeouts (102). He ended up leading the BIG EAST in ERA and strikeouts while ranking second with 110.1 innings pitched, sixth in wins and seventh in low opponent batting average (.236). Phelps picked up three of Notre Dame's top wins of the 2007 season - versus #12 TCU, #7 Nebraska and at BIG EAST leader Rutgers (in the series opener) - but he easily could have totaled 12 or more victories, if not for poor run support (the Irish averaged just 5.4 runs in his 15 starts) and untimely defensive breakdowns that saw 12 of the runs charged to him be unearned (three of his losses were due to unearned runs). His 1.88 ERA ranks eighth-best among Irish pitchers during the aluminum-bat era (since the early 1980s) while his 102 strikeouts rank sixth on the Notre Dame season record book. Phelps allowed 0-2 earned runs in 11 of his 15 starts during the 2007 season and only once yielded more than three earned runs in a game (4, vs. Pittsburgh). His nine-inning averages included a team-best 7.1 innings per start while he totaled nearly a 3.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio (102/30; 3.4), had 15 more innings pitched than hits allowed (96), averaged nearly a strikeout per inning (8.6 Ks per 9 IP) and became one of just four Irish pitchers in the past 12 seasons to post four or more nine-inning complete games in a season (4, plus one in which he pitched 8.0 innings). He joined the elite company of former All-Americans Aaron Heilman (`in '99) and Chris Niesel ('03) as the only Notre Dame sophomore pitchers ever named first team all-BIG EAST (no Notre Dame freshman pitchers ever have been first-teamers).

ONE-TWO PUNCH - Notre Dame featured one of the top hitting duos in the BIG EAST during the 2007 season, as sophomore OF/3B A.J. Pollock (.372) and senior SS Brett Lilley (.371) were one of only two pairs of BIG EAST teammates to each hit above .370. The Irish duo actually had the same number of hits (73) but Pollock had one fewer at-bat to narrowly finish atop the team batting charts. The BIG EAST recognized 41 total players with all-conference honors in 2007 and Notre Dame - with Lilley and Pollock - was the only team in the conference that featured both of its leftside infielders on the all-BIG EAST teams.

ROOKIE REWARDS - After narrowly edging Lilley atop the 2007 team batting charts, Pollock became just the fourth freshman ever to lead the Notre Dame baseball team in season batting average (he and Lilley are the only ones to do so since the early 1990s). Pollock's impressive all-around season - which earned him Freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball magazine - saw him finish with the third-best season batting average ever by a Notre Dame freshman (best since 1994), with that .372 mark ranking fourth best among all of the BIG EAST players in 2007 (behind two senior sluggers and Todd Frazier of Rutgers, the BIG EAST player of the year). Pollock was one of two players in the entire BIG EAST to total 70-plus hits (73), 30-plus walks (32), double-digit stolen bases (11) and 10 or more sacrifice bunts (10) while also finishing first (6) or second (4) on the Irish team in 10 primary statistical categories, including those listed above plus 39 runs scored and 26 multiple-hit games. The right-handed-hitting Pollock also hit a team-best .406 with runners in scoring position and feasted on left-handed pitching in the 2007 season (.509 batting avg.).

BIG CROWDS RETURN - One season after setting numerous attendance records at Eck Stadium, the Notre Dame baseball team again played in front of a steady stream of fans that featured an average of nearly 2,000 per game (1,958). The late-April series with West Virginia attracted a total of 9,011 fans to Eck Stadium, representing the second-highest attendance for a three-game series in the facility's 14-year history. The 3,927 who were on hand for the Saturday afternoon game versus the Mountaineers (on April 21) broke the previous Eck Stadium single-game record - set one year earlier, to the day (3,507 saw the Friday-night game versus Rutgers on April 21, 2006).

CAPE COD COMPANY - Six Notre Dame players competed in the nation's premier wood-bat summer league in 2007, as junior 2B Jeremy Barnes and senior RHP Tony Langford headed off to join the Cape Cod League's Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox while four Irish pitchers - junior RHP David Phelps, junior RHP Kyle Weiland, junior LHP Sam Elam and junior RHP Brett Graffy - were prepping for a summer together as members of the CCL's Falmouth Commodores. Notre Dame consistently has produced multiple players each summer who compete in "The Cape," including a 2005 summer that saw Gaston earn Cape Cod League All-Star honors as a member of the Cotuit Kettleers.

IRISH TO FACE SEVERAL TOP OPPOSING PLAYERS - Seven pitchers from Notre Dame's 2008 opponents are on the NCBWA Stopper of the Year watch list, including the Arizona duo of LHP Daniel Schlereth and Jason Stoffel, Southern Illinois RHP Bryant George, Connecticut LHP Matt Karl, Georgetown RHP Dan Kennedy, St. John's RHP Colin Lynch and South Florida RHP Shawn Sanford ... Notre Dame's 2008 opponents also include 23 players who are on the Wallace Award watch list, among them are eight players from the BIG EAST: Cincinnati OF Tony Campana, Connecticut INF Matt Karl, Louisville DH Chris Dominguez, RHP Justin Marks, RHP Zack Pitts, South Florida RHP Shawn Sanford, St. John's OF Brian Kemp and RHP Colin Lynch ... others include the Arizona duo of P Preston Guilmet and OF Jon Gaston, Boston College's trio of 3B Eric Campbell, P Terry Doyle and C Tony Sanchez, Central Michigan C Tyler Stovall, IPFW OF Jared Davis, Michigan's duo of P/1B Zach Putnam and OF Derek VanBuskirk, Purdue's P Matt Bischoff and OF Ryne White, Southern Illinois' trio of P Cody Adams, P Bryant George and C Mark Kelly and Western Michigan P Ethan Hollingsworth ... six players from ND opponents also were named 2008 preseason All-Americans by either Baseball America or the National Collegiate Baseball Writers, including Putnam, Arizona's quartet of Ryan Perry, T.J. Steeler, Guilmet and C.J. Ziegler, as well as Zack Pitts of Louisville.

FRESHMAN FORCE - Notre Dame's 2008 opening-day lineup included three seniors, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. It marked the second straight season the Irish featured at least two freshman in the starting nine. Notre Dame had three freshman in the starting lineup in last year's season opener (just the third time in the past 13 seasons that Notre Dame featured three or more freshman starters:

Notre Dame Freshman Starters
'95 - no freshman starters
'96 - Jeff Wagner (C), Paul Turco (SS)
'97 - Brant Ust (2B), Jeff Felker (1B), Jeff Perconte (RF platoon)
'98 - Alec Porzel (LF)
'99 - Steve Stanley (CF), Paul O'Toole (C), Andrew Bushey (3B)
'00 - Brian Stavisky (RF)
'01 - Steve Sollmann (2B)
'02 - Matt Macri (SS, injured)
'03 - Craig Cooper (LF), Cody Rizzo (RF), Greg Lopez (3B), Steve Andres (DH)
'04 - none (Danny Dressman later started 28 games)
'05 - Brett Lilley (2B/3B), Ross Brezovsky (3B/2B)
'06 - none (Jeremy Barnes later had 55 GS)
'07 - Billy Boockford (RF), A.J. Pollock (3B), Michael Wright (LF)
`08 - David Casey (DH), Mick Doyle (3B)

SUPER SHORTSTOPS - Notre Dame's baseball tradition spans nearly 120 seasons but the shortstop role was not well-represented by elite players, until an impressive run of talent at the position during the past 20 years. Early 1900s player Bobby Lynch and heavy-hitting 1964 All-American Rich Gonski were possibly the most noteworthy shortstops in the first 85 years of the program, followed in the late 1970s by Rick Pullano before an impressive 20-year span that has produced the likes of Tommy Shields, Pat Pesavento, Craig Counsell, Paul Failla, Brant Ust, Alec Porzel, Matt Macri and Greg Lopez at the shortstop position. Senior Brett Lilley has carried the torch each of the last two seasons. Lilley has started 190 games over his career, including 70 straight over the last two seasons at shortstop. He is a career .346 hitter with 165 runs scored, 230 hits and 86 RBI. Lilley has a remarkable .484 career on-base percentage over his career.

NATIONAL FLAVOR -- As is usually the case, the Notre Dame baseball roster is made up from players across the United States. This year, however, it's even more apparent as 39 of the 43 players on the roster are from outside the state of Indiana. In fact, 18 different states, including Indiana, are represented. The only Indiana natives on the team are Ty Adams (Indianapolis/Brebeuf Jesuit H.S.), Sean Gaston (Brownsburg/Brownsburg H.S.), Justin Gingerich (Goshen/Northridge H.S.) and Andrew Wiand (South Bend/Riley H.S.).

IRISH PICKED FIFTH BY BIG EAST COACHES -- The University of Notre Dame baseball team was picked to finish fifth in the 2008 BIG EAST preseason baseball poll as determined by a vote of the league's 12 head coaches, who were not permitted to vote for their own teams. The Irish received a total of 80 points.

	Team	        Points (First Place Votes)	2007 Record
1.	St. John's	117 (7)	                        41-19, 20-7
2.	Louisville	113 (5)	                        47-24, 19-8
3.	USF	        92                              34-26, 13-14
4.	Rutgers	        91                              42-21, 20-7
5.	Notre Dame	80                              28-28, 11-15
6.	Connecticut	66                              34-27, 10-14
7.	Pittsburgh	59                              27-27, 15-11
8.	Villanova	51                              29-25, 12-15
9.	Cincinnati	41                              28-28, 10-16
10.	West Virginia	39                              29-22, 10-16
11.	Seton Hall	31                              25-25, 9-15
12.	Georgetown	12                              21-34, 8-19

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