Why does this 2025-26 schedule fit this Notre Dame basketball team this season?<\/a><\/p>\nWe have the answers. Here:<\/p>\n
\u220e (3) Markus Burton<\/p>\n
Hometown (High School): Mishawaka, Indiana (Penn)<\/p>\n
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Dimensions: 6-foot, 190 pounds<\/p>\n
Projected position: Starting point guard<\/p>\n
Class: Junior<\/p>\n
Notable number: A starter since his first game, Burton has scored 1,130 points halfway through his collegiate career. Multiply that by two (number of seasons remaining) and it would give Burton 2,260 career points. Only two Irish \u2014Austin Carr (2,560) and Luke Harangody (2,476) \u2014 have scored more.<\/p>\n
24-25 stats: Averaged a team-high 21.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and a team-high 3.0 assists in 33.7 minutes over 26 games, including 25 starts. Shot .442 percent from the field, .375 from 3 and .848 from the foul line. Burton missed seven games early in the year (late November to early January) with a right knee injury that did not require surgery.<\/p>\n
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25-26 outlook: Write Burton\u2019s name in ink for Atlantic Coast Conference first team preseason honors. He\u2019s one of the five best returning players in the conference and would get more national pub if the Irish were better. As Burton went his first two seasons, so went the Irish. That should be a similar storyline for Year Three. Burton is bigger and better than the kid who stepped on campus as Indiana Mr. Basketball his freshman year. The challenge for him now is to become an elite guard, someone who can make everyone around him elevate their play.<\/p>\n
Shrews on Burton: “The one thing we talk about with him is, you don\u2019t have anything to prove. You can just play basketball. Sometimes it becomes a competitive fight and you feel like you\u2019ve got to prove something. You feel like you\u2019ve got to win every contest. You don\u2019t, because you have really good teammates; you have really good players around you. His growth and maturity have shown through this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Follow South Bend Tribune and NDInsider columnist Tom Noie on X (formerly Twitter): @tnoieNDI. Contact Noie at tnoie@sbtinfo.com<\/p>\n
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