Notre Dame men’s basketball vs. Western Carolina preview, tv streaming

∎ WHO: Notre Dame (1-0) vs. Western Carolina (1-0)

∎ WHERE: Purcell Pavilion (9,149)

∎ WHEN: Saturday at 2 p.m

∎TV: None. The game can be seen via live streaming on ACC Network Extra.

∎ RADIO: WSBT (960 AM).

∎ TICKETS: Available.

∎ ONLINE: Follow every Notre Dame game with live updates from the Tribune beat writer Tom Noie at X (formerly Twitter) at twitter.com/tnoieNDI

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∎ NOTES: Southern Conference preseason player of the year Vonterius Woolbright scored 19 points with eight rebounds and seven assists and DJ Campbell added 18 points and six rebounds as Western Carolina opened Tuesday with a 106-65 home victory over NAIA Dalton (Ga.) State. The Catamounts shot 58.8 percent from the field, 45.8 percent from 3 and 72.4 percent from the foul line. They scored 55 points in the second half. Dalton State finished with 46 points in the paint. … A school with an enrollment of 11,000, Western Carolina is located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, 135 miles southeast of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. … Western Carolina returns three starters off last year’s team that finished 18-16 overall, 10-8 and fourth place in the Southern Conference. It won a combined 22 games – 11 and 11 – the previous two seasons. … The Catamounts played last season in the postseason (College Basketball Invitational) for the fourth time in program history. It has played in one NCAA tournament (1996), a 73-71 loss to Purdue. … Western Carolina was picked this preseason to finish third (behind Furman and UNCG) in the 10-team SoCon. In the league media poll, it was picked second (tied with UNCG) and received one first-place vote. … Three Catamount senior guards – Woolbright, Tre Jackson and Russell Jones – were first team all-league preseason picks. … Western Carolina’s roster features eight transfers. … These teams have never met. … Notre Dame opened Monday with a 70-63 victory over Niagara. Irish guard Markus Burton set the school record for points by a freshman in his first game with a game-high 29. … Notre Dame will again be without sophomore forward Kebba Njie. The Penn State transfer suffered a right hand injury Nov. 4 and will be out until at least the Nov. 16 game against Auburn in the first round of the Legends Classic in New York.

∎ QUOTATION: “We don’t have to make shots. We make shots, good night. We can knuckle up and we can get stops and we can get the job done.”

— Irish coach Micah Shrewsberry on what he learned in the opener, where the Irish trailed by 12 early and missed their first 11 3-pointers.

—Tom Noah