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While it has taken a bit longer for teams and conference to get their schedules together for the 2021 season due to the Coronavirus outbreak and various restrictions surrounding the virus, Schedule release schedule has finally begun!

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the 58th DI team and fifth from the ACC in our 2021 schedule preview series.

Notre Dame’s Full 2021 Schedule:

Date	Home	Away	Notes
2/27	Notre Dame	Robert Morris
3/6	Notre Dame	Bellarmine
3/17	Notre Dame	Marquette
3/20	Notre Dame	Cleveland State
3/27	Notre Dame	Virginia	ACC
4/3	Syracuse	Notre Dame	ACC
4/10	Notre Dame	Duke	ACC
4/22	Duke	Notre Dame	ACC
4/25	North Carolina	Notre Dame	ACC
5/1	Notre Dame	Syracuse	ACC

Notes

• Four non-conference games.
• Plays Syracuse and Duke twice.

Games to Circle

3/17 vs Marquette : The Fighting Irish and Golden Eagles have faced each other a total of eight times and Notre Dame has won every single meeting. However, there have been some very close games, including consecutive one-goal contests in the 2016 and 2017 regular seasons. Marquette will be looking to come out of this matchup with a “program win” and Notre Dame will be looking to avoid any sort of upset.

4/10 & 4/22 vs/@ Duke: The Fighting Irish and Blue Devils will meet twice this season. During the last full season (2019), the two faced each other twice. Notre Dame took down Duke in the regular season, but things played out different in the NCAA tournament with Duke securing the win to advance to Championship Weekend. The quarterfinal meeting between these two went into overtime and Joe Robertson delivered the game-winner for Duke.