2016 – 17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men 's basketball team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 2016 – 17 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Fighting Irish , led by 17th-year head coach Mike Brey , played their home games at Edmund P. Joyce Center in South Bend , Indiana as fourth-year members of the Atlantic Coast Conference . They finished the season 26 – 10 , 12 – 6 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place . They defeated Virginia and Florida State to advance to the championship game of the ACC tournament where they lost to Duke . They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as the No. 5 seed in the West Region . There they defeated No. 12 seed Princeton in the First Round before losing in the Second Round where they lost to No. 4 seed West Virginia
ACC tournament
2017 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
2016–17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team