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For years, a string of Notre Dame football coaches has tried to duplicate the sustained success of the program’s glory days.

Mike Brey at the ACC Tournament in Feb 2017 (Source: Grant Halverson/Getty Images North America — Mike Brey at the ACC Tournament in Feb 2017. (Source: Grant Halverson/Getty Images North America

Notre Dame’s basketball program, meanwhile, doesn’t have that problem.

Mike Brey has seen to that.

The Bethesda native and former DeMatha point guard, now in his 18^th season as head coach of the Irish, became the all-time winningest coach in Notre Dame basketball history on Wednesday night, thanks to an 88-58 victory over North Carolina State. That triumph gave him 394 victories at Notre Dame, pushing him past the 393 wins accumulated by Richard “Digger” Phelps, who coached at the school from 1971-91.

In a nice gesture, Phelps was even on hand in South Bend the other night to hand Brey the game ball after the final buzzer.

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GHill-559x1024 — Grant Hill in 1990, during his senior season as a South Lakes Seahawk in Reston. (Fairfax County Times file photo)

South Lakes High School in Reston recently retired Grant Hill’s No. 32 jersey. Nobody who plays basketball for the Seahawks will wear that number again.
And with good reason; Hill was one of the best basketball players Northern Virginia ever produced.

He played 18 seasons in the NBA and was a seven-time all-star. He averaged 16.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.1 assists during his career. But he really made his mark in his first six seasons, before injuries limited his game. In his first six seasons, the multi-talented Hill averaged 21.6 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 6.3 assists.

By the time he decided to quit, Hill had done well enough in business and with his investments to become part of a group that bought the Atlanta Hawks for an estimated $800 million in 2015.

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