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2023-24 Men's Basketball Roster
Cormac Ryan
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- New York, N.Y.
- High School:
- Milton Academy (Milton, Mass.)
CAREER
Team captain at Notre Dame in each of the previous three seasons • One of three Irish players to serve as captain in three seasons • Scored 1,587 points and made 287 three-pointers in 152 games over five seasons • Began his career at Stanford in 2018-19 (scored 14 points at UNC that season) • Transferred to Notre Dame, where he red-shirted in 2019-20 and scored 964 points (10.5 per game) for the Irish from 2020-23 • Scored in double figures 78 times with 20 or more points eight times • Career-high 31 at Duke on 3/9/24, which helped UNC secure the regular-season ACC title outright • Previous high was 29 vs. Alabama in the 2022 NCAA Tournament • It was the second time he scored 28 or more points at Duke (also in 2021) • An 82.5% shooter from the free throw line and 35.2% from three • Entered the season shooting 35.2% from 3FG in his career and shot 35.4% this season • Shot better than 80% from the line in each of the last four seasons • Made a three in 124 games, multiple threes 80 times and five or more 12 times, including his final game vs. Alabama in the 2024 Sweet 16 • Three-time Academic All-ACC honoree, including 2024.
GRADUATE STUDENT SEASON AT CAROLINA (2023-24)
Co-winner of the Marvin Williams Carolina Way Award, which honors the player who best exemplifies playing hard, being unselfish and thinking of the team first • Led the team in free throw percentage (career-high 87.4%), second in three-pointers (career-high 75) and fourth in scoring (11.5) • Top three best offensive ratings came in the last seven games against Duke, Florida State and Alabama • Led UNC in plus/minus a team-high 10 times (UNC 9-1) • Only Tar Heel ever to make six 3FGs at Virginia and Duke • Made a three in 29 games and multiple 3FGs 22 times (UNC 17-5) • Season-high six 3FGs in wins at Virginia and Duke and five vs. Alabama • Scored in double figures 21 times (UNC 17-4) with a high of 31 at Duke • Hit 48 threes over the last 18 games (2.7 per game) • Made 12 for 12 from the free throw line over the last four games • UNC was 12-0 when he made at least four free throws • First career ACC Player-of-the-Week award for his play vs. Notre Dame and Duke.
2023-24 Game Highlights: Shot 47.4% (9 of 19) from three, 9 of 9 from the free throw line and averaged 14.7 points in the three NCAA Tournament games • Made four first-half threes as UNC built a 54-46 lead, finished with five and scored 17 in the Sweet 16 loss to Alabama • Hit six three-pointers (three in each half) and a career-high nine free throws (4 for 4 in the last 16 seconds) for a career-high 31 points in the win at Duke • Made three 3FGs over a minute and 35 seconds to give UNC a 15-4 lead • Sixth 3FG came with 1:38 to play and gave UNC a nine-point lead • Most points (31) by a Tar Heel vs. Duke since Antawn Jamison (35) in 1998 and most at Duke since Hubert Davis (35) in 1992 • Seventh Tar Heel to score 30 or more at Duke • One of four Tar Heels to make six threes vs. Duke (only Ryan and Davis made six in Durham) • Sensational defensive effort in the second half in the home win over NC State, helping to limit DJ Horne to one field goal • Three-pointer ignited comeback from a 10-point deficit • Season-high six threes and led all scorers with 18 points in the win at Virginia • First time he led UNC in scoring • Made five 3FGs in the first half, most by a Tar Heel in a half since Caleb Love made five in the second half vs. UCLA in the 2022 NCAA Sweet 16 • Scored nine straight UNC points to give Carolina an 18-6 lead • Made four 3FGs for the second game in a row and added 4 for 4 FTs for 16 points vs. Virginia Tech • Raced back on defense after a turnover to breakup a Miami layup attempt that would have tied the game with 30 seconds to play in the win in Coral Gables • Hit a pair of threes and had two big steals at home vs. Duke • Made all three of his 3FGs early in the second half at Florida State, the first two helped erase an eight-point deficit • Made four first-half 3FGs against Louisville • Scored 10 points, led UNC with four assists and played outstanding defense in the win at No. 16 Clemson • Scored 20 points for the first time as a Tar Heel vs. Kentucky • Scored 15 points in the win over No. 10 Tennessee • Did not play vs. Arkansas after spraining his right ankle in the final seconds against Villanova • Made three 3FGs in opening minutes of the second half in the win over Northern Iowa • Scored 18 points vs. Villanova, including a three-pointer with 33 seconds to play that tied the game, which went to overtime.
SENIOR SEASON AT NOTRE DAME (2022-23)
Averaged a career-best 12.3 points (19.0 in the last three games and 14.1 in the last 13), scoring in double figures 21 times, including 11 of the last 13 games • Made a career-high 63 three-pointers (2.0 per game) • Career highs in assists (79), blocks (13) and steals (41) • Scored a season-high 23 in Notre Dame’s 70-52 win at Michigan State, when he scored 20 of the Irish’s 42 first-half points and finished six for seven from three-point range • Scored 20 points in head coach Mike Brey’s final home game in an upset win over No. 25 Pittsburgh • Season-high six three-pointers at Michigan State and five at NC State and at home vs. Virginia Tech • Career-high eight assists vs. Louisville • Shot a career-high 82.7% from the free throw line • Scored go-ahead basket with 9.5 seconds to play in win over Radford • Had 14 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals vs. Carolina • Started all 32 games and averaged 33.9 minutes.
JUNIOR SEASON AT NOTRE DAME (2021-22)
Averaged 9.2 points at Notre Dame • Made 22 starts in 35 games and averaged 30.0 minutes per contest • Shot a career-best 40.4% from three-point range (57 of 140) • Helped lead Notre Dame to the second round of the NCAA Tournament • Scored in double figures 14 times, including three of the Irish’s four postseason games • Career-high 29 points, most ever by a Brey player in an NCAA Tournament game, in the first-round win over No. 6-seed Alabama • Career-best 10 of 13 from the floor, including 7 of 9 from three, vs. the Tide • The seven three-pointers are the NCAA Tournament-record by a Notre Dame player • Scored 16 points in a career-high 46 minutes in double-overtime win over Rutgers in the NCAA First Four • Made all eight free throw attempts and scored 20 points in ACC quarterfinal vs. Virginia Tech • Made a three-pointer in 28 games, including multiple threes 16 times (eight of the last nine games) • Career-high 10 rebounds vs. Georgia Tech • Hit a pair of free throws with 39 seconds to play in three-point win at Howard • Scored 11 points in the Irish’s win over UNC..
SOPHOMORE SEASON AT NOTRE DAME (2020-21)
Averaged 9.9 points at Notre Dame • Started 16 of 25 games and averaged 29.5 minutes • Scored in double figures 12 times with a season-high 28 at Duke, when he made 10 of 16 from the floor, including 4 of 7 three-pointers • Scored 21 first-half points at Duke – in one stretch he scored 13 straight points for the Irish • Made a three-pointer in 21 of 25 games with multiple threes 12 times • Season-high five threes in six attempts at Pittsburgh • Season-high nine rebounds vs. NC State • Had 11 points, seven rebounds and three assists in the win over No. 11 Florida State • Scored 16 of Notre Dame’s final 18 points vs. Virginia • Blocked a shot then had the assist on a buzzer-beating three by Trey Wertz to beat Wake Forest in the ACC quarterfinal.
REDSHIRT SEASON (2019-20)
Red-shirted at Notre Dame after transferring from Stanford.
FRESHMAN SEASON AT STANFORD (2018-19)
Started 17 of 24 games at Stanford, averaging 8.7 points • Played for former UNC assistant coach Jerod Haase • Led the Cardinal with 48 three-pointers • Scored in double figures 10 times with highs of 19 vs. UCLA and 18 at Southern California • Made a three in 18 games with multiple threes 12 times • Made a season-high six threes at USC and five in his collegiate debut vs. Seattle and vs. UCLA.
PREP
Played his freshman year at Collegiate Prep in New York City and three seasons at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. • Scored a school-record 1,423 points at Milton, where he was the New England Prep School Athletic Conference Class A Player of the Year in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
PERSONAL
Born Cormac Joseph Ryan on Oct. 26, 1998, in New York City • Son of Michael and Rosemary Ryan • Has four siblings – Thomas (played at Yale), Owen, Summer (plays at Haverford) and Starling • At Notre Dame, he majored in management consulting in the Mendoza College of Business and finished his MBA in the spring of 2023 with a concentration in strategy and entrepreneurship • Pursuing a masters degree in applied professional studies at Carolina.
