Shrewsberry led the Nittany Lions to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011.
Notre Dame is finalizing a deal to make Penn State's Micah Shrewsberry its new men's basketball coach, two people with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because contract details were still being completed and needed school approval. Shrewsberry, in his second season at Penn State , led the Nittany Lions to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011 and a tournament victory for the first time since 2001.Notre Dame has been searching for a replacement for Mike Brey, who spent the last 23 season as coach of the Fighting Irish. He announced in January that this would be his last season with Notre DameShrewsberry grew up in Indianapolis and went to school at Division III Hanover College in Indiana.
He was the head coach at Indiana University South Bend, an NAIA school located in the same city as Notre Dame, from 2005-07. He later worked as an assistant coach at Butler and Purdue, with a stint as an assistant with the Boston Celtics in between.
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