Sources: Irish finalizing deal to work with Shrewsberry

5:55 PM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Author Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of

University of Delaware.Notre Dame is settling a deal to make Penn State’s Micah Shrewsberry the school’s next guys’s basketball head coach

contract with the Combating Irish, sources told ESPN. He declined a profitable long-lasting agreement extension from Penn State, sources said, with the pull of returning home being a consider his decision.This season, Shrewsberry helped lead the Nittany Lions to the program’s first NCAA competition look since 2011. They won 5 of their last six regular-season games prior to making a run to the Big Ten competition championship game, where they lost to Purdue. Penn State received a 10-seed in the NCAA tournament, however upset 7-seed Texas A&M in the preliminary before falling to 2-seed Texas in the second round.Editor’s Picks 1 Associated The Nittany Lions completed 23-14 overall, 10-10 in the Big Ten.For Shrewsberry, 46, taking control of at Notre Dame is a return home to the state where he matured

and began his

coaching profession. An Indianapolis native, Shrewsberry participated in Hanover College prior to hanging out as an assistant at Wabash College and DePauw University. His very first head training job came at Indiana University South Bend, where he spent two seasons.Shrewsberry joined Brad Stevens ‘personnel at Butler in 2007 and then transferred to Matt Painter’s personnel at Purdue before rejoining Stevens with the Boston Celtics. He returned to college as an assistant under Painter for two more seasons prior to landing the Penn State task in 2021. Considered among the sharpest offending minds in college basketball, Shrewsberry assisted produce consistently reliable offenses at Purdue and after that helped craft the country’s No. 13-ranked offense in adjusted effectiveness at Penn State this season.At Notre Dame, Shrewsberry replaces Mike Brey, who announced in January he would be stepping down after 23 seasons at the helm. Brey led the Combating Irish to 13 NCAA competitions, three Sweet 16s and two Elite 8 looks.