Hannah Hidalgo sets NCAA, Notre Dame records in historic performance

Notre Dame Fighting Irish women’s hoops prima Hannah Hidalgo is arguably 1 of the champion players successful the country, and her record-breaking show connected Wednesday underscored that notion.

Hidalgo was successful her bag, arsenic they say. She acceptable an NCAA people with 16 steals and a Fighting Irish grounds with 44 points successful the team’s 85-58 triumph implicit the Akron Zips. She added 9 rebounds arsenic well.

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Notre Dame inferior Hannah Hidalgo dribbles with the shot aft signaling her 15th of 16 steals during an NCAA women's assemblage hoops crippled betwixt Notre Dame and Akron Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, astatine Purcell Pavilion successful South Bend, Indiana. (Austin Hough / South Bend Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

She played 28 minutes and was 16-of-25 from the field, including 3-of-6 from three-point scope to assistance pb the No. 18-ranked squad to the ascendant victory. Akron committed 38 turnovers contempt shooting 51.1% from the floor.

Hidalgo said aft the crippled she knows what her teammates request of her nighttime successful and nighttime retired and tries to present to the champion of her abilities.

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Notre Dame inferior Hannah Hidalgo (3) steals the shot from Akron's Keiryn McGuff during an NCAA women's assemblage hoops crippled betwixt Notre Dame and Akron Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, astatine Purcell Pavilion successful South Bend, Indiana. (Austin Hough / South Bend Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"My teammates, I cognize that’s what they request from me," she said, via On3 Sports. "And I privation to beryllium capable to beryllium accordant successful doing that."

Cassandre Prosper was the lone different Notre Dame subordinate who was successful treble figures. She scored 14 points.

Akron’s Ni’Rah Clark led the Zips with 13 points.

The inferior New Jersey autochthonal is averaging 34.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 5 assists per game. Notre Dame is 3-0 this play but successful each of their archetypal 3 matchups, they’ve looked dominant. The Fighting Irish toppled Farleigh Dickinson successful the opener, 98-52, and past trounced Chicago State, 116-58.

Notre Dame inferior Hannah Hidalgo hugs a instrumentality aft a 44-point, 16-steal show during an NCAA women's assemblage hoops crippled betwixt Notre Dame and Akron Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, astatine Purcell Pavilion successful South Bend, Indiana. (Austin Hough / South Bend Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Notre Dame’s archetypal large trial volition travel against No. 14 Michigan connected Saturday and past No. 8 USC adjacent week.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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