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Hannah Hidalgo injury report: Sophomore misses game for first time at Notre Dame

IMG_9992by:Tyler Horka•01/12/25•

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Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo. (Photo by Mike Miller/BGI)

If you’re a Notre Dame women’s basketball fan who hasn’t made it a habit of going through every box score in the Fighting Irish’s last 50 games, you’re doing it wrong. No, seriously. It’s a must, mainly because of one player.

Hannah Hidalgo.

If you went box score diving Sunday evening, though, you didn’t see her name or any of her mind-blowing statistics for the first time in her career. Hidalgo sat out the Irish’s game at Clemson with a tweaked ankle suffered at the end of the Wake Forest game last Thursday.

Notre Dame beat the Tigers, 67-58, but would have likely won by a lot more if Hidalgo had played because, well, that’s just what Notre Dame does when Hidalgo plays — wins by a lot.

Sunday’s shutdown of the team’s most important player was to ensure more of that big-time winning thing can come in the short and longterm future. Per a team spokesperson, “she’s fine.”

“She rolled her ankle late in the last game, and we just want to give her a bit of extra rest and make sure she’s 100% for the rest of the season,” the spokesperson told Blue & Gold.

“We’re just being extra careful making sure she gets that proper rest, and then we’ll assess her this week,” Notre Dame head coach Niele Ivey added.

Hidalgo is a National Player of the Year candidate and perhaps even the frontrunner for the coveted award. She’s averaging 25.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.1 steals and 3.7 assists per game. She’s on pace to beat her own single-season scoring average record, which she set with a mark of 22.6 as a freshman last season.

Hidalgo joined a lengthy list of Notre Dame players who have missed at least one game with injuries this season; graduate senior forwards Liza Karlen, Maddy Westbeld and Liatu King, senior guard Sonia Citron, sophomore guard Emma Risch and freshman center Kate Koval.

Graduate senior center Kylee Watson and junior guard KK Bransford have yet to play at all this season. It’s possible both of them never do; Bransford has already ruled herself out for the season with a foot injury, and Watson is coming back from a torn ACL suffered last spring.

Fortunately for Notre Dame, Hidalgo’s situation is nowhere near as dire. She could be on the floor again as soon as this Thursday when the Fighting Irish have another big ACC home game against No. 13 Georgia Tech (15-1, 3-1).

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