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Newsstand: Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo named Wooden Award finalist

IMG_9992by:Tyler Horka•04/03/25•

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

It’s not all bad for Notre Dame women’s basketball at the moment.

The Fighting Irish have had four players enter the transfer portal this week, leaving four scholarship players remaining on the 2025-26 roster. One of those just so happens to be one of the best players in the country.

Rising junior guard Hannah Hidalgo was named one of five Wooden Award finalists this week.

Hidalgo is up for the prestigious national player of the year award along with three Final Four participants in Madison Booker of Texas, Paige Bueckers of UConn and Lauren Betts of UCLA. USC’s JuJu Watkins rounds out the top five.

Hidalgo faced off against three of the finalists, Betts being the only one she did not play against this season. The Irish went 3-0 against Booker, Bueckers and Watkins. In those games, Hidalgo averaged 27.7 points, 8 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 3.7 steals per game. For the season, Hidalgo finished with averages of 23.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 4.2 steals per game.

The Wooden Award winner will be announced later this month.

Notre Dame tweets of the day

Sophomore wide receiver Cam Williams is coming along nicely in spring practices.

The rest of the Fighting Irish wide receivers got some game, too.

Charles Jagusah is an absolute weapon for the Fighting Irish offensive line.

Fighting Irish quote of the day

“I couldn’t be more excited about him. He’s physical. His feet are more underneath him. He’s able to take on blocks. He doesn’t run in there and bounce out. He really looks like a linebacker.”

— Fighting Irish linebackers coach Max Bullough on senior Jaylen Sneed

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