Newsstand: Notre Dame freshman Hannah Hidalgo one of five Wooden Award finalists
Hannah Hidalgo is already all over the Notre Dame record books. Add another accolade to her length list of them acquired in what a mesmerizing freshman season for the Fighting Irish.
Wooden Award finalist.
Hidalgo is one of five women on this year’s list alongside Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, UConn’s Paige Bueckers, USC’s JuJu Watkins and Stanford’s Cameron Brink. Clark is the reigning winner and the favorite to take home the hardware again. She’ll meet Bueckers in the Final Four. Brink and the Cardinal lost in the Sweet 16, as did Hidalgo and the Irish. Watkins lost to Bueckers and the Huskies in the Elite Eight.
Hidalgo averaged 22.6 points and 4.6 steals per game, both of which are single-season Notre Dame records. She’s invited to attend the Wooden Award ceremony in Los Angeles next week.
Notre Dame tweets of the day
Irish linebackers coach Max Bullough is one of the more demonstrative teachers on head coach Marcus Freeman’s staff. He’s not far removed from playing the position himself, so he’s a hands-on demonstrator.
The latest edition of Blue & Gold Illustrated is printed and read for purchase at BlueGoldOnline.com. Sophomore running back Jeremiyah Love is on the cover.
Former Irish tight end Brock Wright is staying in Detroit.
Fighting Irish quote of the day
“It’s a matter of who can get their assignments done, who’s where they need to be when they need to be there, do they understand why they’re doing it, and then who’s the most consistent. And then those are the guys who start off with the opportunities and then as they make plays, they earn their way up or you know, earn more targets and quarterbacks get more comfortable with them and the ball starts to find them more.”
— Irish wide receivers coach Mike Brown on which players will see the field when the season starts
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