No. 18 Irish Blow By Seminoles In ACC Opener, 93-58<\/p>\n
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Five players finished in double figures in the scoring column as the No. 18 Fighting Irish opened ACC play with an all-encompassing 93-58 win over Florida State on Sunday afternoon inside the Donald L. Tucker Center. The Irish improved to 6-2 on the season and 1-0 in the league.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame shot an impressive 57.6 percent from the field off 38-for-66 shooting, including 8-of-19 from three-point range. The Irish overwhelmed the Seminoles in the paint, outscoring the hosts 48-28, and on the fastbreak by a margin of 22-4.<\/p>\n
Cassandre Prosper led the Irish in scoring with 21 points, marking her second 20-point performance this season. Iyana Moore poured in a season-high 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting while Hannah Hidalgo (17), Malaya Cowles (14) and Gisela Sanchez (12) also finished in double figures.<\/p>\n
HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n
Notre Dame could not have scripted a better start to the game, scoring the first 20 points of the afternoon over the first 7 minutes of the first quarter to jump out to a huge lead early. The Seminoles finally got on the board with back-to-back threes to cut the Iris lead to 14.<\/p>\n
After the two teams traded baskets for the last couple of minutes of the quarter the Irish took a 25-11 lead into the second stanza. Prosper carried the Irish offense with eight points on 4-for-4 shooting.<\/p>\n
The hosts continued to chip at the lead in the second quarter, using a 12-0 run to make it a one-possession game with under 4 minutes left in the half at 31-29.<\/p>\n
The Fighting Irish instantly responded scoring the final 12 points of the half to push their lead back to 14 at 41-27 heading into the halftime break. Hidalgo was instrumental in the spurt to end the second quarter, scoring 8 of the 12 points.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame continued to build its lead throughout the third quarter, outscoring the Seminoles 24-15 to take a commanding 65-42 lead into the final 10 minutes of play. Moore was the star of the quarter, pouring in eight points on 3-of-4 shooting, including 2-for-2 from beyond the arc, to go along with three rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Irish carried the momentum into the third quarter, scoring the first eight points of the final frame to extend the lead to 31 points at 73-42. The Irish coasted the rest of the way en route to the dominant 93-58 victory on the road.<\/p>\n
NOTRE DAME STAT OF THE GAME<\/p>\n
The 33-point win over the Seminoles is the largest by either team in the series history, spanning 16 games.<\/p>\n
NOTRE DAME NOTES<\/p>\n
Notre Dame improves to 14-2 against Florida State in the all-time series, including a mark of 6-1 when playing in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n
The Irish are now 9-4 in ACC openers since joining the league in the 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n
Cowles double-double was the fifth of her career and first with the Irish, finishing with season highs in both points (14) and rebounds (13).<\/p>\n
Moore scored a season-high 19 points while setting her season high for three-point makes with five.<\/p>\n
Hidalgo has now finished in double figures for scoring in 75 consecutive games (every game of her career), which is one shy of tying Katryna Gaither\u2019s program record of 76.<\/p>\n
This also passes Angel Rees for the third longest double-digit scoring streak in DI since the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n
Hidalgo\u2019s nine assists mark a season high for the junior.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
The Fighting Irish return home to Purcell Pavilion, welcoming Morehead State for a 7 p.m. ET tilt on Thursday, Dec. 11. The game will air on ACCNX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 18 Irish Blow By Seminoles In ACC Opener, 93-58 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Five players finished in double figures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42669,42666,29851,28,30,29,1320,3731,42667,42668,10961],"class_list":{"0":"post-75310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-cassandre","9":"tag-double-figures","10":"tag-fighting-irish","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-florida-state","15":"tag-florida-state-seminoles","16":"tag-hannah-hidalgo","17":"tag-iyana-moore","18":"tag-notre-dame"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}