SOUTH BEND, Ind. \u2014 Notre Dame (18-9, 10-6) will close out its regular season home slate on Thursday night, as the Irish host Syracuse (21-6, 11-5) at Purcell Pavilion. Tyler Reidy, Molly O\u2019Malley and Jack Rinaldi will be on the call for the ACCNX contest at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
NOTES<\/p>\n
Notre Dame is coming off of its third consecutive victory, downing SMU in Dallas, 88-63. Hannah Hidalgo led the way with 31 points, 11 steals and 9 rebounds, while Iyana Moore added 20 points after going 4-8 from beyond the arc.
\nHidalgo continues to lead the ACC in scoring (24.9) and the nation in steals (5.6). She is the only player in the country to rank in the top 15 nationally in both points and steals or blocks.
\nOn Monday, Hidalgo was named ACC Player of the Week for the sixth time this year and the 12th time in her career. No other ACC player has earned the honor more than once this season. Hidalgo also earned her second USBWA National Player of the Week honor this week as well after averaging 28.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 7.0 steals and 3.5 assists in two games last week.
\nMoore leads the ACC in conference play with a three-point shooting percentage of 45.9 and 3.2 made triples per game. She is shooting 40.1 percent from deep on the year as well.
\nThe Irish have won their last three games by an average of 20.3 points.
\nSixteen of Notre Dame\u2019s 18 wins this season have been by double-digits.
\nOne of Notre Dame\u2019s most frequent opponents, the Irish are 40-6 all-time against Syracuse, including 19-1 at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH BEND, Ind. \u2014 Notre Dame (18-9, 10-6) will close out its regular season home slate on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61767,61753,61756,61755,61754,61757,61758,61766,9,11,10,49,51,50,61752,61759,57937,61764,61762,61761,61760,61763,61765,61751,27419],"class_list":{"0":"post-147321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-featured-sport-category","9":"tag-fighting-irish","10":"tag-fighting-irish-baseball","11":"tag-fighting-irish-basketball","12":"tag-fighting-irish-football","13":"tag-fighting-irish-hockey","14":"tag-fighting-irish-soccer","15":"tag-more-headlines","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-new-york-state","20":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","21":"tag-new-york-state-news","22":"tag-notre-dame","23":"tag-notre-dame-football-stadium","24":"tag-und","25":"tag-und-athletics","26":"tag-und-baseball","27":"tag-und-basketball","28":"tag-und-football","29":"tag-und-hockey","30":"tag-und-hockey-schedule","31":"tag-university-of-notre-dame","32":"tag-women-s-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}