DALLAS \u2014 Notre Dame and SMU will clash this weekend for the second time as ACC foes, as the Irish head to Dallas for a Sunday evening contest. Alex Loeb and Angela Taylor will have the 6 p.m. ET call from Moody Coliseum.<\/p>\n
NOTES<\/p>\n
The Irish are coming off a 78-54 win over Wake Forest on Thursday and are now 14-0 all-time against the Demon Deacons. Hannah Hidalgo paced the group with 26 points, but KK Bransford (13), Iyana Moore (11) and Cassandre Prosper (10) also scored in double-figures. Notre Dame totaled 17 steals as a team, including a career-high six swipes from Vanessa de Jesus.
\nNotre Dame did not allow any fast break points against the Demon Deacons, the sixth time this season the Irish have surrendered zero. The Irish also never trailed in the game, marking the 13th time in 17 wins this season Notre Dame has not trailed in a game.
\nHidalgo has more steals this season than 11 D-1 teams.
\nHidalgo is on pace to reach 600 points, 150 rebounds, 150 assists and 150 steals this season. The only other player to do that this century was also Hidalgo in 2023-24.
\nMoore is shooting 39.6 percent from three-point range (the best mark of her career) and 45.6 percent\u00a0 from deep in ACC play, which leads the conference.
\nGisela Sanchez has gone 7-10 from beyond the arc over the last four games.
\nThursday\u2019s win was Karen and Kevin Keyes Family Head Coach Niele Ivey\u2019s 100th major conference victory as a head coach.
\nNotre Dame, Duke and Louisville are the only ACC teams with 4+ Quad 1 wins this season.
\nNotre Dame is 3-1 all-time against SMU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Notre Dame and SMU will clash this weekend for the second time as ACC foes, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,34710,20982,34699,34698,34697,34700,34701,34709,20980,34702,34696,34707,34705,34704,34703,34706,34708,34695,22811],"class_list":["post-174642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-featured-sport-category","tag-fighting-irish","tag-fighting-irish-baseball","tag-fighting-irish-basketball","tag-fighting-irish-football","tag-fighting-irish-hockey","tag-fighting-irish-soccer","tag-more-headlines","tag-notre-dame","tag-notre-dame-football-stadium","tag-und","tag-und-athletics","tag-und-baseball","tag-und-basketball","tag-und-football","tag-und-hockey","tag-und-hockey-schedule","tag-university-of-notre-dame","tag-women-s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}