SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo has been named one of 10 nominees to the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award on Monday.
The award recognizes the top point guards in women’s college basketball every season and is selected by the Basketball Hall of Fame’s Naismith Starting 5 committee, in collaboration with the WBCA.
The junior excels on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor, as is second in the country in scoring with an average of 25.3 points per game and leads the country in steals per game with an average of 5.59 per game.
Hidalgo became just the fourth player from a major conference, and seventh DI player, since 1999 to reach 2,000 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists and 400 steals in a career despite still being a junior.
The guard has two of Notre Dame’s top six scoring games in program history this season, setting the program record for points in a game with 44 in a win over Akron and a 37-point effort in a road win at Stanford.
Hidalgo set the NCAA record for steals in a game earlier this season, recording 16 against Akron. The junior has three games this season with double-digit steals and four games with 30+ points and 5+ steals. The rest of the ACC has one total this year.Lo
The guard has already broken the Notre Dame program record for steals in a career, as she currently sits at 402, passing Irish legend Skylar Diggins’ mark of 381 earlier this season.
Hidalgo also passed Ruth Riley for fifth overall in career scoring and currently sits at 2,108 points.
Hidalgo and the Fighting Irish return to Purcell Pavilion for a midweek ACC matchup against Virginia Tech at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 5. The game will be streamed on ACCNX.