Notre Dame was licking its injuries after losing to Syracuse on Thursday for the 2nd time this season. To remedy their troubles, the Irish got a essential win over a longtime competitor.
The Irish strolled out of Gampel Pavilion on Saturday night with an 82-67 win over UConn, snapping the Huskies’ 13-game winning streak and blemishing their ideal record at home.
To comprehend the magnitude of the distressed, thinkabout that Notre Dame was ranked 15th in the AP Top 25 Poll and UConn was 8th, and the Huskies were preferred by 14.5 points on DraftKings in the match. Additionally, Notre Dame hadn’t beaten UConn in back-to-back conferences in a years.
And the Irish’s winning effort was all powered by the amazing play of Hannah Hidalgo, who sealed herself alongwith USC’s JuJu Watkins in the National Freshman of the Year race with an transcendent efficiency.
The novice Irish guard stacked up a career-high 34 points along with 10 rebounds and 6 helps.
She beat the other star on the court too in UConn’s Paige Bueckers, who endedup with simply 17 points on 5-of-17 shooting along with 2 helps, 4 takes and 2 turnovers.
According to HerHoopStats, Hidalgo has the just videogame of that sort – onceagain: 34 points, 10 rebounds and 6 helps – consideringthat at least 2009 versus UConn. And she’s the veryfirst gamer not called Caitlin Clark to have those statistics versus a significant co