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Freshman Leah Macy was also highlighted in the announcement, as she was named to the ACC Newcomer Watch List.<\/span><\/p>\n Preseason ACC Player of the Year \u2014 Hannah Hidalgo Hidalgo posted numbers that haven\u2019t been seen this century on the men\u2019s or women\u2019s side of NCAA DI play, becoming the only player to average at least 20.0 points per game, 5.0 rebounds per game and 3.0 steals per game while shooting at least .400 from three-point range and .850 from the free throw line since 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n Hidalgo averaged 23.8 points per game during her sophomore campaign, breaking her own Notre Dame scoring record from her freshman season (22.6). Additionally, Hidalgo joined Irish legend Arike Ogunbowale as the only players in Notre Dame history to post multiple 700-point seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n ACC Newcomer Watch List \u2014 Leah Macy As a senior, Macy averaged 27 points, 13.4 rebounds, 8 assists and shot 64.6 percent from the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the individual honors, Notre Dame was picked fifth in the ACC preseason poll.<\/span><\/p>\n The Fighting Irish open the season in Purcell Pavilion with an Oct. 30 exhibition against Purdue Northwest at 7 p.m. and a home opener on Nov. 5 against Fairleigh Dickinson at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) CHARLOTTE \u2013 The ACC announced its 2025-26 preseason awards on Tuesday and Hannah Hidalgo earned the top honor, being named the ACC Preseason Player of the Year as voted on by the league\u2019s coaches and media. Freshman Leah Macy was also highlighted in the announcement, as she was named to the ACC Newcomer Watch List. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hidalgo-Named-ACC-Preseason-Player-Of-The-Year-\u2013-Notre.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/b>A two-time AP First Team All-American, Wooden Finalist and last season\u2019s ACC Player of the Year, Hidalgo enters her junior season in South Bend as the favorite to capture the league\u2019s top honor.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/b>Macy comes to the Irish as a highly touted freshman, hailing from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The five-star forward was ranked No. 19 (No. 4 forward) in the Class of 2025 according to ESPN and was a McDonald\u2019s All-American and four-time all-state first-team selection at Bethlehem High School.<\/span><\/p>\n
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