Hannah Hidalgo said she is 'humbled' by her stardom and that she never anticipated being 'the face of something.'
Check out the key numbers in the matchup between Oregon State and Notre Dame in the women's NCAA tournament. was a rising prep star growing up in New Jersey, but she did not start following women's basketball until her junior year in high school.
Hidalgo has led an injury-depleted Notre Dame team, playing with six players in its rotation, to its third straight Sweet 16 appearance. It was the work of coach Niele Ivey, a Notre Dame alum herself, that got Hidalgo interested in playing for the Irish.
Hidalgo said she kept playing because she grew up in a basketball family, so being surrounded by the sport was inevitable. It was in seventh grade when she realized she had college potential, but even then she never considered the possibility she could become a game-changer so early in her college career.
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