No. 3 Notre Dame hosts Loyola (MD) following Hidalgo’s 27-point showing

Loyola (MD) Greyhounds (5-4) at Notre Dame Fighting Irish (9-2, 1-0 ACC)

South Bend, Indiana; Sunday, 12 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: No. 3 Notre Dame hosts Loyola (MD) after Hannah Hidalgo scored 27 points in Notre Dame’s 118-49 win against the Eastern Michigan Eagles.

The Fighting Irish are 5-0 in home games. Notre Dame leads the ACC in rebounding, averaging 42.0 boards. Liatu King leads the Fighting Irish with 11.5 rebounds.

The Greyhounds are 2-3 in road games. Loyola (MD) is seventh in the Patriot scoring 58.3 points per game and is shooting 40.0%.

Notre Dame makes 48.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 7.5 percentage points higher than Loyola (MD) has allowed to its opponents (41.3%). Loyola (MD) averages 58.3 points per game, 3.9 fewer than the 62.2 Notre Dame gives up to opponents.

TOP PERFORMERS: Hidalgo is shooting 43.1% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Fighting Irish, while averaging 25.2 points, 6.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 4.2 steals.

Kimmie Hicks is scoring 14.6 points per game and averaging 5.0 rebounds for the Greyhounds.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.