Niele Ivey’s Notre Dame gets buckets and puts up big numbers. Courtney Banghart’s North Carolina boasts one of the nation’s stingiest defenses. Sunday’s style clash pits two of the ACC’s six ranked teams against each other, with the Fighting Irish opening as a road favorite.
How to watch No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 17 North Carolina
Notre Dame hasn’t lost since Nov. 30. It already has three momentous top-five wins, including an 11-point victory over No. 2 UConn and a 13-point road upset of third-ranked USC. Hannah Hidalgo anchors an offense that’s seventh in field goal percentage and eighth in points per game. Hidalgo’s playing out-of-this-world basketball — 26 points per game on 50/44/84 shooting splits while averaging a Division I-leading 4.1 steals. Her heat checks are among the most thrilling parts of this sport right now.
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Olivia Miles is coming off an ACC Player of the Week designation. She leads the conference in assists and 3-point shooting. With Miles (46 percent), Hidalgo (44) and Sonia Citron (39), Notre Dame touts high-volume efficiency around the perimeter. When the jumper is falling, games can swiftly…
