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Alexa Philippou
ESPN
- Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Hannah Hidalgo and MiLaysia Fulwiley made their women’s college basketball debuts half a world away. But the freshmen wasted no time becoming international sensations.
Facing off in Paris on the opening day of the 2023-24 season, Hidalgo was fearless from the jump, scoring 13 first-quarter points and finishing with 31, the most for a Notre Dame player in her first game. Fulwiley dazzled for South Carolina with a 17-point, 6-assist, 6-steal effort, including a jaw-dropping, coast-to-coast, behind-the-back layup Magic Johnson called on X “the best move in all of basketball.”
“Hidalgo and Fulwiley moving DIFFERENT out here,” NBA legend Kevin Durant also posted on X.
The game didn’t turn out to be competitive — the Gamecocks…
