ALBANY, N.Y. — Notre Dame ladies’s basketball guard Hannah Hidalgo needed to come out of her staff’s Candy 16 recreation towards Oregon State on Friday afternoon to have her nostril stud eliminated.
She picked up her first foul with .8 seconds to go within the first quarter, however that wasn’t why she stayed on the bench when play restarted within the second.
Hidalgo sat on the far finish of the bench whereas a number of members of the coaching workers labored with varied pliers-like devices to take away her nostril stud. The freshman performed with the stud piercing all through her standout freshman season.
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In keeping with the NCAA 2023-24 ladies’s basketball guidelines ebook (Rule 1, Part 25, Article 7):
“Head decorations, head put on, helmets, and jewellery are unlawful. Non secular head put on is permitted supplied it’s securely normal to the pinnacle and is topic to the approval of the referee per Rule 2-5.1.”
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She seemed visibly uncomfortable as they labored to get it out and was in a position to examine again in with 5:51 to go left within the first half.
Hidalgo, who leads Notre Dame with 22.9 factors, 5.6 assists and 4.6 steals per recreation, was named a first-team All-American. She additionally gained ACC Rookie of the 12 months, ACC Defensive Participant of the 12 months and ACC match MVP.