Mikayla Blakes vs Hannah Hidalgo, what Vanderbilt and Notre Dame said about matchup
Vanderbilt women's basketball vs. Notre Dame will see Mikayla Blakes and Hannah Hidalgo will face off.
FORT WORTH, TX The Vanderbilt vs. Notre Dame Sweet 16 matchup won't be the first time Mikayla Blakes and Hannah Hidalgo have faced each other. Blakes, the SEC Player of the Year, and Hidalgo, the ACC Player of the Year, are both from New Jersey.
The two faced each other in high school and in AAU. Hidalgo said that she remembers winning both matchups against Blakes back then. The two have also played on the same team before as members of the FIBA AmeriCup team that won the gold medal last summer.
This matchup will have the highest stakes, though. The No. 2 seed Commodores (29-4) will face the No.
6 seed Fighting Irish (24-10) with a spot in the Elite 8 on the line at Dickies Arena on March 26 (1:30 p. m. CT, ESPN).