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==Roster==

==Roster==

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{{CBB roster/Player|sex=w|first=Hannah|last=Hidalgo|link=y|num=3|pos=G|ft=5|in=6|class=JR|rs=|home=[[Merchantville, New Jersey|Merchantville, NJ]]|high_school=[[Paul VI High School (Clifton, New Jersey)|Paul VI]]}}

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Intercollegiate basketball season

The 2025–26 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women’s basketball team will represent the University of Notre Dame during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women’s basketball season. The Fighting Irish will be led by sixth-year head coach Niele Ivey and will play their home games at Purcell Pavilion in Notre Dame, Indiana as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Previous season

The Fighting Irish finished the regular season 25–4 overall and 16–2 in ACC play to finish in a tie for first place. As the second seed in the ACC tournament, earned a bye into the Quarterfinals where they defated seventh seed California, 73–64. They were defeated in the Semifinals by third seed and eleventh ranked Duke. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and were the three-seed in the Birmingham 3 region. They defeated fourteen-seed Stephen F. Austin and six-seed Michigan at home to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. There they faced two seed and sixth ranked TCU in a re-match of their Cayman Islands Classic game. They lost again to TCU, this time 71–62 to end their season. The Fighting Irish finished the season with a 28–6 record, and ranked tenth AP poll and ninth Coaches polls.

Offseason

Departures

Incoming transfers

Incoming Transfers

Name	Number	Pos.	Height	Year	Hometown	Previous School

2024 recruiting class

Source:^[7]

College recruiting information

Name	Hometown	School	Height	Weight	Commit date
			N/A	N/A
	Recruit ratings: No ratings found
Overall recruit ranking:
Note: In many cases, Scout, Rivals, 247Sports, On3, and ESPN may conflict in their listings of height and weight. In these cases, the average was taken. ESPN grades are on a 100-point scale. Sources:

Roster

2025–26 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women’s basketball team
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Height Year Previous school Hometown G 1 Kelly Ratigan 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Jr St. Joseph Loyola (MD) South Bend, IN G 2 Vanessa de Jesus 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) GS Sierra Canyon Duke Valencia, CA G 3 Hannah Hidalgo 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Jr Paul VI Merchantville, NJ G 5 Malaya Cowles 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) GS Winston-Salem Christian Wake Forest Wilkesboro, NC G 8 Cassandre Prosper 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Sr Cairine Wilson Montreal, QC F 10 Bella Tehrani (W) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Sr St. Jean de Brebeuf Hamilton, ON G 11 Jordyn Smith 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) GS Penn Holy Cross College Granger, IN G 14 KK Bransford 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) Sr Mount Notre Dame Cincinnati, OH G 15 Luci Jensen (W) 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) So Brookfield Academy Brookfield, WI G 23 Iyana Moore 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) GS Blackman Vanderbilt Milwaukee, WI F 30 Gisela Sanchez 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) GS Segle XXI Kansas State Barcelona, Spain F 44 Leah Macy 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Fr Bethlehem Elizabethtown, KY	Head coach Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible (W) Walk-on Roster

Schedule and results

Source:^[8]

Rankings

Ranking movements

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Final
AP
Coaches

References