Watch Hannah Hidalgo's staggering seven first-half steals for Notre Dame vs. Vanderbilt. (1:06)
FORT WORTH, Texas - Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo broke the NCAA Division I single-season record for steals in the first half of the regional semifinals against Vanderbilt on Friday.
She also set the record for steals in one NCAA tournament, breaking the previous record of 23 held by Ticha Penicheiro at Old Dominion in 1988 and Emily Engstler at Louisville in 2022.
Hidalgo had seven steals in the first half alone -- moving her past Lamar's Chastadie Barrs, who had 192 steals in 2018-19. Steals became an official NCAA stat in 1987-88. She was up to nine steals by the end of the third quarter of play.
Hidalgo won ACC Player and Defensive Player of the Year honors this season, and she already owns the ACC single-season steals record and Notre Dame career record for steals -- the only player in school history to have more than 400 steals.
