CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Notre Dame point guard Hannah Hidalgo has spent the better part of the last seven months contemplating what went wrong down the stretch last season — and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The two-time Associated Press first-team All-American returns as the clear face of the Irish program — and perhaps all of women's college basketball given that USC's JuJu Watkins is out for the season with a knee injury — after backcourt mate Olivia Miles transferred to TCU.

“Knowing how much talent we had last year and underachieving like we did was something that was heartbreaking,” the junior said Tuesday at the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason media days.

Notre Dame was ranked No. 1 in the country last February before losing at N.C. State in a double-overtime thriller t

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