GREENSBORO, N.C. — After going 24-4 and winning a regular season title for the first time since 2019, four Notre Dame women’s basketball players have earned postseason ACC honors.
Olivia Miles — All-ACC First Team
Miles finished just behind Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley for the ACC Player of the Year award, but she earned a spot on the First Team for the second time. The 5-10 guard out of New Jersey leads the Irish to this point in rebounds (7.2), assists (6.9) and steals (2.1) per game. Until this weekend, she was also the leading scorer and still remains second in that category (14.3).
The sophomore is also all over the national map. On Monday, she was announced as one of five finalists for the 2023 Nancy Lieberman Award, which is given to the nation’s best point guard. She has also recently been named to the Dawn Staley Award Late Season Watch List, Naismith Midseason Watch List and Wooden Watch List. She earned the No. 4 spot on ESPN’s Top 25 Players List in November, and Miles was named the ACC Player of the Week Dec. 5 and Dec. 19.
Sonia Citron — All-ACC First Team
Last season’s ACC Rookie of the Year finds herself earning top honors once again. Citron leads Notre Dame with 14.5 points per game and is also good for 5.5 boards and 2.3 assists each contest. She had an eye-popping day at Louisville on Sunday, scoring 27 (a season-high) and making multiple critical defensive stops. She has posted at least 24 points in three games this year, which is the most of any Irish player.
Citron has been seemingly near-automatic from 3-point range this year. She hits nearly half of her shot attempts from deep (45.1 percent) and she had a 48.1 percent success rate from behind the arc at home. Citron nearly broke a school record against Virginia when she hit her first six 3-point shot attempts.
Maddy Westbeld — All-ACC First Team
Westbeld can truly do it all, and she showed that on several occasions this season. In addition to leading the team in blocks and recording a career-high 35 of them this year, Westbeld puts up 10.9 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. She is just a single point shy of 1,000 career points in an Irish uniform. She has also improved greatly in the assist category, averaging 2.4 a game and leading Notre Dame in the assist category seven times this season. She had never led the team in assists in a game prior to this year.
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