Louisville vs. Duke Postgame Notes & Quotes

Louisville Basketball
Postgame Notes
No. 3 Louisville vs. No. 17 Duke
January 4, 2018 – KFC Yum! Center (8,101)

Team Records and Series Notes

With this win over the Blue Devils, the Cards increase their record against AP Top 25 teams to 4-0
No. 3 Louisville moves to 17-0 for the season and 3-0 in conference play
- First time in program history that the Cardinals have gone undefeated through 17 games
- The Cards have the most wins in the country and are one of the four remaining undefeated teams in the nation
Louisville is now 3-3 all-time against Duke (2-0 Home, 1-3 Away)
- The last time the two teams played, Duke beat the Cardinals in Durham, 58-55

Louisville Team Notes

Louisville shot 56.7% from the field and 55.6% from beyond the arc, in the first half
Louisville had 15 assists as a team in the first half with Arica Carter leading the way with 5, they did not have an assists in the second half
The Cardinals had three players score in double figures; Fuehring (12), Hines-Allen (13), Durr (22)

Louisville Individual Notes

Asia Durr went 4-5 from the 3-point line in the first half
- Asia Durr had 17 points in the first half scoring 14 of them in the first quarter
- She finished the night with 22 points and 5 rebounds
- She has made at least three 3-pointers in her last six games, including tonight's performance (4-8)
- After tonight she has scored in double figures in her last nine games and has 13 double-digit scoring games this season, including seven 20-point games.
Myisha Hines-Allen had 4 offensive rebounds in the first half and finished the game with 8 for a total of 10 rebounds for the game
- In addition to her 10 rebounds Hines-Allen scored 13 points
- This was her second straight double-double, sixth on the season and 35^th of her career
Sam Fuehring had 12 points and 7 rebounds
Kylee Shook helped the cards with 2 steals and 5 rebounds
Arica Carter led the team in assists with 5

Head Coach Jeff Walz Postgame Quotes vs. Duke

(On defense performance)

"Well, it was just effort. We allowed wide open shots, like we didn't even guard and that wasn't the plan. There was nothing in our scouting reports that said don't guard or allow them to shoot wide open shots. If you want to try it once to try and psych somebody out, then fine, but when they make it, you might want to guard them after that and we never even made an attempt. I just told Myisha, as good as she was on Sunday at NC State, she was just as bad tonight defensively. You're going to look and be like 'gosh, she had a double-double'. Myisha walks in the gym and gets a double-double. That's what I tell her all the time. And that's pressure, she's that good of a player. What Myisha needs to be able to do is get us 18 and 13 and she knows that, but tonight she just wasn't there defensively. And honestly, it's probably the first game all year that I've seen that bad. Our guards did a really good job at keeping Lexie Brown in front of them and not letting her be gone early. But our post players just did not perform as well as they have all season tonight."

(How do you get them in transition defense, because they did get a few easy buckets off that?)

"It starts off by talking, which we were very bad at that. Unfortunately, in about 15 years when I'm no longer coaching they'll come out with something that they can wear on their watch and text, you guard 20, that'll buzz 20- guard, and then I'll run over here. It's just difficult for them to talk on the floor, but hopefully somebody out there in Silicon Valley will start to do some work and get something the kids can wear during the game to help us, cause right now we are bad at it."

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Players Mentioned

Arica Carter

Asia Durr

Sam Fuehring

Myisha Hines-Allen

Kylee Shook

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