Louisville-Kentucky Postgame Notes
December 05, 2010 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 5, 2010
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TEAM
- Louisville has now won six of its last seven games versus Kentucky, losing only last season (101-67 on Dec. 20).
- The Cardinals have now outscored their opponents 83-26 in the first four minutes of games this season. U of L led 8-4 at the 16:00 mark on Sunday, making Kentucky the eighth Louisville opponent out of nine to fail to put up more than four points in the first four minutes. Only Old Dominion (9-6 lead at that point) has managed to grab a head start on the Cardinals this season.
Score at 16:00 mark, first half
6-2 - Tennessee (11.12)
8-2 - Ohio (11.14)
16-2 - Houston Baptist (11.17)
12-0 - Southeast Missouri State (11.19)
7-4 - Xavier (11.23)
6-9 - Old Dominion (11.26)
14-0 - IPFW (11.29)
6-3 - Mississippi Valley State (12.2)
8-4 - Kentucky (12.5)
- In five home games, Louisville has outscored its foes 48-11 in the first four minutes.
- The Cards held their opponent to yet another long scoreless drought on Sunday, going on a 12-0 run (covering 5:53) to increase their lead to 17-4 in the first half. It was Louisville's 11th run of 12 or more unanswered points this season
Top Louisville runs in 2010-11
26-0 (covering 7:34) - Houston Baptist
21-0 (8:00) - Ohio
20-0 (8:52) - Houston Baptist
19-0 (8:03) - Mississippi Valley State
16-0 (4:27) - IPFW
16-0 (5:12) - Southeast Missouri State
16-0 (6:24) - Houston Baptist
15-0 (6:36) - Mississippi Valley State
14-0 (6:55) - Ohio
13-0 (5:01) - Southeast Missouri State
12-0 (5:53) - #8/9 Kentucky
- Louisville held UK without an assist for the first 15:25 of Sunday's game, a stretch during which the Wildcats committed eight turnovers. In fact, U of L opponents committed 13 turnovers between Mississippi Valley State's final assist on Thursday night (which came at the 9:36 mark of the second half) and Kentucky's first on Sunday, a span of over 25 minutes (25:01).
- Cardinal foes had also missed nine straight threes (three by the Delta Devilettes and six by the Wildcats) before UK's Keyla Snowden finally buried one.
- Louisville's 18-point halftime cushion was its second-largest over a ranked opponent in the 21st century (and largest over a top 10 opponent), trailing only the Cards' 20-point lead (41-21) in a 67-60 win over #13/13 West Virginia on March 10, 2008.
Largest halftime leads over ranked opponents (since 2000-01)
1. 20 - #13/13 West Virginia - 3.10.08 (41-21)
2. 18 - #8/9 Kentucky - 12.5.10 (43-25)
3. 15 - #19/20 Notre Dame - 1.14.06 (30-15)
- The Cards notched their sixth win over a top 10 team since 1995-96, with the 26-point victory going down as the largest since that time.
Victories over top 10 teams (since 1995-96)
12.5.10 - #8/9 Kentucky - 78-52
4.5.09 - #4/4 Oklahoma - 61-59
3.30.09 - #3/3 Maryland - 77-60
3.28.09 - #5/5 Baylor - 56-39
3.9.08 - #4/5 Rutgers - 57-56
12.20.96 - #7 Penn State - 68-58
- Louisville's 12 three-pointers were its most since setting the school record with 14 on Nov. 12, 2006, against Memphis. Becky Burke (12) and Shoni Schimmel (nine) took all of U of L's tries from distance.
- The 26-point win was Louisville's largest over any ranked opponent in the last 17 seasons.
Biggest wins over ranked opponents (since 1995-96)
1. 26 - #8/9 Kentucky - 12.5.10 (78-52)
2. 24 - #15/20 Pittsburgh - 2.28.09 (75-51)
3. 17 - #3/3 Maryland - 3.30.09 (77-60)
3. 17 - #15/16 Kansas State - 3.25.08 (80-63)
- Kentucky's four assists tie for the fewest by any Cardinal opponent over the last 11 seasons.
Fewest opponent assists (since 2000-01)
1. 4 - Kentucky - 12.5.10 (22 TO)
1. 4 - St. John's - 2.17.09 (19 TO)
1. 4 - St. John's - 3.8.08 (16 TO)
1. 4 - Cincinnati - 1.15.08 (18 TO)
5. 5 - Mississippi Valley State - 12.2.10 (35 TO)
- Louisville earned the 26-point win despite being outscored 23-7 in second-chance points. The Wildcats pulled down 50 rebounds, including 22 offensive and 23 by Victoria Dunlap (10 of which were offensive).
PLAYER
- Junior Becky Burke and freshman Shoni Schimmel each hit six threes in the game, the first time two Cardinals have made 5+ threes in the same game in the last 11 seasons. The six made threes tie for the 11th most in a game in Louisville history and most since Burke hit seven against Tennessee on Dec. 16, 2009.
- Burke has now made 12 of her last 19 (.632) from downtown, while Schimmel has made nine of her last 14 (.643).
- Burke has now put up 21 points in each of her last two games against Kentucky.
- Schimmel has now scored 15 or more points in five straight games, averaging 18.2 points per game over that stretch.
- Schimmel also dished out six assists, the fifth straight game in which she has had at least six dimes. The five-game streak with 6+ assists is the longest for a Cardinal player since Patrika Barlow put together a six-game streak to open the 2007-08 season, during which she averaged an absurd 9.2 dimes per game (55 total, including a school-record 16 in the opener).
Consecutive games with 6+ assists (since 2000-01)
1. 15 - Sara Nord - 3.3.01-1.4.02 (6-6-12-10-11-9-9-12-10-11-8-13-11-12-6)
2. 12 - Sara Nord - 11.19.00-1.5.01 (6-7-8-6-11-6-6-6-8-11-7-10)
3. 11 - Sara Nord - 1.12.01-2.16.01 (9-7-6-10-9-9-13-8-11-9-10)
4. 8 - Sara Nord - 12.6.03-1.9.04 (8-12-9-8-7-10-8-7)
5. 6 - Patrika Barlow - 11.10.07-12.2.07 (16-8-6-7-9-9)
5. 6 - Sara Nord - 1.17.03-2.2.03 (10-7-7-7-9-6)
5. 6 - Sara Nord - 1.11.02-1.27.02 (7-7-10-6-8-10)
8. 5 - Shoni Schimmel - 11.23.10-Present (6-6-7-7-6)
8. 5 - Patrika Barlow - 2.2.08-2.23.08 (8-6-7-9-9)
8. 5 - Sara Nord - 3.13.02-12.13.02 (6-13-8-7-7)
- Schimmel began the game 3-for-3 from behind the arc, giving her six made threes in a span of eight attempts.
- The Oregon native's 26 points were the most by a Louisville freshman since Jazz Covington had 30 in a 77-75 win at Houston on Jan. 25, 2004.
- Sophomore Tia Gibbs saw her streak of seven consecutive multi-steal games end after a steal-less game.
- Junior Monique Reid (10 points) failed to reach 12 points for the first time in 18 games. She made fewer than five field goals (two) for the first time in 18 games as well.
- Junior Becky Burke's turnover at the 6:05 mark of the first half--her only one of the game--was her first in her last 91+ minutes of game action.
- With her second made three-pointer of the afternoon, the 126th of her career, Burke passed Connie Neal (2002-06) for 10th place on Louisville's career list for threes made.
- Freshman Sheronne Vails set a new career high with nine rebounds in the game, besting her previous high of five (against Houston Baptist). She also set a new career best with four steals.
