Louisville-Georgetown Postgame Notes
February 01, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 1, 2011
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TEAM
- The loss snaps Louisville's 10-game home winning streak. The Cards were one of four teams in the BIG EAST with an active double-digit home win streak, trailing UConn (73 straight, an NCAA record), West Virginia (31), and DePaul (15).
- Louisville falls to 4-2 all-time against Georgetown and suffers its first-ever loss to the Hoyas at home.
- Georgetown's 76 points marked its most ever in the series with the Cards.
- After going 3-for-6 from downtown during and after a crucial 17-0 second half run against Rutgers on Saturday, Louisville picked up right where it left off, hitting its first three treys to jump out to a 12-4 advantage. Coupled with the 17-3 game-ending run versus the Scarlet Knights, Louisville outscored its opposition 29-7 over a span of 18:35 (last 11:21 of Rutgers game and first 7:14 on Tuesday).
- Louisville (seven threes) hit 7+ threes for the fifth straight game, just the second time in school history the Cards have accomplished the feat (also seven or more in five straight from March 4-Nov. 12, 2006). No U of L club has ever hit seven threes in six consecutive contests.
- The Cardinals held the opposition to fewer than 28 first-half points for the 11th straight time at home--all 12 teams to visit the KFC Yum! Center have scored 31 points or fewer in the first stanza. Louisville is holding foes to an average of 22.9 first-half points at home in 2010-11.
- A game after Rutgers shot 64.7 percent (11-for-17) in the first half but collected zero offensive rebounds, Georgetown totaled 14 offensive boards in the first frame but shot just 23.3 percent (7-for-30) from the field.
- The 11-point halftime lead was Louisville's largest over a ranked conference opponent since the Cards led 26-14 at the midway point against #16/17 Rutgers on Jan. 11, 2009 (64-59 win). Georgetown's 19 first-half points were the fewest for any ranked Louisville opponent in a half since that same date.
- The Hoyas had not scored fewer points in a half of a BIG EAST game since Feb. 7, 2009 (15 in the first half of a double-overtime loss at Rutgers).
- As the final score might indicate, the second half was a different story, as Georgetown's 57 second-half points were the third-most by any Louisville opponent in a half in school history. The last Cardinal foe to score more in a 20-minute period was DePaul, who put up 63 in the second half of the Cards' 99-97 overtime win on Jan. 12, 2001.
Most opponent points in a half, Louisville history
1. 63 - DePaul - 1.12.01 (63-37, 2nd)
2. 62 - Memphis - 3.1.96 (62-37, 2nd)
3. 57 - Georgetown - 2.1.11 (57-22, 2nd)
3. 57 - Purdue - 12.10.93 (57-20, 1st)
- Louisville's 22 points in that half were its fewest in any second half since UConn outscored U of L 25-12 in the latter 20 minutes on March 10, 2009 (75-36 Huskies win).
- Only two teams have outscored the Cardinals by more points in a half (GU scored 35 more points than Louisville): Connecticut, when the Huskies built a 54-18 halftime lead over U of L last season (84-38 UConn win on Feb. 7), and Purdue, who led 57-20 at the break on Dec. 10, 1993 (95-53 Boilermakers victory). The 35-point second-half spread was the largest ever against the Cards.
Largest deficit in a half, Louisville history
1. -37 - Purdue - 12.10.93 (57-20, 1st)
2. -36 - Connecticut - 2.7.10 (54-18, 1st)
3. -35 - Georgetown - 2.1.11 (57-22, 2nd)
4. -33 - Old Dominion - 11.30.98 (50-17, 2nd)
- Louisville surpassed its season high in turnovers in just under 30 minutes on Tuesday, finishing the game with 30 miscues. The 30 turnovers were the most for U of L since committing 31 at St. John's on Feb. 10 of last season and its most at home since Dec. 28, 2008 (34 versus Morehead State).
PLAYER
- Rookie sensation Shoni Schimmel scored in double figures for the 19th straight game on Tuesday night, tying the Louisville freshman record set by Gwen Doyle in 1990-91 (a year in which Doyle set the Cardinal record for points by a freshman, putting up 17.9 per game). Doyle notched at least 10 points in each of the last 19 games of her first season (Jan. 19-March 23), adding five more double-digit scoring efforts to begin the 1991-92 campaign for an overall streak of 24 consecutive double-figure outputs.
- The 19-game string is the third-longest by a BIG EAST freshman over the past six seasons. Only Connecticut's Maya Moore's (31-game stretch in 2007-08) and Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers (22 last season) have put together longer streaks (each to open her career).
Consecutive games scoring in double figures, BIG EAST freshmen (since 2005-06)
1. 31 - Maya Moore, Connecticut - 11.11.07-3.9.08
2. 22 - Sugar Rodgers, Georgetown - 11.14.09-2.2.10
3. 19 - Shoni Schimmel, Louisville - 11.23.10-Present
4. 12 - Bria Hartley, Connecticut - 11.21.10-1.5.11
5. 11 - Epiphanny Prince, Rutgers - 11.12.06-1.2.07
- Schimmel has made at least one three in all 19 of those games.
- Her first made three of the evening propelled her into the Louisville single-season top 10 for threes made. The Oregon native now sits seventh in Cardinal annals for threes in a season (65).
Single-season three-point field goals made, Louisville history
1. 98 - Sara Nord (2003-04)
2. 82 - Kristin Mattox (1994-95)
3. 72 - Becky Burke (2009-10)
4. 70 - Brandie Radde (2007-08)
5. 69 - Jill Morton (1999-00)
6. 68 - Misty Smith (1996-97)
7. 65 - Shoni Schimmel (2010-11)
7. 65 - Kristin Mattox (1993-94)
7. 65 - Jill Morton (1998-99)
10. 64 - Sara Nord (2002-03)
- With her 126th career game played, senior Keshia Hines took over sole possession of second place on the school's career games played list. She is now 13 games behind three-time All-American and Louisville scoring leader Angel McCoughtry for the top spot on the chart; the Cards have eight regular-season games remaining plus the BIG EAST Tournament and a potential postseason berth.
Career games played, Louisville history
1. 139 - Angel McCoughtry (2005-09)
2. 126 - Keshia Hines (2007-Present)
3. 125 - Jazz Covington (2003-07)
4. 124 - Nell Knox (1989-93)
5. 123 - Kelly Rose (1989-93)
- Junior Becky Burke moved into seventh place in Louisville career history in three-point attempts on Tuesday, attempting seven to up her three-year total to 425. She passed a pair of `90s players in Jody Martin (420 tries from 1990-94) and Marla Inman Eltrevoog (422 from 1993-97).
Career three-point attempts, Louisville history
1. 721 - Kristin Mattox (1992-96)
2. 706 - Sara Nord (2000-04)
3. 549 - Misty Smith (1994-98)
4. 454 - Brandie Radde (2006-09)
5. 452 - Jill Morton (1996-00)
6. 448 - Angel McCoughtry (2005-09)
7. 425 - Becky Burke (2008-Present)
8. 422 - Marla Inman Eltrevood (1994-97)
9. 420 - Jody Martin (1990-94)
10. 414 - Tuonisia Turner (1988-92)
- Louisville managed to hold Georgetown star Sugar Rodgers (18.3 points per game) to seven points on 2-for-13 shooting in the first 23 minutes of the game, but the sophomore then caught fire, scoring 17 points on 7-of-8 shooting (including 3-of-4 from deep) in the next five minutes of play as the Hoyas turned a 14-point deficit into an eight-point cushion in just 7:16 (27-5 run). Rodgers finished with 26 points and a career high-tying six steals.
- After eight rebounds on Tuesday, junior Monique Reid is now averaging 7.1 rebounds over her past 11 games. She has snagged 33 boards (8.3 per game) over Louisville's last four contests.
- Sophomore Tia Gibbs notched her 16th multi-steal game of 2010-11 on Tuesday, finishing with three. She now has 12 three-steal games this season, already the most in a year by a Cardinal not named McCoughtry since Sara Nord had 13 such games in 2003-04. Gibbs also has eight games with at least four thefts, the most by anyone but Angel since Nord had 10 in 2002-03. Nord's career highs for three- and four-steal games in a year were 16 (2000-01) and 10 (2002-03), respectively (for her career, Nord recorded 55 three-steal games and 31 with four or more).
