No. 3 Louisville Hosts No. 25 Rutgers on Sunday
February 22, 2014 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 22, 2014
No. 3 Louisville women's basketball hosts its second-straight home game when it plays No. 25 Rutgers on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in the KFC Yum! Center. The game will air on ESPNU. It can also be heard live on the Cards Radio with Matt Andrews and Adrienne Johnson, carried locally on WKRD 790 AM.
Louisville (26-2, 14-1 American Athletic Conference) took an 81-62 win against Houston on Wednesday, just one win shy of matching the school record for home wins set in the 2006-2007 season. The Cardinals seized a quick lead and directed the rest of the game. Sara Hammond led the Cardinals with 17 points. The milestone of the night came from Naismith candidate Shoni Schimmel, who scored 15 points to surpass her 2,000th career point mark. Emmonnie Henderson continued to prove her reliability in the paint with 12 points.
Louisville looks to improve its 16-0 home winning streak on Sunday. Schimmel leads the team with 17.6 points per game. Hammond ranks second in both scoring and rebounding, averaging 11.3 points and 6.4 boards per game. Asia Taylor rounds out the team's top scorers with 10.9 points per game. She also leads Louisville in rebounding with 6.9 boards per game.
No. 25 Rutgers (20-5, 11-3 American Athletic Conference) broke its way into the Associated Press Top 25 Poll this week. The team enters the game after soaring past Central Florida 90-50 at home on Feb. 15. Tyler Scaife scored 22 points against Central Florida and Kahleah Copper also had 22 points. Rutgers committed only six turnovers the entire game, while scoring 38 points from 22 UCF mistakes. The Scarlet Knights also shot 60.0 percent from the floor.
Rutgers is led in scoring by Copper, who averages 16.1 points per game and 6.0 rebounds per game. Scaife ranks second in scoring, contributing 13.7 points per game. Betnijah Laney rounds out the top scorers with 12.5 points per game. Laney also leads the team in rebounding, averaging 9.1 boards per game.
Louisville leads the series 7-4 against Rutgers. The last matchup was on Jan. 28 at Rutgers, resulting in an 80-71 win for the Cardinals. The game is the annual Pink Game and Tom Drexler will provide the first 2,000 fans that donate to the Gilda's Club with a pink t-shirt. It is also the Louisville's annual Spirit Day. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
To get information on or to purchase season, mini-plan, group, or individual tickets for the 2013-14 women's basketball season contact the UofL Athletic ticket office at (502) 852-7254 or email jonathan@gocards.com.
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