Louisville Women's Basketball Postgame Notes

Louisville Basketball
Postgame Notes
No. 8 Louisville 83, South Dakota State 30
December 14, 2016 – KFC Yum! Center (7,408)

Team Records and Series Notes

With the win, the Cardinals' record against current members of the Summit League improves to 14-0.
Louisville returns to action on Friday, when it faces the College of Charleston at the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals won the only other meeting between the two teams 71-67 in Charleston last year.

Louisville Team Notes

With the win, Louisville improves its home record to 7-1 this season.
The Cardinals totaled 18 assists on the game. Louisville boasts 212 assists in 11 games this year, an average of 19.2 per contest.
Louisville improves its record to 6-1 this year when scoring over 70 points, and 164-18 under coach Jeff Walz when hitting the mark.
Louisville dominated the paint, scoring 42 of its 83 points in the paint. It held South Dakota State to just 14, tied for the fewest by an opponent since it held Lafayette to 14 earlier this season.
The Cardinals maximized the 30 turnovers they caused, converting them into 38 points.

This the most forced turnovers for the Cardinals this season since causing 32 against UT Martin and Bowling Green earlier this season.
This is the third time this season Louisville has forced an opponent into 30 or more turnovers.

Louisville pulled down 38 rebounds, giving the team 127 over the last three games.
Louisville's bench helped in a major way, contributing a season-high 51 points in the victory.
The 53-point win marks the 17th-largest margin of victory in school history, and the largest this season.
Women's basketball moved to a four-quarter format last year. In tracking the Cardinals' defensive performances, the team held opponents to single-digit points 25 times last year. Louisville added to that sum on Wednesday, holding the Jackrabbits to nine points in the first period, five points in the second period, and five points in the third period.

The Cardinals have held seven of their 11 opponents this season to single-digit points in at least one period.
This was the first game the Cardinals held their opponent to single digits in multiple periods since moving to the four-quarter format last year.
The five points in one quarter is the fewest by an opponent in one quarter this season.

South Dakota State's 30 points was the fewest by a Louisville opponent this season.

This is the fewest points scored by an opponent since the Cardinals held Tennessee State to 25 point on Dec. 31, 2012.

The Jackrabbits' nine field goals made is the fewest by a Louisville opponent since Tennessee State made the same total on Dec. 12, 2012.

The two 3-point field goals by South Dakota State is the fewest by a Cardinals' opponent since Georgia Tech made two on March 4, 2016.

The Cardinals held the Jackrabbits to 19.6 percent shooting from the floor, the lowest by an opponent this season.

This is the lowest shooting percentage by an opponent since Pittsburgh shot 19.2 percent on Feb. 28, 2016.

Louisville continued its high-percentage shooting, connecting on 50.7 percent of its shots. It is the second-highest percentage this season (shot 56.1 percent against UT Martin).

Louisville Player Notes

Jazmine Jones scored a game-high and season-best 15 points on a season-high six made field goals, while registering four rebounds, one steal, and her first block.

Myisha Hines-Allen tallied 10 points, three rebounds, and two steals in the victory.

Hines-Allen's 10 points gave her 1,113 in her career, moving her into sole possession of 18th place on the all-time scoring list, passing both Gwen Doyle (1,104, 1990-1992) and Marla Inman Eltrevoog (1,107, 1994-97). She needs 73 points to move into sole possession of 17th place (Joan Dunaway Burks, 1,185, 1977-81).

Sydney Zambrotta scored 10 points, dished out a season-high two assists, and had one steal.
Cortnee Walton registered six points and nine rebounds, including five on the offense end.
Mariya Moore scored three points, grabbed two rebounds, and two steals in the victory.

Moore now has 1,053 points in her career and needs 16 points to move into sole possession of 23rd place (Devita Caesar, 1,068, 1981-85).

Briahanna Jackson scored four points, tallied a team-high six assists, five rebounds, and two steals.

Jackson improved on her team-leading 56 assists on the year and boasts a team-best 26 steals.

Kylee Shook went 3-of-3 from the floor, including a season-high two treys and dished out one assist.
Ciera Johnson scored eight points, going 4-of-4 from the charity stripe, grabbed one rebound, one block, and a steal.

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