Louisville Women's Basketball Postgame Notes

Louisville Basketball
Postgame Notes
No. 7 Louisville 69, No. 17 Kentucky 67 (overtime)
December 4, 2016 – KFC Yum! Center (12,245)

Team Records and Series Notes

Louisville won its seventh game of the season, beating 17th-ranked Kentucky 69-67 in overtime.

This is the first overtime game between these two teams since 2003, and the first time Louisville has won in overtime against Kentucky since 1995.

With the win, Louisville's record against Kentucky in overtime games improves to 2-1.

Louisville's victory improves its series record to 18-34 against Kentucky.
With the win, the Cardinals' boast 38 victories against the Southeastern Conference.
Louisville returns to action on Sunday, when it faces Western Kentucky at the KFC Yum! Center. Western Kentucky won last year's meeting between the two teams, which ended a four game Louisville winning streak in the series.

Louisville Team Notes

With the win, Louisville improves its home record to 5-1 this season.
Louisville outscored Kentucky 18-11 in the first quarter and has won the first period in each of its nine games this season.
The Cardinals totaled 19 assists on the game. Louisville boasts 172 assists in nine games this year, an average of 19.1 per contest.
Louisville dominated the paint, scoring 32 of its 69 points in the paint.
The Cardinals maximized the 19 turnovers they caused, converting them into 18 points.
Louisville pulled down 48 rebounds, the most in a game since they pulled down 62 on Nov. 20 against Lafayette.

The Cardinals pulled down 21 of them on the offensive end, the most since they pulled down 28 against Lafayette. Louisville held Kentucky to just eight offensive boards and four second-chance points.

Louisville held Kentucky's bench to three points, the fewest by an opponent since Nov. 15, 2015, when California's bench contributed two points.
Louisville head coach Jeff Walz improves his record against Kentucky to 4-6, and picks up his first win against the Wildcats since 2010-11 season.

Louisville Player Notes

Myisha Hines-Allen led the team in scoring with a season-high 26 points, going 13-of-22 from the field and also registering three rebounds and a block.

Needing only eight points to move into sole possession of 23rd place on the all-time scorers list, her 26 points propelled her into sole possession of 21st place (1,067). Hines-Allen needs 15 points to move into 20th all-time.

Asia Durr went 4 for 10 from beyond the arc, giving her seven games on the year recording at least three treys.

Durr tallied 15 points, five rebounds, one assist, and a steal to finish as Louisville's second leading scorer.

Mariya Moore played a team high 44 minutes against Kentucky, dishing out a season-high eight assists and grabbing a season-high nine rebounds to go along with her eight points.

Moore now needs six points (1,043) to move into sole possession of 25th place on the all-time scoring list and pass Tuonisia Turner (1,048, 1988-92).

Briahanna Jackson registered five steals and a season-high 10 rebounds to go along with her eight assists and five points.
Cortnee Walton brought down 10 rebounds, also scoring four points and swatting a shot.

Walton is averaging 7.3 rebounds through three games this season, matching her average from her junior season in which she played 34 games.

Jazmine Jones made a season-high three field goals, registering seven points, four rebounds, one assist, and one steal.
Kylee Shook made her first 3-point field goal of her career to give her a total four of points and two rebounds on the night.

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