Louisville Women's Basketball Postgame Notes
February 23, 2017 | Women's Basketball
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Postgame Notes
No. 14 Louisville 66, Virginia 55
February 23, 2017 – KFC Yum! Center (7,981)
Team Records and Series Notes
- Louisville won its 24th game of the season, beating Virginia 66-55.
- Louisville, which won both regular-season meetings this year, leads the all-time series 5-2 over the Cavaliers.
- Louisville completes the regular season on Sunday, as it travels to take on Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C.
- Louisville boasts a 2-0 series advantage against Wake Forest, earning a 78-54 victory at home last year.
Louisville Team Notes
- With Louisville holding Virginia to 55 points, the Cardinals improved to 17-1 when limiting opponents to 59 points or less.
- Louisville earned a 43-24 rebounding advantage, including 17-7 on the offensive end.
- The Cardinals scored 24 second-chance points off their 17 offensive rebounds.
- They only allowed the Cavaliers to score six second-chance points.
- Louisville held Virginia to 39.6 percent shooting from the field.
- This is the fourth-straight opponent the Cardinals have held to 40 percent shooting or less and the 16th opponent that failed to hit the mark this season.
- Louisville has held its last three opponents under 20 made field goals.
- With Virginia's eight point first quarter, Louisville has now held 17 of its opponents to single-digit points in a period.
- It is the seventh time the Cardinals have held an opponent to single digits in the first quarter this season.
- The Cardinals capitalized on the Cavaliers' 17 turnovers, scoring 17 points off the change of possession.
- Louisville has won its last three Senior Day games.
- The Cardinals shot 40 percent from behind the 3-point line, which marks the eighth time they have shot 40 percent or better from behind the arc.
Louisville Player Notes
- Myisha Hines-Allen totaled 21 points and nine rebounds in 34 minutes.
- It was Hines-Allen's fifth 20-point performance, the 21st of her career.
- She went 7 of 14 from the field, connecting on at least seven field goals for the 11th time this season. Hines-Allen boasts 584 career field goals and needs five more to pass Sharon Bellamy (588, 1995-99) for ninth on the school's all-time list.
- Hines-Allen surpassed 700 career rebounds (704) during the game. She is 29 shy of passing Devita Ceaser (732, 1981-85) for 10th all-time on the school's list.
- Hines-Allen tied season highs in free throws made (7) and attempted (8).
- Hines-Allen improved her career point total to 1,365, leaving her 34 short of passing Janet McNew (1,398, 1979-83) for 11th.
- Hines-Allen has led UofL in rebounding in 20 games this season.
- Asia Durr totaled a game-high 24 points, with seven rebounds, and three assists.
- Her four 3-pointers mark the 32nd-consecutive game, where she has made at least one trey.
- Durr scored at least 20 points for the 13th time this season, 17th of her career. It is her fifth-consecutive game with at least 20 points.
- Durr has 18 games this season where she made three or more 3-pointers, and 23 times in her career.
- Durr tallied two steals in the victory, the 14th game this season with at least a pair.
- Jazmine Jones earned her first collegiate start and finished with eight points, four rebounds, two assists, and two steals.
- Sydney Zambrotta came off the bench and hit two 3s. She is now 24 of 53 from 3-point range for a 45.3 percent clip.
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