Louisville Women's Basketball Postgame Notes
February 26, 2017 | Women's Basketball
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Postgame Notes
No. 14 Louisville 75, Wake Forest 46
February 26, 2017 – Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum (1,297)
Team Records and Series Notes
- Louisville finished the regular season at 25-6 overall, 12-4 in ACC play, with a 75-46 victory over Wake Forest.
- Louisville holds a 3-0 series advantage over Wake Forest.
- Louisville makes its third appearance in the ACC Tournament, when it plays the winner of the No. 12 seed Virginia Tech and No. 13 seed Clemson on Thursday at 11 a.m. ET.
- The Cardinals are 18-17 all-time against the Hokies and are tied 3-3 with Clemson in the series.
Louisville Team Notes
- With Louisville holding Wake Forest to 46 points, the Cardinals improved to 18-1 when limiting opponents to 59 points or less.
- It is the Demon Deacons' second-fewest points this season (scored 43 in a loss to Duke).
- Louisville stifled Wake Forest to 19.4 percent (12 of 62) from the field, the Demon Deacons' lowest shooting mark in school history.
- It is the fifth-consecutive team that has been unable to surpass 40 percent from the field and 17th this season.
- Louisville's opponents are now shooting 36.9 percent from the field, which is approaching the school record set by the 2006-07 team for lowest field goal percentage by opponents (.367).
- Louisville improved to 174-19 (.902) when scoring at least 70 points under head coach Jeff Walz. The team is 16-2 this year when reaching the plateau.
- The Cardinals forced 29 turnovers in the victory that translated into 31 points.
- It is the 11th time this season the Cardinals have forced an opponent into at least 20 turnovers.
- Louisville went 9 of 9 from the free throw line, tied for the best percentage at the charity stripe since it went 10 of 10 against Chattanooga (Nov. 21).
- The Cardinals outscored the Demon Deacons 44-14 in the paint, Louisville's 20th time passing the 30-point plateau this season.
- With Wake Forest's eight points in the third quarter, Louisville has held 18 of its opponents to single digits in a period. Overall, Louisville has held opponents to single-digit points 21 times this season.
- Louisville was credited with 23 assists in the contest, the ninth time reaching at least 20 in a game this year.
- Louisville improved to 51-20 (.718) in the month of February under head coach Jeff Walz.
- Louisville collected just eight offensive, a season low.
Louisville Player Notes
- Myisha Hines-Allen totaled 22 points and 12 rebounds for 13th double-double of the season.
- It was Hines-Allen's sixth 20-point performance, the 22nd of her career.
- Hines-Allen now has tallied 25 career double-doubles, putting her into a tie for fourth with Sharon Bellamy (25, 1995-99).
- She went 10 of 18 from the field, connecting on at least seven field goals for the 12th time this season.
- Hines-Allen boasts 594 career field goals and needs nine more to pass Janet McNew (602, 1979-83) for eighth and also tie Kristin Mattox (603, 1992-96) for seventh.
- Hines-Allen has 716 career rebounds and is 17 shy of passing Devita Ceaser (732, 1981-85) for 10th all-time on the school's list.
- Hines-Allen improved her career point total to 1,387, leaving her 13 short of passing Janet McNew (1,398, 1979-83) for 11th.
- Hines-Allen has led UofL in rebounding in 21 games this season.
- Asia Durr scored 13 of her 15 points in the second half and accumulated three rebounds and three assists.
- Durr has scored 550 points this season, eight points short of passing Kristin Mattox (557, 1995-96) for 10th most points on the school's single-season list.
- She had a pair of 3-pointers, marking the 33rd-consecutive game, where she has made at least one trey.
- Durr has connected on 95 3-pointers this season. She needs two to pass Shoni Schimmel (96, 2012-13) for fourth on the single-season list and also tie Schimmel's mark of 97 (2010-11) for third.
- Mariya Moore collected a game-high nine assists to go with four points and five rebounds.
- She has a team-leading 141 assists this season, seven short of her single-season high (148) set last year.
- Moore ranks ninth all-time in school history with 410 assists. She needs 54 to pass Jackie Spencer (463, 1981-85) for eighth.
- Sydney Zambrotta came off the bench and hit two 3s, her third-consecutive game with multiple treys. She finished with 10 points and now is 20 of 47 from 3-point range for a 42.6 percent clip.
- Kylee Shook totaled a season-high five blocks. It is tied for sixth most in a game in school history.
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