Louisville vs. Pitt Postgame Notes & Quotes
February 25, 2018 | Women's Basketball
Postgame Notes – Pitt (Feb. 25, 2018)
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ACC Champions
- Louisville's regular-season ACC championship is the sixth in program history and the first since the Conference USA title in the 2000-01 season.
- Louisville's 15-1 conference record matches the 2015-16 season for the best as a member of the ACC.
- With the first-place finish, Louisville finishes ahead of Notre Dame in the conference standings (Big East/ACC) for the first time since the 2008-09 season.
- Louisville is the first ACC program other than Notre Dame or Duke to win the regular-season title since Miami won a share in 2010-11.
- With an overall record of 29-2, Louisville recorded their best regular season finish in program history, surpassing the 28 regular season wins from the 2013-2014 season.
- The team's current record is already tied for third best win total in school history, matching the 2016-17 and 2012-13 seasons.
Myisha Hines-Allen
- Myisha Hines-Allen moved into third place all-time with 1,908 points, eclipsing Nell Knox's mark of 1,899.
- Hines-Allen recorded her 14th double-double of the season and 43rd of her career.
- With 16 boards, Hines-Allen registered her fifth game with 15-plus rebounds this season. She led the Cardinals in rebounds for the 21st time this season.
- Her double-double against Pittsburgh marks her 10th in the last 16 games.
- This season, she has scored in double-digits in 23 contests and grabbed 10-plus rebounds 18 times.
Team Trends
- With today's win, Louisville improved to 16-2 all-time against Pitt.
- The Cards' 20-12 first quarter lead marked the 21st time that Louisville has scored 20-plus points in the first quarter. Louisville has scored 20-plus points in a quarter 60 times this season.
- Louisville led Pittsburgh 38-22 at the half, marking the 18th game where the Cards have led by double-digits at halftime.
- In the fourth quarter, the Cardinals closed the game on a 16-5 run, including the final nine points of the game.
- The Cardinals shot 52.4 percent in the game, the 10th time this season they have shot above 50 percent from the field.
- The starting lineup of Hines-Allen, Fuehring, Carter, Durr and Jones improved to 27-2 on the season with today's win.
- For the 11th time this season, the Cardinals did not trail at any point in today's game. Additionally, today's win was the 11th this season by a margin of 30 or more points.
- With 22 points off of turnovers, Louisville eclipsed 20 points in that category for the 18th time this season.
- The Cardinals are 12-0 when making seven or more 3-point field goals in a game. The Cards made eight in today's game, including six from Durr.
- The Cardinals are 20-0 when their bench outscores the opponent's bench.
- The Cardinals are 14-0 when scoring over 80 points in a game. They are also 14-0 in games decided by 20 points or more.
- Pitt only tallied 24 rebounds for the game, the fewest of any Louisville opponent this season.
- With only 49 points by Pitt, Louisville limited an opponent to under 50 points for the eighth time this season.
- With no fouls called on either team in the first quarter, it marked the second time in school history that Louisville was not called for a foul in a quarter. The previous instance occurred in the first quarter against Bowling Green on Nov. 19, 2016.
- The first foul against Louisville was called at the 6:10 mark of the second quarter, making it the latest point for the team in the quarters era (2015-pres.). The previous record was the 6:50 mark of the second quarter against Bowling Green on Nov. 19, 2016.
Individual Figures
- With Myisha Hines-Allen's 18 points and 16 rebounds and Sam Fuehring's 13 points and 12 rebounds, UofL had two players record a double-double for the first time since Dana Evans and Sam Fuehring did it at Kentucky on December 17. Hines-Allen tallied a team-high 12 defensive rebounds for the third time this season.
- Sam Fuehring grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds, eclipsing her previous mark of 11 against Virginia Tech on March 9, 2017. The last time Fuehring secured double-digit rebounds was at Kentucky on December 17.
- Asia Durr scored 20 points, the 14th time this season she has surpassed the 20-point mark and the 35th time of her career. She led the Cardinals in scoring for the 21st time this season and in assists, with six, for the sixth time this season.
- Durr's buzzer-beater to close the third quarter was the second for her this season. She previously closed the third quarter against Notre Dame on Jan. 11 with a 3-point field goal at the buzzer
- In this season, Durr has made three or more 3-point field goals 20 times and in her career, she has posted 48 games with three or more.
- Jazmine Jones registered a career-high two blocks.
- Jones tallied three steals on the afternoon, the 12th time this season that she has had two or more steals in a game and the 18th time in her career.
Myisha Hines-Allen Postgame Comments
(Myisha what's going through your mind right now?)
"A lot. I'm just happy we won, were able to beat a good Pitt team. Going into the ACC tournament, we're going to see the same teams again, so we just want that same celebration, so we have to keep playing hard."
(How much experience do you guys have cutting down nets?)
"That was my first ever, I've never won a championship before in high school or AAU, so this is cool, I like it."
(Myisha, can you wrap up, this is your senior day, you got the net around your neck, ACC Champs, talk about this being your final regular season game at the Yum! Center.)
"We got more business to take care of. I'm not really shocked because I knew we were capable of winning, it's just like it's huge, senior game. I'm happy we were able to play for a championship on my senior day game and just to experience this."
(Would you say that this is the highlight of your career thus far?)
"Yeah. Every time you win a championship, you cut down the net, you wear these t-shirts, you see everyone on the team smiling, you hear the crowd going crazy, it's something you won't forget."
Coach Walz Postgame Comments
(You mentioned never winning a conference title here. How does this feel for you?"
"It's great. It's 11 years in the works. I've got to thank Tom (Jurich), I mean there's no question, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Tom Jurich believing in me 11 years ago. So, this is just as much his work as mine and I am very grateful for that. And then, Christine (Herring) has been along as my SWA and she's been fantastic through all of this for the years that she's helped me and been there for us. And Vince (Tyra) has come in and I think he's done a really nice job too. When all that chaos was going on, he just let us focus on what we do. But, I definitely want to thank Tom because it is something that we have talked about, building a program and not just a team. And I think we have done that over 11 years. We've turned this into a nationally known program that is going to be there year in and year out."
(Do you think ball movement tonight was better than it was on Thursday?)
"Yeah, I thought we moved the ball much better. We just got a little sloppy at times and those are the areas we have to clean up. We started the game, I think with seven assists and one turnover and the next thing you know I get the next stat sheet and it's eight assists and four turnovers. Those are the times of the game we need to eliminate and as soon as we can get that then we're going to be taken care. We gave a little math quiz at halftime. We're shooting about 60% from the field and then we had five turnovers right there in the last five minutes of the second quarter, so I gave them the old math quiz of if we get shots instead of turnovers, how many shots would we make if we're shooting 60%? We got that answer right, which was good. Then I'm trying to explain, instead of being up 16, you're up 22 just by getting shots instead of throwing the ball out of bounds and being sloppy with it. So, we like to have a little fun with it, but 16 turnovers are too many for us. We've got to get this thing down to 12 or 13 and then I can live with that especially with how we try to push things in transition at times. We just have to eliminate the sloppiness."
