Women’s Basketball Closes in on Conference Championship
The Cavaliers/Wahoos (your choice of nickname) gave the Cards
all they could handle. It turned into a
defensive battle as neither team could find an offensive spark.
“Nite-Nite” played the most minutes on the team despite
having a minor injury. Her 13 points
also led the team. Jaz Jones (10 points)
was the only other Cardinal in double-figures.
Doo-Blay had a quiet night compared to normal. She finished with seven points, eight
rebounds, and team-highs with four steals and three assists.
The Cards capitalized from the free throw line, connecting on
nine of their 10 attempts. Everything
else on the stat sheet was rather subpar.
51 points is quite a bit below average.
The 15 turnovers are higher than the dozen Coach Walz allows per game. The eight assists were on the lower side this
season.
J-A-R-E-D Report
J- jump shots: 19-for-50 (38%) is not terrible. Many early shots would not fall. Asia had some trouble even hitting rim
tonight. Sam did not make a shot and
Myisha shot poorly on her deep two’s.
4-for-14 (28.6%) Behind the three-point arc was not impressive. Nothing higher than a lowercase “j” can be
awarded.
A- assists: Eight assists will frustrate coaches. Part of the low number of assists goes back
to the poor shooting percentage but the Cards had nearly twice as many
turnovers as assists. The guards
contributed to only half of the assists count.
Better passes and better shots will get that number up, but it sits at a
lowercase “a” for this game.
R- rebounds: Louisville got outrebounded 37-33. In my book it is unacceptable to get
outrebounded. The poor shooting
percentages by both teams left the door wide open to haul in rebounds. Coach Walz’s squad had no players in the
double-digits on boards- a rarity. No
letter can be awarded here.
E- effort: Things just seemed slow. Communication was bad. Passing was bad. Shooting was bad. Rebounding was bad. But the defense looked good. Full court pressure caused problems for the
Cavaliers. Effort was not 100% but they
hustled on the defensive side of things so a lowercase “e” is given.
D- defense: Virginia managed 39 points in the entire game, an
average of less than 10 points per quarter.
Louisville’s defense surrendered six points in the second quarter and
eight in the fourth. Walz administered a
full court press for a majority of the game and disrupted Virginia’s struggling
offense, resulting in 21 turnovers.
Holding an opponent to such a low number can almost always guarantee a
win. Capital “D” without a doubt.
“j-a-_-e-D.”
Yikes. It’s a win but at this
point in the season I expected better.
POST GAME WALZ: JEFF WALZ AFTER BEATING VIRGINIA
POST GAME PLAYERS: ASIA DURR AND ARICA CARTER POST GAME VIRGINIA
EDITOR NOTE:
I have just returned from the Friday UofL WBB presser that had Myisha Hines-Allen and Jeff Walz.
Here are the links for listening:
MYISHA
POST GAME WALZ: JEFF WALZ AFTER BEATING VIRGINIA
POST GAME PLAYERS: ASIA DURR AND ARICA CARTER POST GAME VIRGINIA
EDITOR NOTE:
I have just returned from the Friday UofL WBB presser that had Myisha Hines-Allen and Jeff Walz.
Here are the links for listening:
MYISHA
Lacrosse Blows by Butler
Caroline Blalock and Alex McNicholas had four goals
each. For McNicholas it was her first
scores of the year. Tessa Chad pulled
off a hat trick.
Nine different players scored on the day, one shy of the 10
from the regular season opener. The past
two games relied heavily on two or three scorers, but this game showed the
depth on offense. Having several players
with the ability to score makes the life of opposing coaches difficult. Gameplanning against an entire team of
scorers is no easy task.
Lexie Ball allowed four goals while recording nine saves to
claim the win. After seeing a combined
15 minutes in two games in the 2017 season Ball has stepped up to the plate
this year.
The sticks move to 3-1 on the year. They get to return home to the LLS to host
Coastal Carolina on Saturday at noon.
The folks from the Cardinal Couple Radio Hour will rush over as fast as
they can following the conclusion of the weekly radio show.
Softball Visits Orlando Again
The Louisville softball team returns to Orlando for the D-9
Citrus Classic 1. They have two games
today: Lehigh at 10 AM and South Carolina at 12:30 PM.
Unlike the previous mini-tournament in Raleigh this one
features different opponents each game.
Morgan State, South Alabama, and Harvard are also on the schedule this
weekend.
Megan Hensley and Danielle Watson have been the main pitchers
in the circle, although Kyra Snyder has seen some playing time as well. Caitlin Ferguson and Alison “Mike” Szydlowski
lead the team in batting average, both having high success on offense early on.
I hope to see more home runs and RBI’s this weekend. Jenna Jordan is on top with two homers while
Nicole Pufahl and Hensley both have one on the year. The baserunners have been there. Now it is time to bring them all home.
The Cards have their home opener on Thursday. If you have not been to a game yet come check
them out and join the cheering section.
We sometimes get free peanuts and M&Ms.
Enjoy your Friday and weekend! Be sure to tune in Saturday morning to hear
Paulie, Case, special guest Paige Sherrard, and myself in the studio. Worldwide will be back with us next week.
Go Cards!
Jared
Well, that was a rough one to watch. Congratulation to WBB for the win, and I suppose that is the most important thing, the win, but it was a dragging pace and so many missed layups and jumpers.
ReplyDeleteOn to the next one. 28-2. No one better than you, UofL !!
Be careful you fans in Louisville. The news reporters are saying the river is rising and flooding is possible. You probably already know that. With the KFC YUM! Center so close to the Ohio, is there a possibility of it getting flooded and the game moved?
-- The Real Joe Hill --
As afar as I can remember they've never had to cancel a game or move it ue to flooding. Some parking venues may be affected but I'm assuming things would be a "go"" for Sunday at the Chicken Coop. There is Freedom Hall available as an alternate. If they're not booked with a farm machinery show, horse event or hog calling.
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what did walz say about lower than 10000 attendance?
ReplyDeleteIt did not come up in the post game presser. I'm headed down to campus now for a 12:45 presser with Walz and Myisha. Maybe he'll discuss it there. I'm not sure I want to be the one to ask the question, quite frankly...
DeletePaulie
Evening games are going to be an issue with families and this is family entertainment. My grandchildren have bedtimes of 8:30 and 9:00. That is in bed, not leaving the arena. Perhaps instead of "Thirsty Thursday" where the 3 men sitting behind us consumed, by our count, a total of 18 beers and becoming even more annoying, some promotion could be done to get more students from campus to the games.
DeleteThe 7 p.m. standard for Thursday Games is pretty common around the ACC so I don't think they'll move the game times. Louisville could try a "Picture Card" promotion where fans get a trading or picture Card of the players for collectiong in addition to the reduced prices.
DeleteAs far as the 18 beers for three guys, was it Paulie, Worldwide and Jared? Just kidding.
-- THe Real Joe Hill --
No Joe Hill not our Cardinal Couples guys, but the people that sit behind us do have a close connection to the team so I won't rant further in public.
DeleteUVA just couldn't make shots after the first quarter. Why they didn't go to or play that big girl more is beyond me, or maybe she isn't that good? She scored 17 against Notre Dame. I did notice she's not a big fan of keeping her hands over her head and I'd think that would be of great asset to her game.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding UofL defense. Give them two "D", Jared.
Curtis "not 6'9" or even 5'9" Franklin
I thought about awarding a capital D x 2 with last nights outing. We have no one over 6’5 on the team and they contained the 6’9 Center well. Holding to Virginia to poor shooting for most of the game was excellent and defense was the only reason for the win last night.
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