WBB ROMPS EAST TENNESSSEE 88-50
The Louisville women's basketball squad got a very convincing win Saturday over ETSU at Bellarmine after a rather sub-par first quarter. ETSU led 14-12 halfway through the first quarter, but Louisville was able to finally wake up and go up 22-18 on two Imari Berry free throws left in the opening quarter. . Berry would go on to get 17 points in the contest,leading Louisville in scoring... one of the Cards in double figures in the game. Laura Ziegler had 16 and Elif Istanbulloglu finished with15 for Jeff's Walz's squad...who improved their record to 6-2.
The Cards nearly matched that first qurter total in the second quarter, with 22 points...but the UofL defense was much more stingy...allowing just 11 ETSU points. The Cards went to the intermission with a 45-29 lead.
Ten UofL student-athletes saw at least 12 minutes in the UofL victory.
The third quarter was Louisville highest scoring quarter...with 25 points and, once again...the defense did their job and limited ETSU to just 11 points. Up 70-40 after the quarters, Walz was able to look at a lot of different combinations on the floor in the final 10 minutes and the Cards won the battle of the fourth quarter 18-10.
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THE FRED REPORT
F -- Free Throws -- 18-25 is 72% and s. Berry gets the thumbs up or her 6-6 marksmanship from the charity stripe. Anaya Hady needs to work on her touch with a 2-6 effort. 72% is over the mandated 70% we look for here to award a letter...so we give an "f"..but not a upper case F, since they barely got pat 70%. Score: f.
R -- Rebouning -- The Cards were the kings of the boards with a 48-25 commanding advantage on board worl. Kudos to four Cards who grabbed six each. Glad to award a capital R here for the rebounding edge and the team effort in grabbing them. Score: R
E -- Effort/Execution -- UofL had 19 assists on 30 baskets, a not-so-bad 12 turnovers, 48.4% shooting on the night and was 10-21 from three-point win. Combine all that with the 38 ponit win and I can easily award a capital "E"
D -- Defense --ETSU is not VERY GOOD BSKETBALL TEAM -- DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THNMING THEY ARE -- but holding them to 32.7% shooting, 50 points and just two fast breaks and two second chance points the entire game is pretty strong stuff. No problem in awarding a capital "D"
FINAL FRED TALLY: f-R-E-D
The Cards return to the KFC YUM! Center tomorrow to face Bellarmine. It's a 2 p.m. contest and on ACCNX if you can't attend.
#7 VOLLEYCARDS FALL IN FIVE SETS TO #5 STANFORD
A heroic effort that fell just short for Dan Meske's VolleyCards yesterday in the LNFCUA to #5 Stanford. The 25-17, 16-25, 22-25, 26-24, 12-15 loss was a thrill-a minute on campus...but in this top ten battle, the Cardinal defeated the Cardinals.
Despite middle Cara Cresse reaching a milestone with 500 career blocks...the Louisville squad could not pull off the win in front of a packed LNFCU arena.
The Louisville squad goes to 24-6, 16-4 on the season in a match where Chloe Chicoine had 17 kills and the the Louisville squad won the first set in seeminly easy 25-17 fashion...the wheels fell off the cards the attack the rest of the way and Stanford is yoru ACC champ
In the past two matches, the VolleyCards have run into a candidate of ACC (if not national) P.O.Y. in Olivia Babcock (Pitt) and Elia Rubin. (Stanford).
I've no doubt that the Cards will receive a decent NCAA Tournament seed tomorrow, though and probably get to host a couple early tournament games. It's at 6 p.m. and you can watch it on ESPN.
(Volleyball photos from UofL)
paulie
Cards played a good game like CJW said got to start locking down on defense and playing smart.
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