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Big Sunday Wins -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
WBB Notches Top 5 Win
After an inconsequential opener on Friday night, the Louisville women's basketball team got their real season underway yesterday when they took on the fifth ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. It was officially a "neutral site" game as it wasn't located in OSU's home arena, but as it was located in Columbus, it was about as close as possible to a true road game. I wasn't able to make the trip, so perhaps Paulie will be able to jump in with some sights and sounds from Nationwide Arena, but I did catch most of the game on my television while making dinner. I focused up and turned my attention wholly to the game for the majority of the fourth quarter and all of overtime. Here are my thoughts post game.
The primary point of note is Asia Durr. Good grief. Durr scored 47 points last night. A personal best. A school record. She was only 6-6 on free throws. "Only 100%" I hear you exclaim. I'm not saying "only" with regards to her free throw efficiency. I'm saying she only got 6 of her 47 points via free throw. She scored 41 points from the floor via 16-29 shooting and 9-15 from behind the arc. She added 6 rebounds, 2 assists, and a steal while only turning the ball over one time. She was absolutely stellar, and put on a show for all of the WNBA scouts in attendance. Spoiler alert: there were a lot of them there. If this is the Asia Durr that Louisville has to look forward to for the remainder of this season and next, women's college basketball should officially be on notice. The only issue was that Durr was a bit of a ghost offensively in the fourth quarter, scoring only two points. However, she made up for it in overtime and Louisville wouldn't have been even close to where they were without her. The rest of the team stepped up when she struggled and Louisville got out with a win.
My second note was the officiating. I've often heard people complain about the refs in women's college basketball, both on this site and on others, but last night was my first true experience with absolutely miserable calls. I won't speculate on the entirety of the game, only the last sequence that cost Louisville the victory in regulation and nearly caused them to lose the game entirely. Louisville collected the ball with 18 second remaining and a 1 point lead. Ohio State was clearly trying to foul. Durr found Myisha Hines-Allen and there was contact after the pass. No call. Ohio State was clearly attempting to foul MHA, no call. When Ohio State came down with the ball, and brought it up the floor, Kevin McGuff made a strong effort to call a timeout. As the referee began to grant the timeout, she apparently changed her mind and called a foul on Louisville, sending Kelsey Mitchell to the line. The next part is the worst, in my opinion. I'm so sick of the tired trope that referees don't want to decide the game with a foul call on the final play. If it's a clear foul, call the foul. If the opposing team doesn't want the game decided at the line, they shouldn't aggressively foul. Dana Evans was driving toward the basket with the clock running down and a chance to win the game when she was clearly hip checked and tripped to the floor. The referee made a signal to call the foul, then went to call a travel, then waved off the play as time had expired. What. A. Joke. At least Louisville was able to win the overtime comfortably and prevent more madness at the end of the game.
Last night's game was a welcome return to form for a Louisville team that looked a bit out of sorts in the second half of their 40 point win on Friday. SEMO offered no real opposition and Louisville made the kind of mistakes that would lose them games throughout the season. There were still silly mistakes in yesterday's game but the Cards were able to overcome them for a huge victory over a top ranked team. Ohio State will still be a title contender going forward, but I think Louisville has now shown that they should be on everyone's radar as well.
The CASE Report
I joked about my own version of the FRED Report on Saturday's radio show, but I decided to actually follow through with it this time. Maybe Paul will add the FRED Report on to the end. The CASE Report is pretty simple. All of its categories are statistical, making awarding the grades simple. The team will receive a partial letter grade for achieving a benchmark and another partial letter grade for outperforming their opponent. Let's get to it.
C-Care: Care is for how well the Cards take care of the ball. How many turnovers did they commit? Louisville's benchmark for this will be single digit turnovers. It is conservative, but 9 or fewer turnovers with less turnovers than the opponent seems like it would warrant a capital letter. Unfortunately, Louisville committed 16 turnovers last night. Ohio State committed only 14. No letter.
A-Assists: I could easily use assist ratio here as well, and it may morph into that, as I think AR is a better indicator of how well a team was sharing the ball. Either way, let's just use a raw number today. I think 15 assists is a good number, and I say this without having looked at the Cards' assists for the game yet. Coincidentally, opening my other tab shows me Louisville finished with 15 assists on the nose. OSU had 18. Lowercase "a".
S-Steals: Louisville's basketball programs have built a name for themselves defensively. Shot blockers and ball hasslers are major players for the Cards. Five steals will be the benchmark. Louisville earned only 2 to OSU's 8. No letter.
E-Efficiency: Shot efficiency will be the final category here. If you're shooting well, and you're outshooting the opponent, there's a good chance you can win the game. I struggled between making the benchmark 40% or 45% but I think the Cards have the offense to consistently shoot well, so we'll go strong with 45%. 45 out of 100 shots doesn't sound great, but as a team in game situations, I'll take it. Louisville shot 49.3% compared to OSU's 46%. A capital "E" for efficiency.
That gives Louisville a _-a-_-E in the inaugural CASE Report. There is clear room for improvement, but against a top 5 team, struggles are allowed. After all, the win trumps all. Louisville is back in action tomorrow (not November 24th as the Louisville athletics site would have you believe) in their second matchup in the WNIT. The Cards will take on Toledo at 7PM. The game is available on ACCNE if you aren't able to make it to the Yum! Center.
Volleyball Stays Atop ACC with Sweep
After sweeping Virginia on Friday, Louisville gave Virginia Tech the same treatment yesterday afternoon. It wasn't quite the same type of win, with Louisville needing extra points to win in the first set, but it was still a sweep nonetheless. Louisville is now 14-2 in the ACC, still tied at the top with Pitt and NC State. As I mentioned on the radio show, with Louisville and NC State both having already played Pitt, Friday's game between the Cards and Wolfpack will knock the loser out of the running for the ACC championship (considering all other parties win out). The game against the Wolfpack is huge, and I can't help but think the Cards may have been looking ahead a bit while playing the lower tier Hokies.
Louisville hit .320 in the match overall, which is pretty good, and were mostly consistent throughout the match. They hit only .206 in the third set, but actually won that set by their largest margin of the match as the Hokies hit only .047 in the third. Errors were a bit of a bugaboo for the Cards in this one, with at least 4 in every set, but they were bailed out by VT just not being very good. So many errors will come back to bite the Cards in bigger matches, so let's get back to seeing matches like Friday, when the Cards had 4 errors all match.
Amanda Green was yesterday's box score filler as she led the team in kills with 13. She added an ace and 2 blocks to fill out her day. Add all that to a .345 hitting percentage for the match and it's clear that she put together a solid day. Wilma Rivera was, as usual, the leader in assists, and Molly Sauer led the way on defense. Melanie McHenry struggled offensively, hitting only .095 with 7 kills, but she added 9 digs and has definitely rounded her game out from last season.
The Cards will take to the court again in the aforementioned match against NC State on Friday at 7:30 PM. There are still tickets available at the moment, but that may not be true for much longer. Come out and have Cardinal Arena rocking in this momentous match in the ACC title race.
Until next time, Go Cards!
-CH-
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WBB Notches Top 5 Win
After an inconsequential opener on Friday night, the Louisville women's basketball team got their real season underway yesterday when they took on the fifth ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. It was officially a "neutral site" game as it wasn't located in OSU's home arena, but as it was located in Columbus, it was about as close as possible to a true road game. I wasn't able to make the trip, so perhaps Paulie will be able to jump in with some sights and sounds from Nationwide Arena, but I did catch most of the game on my television while making dinner. I focused up and turned my attention wholly to the game for the majority of the fourth quarter and all of overtime. Here are my thoughts post game.
The primary point of note is Asia Durr. Good grief. Durr scored 47 points last night. A personal best. A school record. She was only 6-6 on free throws. "Only 100%" I hear you exclaim. I'm not saying "only" with regards to her free throw efficiency. I'm saying she only got 6 of her 47 points via free throw. She scored 41 points from the floor via 16-29 shooting and 9-15 from behind the arc. She added 6 rebounds, 2 assists, and a steal while only turning the ball over one time. She was absolutely stellar, and put on a show for all of the WNBA scouts in attendance. Spoiler alert: there were a lot of them there. If this is the Asia Durr that Louisville has to look forward to for the remainder of this season and next, women's college basketball should officially be on notice. The only issue was that Durr was a bit of a ghost offensively in the fourth quarter, scoring only two points. However, she made up for it in overtime and Louisville wouldn't have been even close to where they were without her. The rest of the team stepped up when she struggled and Louisville got out with a win.
My second note was the officiating. I've often heard people complain about the refs in women's college basketball, both on this site and on others, but last night was my first true experience with absolutely miserable calls. I won't speculate on the entirety of the game, only the last sequence that cost Louisville the victory in regulation and nearly caused them to lose the game entirely. Louisville collected the ball with 18 second remaining and a 1 point lead. Ohio State was clearly trying to foul. Durr found Myisha Hines-Allen and there was contact after the pass. No call. Ohio State was clearly attempting to foul MHA, no call. When Ohio State came down with the ball, and brought it up the floor, Kevin McGuff made a strong effort to call a timeout. As the referee began to grant the timeout, she apparently changed her mind and called a foul on Louisville, sending Kelsey Mitchell to the line. The next part is the worst, in my opinion. I'm so sick of the tired trope that referees don't want to decide the game with a foul call on the final play. If it's a clear foul, call the foul. If the opposing team doesn't want the game decided at the line, they shouldn't aggressively foul. Dana Evans was driving toward the basket with the clock running down and a chance to win the game when she was clearly hip checked and tripped to the floor. The referee made a signal to call the foul, then went to call a travel, then waved off the play as time had expired. What. A. Joke. At least Louisville was able to win the overtime comfortably and prevent more madness at the end of the game.
Last night's game was a welcome return to form for a Louisville team that looked a bit out of sorts in the second half of their 40 point win on Friday. SEMO offered no real opposition and Louisville made the kind of mistakes that would lose them games throughout the season. There were still silly mistakes in yesterday's game but the Cards were able to overcome them for a huge victory over a top ranked team. Ohio State will still be a title contender going forward, but I think Louisville has now shown that they should be on everyone's radar as well.
The CASE Report
I joked about my own version of the FRED Report on Saturday's radio show, but I decided to actually follow through with it this time. Maybe Paul will add the FRED Report on to the end. The CASE Report is pretty simple. All of its categories are statistical, making awarding the grades simple. The team will receive a partial letter grade for achieving a benchmark and another partial letter grade for outperforming their opponent. Let's get to it.
C-Care: Care is for how well the Cards take care of the ball. How many turnovers did they commit? Louisville's benchmark for this will be single digit turnovers. It is conservative, but 9 or fewer turnovers with less turnovers than the opponent seems like it would warrant a capital letter. Unfortunately, Louisville committed 16 turnovers last night. Ohio State committed only 14. No letter.
A-Assists: I could easily use assist ratio here as well, and it may morph into that, as I think AR is a better indicator of how well a team was sharing the ball. Either way, let's just use a raw number today. I think 15 assists is a good number, and I say this without having looked at the Cards' assists for the game yet. Coincidentally, opening my other tab shows me Louisville finished with 15 assists on the nose. OSU had 18. Lowercase "a".
S-Steals: Louisville's basketball programs have built a name for themselves defensively. Shot blockers and ball hasslers are major players for the Cards. Five steals will be the benchmark. Louisville earned only 2 to OSU's 8. No letter.
E-Efficiency: Shot efficiency will be the final category here. If you're shooting well, and you're outshooting the opponent, there's a good chance you can win the game. I struggled between making the benchmark 40% or 45% but I think the Cards have the offense to consistently shoot well, so we'll go strong with 45%. 45 out of 100 shots doesn't sound great, but as a team in game situations, I'll take it. Louisville shot 49.3% compared to OSU's 46%. A capital "E" for efficiency.
That gives Louisville a _-a-_-E in the inaugural CASE Report. There is clear room for improvement, but against a top 5 team, struggles are allowed. After all, the win trumps all. Louisville is back in action tomorrow (not November 24th as the Louisville athletics site would have you believe) in their second matchup in the WNIT. The Cards will take on Toledo at 7PM. The game is available on ACCNE if you aren't able to make it to the Yum! Center.
Volleyball Stays Atop ACC with Sweep
After sweeping Virginia on Friday, Louisville gave Virginia Tech the same treatment yesterday afternoon. It wasn't quite the same type of win, with Louisville needing extra points to win in the first set, but it was still a sweep nonetheless. Louisville is now 14-2 in the ACC, still tied at the top with Pitt and NC State. As I mentioned on the radio show, with Louisville and NC State both having already played Pitt, Friday's game between the Cards and Wolfpack will knock the loser out of the running for the ACC championship (considering all other parties win out). The game against the Wolfpack is huge, and I can't help but think the Cards may have been looking ahead a bit while playing the lower tier Hokies.
Louisville hit .320 in the match overall, which is pretty good, and were mostly consistent throughout the match. They hit only .206 in the third set, but actually won that set by their largest margin of the match as the Hokies hit only .047 in the third. Errors were a bit of a bugaboo for the Cards in this one, with at least 4 in every set, but they were bailed out by VT just not being very good. So many errors will come back to bite the Cards in bigger matches, so let's get back to seeing matches like Friday, when the Cards had 4 errors all match.
Amanda Green was yesterday's box score filler as she led the team in kills with 13. She added an ace and 2 blocks to fill out her day. Add all that to a .345 hitting percentage for the match and it's clear that she put together a solid day. Wilma Rivera was, as usual, the leader in assists, and Molly Sauer led the way on defense. Melanie McHenry struggled offensively, hitting only .095 with 7 kills, but she added 9 digs and has definitely rounded her game out from last season.
The Cards will take to the court again in the aforementioned match against NC State on Friday at 7:30 PM. There are still tickets available at the moment, but that may not be true for much longer. Come out and have Cardinal Arena rocking in this momentous match in the ACC title race.
Until next time, Go Cards!
-CH-
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