The 12-5, 3-3 Ladies host Louisville today at 4 PM on the ACC Network. Louisville is 13-5, 6-1 on a 7 game winning streak and has not lost yet this year. Their 5 losses were all to ranked teams. The one common opponent has been Georgia Tech. We beat them 105-94 in 2 overtimes; Louisville beat them 69-60.
The Cardinals will likely start a grad student, 2 seniors and a freshman. No. 22, 5' 10" freshman guard Tajianna Roberts has stated every game and leads the team in scoring at 12.9 ppg. Two other starters average double digit scoring: #30 Curry at 11.1 and #44 Cochran at 10.1; #@ Nyla Harris averages 9.8. #1 Imari Berry is the primary threat from beyond the arc, shooting 43% on 52 attempts; but she only plays about 13 min/game.
Louisville shoots 44.4% overall, only 30.3% from three and 69.2% on free throws. They score 73.7 ppg and allow 66.4. They average 15.9 assists, 16.9 TOs and 9.8 steals; but they cause 20.5 TOs per game. They win the rebounding battle by 2.5 rpg. Nyla Harris gets more rebounds on offense than defense.
Louisville is favored by 1.5, with the over/under at 139.5. The matchup predictor give Louisville a 57.6% chance of winning. The Hokies are going to have to clean up their ball handling to stay in this one. Louisville causes a lot of turnovers and makes a lot of steals. We are also going to have to work hard to keep Nyla Harris off the offensive boards.
If we shoot well and hang onto the ball, we could have a chance.
LET'S GO HOKIES!
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My first game a Cassel. There is not a bad seat here.
Cip holders on the back of the seat are a bit of a pain in the ass to walk past. Other than that it's a nice place.
No matter the crap I've heard disparaging the place.
Seriously? First time? Cool.
So what did you think?
I like the place.
Can carleigh please stop with these lazy passes to the wing
that left handed push is a TO 80% of the time
The call of jump ball where Petersen scored and Louisville scoring on the other end changed the entire quarter. Four point swing and momentum killer.
Yeah and the loserville player barely touched the ball for a split second with a finger nail while kayl was just grabbing it to go up and score.
Hokies getting killed allowing offensive rebounds. At least four baskets were on their 3rd chance
This is a good moment to be on ACCN. Not sure they would have done it on ESPN.
is the liz banner smaller than the one beside it?
Yeah...what's up with that?
They put Whit in charge of measuring. He bought heavier fabric so it's smaller because "Weights weigh the same"
banners ban the same
Onsite it looks more like they have perhaps rolled it up higher.
Good question though.
Some cleaning up to do, but overall a pretty good first half with tons of effort... gotta come out with an answer to their defensive pressure and keep up our own defense without getting all these fouls
how does cochran get so many boards even when she doesn't have position
Our players are terrible about actually blocking out
How many attempted rebounds have we pushed out of bounds today?
Ugh foul trouble getting pretty ugly
we are allergic to rebounds
I think we need to go to carys a lot more than we had..... use her mismatch to her advantage rather than trying to make her post up on cochran
Agree
Another whistle driven six point swing. At least Hokies got a bucket on return
Kayl is looking good on offense... getting asked to do a bit too much on defense where you can see the size difference between their experienced bigs and her but leaving it out there
Yeah Kayl is ideally a 3 in ACC play but foul trouble making it hard. White and Hazelton not a factor
In the reduced minutes in the early games it was clear that White and Hazelton are still working on developing to be able to take minutes in conference play. A different year, maybe we are less worried about the starters figuring things out a new system and the early games have more minutes for freshmen
Need to hope White and/or Hazelton can develop into a servicible center for next year. Then with Baker as a four and Peterson a three, we look like a pretty good team.
Really impressed with the freshmen/sophomores who stepped up in the 3rd quarter there..... let's keep up the intensity
The bald-headed ref is terrible! Must be his first college game.
He was getting booed throughout the game, very one sided calls. The other bald ref was better and the woman called hardly anything but when she did most of the time it was fair.
You could tell on a couple of the reviews the woman was in charge though. There were a couple clear moments one of the other refs weren't happy with her decision and she started chopping her hand into her other hand while emphasizing to the other ref she didn't care he didn't like it.
Yup. Two of the three seems to be doing their best to call a fair game for both sides. The older bald ref was very much focused on calling 80% of the fouls and out of bounds against Tech.
Gonna need some better offense than this
Painful miss by ekh.... sometimes you can be TOO open
THATS A KICK BALL
I think the officials decided White purposely threw it at her feet. It wasn't an action by the Louisville player
If Wenzel ever figures out making layup consistently it will transform this offense
Horrible start to the 4th
God why didn't Wenzel lay that in
She looked out of control like it was gonna be one of her patented yeets at the backboard
From here she looked a little out of control. The pass was a good choice.
Ekh just thrown down but no call
why do we not want to shoot layups
Feel like we have a hyperfocus on using the rest of the clock up .. equivalent of playing prevent
Lots of screaming in the stands, of milking clock with a 7 point lead versus taking open layups with time on the shot clock. Take the damn open points.
Id rather milk 15 seconds and get 2 points than 30 and 0
Wheels coming off the bus at the worst time.
Carleigh has to take those two to the basket and make the layup.
Guess we swapped our usual 3rd and 4th quarters today
OK guys, WAKE UP and run a real offense
finally a real dribble drive
Another missed bunny.
cochran only having 2 fouls in this game is insanity
Omg the music they play during injury TK is a dirge.
She's not dead.
Announcers - "Not sure why Ekh is down." She got plowed over by a Louisville player going for the rebound and, of course, no call
Oh no.... and 1 against us means ... and 1 possession
Terrible call. White did not commit a foul on that shot. Offensive player bumped into her then fell backward.
have we gotten the rebound off of one of their missed foul shots all game?
That foul was on the floor. Replay clearly shows she steps back after bump and begins act of shooting
Now the announcers are crying about why a foul wasn't called on Louisville's last shot attempt
There wasn't contact on the shot but we did get away with some hard contact on the rebound where a Louisville player had ball in hands
what could possibly be going on for this ref delay
serious leg kick out there... bet she bricks the last one and they get another 3
Ugh you can never foul the three point shooter
WE STILL HAVE NEVER GOTTEN THE REBOUND ON A MISSED FT
Another easy rebound that we bat out of bounds
we batted it away from each other
We did that at least 6 times today.
Hands are so soft. Can't hold on to the ball.