The Louisville women's basketball team hosts Georgia Tech tonight at 7 p.m. in the KFC YUM! Center. It is Senior Night, since this is the last regularly scheduled home game for the Cards in the 2020-21 season.
Senior Night = Dana Evans night, since she is the only senior on the Cards WBB roster.
If you watched the Evans presser from yesterday (and I highly recommend you do), you will see the evolution of a player over the last four years that knows her role, what is expected from her and embraces the challenge.
Dana's career has been remrakable, so far. Here are some of her accomplishments:
-1504 points (11th at UofL)
-485 assists (7th at UofL)
-264 made free throws (10th at UofL)
-.868 free throw percentage (1st at UofL)
-.933 free throw percentage this season (1st at UofL)
-258 rebounds
-200 made three-pointers (8th at UofL)
-.391 three-point percentage (3rd at UofL)
-150 steals
With five regular season games remaining including tonight, Dana has room to improve on all of these figures.
A victory tonight puts the Cards at 13-1 at home this season, marking the third straight year.
Let's now take a look at tonight's opponent- Georgia Tech.
The Yellow Jackets are 11-4 on the year with a 9-3 conference mark. They sit two games back on overall record behind the Cards for second in the ACC, but their .750 conference win percentage puts them at third in the ACC.
Georgia Tech is fresh off a loss at home to Wake Forest, snapping a seven-game win streak.
Like most teams, Georgia Tech has seen the effects of COVID-19. They had a hiatus the back half of December and then saw a brief break during the middle of January.
Allowing just 60.8 points per game, the Yellow Jackets rank near the top of the conference defensively. OHfH3efensively, they are far from the top, scoring 68.5 points per game. They have a do-it-all player in Lotta-Maj Lahtinen. The junior averages 15.9 points per game, 5.5 rebounds per game, 3.4 assists per game, and her 32 steals this year is tied for first in the ACC. Lorela Cubaj has also been a huge factor. The senior is a walking double-double at 13.1 points per game and 12 rebounds per game. Cubaj is also the conference leader in rebounds per game.
Of other interest, former Card Great Cortnee Walton will be back in the YUM! tonight -- not as a strong paint force -- but as the director of recruiting for Georgia Tech. This is one of the times I really wish I was court-side, so I could chat with Cortnee and see that beautiful smile and interact with her engaging personality.
The Cards are a perfect 7-0 all-time against Georgia Tech, all happening since the ACC welcomed Louisville. UofL defeated the Yellow Jackets 58-47 in Atlanta on Feb. 20, 2020.
This one, inexplicably, goes to the ACC Network Extra tonight and Sara White and Don Russell have the call. What pre-empts the battle of #1 and #3 in the conference? Virginia Tech at Miami gets the 6:00 p.m., slot on ACC Network. Syracuse at Florida State gets the 8:00 p.m. slot.
Consider me unimpressed with the ACC programming decision. Nick and AJ will have the call on Cards Radio 790-AM WKRD if you want it that way.
Let's hope it is a Cardinal win tonight. Dana deserves nothing less. It will be a battle, though, I suspect, keeping with the way the Cards have been playing lately.
--sonja--
Senior Night = Dana Evans night, since she is the only senior on the Cards WBB roster.
If you watched the Evans presser from yesterday (and I highly recommend you do), you will see the evolution of a player over the last four years that knows her role, what is expected from her and embraces the challenge.
Dana's career has been remrakable, so far. Here are some of her accomplishments:
-1504 points (11th at UofL)
-485 assists (7th at UofL)
-264 made free throws (10th at UofL)
-.868 free throw percentage (1st at UofL)
-.933 free throw percentage this season (1st at UofL)
-258 rebounds
-200 made three-pointers (8th at UofL)
-.391 three-point percentage (3rd at UofL)
-150 steals
With five regular season games remaining including tonight, Dana has room to improve on all of these figures.
A victory tonight puts the Cards at 13-1 at home this season, marking the third straight year.
Let's now take a look at tonight's opponent- Georgia Tech.
The Yellow Jackets are 11-4 on the year with a 9-3 conference mark. They sit two games back on overall record behind the Cards for second in the ACC, but their .750 conference win percentage puts them at third in the ACC.
Georgia Tech is fresh off a loss at home to Wake Forest, snapping a seven-game win streak.
Like most teams, Georgia Tech has seen the effects of COVID-19. They had a hiatus the back half of December and then saw a brief break during the middle of January.
Allowing just 60.8 points per game, the Yellow Jackets rank near the top of the conference defensively. OHfH3efensively, they are far from the top, scoring 68.5 points per game. They have a do-it-all player in Lotta-Maj Lahtinen. The junior averages 15.9 points per game, 5.5 rebounds per game, 3.4 assists per game, and her 32 steals this year is tied for first in the ACC. Lorela Cubaj has also been a huge factor. The senior is a walking double-double at 13.1 points per game and 12 rebounds per game. Cubaj is also the conference leader in rebounds per game.
Of other interest, former Card Great Cortnee Walton will be back in the YUM! tonight -- not as a strong paint force -- but as the director of recruiting for Georgia Tech. This is one of the times I really wish I was court-side, so I could chat with Cortnee and see that beautiful smile and interact with her engaging personality.
The Cards are a perfect 7-0 all-time against Georgia Tech, all happening since the ACC welcomed Louisville. UofL defeated the Yellow Jackets 58-47 in Atlanta on Feb. 20, 2020.
This one, inexplicably, goes to the ACC Network Extra tonight and Sara White and Don Russell have the call. What pre-empts the battle of #1 and #3 in the conference? Virginia Tech at Miami gets the 6:00 p.m., slot on ACC Network. Syracuse at Florida State gets the 8:00 p.m. slot.
Consider me unimpressed with the ACC programming decision. Nick and AJ will have the call on Cards Radio 790-AM WKRD if you want it that way.
Let's hope it is a Cardinal win tonight. Dana deserves nothing less. It will be a battle, though, I suspect, keeping with the way the Cards have been playing lately.
--sonja--
