University of Louisville women's basketball plays at Florida State (8-6, 7-6) on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. ET. The game will broadcast on ACC Network Extra and 790-AM WKRD.
FSU is 8-6 overall, 7-6 in the ACC. They have had nice success at home, the Seminoles are 6-1 , registering their first home loss of the season last time out, losing 62-48 to Georgia Tech.
Morgan Jones (13.6), Bianca Jackson (13.5) and Kourtney Weber (13.0) are the main guns for the Tallahassee school. They account for more than half of the team's 65.9 points. All three rank among the top 25 conference scorers. Sammie Puisis (33.96), Kourtney Weber (33.70) and Bianca Jackson (33.58) all rank in the Top 10 in the ACC in minutes played. The Seminoles are the only team in the conference with three players in the Top 10 in minutes played.
FSU shoots 74.7 percent from the free-throw line, ranking third in the ACC. FSU ranks fifth with 3.8 blocks per game and sixth with 7.3 steals per game.
Picked to finish eighth in the ACC by the league’s head coaches in the pre-season, Florida State is currently fifth in the conference. Their crazy season includes having 15 games re-scheduled this year, a span of 40 practices at the beginning of the season with just one game played (vs. Florida in the season opener), the cancellation of three non-conference games, and a bevy of injuries throughout the year.
This is the second matchup this season between the two ACC foes. Back on Jan 17th, Louisville downed the Noles 84-56 in the KFC YUM! Center. FSU kept it close in the first quarter, playing the Cards to a 17-17 tie, but Louisville exploded in the second session with a 26-14 advantage to take a 43-31 lead to the locker room. The Cards outscored FSU 41-25 in the second half. At that time, the win pushed UofL to a 12-0 record and dropped the Noles to 4-2
Louisville went 11-23 from three-point range in the previous matchup and had five players in double figures. Kianna Smith led the way with 16 points, Hailey Van Lith registered 15, Olivia Cochran 14, Dana Evans 12 and Liz Dixon had a double-double, with 10 points and 10 boards. The Cards also won the battle of the boards 38-25.
Can the Cards do the same in the Tucker Center today? My guess is that we'll see a bigger afternoon for Dana Evans today than she had in the first match-up. Keep in mind, though, that the Noles would really like to finish in the top four of the ACC regular-season standings for the upcoming ACC Tournament and get the bye to the Friday quarterfinals, and, as well, knock of the #3 team in the nation.
The Noles need a win to close ground on Syracuse, currently fourth in the conference. Q's squad plays Virginia Tech in Blacksburg today. After the Cards, FSU is scheduled to play at Notre Dame and host Wake Forest to end the regular conference slate. Syracuse's road isn't much easier, after Virginia Tech today -- they bring in Boston College but end up against NCST.
Let's hope the Cards can regain the three-point magic they had the first time these two met and also avoid the FSU mastery that the Noles had on the Cards in 2020, beating them in the regular season in Louisville and in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
--sonja--
FSU is 8-6 overall, 7-6 in the ACC. They have had nice success at home, the Seminoles are 6-1 , registering their first home loss of the season last time out, losing 62-48 to Georgia Tech.
Morgan Jones (13.6), Bianca Jackson (13.5) and Kourtney Weber (13.0) are the main guns for the Tallahassee school. They account for more than half of the team's 65.9 points. All three rank among the top 25 conference scorers. Sammie Puisis (33.96), Kourtney Weber (33.70) and Bianca Jackson (33.58) all rank in the Top 10 in the ACC in minutes played. The Seminoles are the only team in the conference with three players in the Top 10 in minutes played.
FSU shoots 74.7 percent from the free-throw line, ranking third in the ACC. FSU ranks fifth with 3.8 blocks per game and sixth with 7.3 steals per game.
Picked to finish eighth in the ACC by the league’s head coaches in the pre-season, Florida State is currently fifth in the conference. Their crazy season includes having 15 games re-scheduled this year, a span of 40 practices at the beginning of the season with just one game played (vs. Florida in the season opener), the cancellation of three non-conference games, and a bevy of injuries throughout the year.
This is the second matchup this season between the two ACC foes. Back on Jan 17th, Louisville downed the Noles 84-56 in the KFC YUM! Center. FSU kept it close in the first quarter, playing the Cards to a 17-17 tie, but Louisville exploded in the second session with a 26-14 advantage to take a 43-31 lead to the locker room. The Cards outscored FSU 41-25 in the second half. At that time, the win pushed UofL to a 12-0 record and dropped the Noles to 4-2
Louisville went 11-23 from three-point range in the previous matchup and had five players in double figures. Kianna Smith led the way with 16 points, Hailey Van Lith registered 15, Olivia Cochran 14, Dana Evans 12 and Liz Dixon had a double-double, with 10 points and 10 boards. The Cards also won the battle of the boards 38-25.
Can the Cards do the same in the Tucker Center today? My guess is that we'll see a bigger afternoon for Dana Evans today than she had in the first match-up. Keep in mind, though, that the Noles would really like to finish in the top four of the ACC regular-season standings for the upcoming ACC Tournament and get the bye to the Friday quarterfinals, and, as well, knock of the #3 team in the nation.
The Noles need a win to close ground on Syracuse, currently fourth in the conference. Q's squad plays Virginia Tech in Blacksburg today. After the Cards, FSU is scheduled to play at Notre Dame and host Wake Forest to end the regular conference slate. Syracuse's road isn't much easier, after Virginia Tech today -- they bring in Boston College but end up against NCST.
Let's hope the Cards can regain the three-point magic they had the first time these two met and also avoid the FSU mastery that the Noles had on the Cards in 2020, beating them in the regular season in Louisville and in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
--sonja--
