Skip to main content

University of Louisville Athletics

Thursday, February 3
Clemson, SC
6 P.M.

University of Louisville

at

Clemson

Olivia Cochran Louisville Women's Basketball

No. 4 Louisville Continues Road Trip at Clemson on Thursday

February 02, 2022 | Women's Basketball

The Cardinals and Tigers will tip off at 6 p.m. ET on Bally Sports South and 790-AM WKRD.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – No. 4 University of Louisville women's basketball plays the second game of its three-game road trip at Clemson on Thursday night. The game will tip off at 6 p.m. ET and broadcast on Bally Sports South and 790-AM WKRD.
 
Louisville is 19-2 on the season and 9-1 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. They are coming off a tough 69-66 win at Miami and have won four straight games.
 
At 19-2, UofL is one win away from its 12th straight season with 20-plus wins to extend the program record. The longest run previously was three, achieved twice. The Cards have won at least 20 games in 13 of head coach Jeff Walz's 14 seasons. Prior to Walz's arrival, Louisville had just 10 20-win seasons in its history.
 
Olivia Cochran scored 18 points, including the game-winner with 32 seconds left, in the win at Miami. She shot 8-15 from the floor and added five rebounds. In the last five games, three times she has scored at least 17 points, and she is tied for the team lead with 13.0 points per game, while pulling down 4.8 rebounds per game and shooting 61 percent from the floor and 12-14 (.857) from the stripe.
 
She tied a career-high with 19 points on 8-12 shooting to lead the way for the Cardinals at NC State, while pulling down seven rebounds. She had 17 points on 6-10 shooting,4-4 from the line, while adding six rebounds against Florida State. She has scored in double figures in six of the last 10 games after having just one double digit scoring effort in her first 10 games.

UofL rallied from nine points down (59-50) with 6:13 to go in the fourth quarter in the win at Miami, which marks their largest second half deficit overcome this season. They came from seven down (32-25) with 1:24 to go in the third quarter of the 50-48 win at Georgia Tech. They also trailed by five (47-42) with 2:56 to go in the fourth in that come-from-behind win over the Yellow Jackets.
 
Kianna Smith led the way with 21 points on 8-13 shooting, 3-5 from deep, while adding a season-high seven assists in the win at Miami. She ranks second on the team with 11.8 points per game and seven times this season has led the team in scoring. She ranks second in the ACC with a 41.2 3-point field goal percentage and ranks 10th in the ACC with 1.9 made 3-pointers per game.
 
During the four-game winning streak, UofL has assisted on 78 of 109 field goals, good for 71.6 percent. They assisted on a season-high 82.1 percent of their field goals, 23 of 28, in the win over Miami. In ACC play, UofL has assisted on 168 of 271 field goals, good for 62.0 percent. The Cardinals are averaging 16.8 assists per game in ACC play, which leads the league.
 
In the last four games, they are averaging 73.2 points per game, while shooting 46.2 percent from the floor and 41.0 percent from beyond the arc.
 
Louisville is 141-17 (.892) over the last five seasons, which is tied with Baylor and UConn for the most wins during that span.

ABOUT THE TIGERS
 
Clemson enters Thursday's game with a 7-14 overall, 1-9 in ACC play. Their lone win in conference play is a 66-44 win at Wake Forest on Jan. 20. They have lost their last three games, but all three have been by single digits - at Florida State (L, 75-70), vs. Pitt (L-OT, 78-73), vs. No. 12 Georgia Tech (L, 69-62). They are scoring 64.2 points per game, which ranks 12th in the ACC, while giving up 68.2 points per game, which ranks 14th. Graduate Delicia Washington leads the Tigers and ranks seventh in the ACC with 15.1 points per game. She ranks third in the ACC with 129 field goals and 285 field goal attempts, sixth with 1.9 steals per game and ninth with 7.0 rebounds per game. Junior Amari Robinson is Clemson's only other double-digit scorer with 10.2 points per game.
 
Series History - UofL is 9-3 all-time against Clemson. The Cardinals have won nine straight against the Tigers and all nine wins have come since joining the ACC. Louisville is 4-1 all-time at Clemson and 4-0 since joining the ACC. In the last matchup at Clemson on Jan. 2, 2020, the Cardinals won 75-50.
 
Last Meeting (Jan. 10, 2021) - Kianna Smith scored 17 points and No. 2 Louisville, after waiting out a late delay caused by COVID-19 protocols, beat Clemson 70-45. The Cardinals used a 15-2 run to build a 49-30 lead with 3:16 left in the third quarter. Clemson made only one of his 20 shots in the fourth quarter.

GAME FACTS
Date: Thursday, Feb. 3
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Site: Clemson, S.C. | Littlejohn Coliseum (9,000)
TV: RSN (Tom Werme, play-by-play; Tabitha Turner-Wilkins, analyst)
Radio: 790-AM WKRD (Nick Curran, play-by-play; Adrienne Johnson, analyst)
Last Meeting: W, 70-45 (Jan. 10, 2021 at KFC Yum! Center)
Series History: 9-3 (W9, 3-1 Home, 4-1 Away, 2-1 Neutral)
Series History w/ Walz: 9-0 (3-0 Home, 4-0 Away, 2-0 Neutral)
Next UofL Game: Sunday, Feb. 6 at Syracuse

For the latest on Louisville women's basketball, visit GoCards.com, follow the team's Twitter account at @UofLWBB or on Facebook at facebook.com/UofLWBB.