Feb. 17, 2008

Box Score

Louisville, Ky. - Louisville's Candace Bingham scored a game-high 17 points and the Cards made 25-31 free throws as Louisville posted a 65-51 victory over the visiting Georgetown University Hoyas on Sunday afternoon. Georgetown fell to 13-11 on the season, 3-8 in BIG EAST action.

Georgetown was 3-3 from the charity stripe for the game but Louisville (18-7, 7-5 BE) outrebounded the Hoyas 47-26, including 14 offensive boards.

Senior center Aminata Diop (Saint-Louis, Senegal) and sophomore guard Shanice Fuller (Chesapeake, Va./Indian River) both scored 10 points for the Hoyas. Freshman Monica McNutt (Suitland, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross) and sophomore Kenya Kirkland (Brooklyn, N.Y./Grand Street Campus) netted seven points apiece.

The BIG EAST's leading scorer, Louisville's Angel McCoughtry tallied 12 points to go along with 12 rebounds.

The entertaining first half saw Louisville take a 34-28 lead at the break. The difference was the free throw line where Louisville was 11-14 to the Hoyas' 3-3 from the stripe.

The Cards finished the first half shooting 40 percent (11-27). Georgetown started 3-10 from the floor but closed the half shooting 8-18 (39%).

Kirkland came off the bench for Georgetown and had seven points, two shy of her season-high, in the game's first 11 minutes.

McNutt and Fuller also scored 11 points apiece in the first half.

GU trailed 23-19 with 7:52 to go in the half as the Hoyas were shooting 50 percent from the floor (7-14). The Cards were outrebounding GU, 13-7 with five offensive boards early on.

Georgetown cut its deficit to 28-26 on Fuller's three-pointer from the top of the arc off a Krystle Hatton (St. Louis, Mo./Hazelwood East) screen with 3:13 to go in half.

In the second half, McCoughtry's steal and layup gave the Cards, their largest lead, 44-34 with 16:40 left.

Georgetown was stuck in a six-minute scoring drought as the Cards built a 15-point lead, 49-34 with 12 minutes to play.

Fuller stopped the drought at 11:33 with a trey from the top of the key to close the Hoya deficit to 50-37.

After Kirkland's steal, junior transfer Karee Houlette (Houston, Texas/Cypress Springs) connected on a three-pointer from the wing at 6:40 which brought Georgetown within 56-44.

Full-court Hoya pressure caused problems for Louisville and Georgetown was able to get within 58-49 with 5:40 to go as Diop and Houlette (three-pointer) netted back-to-back baskets off steals.

Georgetown managed just one field goal over the final five minutes as Louisville made eight free throws to close the game.

The Hoyas have fallen in all three of their games to the Cards since the 2005-06 season.