LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014\u00a0Senior forward Laura Ziegler had 14 points for No. 9 Louisville (24-4, 14-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) in an 88-65 rout of Florida State (9-17, 4-10 ACC).\u00a0<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
No. 9 Louisville won its third straight game, an 88-65 rout of Florida State
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Senior forward Laura Ziegler had 14 points and was one of five Cardinals to reach double figures
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Louisville topped 80 for the 17th time this season and shot 49.3% from the field<\/p>\n
The matchup between the Atlantic Coast Conference\u2019s top scoring offense (Louisville, 81.9 ppg) and its next-to-last defense (Florida State, 76 ppg) played out that way as the Cardinals took control early and never trailed en route to their third straight win.<\/p>\n
Ziegler scored the game\u2019s first five points, and Louisville used a 9-0 run later in the opening quarter to build a 16-5 lead with 2:45 remaining. Meanwhile, the Seminoles shot just 25.8% (8 of 31) in the first half as Louisville led 34-20 at halftime.<\/p>\n
The Denmark native and transfer from Saint Joseph’s opened the third quarter with a 3-pointer, and the Cardinals added to their lead throughout the second half, leading by as much as 80-51 midway through the fourth quarter. She also flirted with a triple-double, finishing with eight rebounds and seven assists before exiting the game with 6:37 remaining and the Cardinals up 71-49.<\/p>\n
Ziegler was one of five Cardinals to finish in double figures. Sophomore guard Imari Berry, junior guard\/forward Skylar Jones and senior guard Reyna Scott all scored 11 while freshman forward Grace Mbugua pitched in 10. Aside from Ziegler, Louisville\u2019s other top scorers came off the bench.<\/p>\n
Louisville topped 80 for the 17th time this season and shot 49.3% (35 of 71) from the field. The Cardinals also got 26 points off 16 Florida State turnovers and dished out 25 assists, one off their season high.<\/p>\n
Junior guard Sole Williams led the Seminoles with 19 points.<\/p>\n
UofL is off until Sunday, Feb. 22, when the Cardinals host Virginia at the KFC Yum! Center. Tipoff is at noon; the game can be seen on The CW.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014\u00a0Senior forward Laura Ziegler had 14 points for No. 9 Louisville (24-4, 14-1 Atlantic Coast Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10929,1238,274,2205,5460,28,30,29,60,2563,5458,115,5459,110,278,26795],"class_list":{"0":"post-157119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-app-college-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-bowling-green","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-headlines","15":"tag-florida-news","16":"tag-kentucky","17":"tag-lexington","18":"tag-louisville","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-northern-kentucky","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topic-latest-local-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}