Durr leads No. 4 Louisville in BC rout

NO. 4 LOUISVILLE 87, BOSTON COLLEGE 52

BOSTON — Asia Durr and her teammates were left with a bad taste after No. 4 Louisville’s loss at No. 1 Connecticut earlier this week. They were ready to turn the page Thursday night against Boston College.

Durr scored 16 points to lead the Cardinals to an 87-52 victory against the Eagles for their sixth victory in seven games.

“We try to take it one game at a time,” Durr said. “It was a great game, but we’ve got to start getting off on faster starts. We can’t get off on slow starts.”

The Cardinals led 32-27 at halftime after trailing by 12 in the opening period and outscored the Eagles 55-25 in the last two quarters.

“We just started to play hard,” Louisville Coach Jeff Walz said. “They knocked (shots) down, and then we started to put some pressure and make things a little bit more difficult.”

Louisville (26-2, 12-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) had its five-game winning streak snapped in the 69-58 loss at UConn on Monday, when it trailed by as many as 22 points and came no closer than the final margin in the second half.

Sam Fuehring totaled 14 points and 7 rebounds against the Eagles, Myisha Hines-Allen scored 13 points, Arica Carter and Kylee Shook had 11 each, and Jazmine Jones added 10.

Georgia Pineau followed up Sunday’s career-high, 23-point game against Pittsburgh with 22 points and 7 rebounds to lead Boston College (7-9, 2-11). Eagles leading scorer Milan Bolden-Morris was held to nine points.

SEC KENTUCKY 78, ARKANSAS 57

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (12-14, 3-10 SEC) led by a point after a quarter, but it was all Kentucky (13-14, 5-8) after that at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Ky.

The Razorbacks made 5-of11 three-pointers in the first quarter and led 20-19 heading into the second. From there, the Wildcats outscored the Razorbacks 59-37 including 20-12 in the second quarter and 21-10 in the fourth.

Arkansas was just 6-25 (24 percent) on three-pointers after their first-quarter burst.

Kentucky had five players score 10 or more points, including Maci Morris’ gamehigh 20. After Alyssa Rice’s 13 points, Keke McKinney and Tatyana Wyatt each scored 11, while Dorie Harrison added 10 more.

Jailyn Mason led Arkansas with 18 points on 7-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-8 three-pointers.

Malica Monk scored 14, while Bailey Zimmerman added 12 for the Razorbacks who finished the game shooting 30.4 percent.

Kentucky outscored Arkansas 38-12 in points in the lane and 32-7 in bench points. The Lady Wildcats outrebounded the Razorbacks 4431 with Rice leading all players with 9.