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Virginia Hosts Charlotte on Sunday

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Virginia women’s basketball team (5-7, 0-0 ACC) closes out the non-conference portion of its schedule by hosting Charlotte (8-3, 0-0 C-USA) at John Paul Jones Arena on Sunday, Dec. 30 at 2 p.m.
 
Broadcast Information

  • The game will stream on ACC Network Extra, which is available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app
  • All of the 2018-19 Virginia women’s basketball games – home and away – are available locally on the radio on NewsRadio 1070 AM and 98.9 FM WINA
  • Fans can also keep up with the action through live stats on VirginiaSports.com

Noting the Cavaliers

  • The game against Charlotte is the final non-conference contest of the year
  • Virginia finished last season’s non-conference slate with a 7-6 record
  • Virginia scored 29 points in the fourth quarter against South Florida, its highest single-quarter output of the year
  • The 74 points against USF was the highest offensive output of the year for the Cavaliers
  • Virginia has only been outrebounded twice this season. Virginia has yet to have fewer turnovers in a game than its opponent
  • Junior guards Dominique Toussaint (Staten Island, N.Y.) and Jocelyn Willoughby (East Orange, N.J.) were both named to the Florida Sunshine Classic All-Tournament Team
  • Toussaint scored a combined 30 points with 13 assists in the tournament
  • Toussaint had six assists against Alabama and seven against South Florida. She has five games this season in which she has logged five or more assists
  • Willoughby scored 23 points against South Florida, her second time in the last four games that she has posted a 20-point performance
  • Willoughby has scored in double figures in nine of the last ten games, with the lone single-digit performance being her nine-points against Coppin State
  • Willoughby, who is averaging a career-best 7.9 rebounds per game this season, is closing in on the 500-rebound benchmark. She comes into the game 22 shy with 478 total in her career
  • Senior forward Mone Jones (Durham, N.C.) grabbed 10 rebounds against South Florida, the second double-digit rebounding game of her career
  • Sophomore guard Brianna Tinsley (Madison, Va.) has grabbed five rebounds in each of the last five games
  • In the last four games, junior forward Lisa Jablonowski (Ernster, Luxembourg) is averaging 7.75 points and 9.75 rebounds per game
  • After blocking three shots against Alabama, Jablonowski now has a career-best 10 blocked shots this season. Jocelyn Willoughby has also blocked 10 shots this season

ACC Rankings

  • Virginia is third in the ACC in blocked shots at 4.8 per game
  • Virginia is fifth in the conference in free throw shooting percentage (74.9 percent)
  • Mone Jones is tied for 11th in free throw shooting percentage at 83.3 percent (25-of-30)
  • Jocelyn Willoughby ranks 11th in rebounding, averaging 7.9 per game
  • Willoughby ranks second in three-point shooting percentage, making 49.0 percent of her attempts (24-of-49) and is 10th in three-pointers made, averaging 2.0 per game
  • Dominique Toussaint is 10th in assists, averaging 4.0 per game
  • Toussaint is fourth in minutes played, averaging 35.3 per game

Last Time Out

  • The Cavaliers split the two games at the Florida Sunshine Classic tournament in Winter Park, Fla., falling 64-52 to Alabama before closing things out with a 74-67 victory over South Florida
  • The Cavaliers mounted comebacks in both games, cutting a once 13-point deficit against Alabama down to six, and erasing a 15-point USF lead
  • Virginia shot 28.8 percent (19-of-66) against Alabama (shooting 15.8 percent in both the first and fourth quarters) and 41.9 percent (26-of-62) against South Florida (including shooting 60.0 percent in the fourth quarter)
  • Dominique Toussaint led the team in scoring against Alabama, contributing 12 points, one of three players to finish the game in double figures. Jocelyn Willoughby led the team by scoring a game-high 23 points against USF. Toussaint scored 18 points
  • Lisa Jablonowski led the team in rebounding against Alabama (10) while Mone Jones paced the squad against USF (10)

Scouting Charlotte

  • The 49ers returned from Christmas break by hosting Bethune-Cookman, picking up a 73-69 victory
  • This is the second game this season for the Niners against an ACC team. Charlotte fell 69-43 to Wake Forest on Dec. 5
  • Jade Phillips leads the team in scoring, averaging 14.2 points per game
  • Senior point guard Laia Raventós became the 24th member of the Charlotte women’s basketball 1,000-point club in the game against Mercer. She was named to the preseason watch list for the Nancy Lieberman Award, presented annually to the nation’s top point guard
  • Jazmin Harris has twice been named the Conference USA Freshman of the Week. The team’s lone center is averaging 9.2 points per game and 4.4 rebounds per game in 16.7 minutes per game
  • Head coach Cara Consuegra is in her eighth season leading the Nineres, the second-longest tenure in program history.
  • Virginia is 4-1 all-time against the 49ers.
  • In the last meeting between the two, the Niners upset the Cavaliers, 79-74, in the quarterfinals of the WNIT in a game played at John Paul Jones Arena

On the Horizon

  • ACC action begins on Thursday, Jan. 3 when UVA hostsFlorida State. The game tips at 7 p.m.
  • New this year for all regular-season home games, available reserved single-game tickets can be purchased for $8 in advance, online and via mobile devices, or for $10 at the John Paul Jones ticket office on game day. General admission single-game tickets are $5 in advance, online and via mobile devices or $8 at the John Paul Jones ticket office on game day. Courtside seats are $15

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