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Virginia Closes Regular Season with a Loss at No. 4 Notre Dame

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NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The Virginia women’s basketball team (11-18, 5-11 ACC) closed out the final regular-season with a 103-66 loss at No. 4 Notre Dame (27-3, 14-2 ACC) on Sunday (March 3) at Purcell Pavilion in Notre Dame, Ind.
 
Junior guard Jocelyn Willoughby (East Orange, N.J.) scored 19 points with nine rebounds. Junior forward Lisa Jablonwoski (Ernster, Luxembourg) scored 17 points, matching her career high, with 10 points for her second double-double of the year. Notre Dame had three players post 20-point games, including Arike Ogunbowale with 24 points. Jackie Young came off the bench to score 22 points with 10 rebounds. Virginia shot 32.5 percent (25-of-77) while Notre Dame shot 55.1 percent (38-of-69). Notre Dame held a 47-37 advantage in rebounding.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Notre Dame started the game making six of its first eight field goal attempts, including scoring 10-straight points in a 1:18 span to build up a 29-16 advantage in the first quarter. The Cavaliers kept pace early in the second period, outscoring Notre Dame 9-8 in the first three minutes of the quarter, but the Irish used their long-range shooting as well as taking advantage of free throw opportunities to build up a 53-33 lead at halftime. Notre Dame outscored UVA 30-14 in the third quarter to put the game out of reach. The Cavaliers closed the game on a 9-0 run over the final 3:30 of the game, including five points from sophomore guard Brianna Tinsley (Madison, Va.). With the victory, Notre Dame clinched the regular-season ACC title.

NOTES

  • It was the first time an opponent scored 100 points against the Cavaliers since a 103-74 loss at North Carolina on Jan. 16, 2009
  • The Cavaliers had two players with double-digit points at halftime: Jocelyn Willoughby with 14 and Lisa Jablonowski with 11
  • Jablonowski and Willoughby combined to score 14 of Virginia’s 17 points in the second quarter
  • Jablonowski started the game making seven of her first eight shots. She finished 8-of-12
  • Jablonowski’s 17 points matched her career high originally scored against Charlotte on Dec. 30, 2018. Her other double-double was an 11-point, 11-rebound game against Radford (12/8/19)
  • Notre Dame went 0-of-4 from the field in the final 5:32 of the second quarter, but went 9-of-10 from the free throw line in that same span
  • Virginia made more field goals (6) in the second quarter than the Irish (5), but were outscored 24-17 in the period
  • Notre Dame shot 81.3 percent in the third quarter, going 13-of-16 from the field
  • The two teams combined to score 76 points in the paint (Notre Dame 42, Virginia 34)
  • Junior guard Dominique Toussaint (Staten Island, N.Y.) is closing in on 1,000 career points. She is eight away from reaching the milestone and becoming the 36th member of the 1,000 point club
  • Notre Dame was 13-of-27 (48.1 percent) from three-point range; Virginia was 6-of-25 (24.0 percent)
  • Notre Dame was 14-of-15 from the free throw line

ON THE HORIZON

  • The 2019 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament will be taking place March 6-10 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. It is the 19th year the Coliseum has played host to the event
  • The Cavaliers will be the No. 12 seed, taking on the No. 13 seed, Boston College, in the first game of the tournament on Wednesday, March 6 at 1 p.m.
  • Click here to access the ACC Tournament Central website with all of the details about the tournament including ticket and game information

 
 

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