Asia Durr is off to a fast start in her second season with the University of Louisville women’s basketball team, taking and making most of her shots from behind the 3-point line.
After two games, 11 of Durr’s 15 baskets have come on 3-point shots. She has attempted 21 of them, and is connecting on 52.4% of her attempts. She is the team’s leading scorer with 42 points and averaging 21 points per game.
Durr would score all of her 18 points in 16 minutes of the first half against Belmont on Sunday. Connecting on seven of shot attempts, including four of eight 3-point attempts.
UofL had the game well in hand at the half with a 47-25 lead. Durr would play only six minutes in the final 20 minutes en route to a 73-50 win before a crowd of 8,347 at the KFC Yum! Center.
Cierra Johnson, Mariya Moore and Myisha Hines-Allen would score 18, 13 and 4 points, respectively. The Cardinals exceeded 20 assists for a second straight game. Moore had six of Louisville’s 21 assists while grabbing five rebounds.