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Bellarmine Basketball Quick Facts Location Louisville, KY 40205 BELLARMINE BASKETBALL Founded / Enrollment 1950 / 3,293 Nickname / Colors Knights / Scarlet & Silver 16 NCAA II Tournament Appearances • 4 NCAA II Elite Eights • 1 NCAA II Final Four Conference ASUN Home Court Freedom Hall President Dr. Susan M. Donovan Bellarmine Knights Director of Athletics Scott Wiegandt Deputy Director of Athletics/SWA Pam Stackhouse at No. 2 Louisville Cardinals Head Coach Chancellor Dugan (9th) Saturday, January 2 • Noon • KFC Yum! Center • Louisville, KY Bellarmine Record 143-89 Overall Record 463-379 Assistant Coach Shannon Litton (9th) MOST RECENT STARTERS Assistant Coach Crystal Kelly (1st) Bellarmine (0-4, 0-0 ASUN) Ht. Yr. PPG RPG Hometown Assistant Coach Abby Owings (1st) F 23 Lauren Deel 5-11 Sr. 10.5 3.0 Louisville, KY All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 11-17 (16 Appearances, 1 Final Four, 4 Elite Eights) G 03 Breia Torrens 5-5 Sr. 16.0 2.5 Louisville, KY Important Phone Numbers G 04 Tasia Jeffries 5-7 Sr. 17.0 2.0 Louisville, KY Athletics Office 502-272-8381 G 15 Claire Knies 5-10 Fr. 4.0 3.3 Jasper, IN Sports Information Office 502-272-8079 G 22 Kathleen Scott 5-8 Jr. 3.8 3.0 Mt. Washington, KY WBB SID - Adam Pruiett, cell 502-889-0466 Head Coach: Chancellor Dugan, 9th year at Bellarmine (143-89 record at Bellarmine, 463-379 career) Twitter/Instagram @BUKnightsWBB/buwbbteam Louisville (6-0, 1-0 ACC) Ht. Yr. PPG RPG Hometown F 44 Olivia Cochran 6-3 Fr. 13.7 8.3 Columbus, GA 2020-21 SCHEDULE G 01 Dana Evans 5-6 Sr. 20.8 2.2 Gary, IN G 04 Elizabeth Balogun 6-1 Jr. 4.3 4.3 Chattanooga, TN Date Opponent Time December G 10 Hailey Van Lith 5-7 Fr. 14.7 6.2 Wenatchee, WA Mon. 14 BALL STATE L 42-98 G 14 Kianna Smith 6-0 R-Jr. 14.3 5.0 Moreno Valley, CA Wed. 16 at Western Kentucky L 49-82 Head Coach: Jeff Walz, 14th year at Louisville (365-104 record at Louisville, 365-104 career) Sat. 19 WESTERN ILLINOIS L 57-79 Tues. 29 at Evansville L 62-72 January Sat. 2 at Louisville Noon QUICK SHOTS KNIGHT INSIGHTS Sat. 9 at Lipscomb* 3 PM Sun. 10 at Lipscomb* 3 PM Site: KFC Yum! Center; Louisville, KY • Separated just miles apart, Bellarmine and Sat. 16 FLORIDA GULF COAST* 2 PM Series: UofL leads 14-4 (last meeting: UofL 80, Louisville share the same city and, historically, Sun. 17 FLORIDA GULF COAST* 2 PM BU 56; 12/16/99 at UofL) are familiar with each other on the court. The Sat. 23 at Stetson* 1 PM Watch: ACCNX Knights and Cardinals have met on 18 occa- Sun. 24 at Stetson* 1 PM sions, with 17 of those contests occurring from Sat. 30 KENNESAW STATE* 2 PM Radio: WXVW 1450 AM/96.1 FM; Jack Kizer, Sun. 31 KENNESAW STATE* 2 PM play-by-play; Pam Stackhouse, analyst the 1971-72 to 1984-85 seasons. Louisville owns February Next BU Games: Jan. 9-10 at Lipscomb; Allen a 14-4 series lead and captured the most recent Sat. 6 at Jacksonville* 1 PM Arena; Nashville, TN clash, 80-56, at home on Dec. 16, 1999. Bel- Sun. 7 at Jacksonville* 1 PM larmine and Louisville split the last four games Sat. 13 NORTH FLORIDA* 2 PM in the series. Sun. 14 NORTH FLORIDA* 2 PM WARM-UPS Sat. 20 at North Alabama* 3 PM • This season marks the first with iconic Free- dom Hall as Bellarmine’s home venue. Freedom Sun. 21 at North Alabama* 3 PM The saying goes “better late than never,” Sat. 27 LIBERTY* 2 PM Hall was previously home to Louisville for five and that certainly applies to the Bellarmine Sun. 28 LIBERTY* 2 PM decades. University women’s basketball team’s Saturday March • Bellarmine features a host of players from the 9-14 ASUN Championship afternoon contest against No. 2 Louisville in the city of Louisville in Breia Torrens, Tasia Jeffries, KFC Yum! Center. * - ASUN game Ashlee Harris, Lauren Deel and Danielle Feld- All Times ET kamp. Senior guards and co-captains Torrens The Knights and Cardinals were able to re- and Jeffries won a pair of Kentucky high school schedule the game after originally slating it for state titles together at Butler Traditional. Dec. 6. It was among the many nationally that • After missing the team’s first three games, had to be postponed amidst the chaos created Jeffries made her season debut Tuesday at by the pandemic. Both teams have felt the Evansville and scored a team-high 17 points be- effects. Before hosting Northern Kentucky on hind three 3-pointers. Jeffries was a third-team Friday and collecting a 74-64 win, Louisville had All-GLVC selection in Bellarmine’s final season been without an opponent since a 73-49 road in Division II. victory at Duke on Dec. 9 and dealt with three • Junior guard Presley Brown set a new career ACC games being postponed. Bellarmine’s high with seven rebounds against Evansville Monday home game against Morehead State and matched a career best with 10 points. has been postponed. When the Knights take the • Torrens returned to the lineup Dec. 19 against floor against the Cardinals, they’ll have played Western Illinois after missing the team’s first one game over the last two weeks. two games and scored a game-high 19 points. Torrens was among 10 players selected to the Due to consistent matchups from the early ASUN’s Preseason All-Conference Team after 1970s through the mid-’80s, Bellarmine and earning first-team All-GLVC accolades last Louisville have squared off 18 times, with the season. Cardinals holding a 14-4 advantage in the series. • Bellarmine is the newest member of the ASUN Conference and officially gained entrance to the While Bellarmine is 0-4 this season, its margin league on July 1. of defeat has decreased in every game, most • Bellarmine’s entrance to the ASUN is actually a recently a 72-62 loss at Evansville in which the return for Coach Chancellor Dugan. She was the Knights nearly erased an 18-point third-quarter head coach at former league member Florida deficit as they rallied back to within two with Atlantic for 13 seasons before taking over the four minutes left in the final period. Knights. 2020-21 BELLARMINE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 Louisville Cardinals Women’s Basketball Roster NO. NAME YR. POS. HT. HOMETOWN / PREVIOUS SCHOOL 0 Ramani Parker R-Fr. F 6-4 Fresno, Calif. / Montverde Academy 1 Dana Evans Sr. G 5-6 Gary, Ind. / West Side 2 Ahlana Smith Jr. G 5-9 Charlotte, N.C. / Gulf Coast State 3 Malea Williams Fr. F 6-4 Georgetown, Ky. / Scott County 4 Elizabeth Balogun Jr. G 6-1 Chattanooga, Tenn. / Georgia Tech 5 Mykasa Robinson Jr. G 5-7 Ashland, Ky. / Ashland Blazer 10 Hailey Van Lith Fr. G 5-7 Wenatchee, Wash. / Cashmere 11 Norika Konno So. G 5-10 Sendai, Japan / Seiwa 13 Merissah Russell Fr. G 5-11 Ottawa, Ontario / Cairine Wilson 14 Kianna Smith R-Jr. G 6-0 Moreno Valley, Calif. / California 22 Elizabeth Dixon Jr. F 6-5 Memphis, Tenn. / Georgia Tech 44 Olivia Cochran Fr. F 6-3 Columbus, Ga. / Carver Head Coach: Jeff Walz | Assistant Coaches: Stephanie Norman, Sam Purcell, Jonneshia Pineda BELLARMINE JOINS DIVISION I On July 1, 2020, Bellarmine University celebrat- ed the elevation of its athletics program from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I, making Bellarmine the only private DI university in Ken- tucky and one of only a handful of DI Catholic universities in the South. All 22 of the Knights’ varsity sports programs now compete in Division I, including 17 in the ASUN Conference. Bellarmine’s move to DI was announced in the summer of 2019 as one of the first major ABOUT LOUISVILLE initiatives in the university’s strategic plan. • Louisville is 6-0 and ranked second in the Associated Press poll. After having three ACC Stakeholder studies revealed the university games postponed after a 73-49 win at Duke on Dec. 9, the Cardinals hosted Northern and its student-athletes were well-poised for DI competition. Transitioning to DI extends the uni- Kentucky on Friday and came away with a 74-64 win. Dana Evans scored 17 of her 20 versity’s geographic reach, supports enrollment points in the second half. Olivia Cochran scored 13 points and Elizabeth Dixon had 12. growth, improves diversity and achieves better Louisville got a double-double from Kianna Smith, tallied 11 points and 10 rebounds. gender balance. Increased exposure enhances • Dana Evans is among the most heralded players in the country. The senior guard was institutional awareness and expands partnership named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 Watch List along with being opportunities. selected as the ACC Preseason Player of the Year, an Associated Press Preseason All- American, and to the Naismith and Drysdale Award Watch List. Bellarmine teams in the following 17 sports will compete in the ASUN, beginning in the 2020-21 • Guard Hailey Van Lith was named ACC Freshman of the Week on Nov. 30 after averag- academic year: baseball, men’s and women’s ing 16.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in her first two games at Louisville. basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track SERIES RESULTS and field and volleyball.