Charlottesville, Va. – Coppin women's basketball hung around but could not catch the Cavaliers as the Lady Eagles stumbled 55-41 in Charlottesville on Sunday afternoon.
Jalynda Salley had her best game of her short career, posting season-highs with 12 boards and eight points to fall short of a double-double.
Chance Graham's double-double streak was snapped at three but made up for it with a season-best 21 points, including a career-high five triples.
The Basics
- Final Score: Coppin State 41, Virginia 55
- Records: Coppin State 0-6 (0-0 MEAC) / Virginia 3-5 (0-0 ACC)
- Location: Charlottesville, VA – Paul Jones Arena
- Series History: Virginia Leads 6-0
How It Happened
First Quarter
- Both sides came up empty on its first possession, but Chance Graham started the scoring by draining a pair of foul shots. A slick assist by Brooke Fields to a wide-open Kaiya Coleman under the basket gave CSU an early 4-0 lead.
- Five unanswered from the Hoos saw Coppin relinquish the lead before a corner three from Maraiyah Smith reclaimed the advantage at 7-5 CSU.
- Virginia guard Dominique Toussant made a 25-footer to send the game to the first media timeout, 7-7.
- The first quarter concluded with Virginia on a 7-2 run to make it 14-9 at the quarter break.
- The Wahoos struggled with sloppy ball-handling as it committed seven turnovers opposed to the Lady Eagles' three.
Second Quarter
- Jocelyn Willoughby and Chance Graham exchanged triples for UVA and CSU over the first two minutes of the second, 17-12 UVA.
- Four points for the Cavaliers to one for the Eagles take the two sides into the media timeout, 21-13 UVA.
- The Cavaliers used a 7-0 surge to end the half and take a 28-16 advantage to the locker room.
Third Quarter
- Virginia's Shakyna Payne put an exclamation point on the first half of the third quarter, converting an and-one down low as the Hoos held a 18-point edge with 4:53 left, 39-21 UVA.
- Graham remained on fire from deep knocking down two more three-balls (her fourth of the contest) to narrow the gap to 15, 42-27 Virginia.
- The offenses slowed from there, as Coppin began the final frame trailing 45-29.
- Graham eclipsed her season-high point total of 17 with 2:42 remaining, finishing the third quarter with 18.
Fourth Quarter
- The two clubs kept each other at bay for the first 5:40, with Coppin holding a slight 9-6 advantage over that timeframe, UVA 51-38.
- Diamond Adams swished her first career triple from the baseline to make the score 51-41 Cavs with 2:31 in the ballgame.
- The Wahoos put the game to bed with the final four points, as Coppin drops to 0-6 after the 55-41 defeat.
Inside the Numbers
- Salley made her presence known on both sides of the ball, coming up a bucket short of her first career double-double, but set season-highs in rebounds (12) and points (8) in the process.
- Graham was not her usual dominant self on the glass (8 rebounds) but was able to counter that with a season-high 21 points and was a force from three-point territory, setting a new high watermark of five threes.
- Burroughs' squad had a clean contest, only losing seven turnovers on the day, the fewest by far in 2018-19.
- The Cavaliers had two girls exceed the double-digit point threshold, as Dominique Toussaint (14) and Khyasia Caldwell (11) were the pacesetters.
- UVA shot an impressive 40% from the court (21-52) and pulled down an even 50 rebounds.
- Jocelyn Willoughby was the lone Wahoo to grab double-figure boards with 14.
Who's Next?
- Athens, Ohio is the stop number three on this current nine-game non-conference road trip, when the Eagles play Ohio University on Saturday, December 8 at 1 p.m.
