RV/RV Gonzaga (3-0) vs. 6/4 Louisville (3-0)
SATURDAY, NOV. 19 | 4:30 P.M. | Paradise Island, Bahamas
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THE TIP OFF
- The Gonzaga Bulldogs travel to the Bahamas to play in the 2022 Bad Boy Mowers Women's Battle 4 Atlantis. This is the second year in a row that the Zags have traveled somewhere tropical around the holidays as GU won the Rainbow Wahine Showdown tournament last year in Honolulu, Hawaii. In the Bahamas this year, the Zags will face No. 6 Louisville in the opening round on Nov. 19. Other teams in the field include Marquette, Texas, Tennessee, South Dakota State, Rutgers and UCLA. In the next round, the Bulldogs will play either Texas or Marquette.
- This is the second year in a row that the Zags will play Louisville. The last matchup was last year in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament in Louisville's home arena. The Bulldogs put up a fight the whole game, but came out just short, 68-59, to the No. 1 seeded team. 
- The Bulldogs are coming off a gritty 64-66 victory at Wyoming on Nov. 15. Yvonne Ejim scored a career-high 26 points to lead the Zags to victory. Ejim scored the game winning bucket in the last 10 seconds of the game and also grabbed the last rebound of the contest to secure the road win. The victory marked head coach Lisa Fortier's sixth win over the Cowgirls. 
- Yvonne Ejim was named the WCC Player of the Week after averaging 19 points on 57.1 percent shooting, 6.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals in 25 minutes.
- The Zags are receiving votes in the most recent AP Poll and USA TODAY Sports/WBCA Top 25 Coaches Poll.
- The Bulldogs were recently picked to win the West Coast Conference. The Zags received nine first-place votes that and totaled 81 points in the poll. The poll is voted on by the league's 10 head coaches, and coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team. Portland received one first-place votes and was selected to finish second with 71 points, while BYU was voted to finish third with 55 points.
- Gonzaga has amassed a conference record of 257-33 (.886) during the last 17 seasons, which includes 16 West Coast Conference regular-season titles and nine WCC Tournament championships.
- Seniors Kayleigh Truong, Kaylynne Truong and junior Yvonne Ejim were also named to the Preseason All-WCC Team. Ejim is the reigning WCC Sixth Woman of the Year while also receiving All-WCC Second Team in 2021-22. Kayleigh Truong earned All-WCC First Team honors after her performance in 2021-22.  Kaylynne Truong was named to the WCC Tournament team along with the Rainbow Wahine Showdown MVP as she was ranked third on the team in scoring last year. 
- Last season, the Zags advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth-straight year under head coach Lisa Fortier.

THE SERIES
SERIES INFO: The Zags and the Cardinals have only played three times in program history. This marks the second year in a row that the two teams have met.    
STREAK: Louisville - 2    
FIRST MEETING: Gonzaga defeated the No. 7-Seeded Louisville in 2011 at the NCAA Regional Semifinal in Spokane, Wash. at the arena.     
LAST MEETING: GU and the Cardinals faced each other in the 2022 NCAA Tournament in the Second Round at the KFC YUM! Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Gonzaga fell to the No. 1 seeded team, 68-59. Three different Zags scored in double figures in the contest as Kayleigh Truong scored a team-high 14.

SCOUTING THE CARDINALS
- The Cardinals are coming off a 75-70 win over Belmont and currently sit at 3-0.
- Hailey Van Lith leads the team by averaging 21.7 points a game. Olivia Cochran averages a team-high nine rebounds a game and is the second-best scorer on the team by averaging 9.3 points a game.
- The Cardinals have won 64-consecutive games when scoring 70 points or more after the 75-70 win over Belmont.
- The Cardinals went 20-for-21 (.952) from the free throw line for the game against Belmont. It was the highest free throw percentage for the Cardinals in a game with at least 10 attempts since January 24, 2021, when they went 13-for-13 against Wake Forest.
- Louisville is 168-29 against non-conference opponents under head coach Jeff Walz. The Cardinals are 58-4 in non-conference play over the past six seasons.
- Louisville is 84-14 in the month of November under Walz. Over the past six seasons, the Cardinals are 32-1 in games played in November. 
- The Cardinals have won 154 games and hold a .885 (154-20) winning percentage since the start of the 2017-18 season. The wins rank third and winning percentage ranks fourth in the NCAA.