Women’s Basketball: Virginia runs away from Drexel in 81-39 win

Drexel led by five early, but a 22-0 Virginia run, featuring six made threes, got the ‘Hoos up by 30 in the second quarter, and UVA cruised from there to an 81-39 win on Wednesday night.

The win improves the Cavaliers to a 4-0 mark in head coach Aaron Roussell’s first season at the helm.

Breona Hurd led Virginia with a season-high 18 points on 6-for-10 shooting, connecting on four of seven attempts from three-point range.

Mary-Anna Asare had 15 points (5-of-8 FG, 4-of-6 3FG) to go with four rebounds, three assists and one steal.

Kymora Johnson (10 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals) rounded out the trio of Cavaliers in double figures.

“Really proud of our defense. I think our length bothered them a little bit. I thought we rebounded the ball really well. I’m really proud of where our defense is at,” Roussell said. “I know people keep talking about our shooting and two games back-to-back making 15 threes. We weren’t perfect, but I like where we are offensively. But just defensively, maybe I didn’t see this coming this early. These guys have really stood up and surpassed the task that we’ve put out there for them defensively.”