Women's Top 25 roundup: Virginia upsets No. 20 North Carolina
Jan 22, 2023; South Bend, Indiana, USA; Virginia Cavaliers head coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton looks to her bench in the second half against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Purcell Pavilion. credits: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports Kymora Johnson scored 25 points to help the Virginia Cavaliers upset the 20th-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels 81-66 on Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.
Sam Brunelle and Paris Clark each supplied 14 points and London Clarkson added 10 as Virginia (10-10, 2-7 Atlantic Coast Conference) notched its second victory against a Top 25 opponent within the past week. The Cavaliers upended then-No. 15 Florida State 91-87 in Tallahassee last Sunday.
Virginia, which entered Sunday shooting 28.1 percent from 3-point range, made 57.9 percent of its treys (11 of 19) despite playing without its top scorer Camryn Taylor (14.1 points per game), who sat out with a left knee injury.
Reniya Kelly scored a career-high 20 points for the Tar Heels (15-6, 7-2), who had their eight-game winning streak against the Cavaliers snapped. Alyssa Ustby had 13 points and eight rebounds and Deja Kelly finished with 10 points on 2-of-13 shooting from the floor for North Carolina, which was outscored 21-9 in the second and the fourth quarters.
No. 19 Virginia Tech 75, No. 22 Syracuse 62
Georgia Amoore netted 29 points to lead the Hokies past the Orange in Syracuse, N.Y.
Matilda Ekh added 14 points, Cayla King chipped in 13 and Olivia Summiel had five points and 12 rebounds for Virginia Tech (16-4, 7-2 ACC). Virginia Tech's leading scorer Elizabeth Kitley (22.7 points per game) was held to a season-low six points but collected nine rebounds.
Dyaisha Fair and Georgia Woodley each scored 16 points to lead Syracuse (17-3, 7-2), which lost at home for the first time in 12 games this season. Fair's career point total stands at 3,101 after she moved past Minnesota's Rachel Banham for ninth place on the all-time NCAA Division I scoring list.
—Field Level Media