Louisville basketball fans will say goodbye to one of, if not the, best players in Louisville Cardinals history. Asia Durr, we’ll miss you dearly.
The list of accomplishments of Louisville guard Asia Durr is as long as the stupid things Michael Scott did as Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin.
Asia Durr is one of seven players that got invited to Women’s Basketball National Media Day, this being her second season. She was named Preseason All-ACC, Associated Press Preseason All-American, rated No. 2 on ESPNW Top 25 Players, named ACC Player of the Week on multiple occasions.
While there were greats before her who helped to turn Louisville’s women’s team into the program it is today, but there is no player who has received the national attention like Durr. Bleacher Report and ESPN (and ESPN again) have made it a priority to cover the now senior guard.
The list goes on and on and that’s just for this season.
Senior Asia Durr is dominate on the court and she has been since she started under Coach Jeff Walz back in 2015. She came to Louisville ranked the No. 1 player overall by Prospects Nation and Full Court, and espnW ranked her No. 2 overall in the class of 2015.
Walz got the highest-rated recruit to sign at Louisville when he got Durr.
She’s only grown as a player since the start of her collegiate career and has given the Cardinal fans something to look forward to every game.
“A better human being than she is a ball player. And she’s the best I’ve ever seen.”
— Louisville Women’s Basketball (@LouisvilleWBB) February 28, 2019
🎥: The coaches reflect on the impact Asia Durr’s had on this program, on and off the court. pic.twitter.com/aFNKEciZ3r
She finished high school with the most points in school history for boys and girls with 2,764 points shooting 50 percent from the field. She set St. Pius X Catholic’s single-game points record with 53 in a victory over the defending state champion Redan.
She had 254 assists, 706 rebounds, 266 steals and 75 blocks when ending her high school career. She led her team her sophomore and junior year to AAA state championships.
The guard from Douglasville, Georgia chose Louisville over schools that started her freshman year ranked higher than #8 Louisville – #5 Baylor, #4 Tennessee, #3 Norte Dame and also over #9 Maryland and #14 Duke.
In her freshman year, she was voted to the Blue Ribbon Panel’s and the coaches all-ACC freshman team and was the fourth freshman in the program’s history to earn all-tournament honors.
In Durr’s sophomore year she became the 28th player to join the 1,000-point club, only the fifth to do it by their sophomore year. In her second year of play, she ranked second nationally in 3-pointers made with 119 and fifth in threes per game with 3.31. The 119 threes are the most in a single season in school history.
Junior year didn’t slow Durr down any as her 19.9 points-per-game in ACC play led the league. She had 31 double-digit scoring games, which is a team high. She was named WBCA First Team All-American. The only other Cardinal with this honor is Angel McCoughtry who played from 2006-2009.
As I said, I could go on forever. She’s good, better than good, actually, she’s phenomenal. Is there a word better than that? If you can think of one, that’s her.
Durr is averaging 20.6 points a game this season with her season-high being 34 in Louisville’s 72-63 win over Virginia Tech.
The Cardinal is a leader on the team averaging 3.2 assists per game. She’s started in 26 of Louisville’s 27 games this season leading the team in 24 of their 25 wins.
Passion. That’s the word that always comes to mind if you watch Durr and if it isn’t you must not be watching the right player.
Durr has an excellent team behind her, she couldn’t do it alone, but having her on the court is key to winning games. She’s hands down one of the best player in the game.
She plays hard and gives other teams hell on both ends of the court. She’s caused 47 turnovers alone this season so far and is averaging 9.6 rebounds a game.
More images from the crowd that awaited Louisville’s Asia Durr after Sunday’s @UofLWBB loss to Miami … pic.twitter.com/078sR1PKtb
— Eric Crawford (@ericcrawford) February 18, 2019
Durr is the kind of player that you see doing everything on the court. She a leader keeping her team calm in messy situations and finding ways to get out of them. She gets her team fired up on every occasion possible. She’s scoring, she’s driving, she’s putting up threes. She’s setting up plays and getting every girl on the court involved in plays. Whatever Asia can do to get her team ahead, she’s doing.
The Cardinal plays for the Cardinals. She plays for her team and with her team. It’s not a one woman show when Durr’s on the court and you don’t have to fear it will be.
Durr’s time is coming to a close with the Cards, though, and she will be missed. She’s leaving behind an eager and dynamite, but there won’t be anything like seeing Durr suit up as a Cardinal.
We have the rest of the season, a couple more games, ACC tournament play, and the road to the National Championship to see Asia play with Louisville across her chest. I’d say tune in as much as you can, you don’t get to see players like Durr every year and it’s well worth your time.