After Virginia lost to the women's basketball team, 90-77 Saturday night, Lady Cavaliers coach Debbie Ryan said she was looking to double team some of the Lady Lions to stop scoring machine Susan Robinson.

Unfortunately for Ryan and the Cavaliers, they played off sophomore forward Lynn Dougherty, who scored a career-high 17 points and hit 5-of-6 from the three-point line. Dougherty had been averaging 8.1 points per game and shooting 35 percent from the three-point line.

"Lynn was not expected to be a factor at all," Ryan said. "We can't cover everybody on the perimeter and we were playing off her in hopes of playing on Robinson. Hitting the three-pointers the way they did it is tough to defend."

Dougherty hit two consecutive three-pointers halfway through the second half to turn an eight-point game to a 14-point game for the Lady Lions. Ryan said that was the turning point.

"Coaches were stressing a lot that they did leave the outside open and there could be a lot of chances for a lot of jump shots. I knew it in my head and I kept it in my head," Dougherty said. "I had been concentrating on it and I came out and did it."

"It was nice for Lynn to have confidence in her game," Coach Rene Portland said. "The three position had to score."

"We have to have that to be a Top 10 team," Robinson said of Dougherty's performance.

Dougherty's outside shooting opened the floor for the other Lady Lions as three other starters scored in double figures. Robinson, who was still unstoppable on offense, scored 25, guard Tanya Garner scored 21 and point guard Dana Eikenberg tossed in 15.

"I felt the pressure ease up, especially when we were running the fast break they couldn't go down into the paint and protect my drive," Garner said. "A couple of times we skipped it over to (Dougherty) and she hit two three-pointers back-to-back, which changed the pace of the game and took the air out of them.

"They were going by two's and we were going by three's," she added.