LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville women's basketball team is celebrating two of its players after the Atlantic Coast Conference named junior Dana Evans Player of the Year and senior Kylee Shook the Defensive Player of the Year.

Evans is the first player in ACC history to win the ACC Sixth Player of the year to win ACC Player of the Year the following season. This is the third straight year and the fourth time in five seasons that a Cardinal has been named Player of the Year. Asia Durr was named POY the last two years and Myisha Hines-Allen won the award in 2015-16.

Evans is a finalist for several awards this season, including the Wooden Award. She is averaging 17.9 points per game which ranks fourth in the conference. She's second in the ACC for 3-pointers having made 81, which puts her 16th in the nation.

Shook is the first Louisville player to win conference defensive player of the year since Angel McCoughtry won the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year in 2008-09.

Earlier this year, Shook, a Naismith Defensive Player of the Year finalist, surpassed McCoughtry as Louisville's all-time leading shot-blocker and her 83 blocks this year is a single-season program record. She is averaging 2.8 blocks per game and leads the ACC and is 11th in the country.

Fifteen ACC head coaches and the league's Blue Ribbon Panel made the selections. 

Louisville won its third straight ACC regular-season title and will be the 1-see in the 2020 ACC Tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina.  Coach Jeff Walz and his squad will open play Friday, March 6 at 2 pm.