SUNDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
-Portland to face Cards in the KFC YUM! Center today.
-Volleyball finishes regular season agains Cincy in Cardinal Arena.
Unfortunate timing today with both Volleyball and Basketball on the wood at noon today. Both squads coming off big wins Friday.
Portland travels to Louisville after loss to Cal-State Northridge
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| Kari Luttinen will look to lead the Pilots over the Cards |
That lead increased to 14 early in the second half before the Pilots suddenly lost direction and saw Northridge take over the contest...winning going away 70-51.
Kari Luttinen led Portland with 14 points and Byrd added 13 in the road loss.
One might understand if Portland may be stretching and yawning a bit at the start of today's game, having to play at 9 a.m. P.S.T. and after catching a cross-country flight to face the Cards.
Louisville defeated Portland 71-42 last year in Portland, Becky Burke with 17 and Shoni with 14 in the win. Nita Slaughter had eight rebounds against the Pilots last year in the Chiles Center.
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Volleyball hopes for shot at BIG EAST regular season title today against Cincinnati.
The Golden Eagles host Notre Dame in volleyball and need to knock off the Irish in order for the Cards to finish first. An Irish win, would leave Louisville and them tied at the top of the standings...and since Notre Dame gave Louisville their only conference loss...ND would get the regular season title.
CARDINAL COUPLE will be back later this afternoon with reports on both hoops and kills (and the latest news on the Justin Bieber/Selena Gomez breakup...OMG!...)
GO CARDS!
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For volleyball, I think they crown co-champions in the regular season, and use the tie-break rules for deciding seedings in the tournament. So if we beat Cincy today, we clinch at least co-champion of the regular season. If MU beats ND, then we would then have it outright.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of being co-champions, then ND would get the #1 seed in the Big East tourney because they have the tie-breaker in the win over us.
Interestingly, should we lose today, *and* MU beat ND, that would restore the 3-way tie for first in the Big East, and I'm not sure how the tie-breaks work in that case, but I *think* that would end up giving us the #1 seed due to overall win-loss percentages.
I think I'll still cheer for the win over UC and accept that if MU can't get it done, we could end up with the #2 seed...I'm ok with that. (particularly when you look at RPI implications of a loss to UC)
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Jeff
A good clarification and all the more incentive to hopefully natch up against the Irish in the BIG EAST Tournament and settle this thing.
DeletePaulie
Well, we got the job done vs Cincinnati. That gives us at least a share of the championship, and at least the #2 seeding in the Big East Tourney. Now its all up to Marquette beating Notre Dame for us to get the championship outright, and the #1 seed in the tourney.
ReplyDeleteThe match is at Marquette (I was thinking it was at Notre Dame, but I was incorrect). Marquette has already won the first set.
They have a free video stream of the match at http://www.gomarquette.com/allaccess/?media=327547
MU beats ND 3-0. Cards are Big East champs!
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