WBB pushes past NKU 89-61 -- VB 3-1 over WF -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Good Monday morning,


It's a cold one in Louisville to start the week which means basketball season is back to help us get through it. 

The WBB squad opened up at home on Sunday afternoon.  I had some recent car troubles so I couldn't make it down to the Yum against the Norse. But Jared was able to get some great snaps from the action.

Basketball

NKU 61 - Louisville 89

Photo: Jared Anderson

After a relatively close first three quarters, Louisville outscored NKU 33-13 in the fourth to secure a 89-61 win over the neighboring KY foe. UofL moves to 1-1 on the season with Colorado coming to town on Wednesday night.

Tajianna Roberts led all scorers with 23 points, which tied a career high. She was 10-16 from the floor, 3-4 from 3 point range and scored 17 of her 23 points in the second half.  

Reyna Scott scored in double figures for the first time with 13 points on 6-8 shooting. 

Laura Ziegler led the team with double-digit rebounds for the second-straight game with 11 boards and she added a team-best five assists to go with 9 points. 

Elif Istanbulluoglu added 9 points and 7 rebounds.



Recap

Photo: Jared Anderson

End of 1Q 20-17  Cards

FG %
8-17 47.1% Cards
7-13 53.8% NKU
Reb. 9-7 Cards
3-pt %
3-8 37.5% Cards
3-4 75% NKU

Reyna Scott went 3-3 for 7 points in just 4 minutes on the floor in the quarter.  Ziegler and Makenley Randolph both pulled down 3 rebounds 


End of 2Q 15-15


FG %
5-12 41.7% Cards
6-13 46.2% NKU
Reb. 8-7 Cards
3-pt %
0-3 0% Cards
2-5 40% NKU

UofL went 5-6 at the free throw line with Randolph leading the efforts with 3-4.  NKU shot 50% in the first half while the Cards only 45%. The Cards had 11 turnovers where the Norse had 9 points as a result.



HALF 35-32

Photo: Jared Anderson

End of 3Q 21-16 Cards

FG %
10-18 55.6% Cards
6-18 33.3% NKU
Reb. NKU 12- 9
3-pt %
1-3 33.3% Cards
2-11 18.2% NKU

Roberts went off 5-6 from the field to score 11 of her point total and put the Cards in a position to pull away. 


End of 4Q 33-13 Cards

FG %
13-18 72.2% Cards
5-18 27.8% NKU
Reb. 12-7 Cards
3-pt %
4-5 80% Cards
3-10 30% NKU


The Cardinals had 18 points in the paint and 16 off the bench in the final quarter.  The Norse seemed to run out of gas as they shot just 28% from the field down the stretch. 

UP NEXT

Louisville vs Colorado

11/12/25

7pm ACCNX

FRED REPORT

FREE THROWS --  Louisville went 9-13 at the line which just barely missed the 70% minimum requirement for a letter in the category for the first time this season..   However I really dont feel like it was a bad night at the line when two players only missed one and another went 1-3.. so im giving it a lower case f

REBOUNDING --  The Cards out rebounded the visitors 38-33 with Laura Ziegler leading for Louisville two games in a row.. she had 11 and almost a double double.  Capital R

EFFORT/EXECUTION --  It was cold morning in the Ville and UofL saved the warm up for the second half but were extremely efficient by the end of the match.  I give this one a Capital E 

DEFENSE --  UofL's defense forced 18 turnovers and had 25 points off of them.  Their ability to turn it up in the second half to detain NKU's efforts merits a Capital D



FINAL FRED TALLY: f-R-E-D


Volleyball

Photo: Jared Anderson

It took 4 sets (25-16, 20-25, 25-18, 25-17) to put the Demon Deacons away on Sunday afternoon as Louisville moves to 20-4 overall, 12-2 in the ACC.


Kalyssa Blackshear had 18 kills to lead all scorers and 6 blocks to boot. She had a .412 hitting percentage while the Cards hit .302 as a team.  UofL more than doubled the blocks of WF with 16-7 including 6 aces while committing almost half as many errors.


Chloe Chicoine joined Blackshear in double digit kills with 15, adding 10 digs and three blocks. Cara Cresse had 10 kills and five blocks. The defense was led by Kamden Schrand's 13 digs and two aces along with Hannah Sherman's 10 blocks.

UofL returns to the Ville for a pair of matches at L&N Federal Credit Union Arena. The Cardinals will face Florida State on Thursday at 8 p.m. on ESPNU.





As always
Go Cards!
~Daryl

WBB, Volleyball on Sunday Menu -- SUNDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 WALZBALL HOSTS NKU, VOLLEYCARDS TRAVEL TO WAKE FOREST. 

If the NFL isn't quite your bag...you hava a couple of nice options today on the Louisville women's sports side...Laura Ziegler and crew wait for one of the "KU's" to arrive (NKU) and the Meske Maraders go to the town named after two cigarettes (or was it vice versa) to play net games with the tall guy in the hat who calls himself a deacon. and a demon one...at that. 

WBB  

A 2 p.m. tip for the Cardinal hoops gang against Jeff Walz old alma mater when Northern Kentucky travels down 1-71 to face the #20 ranked Cards. NKU (0-1)  visited Marshall to begin their season and fell to the Thundering Herd 68-53. I know, Thundering Herd doesn't really seem like an appropriate name for women's basketball players but they don't have any other nicknames they go by. 

Cards fans might remember Lindsey Duvall graduated from Bullitt East to join Louisville, left Louisville to go to NKU. Well,  she graduated and is now the Director of Basketball Operations for the Norse.  If you go far enough back in the annuals of Cardinal Couple articles...you'll find an interview I did with her and her Bullitt East head coach Chris Stallings. 

Her Norse leaders after one game are guards Taysha Ruston (11.0) and Mia Jordon (10.0) a game after one game.

NKU participates ni the Horizon League and were picked to finish sixth in it in a preseason coaches poll. The Norse head coach is Jeff Hans and he is starting his second season at NKU.

Laura Ziegler

The Cards are led by St. Joseph transfer Laura Ziegler with 16 points a game. Other Cards in double figures are transfer Skylar Jones and Imari Berry. 

If you can't make it down to the KFC YUM! Center for this one, it is available on the ACCNX and Nick Curran will have the play-by-play on 93.9 FM and 970 AM. Curran returns as the Cards WBB radio play-by-play guy and Sara White handles Internet analysis duties.

Enjoy the game, we'll recap what we saw here at Cardinal Couple tomorrow.

VOLLEYBALL

Cards Volleyball gets the first start of the day for women's squads at Louisville with a 1 p.m. contest at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. .

The VolleyCards are ranked #7 in the latest NCAA DI poll and 19-4 on the season continue ACC play against the Demon Deacons. Wake is 5-8 in conference and 11-13 overall .

This one can be found on ACCNX as well 

The Cards are on a five-game win streak since the Oct 19 five set loss to Pitt and 11-2 in the ACC...good for third place in the conference standings. 

We'll also recap this one in the Monday Cardinal Couple.

paulie

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*********BREAKING NEWS**********

Louisville athletic director Vince Tyra fired Bobby Petrino Sunday morning after a 2-8 start to the season. Here's what he had to say about the move.

“We want to thank Bobby for guiding our football program to some of the better seasons we have had historically at UofL during his two separate tenures here,” Tyra said. “However, at this time we feel the program needs different leadership and we owe it to our student-athletes and fans to get this turned around.”

Tyra had talked throughout the season about his hope for a turnaround under Petrino's leadership. He had said he didn't want to make a change during the season, but events of the last couple of weeks made an immediate decision more necessary.

“I did not have the confidence that it was going to happen next season without a change and it needs to start happening now," Tyra said. "We expect to determine a new head coach soon to restore our football program to national prominence.”

Action Yesterday

Only one sport was in action yesterday, Swimming and Diving was competing in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge up at Purdue in West Lafayette.  This isn't specifically a UofL event, but it truly is an event between the conferences.  Coaches are named for the conference teams, with Arthur Albiero being an Assistant Coach for the ACC squad, and all-star participants are selected from conference schools to compete on behalf of the conference.  11 UofL athletes were picked to compete, a veritable who's who of Cardinals Swimming and Diving with Mariia Astashkina, Sophie Cattermole, Mallory Comerford, Molly Fears, Alina Kendzior and Grace Oglesby on the women's side...nearly all names that have been mentioned here at Cardinal Couple a number of times before.

Perhaps the least frequently mentioned name is Mariia Astashkina, from Moscow, who is competing primarily in the breast stroke in her sophomore season as a Cardinal swimmer.  Five guys are representing the ACC as well, again, mostly names you've heard before if you follow the Swimming and Diving to any significant degree; Marcelo Acosta, Nick Albiero, Andrej Barna, Zach Harting and Evgenii Somov.

After the first day of swimming, the Men are neck and neck with the Big Ten at 85 points, and the ACC at 82.  The women's battle is not as close, with the Big Ten in the lead 123-44.  The event continues today.

Action Today

Rowing is participating in the latest of the wonderfully named rowing events, the Rivanna Romp, in Earlysville, VA.

Men's Soccer is competing at noon for the ACC Championship.  They tangle with North Carolina, in Cary NC.  This matchup is a 4 seed, Louisville, vs the 2 seed Tarheels.  In national rankings, UNC is #4 in the coach's poll, while UofL sits in 10th.  This one gets a bit of a step of from the typical ACC Network Extra and will be on ESPNU.

Also in action today, a bit of an injury depleted UofL Volleyball squad will be taking on Wake Forest at 1 p.m.  This one is available on the ACC Network Extra.

A quick run down on the injuries that we're aware of.  Alexis Hamilton has been out all season, going down with an ACL tear right before the season opener.  Kelly O'Neil has been out for an extended period already with a back injury, details are not known.  And in the past week, Emily Scott and Melanie McHenry have both been either out, or at least on limited playing regimes due to knee injuries (we have a report of a stress fracture for Scott, and a strained patella tendon for McHenry, neither are anything official).  

The positive aspect of this has been that these injuries have been spread around among different positions, hitting an outside hitter, a middle hitter/blocker, and two defensive specialists.  Starting the season, we were commenting on the depth of the team, with discussions about who will get playing time both in the middle between the triumvirate of Jasmine Bennett, Emily Scott, and Piper Roe, and on defensive with what seemed to be the absurdly high number of DSes on the roster.  Jasmine Bennett went out for a bit with a strained abdomen a little while back, but has returned to 100%, only for Emily Scott's sidelining with a knee injury, so we've been glad to have 3 middles that were ready and capable of playing at a D1 volleyball level.

Along with the departure of Maggie Mullen from the team, the injuries at DS have left the team eyeing the remaining DSes closely.  Freshman Mia Stander has stepped up and proven herself capable of taking on the role beyond any shadow of a doubt.  Akela Yuhl, sophomore, has stepped up and filled the role well, and we still have Natalie Palastro who could step into the role as well, so we're still in a good situation for DSes, but I certainly wouldn't want to lose any more to injury.

Today might be a good day to spread some of the playing time around and develop some of those
extra players that have spent time in the wings ready to step up when their number is called.  Wake Forest sits in the bottom quarter of the ACC rankings at 4-11 in conference, 9-18 overall.  Wake has dropped decisions against Air Force, UNC Greensboro, and Ohio University.

The VolleyCards are the lone "fall sport" that we regularly cover that is still in action...with WSOC and Field Hockey finished for the season.

Cardinal Couple Radio Hour

Three of the knuckleheads graced the magnificent media mansion on Mellwood yesterday.  Paulie, Jared, and I held down the fort and had a good discussion where we wrapped up the Field Hockey and Women's Soccer seasons.  And, yes, we even griped a bit about people getting the name of our teams wrong.  We aren't "The Cardinal", that's Stanford, and we aren't "The Lady Cards".

We discussed Volleyball, Women's Basketball, and even had a little bit of fun with Rowing event names.

A special "Thank You" to WCHQ for giving us this great venue to relay the joy and excitement of Louisville women's athletics.  

Catch the replay fun at:

https://www.facebook.com/WCHQfm/videos/2199765830347342/

-- 

JMcA

Tough loss for Field Hockey at Syracuse...Volleyball falls to Wake Forest...Radio Today! -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

FIELD HOCKEY LOSES TO #4 SYRACUSE 2-1

It's always tough to lose on the road...especially when it goes to overtime and the contest is decided on a questionable call that led to a one-on-one penalty stroke for Syracuse.

With about nine minutes in the first overtime...Syracuse was working in the circle when Ayeshia McFerran charged out of the net and accidentally bumped into Syracuse's Laura Hurff. A referee immediately called for a penalty stroke and Lies Lagerweij was awarded the shot (not Hurff). The shot got past McFerran and into the upper left part of the net for the game-ender at the 9:44 mark.  

McFerran's bump did not look intentional...just a stumble where she fell into the back of Lagerweij. Although UofL head coach Justine Sowry had a lengthy talk with the officials about the issue after the contest...

According to the rule book, there are two reasons for a penalty stroke.

1) If a intentional foul is committed on a attacker who is trying to score or has an opportunity to play the ball in the circle.
2) For a foul in the circle that prevents "the probable scoring of a goal".

Neither happened during the play in question. The defender was advancing away from the net, did not have the ball and was certainly in no position to score. It was not an intentional foul either...merely a stumble into the Syracuse player's back. 

The game had Louisville drawing the first score when Minout Mink drove the baseline and fired an unassisted shot past Syracuse goalie Regan Spencer with just 15 seconds left in the first half. Syracuse got the equalizer in the second half...with 17 minutes left in the game. 

McFerran had eight saves in the game...a season high for her. 

The Cards return home to face Iowa Sunday at 1 p.m.

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VOLLEYBALL FALLS TO WAKE FOREST IN FOUR SETS

The University of Louisville Volleyball squad stayed competitive most of the way in a 25-23, 24-26, 23-25, 19-25 loss to Wake Forest Friday night in the KFC YUM! Center...but squandered a 13-7 lead in the pivot-able fourth set to fall to 5-8 on the season and 0-3 in the ACC.

Head coach Anne Kordes on the loss: 

"It is a tough loss and it will be tough to bounce back from. We have to be able to execute under pressure. We worry about each mistake and let it affect our next play." 

Janelle Jenkins had 16 kills for the Cards but Louisville ended up with only a .194 attack average against the Wake Forest Demon Deaconesses (6-8, 2-1).

Jeff and I will discuss it on today's radio show from the Louisville Rowing Red and Black Regatta and he'll have an article here at the site Monday that will analyze the loss and the next game...which is Sunday at the YUM! against Duke.

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RADIO ON THE RIVER

We'll be doing THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR this morning live from Louisville Rowing's Red and Black Rowing Regatta on the Ohio River. Don't worry, we're pretty sure that they're not going to put us on the water participating (I'm bringing my floatie, just in case) but we will have the chance to chat with head coach Derek Copeland and a couple of the student-athletes. 

It should be great fun as we discuss the joy and excitement of UofL athletics with a special emphasis today on the rowing squad! It's a free event and there's food around lunchtime...so come join us and see our new banner! 

Join us at 11 a.m. on WCHQ 100.9 FM or through the WCHQ app. Here's a link to the station website...where you can also listen to the rebroadcast...in case you missed the live feed! 

LINK : REBROADCAST OF OCT. 1st LIVE REMOTE RED AND BLACK REGATTA

paulie
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