FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
-Volleyball set for rematch with Marquette in Cardinal Arena
-Women's basketball opens regular season vs. Texas A&M
Exciting Friday for University of Louisville women's sports enthusiasts...with volleyball against league leading Marquette and women's basketball taking on the Texas A&M Aggies. Here's the breakdown:
First Place On The Line in Friday Afternoon game against the Golden Eagles
Louisville, Marquette and Notre Dame are tied at the top of the conference standings with 12-1 records. The Cards dealt Marquette their only conference loss back on Oct. 21st. in Milwaukee...winning 3-1.
Game time is 4:30 p.m. Let's hope the VolleyCards can eliminate Marquette in three games...to give fans plenty of time to make the drive from campus to downtown for the basketball game!
#12 Aggies to Test Cards in Friday Night Showdown
A&M bowed out of the NCAA Tournament last year in the Sweet Sixteen...losing to the same Maryland team that sent UofL to the sidelines...81-74.
Probable starters for Gary Blair's squad:
#23 Adrienne Pratcher ( Senior 5'7" G Memphis, TN) She distributed 102 assists for the Aggies last season and averaged 4.5 points and 19 minutes per game.
#33 Courtney Walker ( Freshman 5'8" G Edmond, OK) 2012 McDonald's All-American will test the Cards back court with her excellent shooting and playmaking skills.
#15 Tori Scott ( Sophomore 5'10" G Marrero, LA)
Played in 23 games last year with 0.7 pts. and 4.9 minutes per game. 2011 McDonald's All-American nominee.
#5 Kristi Bellock ( Senior 6'1" F St. Rose, LA)
Started last year against Cards. Played in 28 games with 0.9 points and 6.1 minutes per contest.
Named 2012 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Started career at South Carolina where she was 2009 SEC leading rebounder and 2010 Second Team SEC. 11.9 points and 6.9 rebounds last year for A&M.
Head coach Gary Blair begins his 28th. season as a head coach, 11 of them at Texas A&M. Like Louisville, the Aggies will be tested early in the non-conference schedule...with games against Penn State, UConn and Marquette in November and TCU, USC and Kansas State in December.
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Should be an action-packed affair in the KFC YUM! Center tonight. Tickets still available for the game and showing a Kroger Plus card will get you in for $2.
Let's pack the YUM! tonight for this tough contest and give the Cards a full house for their opener. Tip-off is 7 p.m. and it'll be broadcast on 790 WKRD AM radio in Louisville and WHAS TV 11-2 Digital...as well as on Insight-432, Comcast-207 and CARDS TV. For $2 bucks, though...we suggest you see this one live and in person. Gonna be a good one. UofL has designated tonight's game as a "red out"...so put the leisure suit and polyester dress shirt back in the closet (unless they're red...and I want a picture for the site if they are...) We'll be back later tonight with a recap of both volleyball and basketball...
GO CARDS!
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The permutations for the Big East regular season championship are hard to figure out, so let's look at them quickly.
ReplyDeleteTonight's matches are UofL vs Marquette, and Notre Dame vs Cincinnati. Cincinnati would do us a *really* big favor if they were to somehow upset Notre Dame...though that's pretty unikely. If they do, however, that means UofL controls its own destiny for the outright championship. If we beat MU and then Cincy, we're one loss, and everyone else is at least two losses.
If, however, Cincy goes down to defeat both time this weekend, which is likely, the only way for us to get the championship outright is to beat MU and then have MU beat ND...that's reasonably likely as that would be a repeat of how the previous matches in the season went down. If ND beat MU, then that leaves ND and us as co-champions, with MU in third.
If, heaven forbid, we lose to MU, then we need ND to beat MU, and Cincy to beat ND in order to maintain the current 3-way tie.
So, in addition to cheering for UofL, we need to cheer for Cincinnati tonight. If ND beats them as they're expected to, then in addition to cheering for UofL on Sunday vs Cincy, we need to cheer for MU over ND.
I think I got all of that straight.
Regardless, #GoCards!
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Jeff
Unfortunate that both Volleyball and Basketball start at noon Sunday. I have become a big volleyball fan, but nothing keeps me away from basketball.
ReplyDeleteUgly win tonight, but we'll take it. What a game by Sara Hammond!
My family is splitting up for the Sunday events.
DeleteQuite exciting for both events tonight.
Cincinnati almost gave us the gift against Notre Dame...they went to 5 sets before ND won it.