A Look into the Weekend -- FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

With the weekend here again that leaves plenty of sports happening for UofL.  We now see a mixture of fall and winter sports clashing.  Here's what's going on:

Friday, Nov. 16

Swimming and diving continues their event up at the Indiana Invite.  Both the women and men are ranked in the Top 10 currently.

Men's basketball will play their third game this season when the host Vermont for a 7:00 p.m., tip-off.  Chris Mack has won his first two games at the reins.

Volleyball hits the road for the final time when the face Notre Dame at 7:00 p.m.  The Cards beat the Irish in five sets earlier this season at Sacred Heart following a power outage on UofL's campus.

Not exactly Louisville related but being played on the Cards FH Trager Field are the NCAA DI Field Hockey semifinals today. North Carolina vs. Wake Forest at 1 p.m. then Maryland and Princeton at roughly 3:30 p.m. The senior All-Star game will be played at 6 p.m. with Louisville's Ayeshia McFerran and Taylor Stone participating.


Saturday, Nov. 17

Swimming and diving will conclude their final day in Bloomington at the Indiana Invite starting in the morning.

Cross Country will be in Madison, Wis., in the NCAA Championships.  Dorcas Wasike won her NCAA Regional event and is hoping to make a statement as a junior.

Football hosts ranked NC State with kickoff set for 12:20 p.m.  With Bobby Petrino and three other members of the coaching staff gone this is the game the team can make a statement that the change is for the better.

Sunday, Nov. 18

Men's Soccer is the only UofL sport playing as they host the second round of the NCAA Tournament after having a first round bye.  They are listed as the 4-seed but converts into one of the four 1-seeds in terms of basketball tournaments.

NCAA Field Hockey Finals at Trager. Our Jared Anderson has been asked to perform the National Anthem on his euphonium. A great honot for our friend, photographer and writer here at Cardinal Couple.

Womens's Basketball

It feels like it's been quite some time since the women's basketball team has played a game.  Their last game was a week ago today when they won at Chattanooga.  Their next pit stop is at Boise State this coming Monday night.

Recently, Sam Purcell and Steph Norman were named to the Top 30 Up-and-Coming Coaches list.  Norman has been with Jeff Walz all 12 years and Purcell joined in 2013.  Louisville is the only school to have two coaches named.  Both coaches have been phenomenal with the Cards and Walz has stated several times how fortunate he is to have both of them on his staff.

Paulie Update

Hi, we finally got our power restored about 6 a.m. Friday morning. Temperature was 43 degrees in the house when the heat kicked back on. You can bet we had the blankets piled high last night.

Thank you for the calls (until my cell died) and offers we got to "hangout" with you where it was warm. I just reminded Sonya it was like when we camped out in a tent at Yellowstone a few years ago. Except there were no buffalo randomly wandering through the campsite, no roaring campfire and no coyotes howling in the background. 

Paulie
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