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| Who will dance with me? I dance in March ! |
Louisville, who is now 21-3 with a 10-2 conference record, has been without Elizabeth Balogun and Norika Konno the past two games. Konno has recovering from a knee injury that occurred during the Team USA game. Balogun has been with the Nigerian National Team as they try to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.
I fully support the team's decision to allow Balogun to play with her home country. In my opinion, having the opportunity to represent your home country in the Olympics is way more important and a much higher honor than a pair of regular season games. Assuming Louisville has no major collapse the rest of the year the Cards will still be dancing in March and should host I dance in the first two rounds.
South Carolina remained #1 in the country and rightfully so. The Gamecocks continued to prove their worth after controlling UConn from the start in a Top Five match-up last night.
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| Ms. Wuf definitely can dance |
Mississippi State moved up to #6, UCLA jumped up to #7, Stanford dropped to #8, and Maryland broke into the Top 10 in the final spot.
Florida State is the only other ACC team in the rankings at #14.
Louisville (10-2) and NC State (11-1) will meet on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., for a showdown to decide who will take the prime spot in the ACC. A win will give the Cards the head-to-head tiebreaker with five games to go while a loss will set them two games back and just barely ahead of FSU.
ACC Tournament Pick Em
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| Hoping for no busted brackets dance |
As is tradition, we will be having our Cardinal Couple ACC Tournament Pick Em. Each correct pick in each round is worth one point. Whoever has the most right at the end wins. What the prize will be will be announced by Paulie himself later on.
Paulie will have an interview with Coach Teeter and perhaps a player or two tomorrow. They will discuss their match against Cincinnati as well as look at their upcoming matches at home on Saturday (vs. Denver) and on Monday (vs. Marquette). .
Jeff Walz should be having his weekly press conference this week, which I assume Paulie will attend. It is not a special one to discuss the two recent losses but I assume that will be a large topic of the presser. Walz will also look at the upcoming games against NC State and Notre Dame.
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Paulie has pre-arranged to have a "Teeter Talk" at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, and will endeavor to meet with him and selected Lacrosse student-athletes throughout the season (when Paulie isn't out of town). Walz is fond of Wednesday pressers, too, so we hope the time frame works out where he can get both interviews here. I wouldn't be surprised, if a time conflict occurs, that he goes with Lacrosse.
Walz seemingly prefers the bright lights and TV cameras for his audience. We don't have an "in" there, nor the money or backing to do that.
Toss in a "in the works" request to meet with softball's Holly Aprile before the team takes off to Chapel Hill for the ACC/Big 10 Challenge this weekend and our fearless leader has a busy few days ahead of him, tracking down the joy and excitement of Louisville women's sports.
Happy Tuesday and Go Cards!
Jared
Good points, David, and good to hear from you. It is a basic game. Time to get back to basics.
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Coming in with the heat, Dave O! I hear ya, big dog. Let's tear off that mirror and hope these women can resume to solid, basic hoops. Too much talent here for anything else. We may take another loss Thursday but I'm looking for improved performance, too, W or L.
ReplyDeleteCurtis "Let's go win" Franklin
NC St. licking their chops at a slumping Cards WBB team coming to town. I can't see UofL winning down there, much less getting within 10 points, unless Walz and the staff have performed a miracle in practices.
ReplyDeleteBalogun back won't help. i wonder if Asia, Arica and Sam would help, at this point.
Nick O
Again, Balogun AND Diop will most certainly help. This is one game where we could definitely use their size, as they're both good rebounders, their offense, and their defense. One or the other needs to be on the court. They usually rotate between them.
DeleteAC AC love that LA YOUNG LADY.HA HA LOL😂😂😂
DeleteAnything can happen this year in the ACC. Would I be surprised if the Cards win it at NC State. Not at all.
DeleteI agree with just about everything you say, Dave, except, missing Balogun AND Diop not up to par mattered enough for Syracuse and Florida St. to beat us. Yes, we need for the next man up to step up, except we don't have anyone capable of doing all the things those two do. We needed at least one of them at full strength. Going forward if we didn't have them, gives Walz a little more time to come up with a master plan, play around with rotation, tweak this or that, but hopefully, he won't have to, Balogun and Diop should be ready to go come Thursday night. I definitely like our chances better at NC St with them😁
ReplyDeleteAnd for the record, I'm saying this is a winnable game despite the two game losing streak, and despite how good NC St is. We are STILL a top team and we SHOULD be just as hungry as NC St will be, chomping at the bits to right the ship and get back on track.
ReplyDeleteStill gonna be a top team EVEN if we so happen to lose, also.
A conference road loss to a now top 5 team...
All I can say is, Go Card's beat the Wolf Pack.
ReplyDeleteLet's go Cardinals! Let's go Cardinals!
You're a stinking genius Watson! Why aren't you coaching?
ReplyDeleteI think we all want UofL WBB to win Thursday. Walz has a presser scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. It'll be interesting to see how he spins tomorrow's talk. And, I'll be able to do both Walz and Teeter's interviews. A win, already.
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I have to wonder why Walz didn't use Lockhart and Dixon more to counter the Syracuse bigs and get the starters up front more of a rest? They're never going to learn on the bench. I know, I'm second-guessing Walz, and that's usually not a good thing, but --
ReplyDeleteBlue Lou
Dave, normally I agree with about everything you say. Disagree today on two points which is no biggie.
ReplyDelete1. You said FL St, Syracuse and NC State rough three games. Not really. Fl State lost at home to BC. Fl St looks like they have no clue half their games. Syracuse definitely this year is abysmal offensively. That team has zero chemistry and is a snore to watch.
2. Yes Walz IQ comment about his team is correct. His team does not have a good b-ball IQ. Without mentioning names, collectively they are average mentally and Walz knows it.
Just one of those years where the talent is slightly overrated and the IQ doesn’t make up for it.