Louisville Sits at Second in ACC
When it comes to the point in the season where winning becomes crucial, no one does it better than Jeff Walz. Year after year, Walz and his staff have managed to have this Louisville team starting getting hot in conference play and peak right as tournament time begins.
This year's Louisville team to appears to be trending in that direction... with a few speed bumps. This is the time of the season where we see the first increase in how well Louisville plays. We typically see another jump right about the time tournament time begins.
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Louisville women's basketball has won six straight with all but one of those coming after Christmas break. Not all of those wins have been easy. The Pitt game came down to the wire. Wake Forest took Louisville to overtime. Boston College led in the second half before the Cards pulled away. Georgia Tech tried to rally before the Cards slammed the door shut. But, Louisville won those games.
At the end of the day, a win is a win regardless if it's by one or one hundred. That's what this team is doing. They are finding ways to win.
Louisville currently sits alone in second place in the ACC at 5-1. Only Notre Dame is further ahead at 5-0. There are a handful of other one-loss teams including Duke, California, and NC State. The Wolfpack got the best of Louisville earlier this season. Four of Louisville's wins have come to teams in the ACC with four conference losses or more: Miami, Boston College, Pittsburgh, and Wake Forest. Louisville is playing much better now, than they did when NC State put their beating on them.
The toughest part of the conference schedule is yet to be played with teams like Notre Dame, Duke, and California on the horizon. Louisville will need to find ways to do so, but at least for now a 12-5 overall record and 5-1 mark in the ACC is a good start.
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| Updated ACC standings from ESPN |
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Jared
Walz must be thinking he could have had this team play like this against UK and NCST.
ReplyDeleteNick O
Young teams grow. Walz has a young team once you get past Harris, Russell, Cochran, Curry and Williams. Learning how to incorporate the young talent with these veterans is a slow process -- but he has two "keepers" in Taj and E.
ReplyDeleteCurtis "Brrrrr" Franklin
And Berry, Arenas, Randolph.
DeleteYes agree 💯
DeleteWALZ: "When is it going to be 70 degrees again?"
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DeleteYep, I commented pretty much the same, historically under Walz, that after the December holiday break is usually when his teams get more on the same page. We just got spoiled with those teams that had 3 and 4 year players who waited their turns while playing behind 3 and 4 year players, all the while improving their individual games. Teams that won 15-20 games in a row before losing one because they were ALREADY on the same page. And yep, no doubt this team, come tournament time, will be playing their best💯👍
ReplyDeletePlay maker, make plays Freshman, sophomore, Junior & Senior 💯🏀🏀🏀Go Cards
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