Cards Set to Play at 5:00pm Tomorrow
Louisville softball is set to begin postseason tomorrow. The Cards are the 10-seed in the ACC Tournament and will play 7-seed Virginia tomorrow at 5:00pm.
The path to the ACC Tournament was not easy, especially since only 12 teams out of 15 made the tournament this season following the expansion of the ACC. Three ACC schools currently do not sponsor softball- Miami, Wake Forest, and SMU. UofL faced 1-seed Florida State, 3-seed Virginia Tech, and 4-seed Duke this season. The Cards only played one of the bottom three teams in the conference- Boston College. The other two teams that did not make it our NC State and Syracuse.
The Cards earned the 10-seed with a 9-15 conference record. Florida State (18-3) took the top overall seed with one of their three conference losses coming to Louisville in April. Clemson (19-5) took the second seed, beating out Virginia Tech (18-6) by one game. Duke (16-8) and Stanford (16-8) tied for fourth in the ACC but the Blue Devils won the tiebreaker.
North Carolina (15-9), Virginia (14-10), Georgia Tech (10-11), and California (11-13) took spots 6-9. Behind Louisville in the last two spots are Notre Dame (7-17) and Pitt (7-17).
Georgia Tech and California will kick off the tournament tomorrow morning at 11:00am. Stanford and Pitt will follow suit at approximately 1:30pm. Following a midday break, Louisville and Virginia will begin at 5:00pm, followed by North Carolina and Notre Dame at approximately 7:30pm.
In the event Louisville defeats Virginia, the Cards would advance to face 2-seed Clemson on Thursday.
Louisville played at Virginia in mid-April. The Cards won the first game 6-5 before dropping the final two games 8-2 and 6-0. UofL did not face Clemson this year.
Cardinal Couple will not have any representatives up at host site Boston College, but will provide coverage here on our website.
(Photos by Jared except for ACC bracket)
Happy Tuesday and Go Cards!
Jared
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