A TOP SIX VOLLEYBALL MATCHUP BETWEEN STANFORD AND LOUISVILLE
A 5 p.m. matchup (EST) between #4 Stanford and #6 Louisville tomorrow on ESPN will help give you a break from football today..as the two squads match up in Palo Alto in Maples Pavilion.
Just who is Maples Pavilion named after? A guy named Roscoe Maples, who was a part of the 1904 graduation class at Stanford and was the principle donor for the building of the pavilion, which was built in 1969 and renovated in 2006.
The Stanford squad is 12-2 with loses to Texas and Nebraska and wins over Florida, Long Beach State, Oregon State, Missouri, Utah State, UC Davis, Hawaii, Texas State, UCLA, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Notre Dame.
Elia Rubin leads Stanford in kills with 148 and Logan Parks has 401 assists.
Kevin Hamby is the Stanford head coach. he's in his ninth year of coaching there.
Stanford is known as the Cardinal (no "s" on the end) and named after a color (Cardinal red) not a religious figure, bird or a primary or principle entity in various fields.. including mathematics. The program also has a unofficial nickname..."The Trees" and they have a tree mascot, designed by students each year, who dresses for home basketball, football and other home athletic events. They even have "tree week" to celebrate the choosing of the year's mascot .
Can you name five D1 schools with the Cardinals or Cardinal nickname? Answer at the end of today's column
The schools have played each other five times, with Louisville holding a 3-2 advantage. Three of those matches were ln 2024. Louisville won all three in 2024, including their NCAA Elite Eight matchup.
Dan Meske's Cardinals are 10-2 with losses to Kentucky and Texas and wins over Auburn, Morehead State, St.John's, Illinois, Creighton, Northern Iowa, Rice, Western Kentucky, Boston College and California. it should be a fun one and we'll have a review of the match in Monday's Cardinal Couple
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(the five schools that are Cardinals or Cardinal...Louisville, Ball State Lamar University, Catholic University and Wesleyan University (in Connecticut).
Paulie
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