SHONI, ANGEL TOP THE ALL-TIME UOFL WBB LIST.
We have been running a poll in June here at CARDINAL COUPLE to see who your All-Time, top eight UofL WBB players are. We chose the number eight because felt that most great teams always had a few backups that could come in off the bench and give a championship team a spark.
Here are your results. We have listed the years the player played and the percentage of votes they received also.
1. (tie) Shoni Schimmel (2010-14) 100%
1. (tie) Angel McCoughtry (2005-2009) 100%
3. Jazz Covington (2003-07) 80%
4. Candyce Bingham (2007-09) 77%
5. Monique Reid (2008-13) 66%
6. Nell Knox (1990-93) 62%
7. Valerie Owens (1977-80) 48%
8. Asia Taylor (2009-14) 34%
Just missing was Antonita Slaughter (2010-14) with 32%.
A good mix of players are represented here. Five of the eight got drafted by the WNBA and two are still playing in the league. Five of the top eight played in a National Championship game. The top four scorers in UofL WBB history are represented in the list.
Since there was a tie for top vote grabber...I suppose the question still remains on who was the best WBB player at Louisville of all time?
Both Shoni and Angel were unique in what they did here in their four years. I did a very unofficial polling yesterday of five people I know and asked them who they thought was #1.
Angel won....4-1.
Thanks for taking part in the poll! Let us know what you think of this "Great Eight". How would it do in a fictitious game against a great eight from Kentucky? Or UConn or Notre Dame? How many on this Louisville great eight would make an All-Time great eight of NCAA WBB players since 1975?
And....should we do it again in 2018 or 2019 once the college careers of a few current UofL WBB players has ended?
paulie
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Louisville WBB travels to Clemson
Louisville WBB looks to stay in the hunt for the ACC top spot tonight with a trip to the Littlejohn Arena tonight to face the Clemson Tigers.
(No, the arena was not named after Robin Hood's running mate, the Louisville pawn shop owner or the rapper Lil' Jon. We'll check and see if Friar Tuck and Maid Marion show up, though..)
Not much fight left in these southern kitties these days...Clemson has lost ten in a row and is tied for basement dweller in the ACC with Virginia Tech and Wake Forest with a 1-10 conference record.
Despite the losing ways, the Tigers could put an exclamation mark on an otherwise dismal season by upsetting the visiting Cards tonight. Louisville will need to keep an eye on 5'10" senior wing Nikki Dixon...who leads the felines in scoring with 15.5 a game. She went 11 for 11 from the charity stripe in a 89-60 loss last time out.
Other dangers exist in Tiffany Lewis (8.6 ppg) and Shelbie Davenport (8.4 ppg). Chelsea Lindsay has 22 blocked shots for the Paws. Lindsay is only 5'6"...
One noticeable name absent from the Clemson roster is Charmaine Tay. She began her career as an All-American high school guard at Louisville. Ruled academically ineligible after her sophomore year, Tay transferred to Clemson. She did not return this season to the Tigers...preferring to pursue her musical talents. She records under the name Maineyy. You can check out her song "Vent" on YouTube.
Interesting stuff...
It would take a monumental collapse of all facets that are Louisville basketball to give this one away tonight. Clemson ranks at the bottom in 12 of the 21 major statistics used to track basketball. The Cards do need to get past one of those aggravating slow starts that they occasionally display and some timely three point shooting wouldn't hurt tonight from Mariya Moore and Jude Schimmel.
In the series history, Clemson leads 3-0. They last downed the Cards back in 1993 out in Las Vegas in the UNLV Showboat Shootout. Bud Childers was coaching the Cards back then and Nell Knox, Gwen Doyle, Kelly Rose, Jody Martin and Kristin Maddox were leading a team that won the 1993 Metro Conference Championship.
Clemson averages a little less than 1000 for their home games. With Louisville in town, that number might increase. The Tigers took it on the chin during the non-conference schedule...falling 99-41 to South Carolina and 69-28 to Middle Tennessee. In the ACC, Notre Dame beat them 74-36. Florida State and Miami have 30 point wins.
This one will be available for free viewing on the internet. Go to the ClemsonTigers.com website and watch it on TigerCast. We'll try to watch it there and listen to Matt Andrew and AJ call it on the Cards Radio WKRD 790 AM and see how the two platforms sync up.
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Ready for your five minute cardio workout? Get up and dance on this one...Uptown Funk Mark Ronson and a lot of UofL faces you'll recognize...link below
GET UP AND DANCE WITH THE CARDINALS !!!
paulie
