The University of Louisville women’s basketball team hosted the first two rounds of the 2026 NCAA tournament at the YUM Center. Louisville beat Vermont on Saturday and outlasted Alabama on Monday. Here is the game recap for the first round game and feature photos. Link to full game photo galleries are below feature photos. Vermont…
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The 2021-2022 Louisville men’s basketball season is about to tip off. The Cards enter the season with a new-look coaching staff, a new-look offense, and expectations to make the field of 64 and win some tournament games. With that being said, each home game at the KFC Yum! Center this season will have a special…
Denny Crum helped make Louisville Men’s Basketball into a true blue blood power. While they had legendary players and coaches such as Wes Unseld and Peck Hickman, it was Coach Crum who made Louisville into a multi-time NCAA champion and one of the premier programs in college basketball. His legacy in Louisville Athletics is deeply…
CardinalSportsZone.com contributor, CSZ Podcast co-host, and StateOfLouisville.com personality Dalton Pence got to live out a life-long dream today. His voice reverberated throughout the KFC Yum! Center as he was tonight’s PA announcer for the game between Duquesne and UNCG. According to video provided by his pops and the footage from tonight’s game, he did amazing….
With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging, college basketball looked to an idea from their pro brethren with several bubble events for the early non-conference schedule. Louisville, and specifically the KFC Yum! Center, were chosen as one of the sites. Slowly, names of teams were added until 9 were tentatively agreed on. Now, it’s all official…
Louisville Athletics announced a tentative plan to have fans in the KFC Yum! Center this season. According to the press release, which you can read below, UofL will be allowed 15 percent capacity or approximately 3,000 fans per game at the Yum Center. This capacity includes both men’s and women’s basketball games. The 15 percent…
Could the Yum! Center host a NBA playoff series this year? It seems it could at least be a possibility. In this article from Rick Bozich of WDRB, it states that “A report in the New York Post included Louisville, along with Las Vegas, the Bahamas, Orlando, Atlantic City and Hawaii as candidates for what…
The Louisville Men’s Basketball seniors (plus Jordan Nwora) were honored before Sunday’s game against Virginia Tech. Fans bid farewell to 6 players and then had to take on a struggling VT team. Both teams started very slowly, but Louisville was able to pull away for a 68-52 victory, their 24th win of the year. Louisville…
No. 5 Louisville rolled to a 70-53 win over Virginia Tech on Senior Day at the KFC Yum! Center on Sunday afternoon. Seniors, Jazmine Jones, Kylee Shook, Bionca Dunham, Jessica Laemmle and Yacine Diop were all honored prior to tipoff. With the victory, the Cards conclude the regular season at 27-3 and 16-2 in ACC…
Senior Day is a very special day for UofL senior basketball players. It’s their final home game wearing the Cardinal colors and a chance for them to say goodbye to the home crowd and for the home crowd to say goodbye to them. In honor of the 6 seniors who will be playing their last…
The Cards welcomed an atypical North Carolina team to the Yum! Center on Saturday afternoon. UNC came into the game with a 10-16 record and they announced their second leading scorer would not be playing against Louisville. The Cards took advantage of UNC’s misfortune and grabbed a 77-55 victory. Jordan Nwora posted a double-double, with…
Louisville returned to the Yum! Center on Wednesday after losing two games on the road. They took on a Syracuse team that was desperate for a good win. Louisville switched up the starting line-up and went into halftime with a seven point lead. In the end Louisville dominated the Orange and finished with a 90-66…
Louisville Men’s Basketball fell out of the top 10 this week in both polls after dismal performances against two lowly teams. The Cards lost on the road to Georgia Tech and Clemson. After coming off a huge victory over rival Virginia, things were looking quite good. However, the team came out with two uninspired performances…
The Louisville Men’s Basketball team was able to break the losing streak to Virginia on Saturday. That also meant that the Cards current win streak increased to 10 games. Louisville scored more against Virginia than any other team this season. And they needed all of those points, as Virginia reached their highest point total of…
Louisville returned home from their 2 game road trip to take on Wake Forest. Wake came into the game with a losing record, but they went into halftime with a 12 point lead over the Cards. The Cards allowed Wake to shoot 60% in the first half, but held them to only 30% shooting in…
The Louisville Cardinals handed the struggling Notre Dame Fighting Irish a 30-point loss in an 86 – 54 contest. The depleted Irish fall to 7 – 14 on the season. This is arguably the worst season for Notre Dame under head coach Muffet McGraw. A season ago, the Irish were the National Runner Up in…
The Cards continued league play on Saturday, as they hosted the Clemson Tigers. Louisville started with one of their best halves of the season and went in to the locker room with a 21 point lead. The Cards did not play as well in the second half and Clemson actually ended up outscoring Louisville by…
The Cards returned home after their defeat of Duke to take on Georgia Tech. Tech came in with a losing record, but they gave the Cards all that they could handle. Louisville was able to survive a late run with some clutch free throws and come away with a 68-64 victory. Louisville was led by…
Louisville Men’s Basketball has won 3 straight games and a huge reason they have won their last two is the emergence of freshman G David Johnson. The Louisville native has played two great games off the bench for Coach Chris Mack’s squad. Against Pittsburgh, the 6’5 Johnson scored 11 points, grabbed 3 rebounds, and dished…
Louisville Men’s Basketball is on a 3 game winning streak and are starting to look like the Final Four contender we all believed they would be. They just played 3 straight on the road and beat everyone in their path beginning with Notre Dame the Saturday before last. This past week, they defeated a game…