The Louisville women’s basketball team dominated in Lexington this weekend and moved on to the Final Four in Columbus, OH. Louisville beat Oregon St. 76-43 in the Elite Eight with a performance that looked like they were ready to compete for a championship. Check out the full recap: Louisville’s Quickness Stuns Oregon State, Cardinals Head To…
Month: March 2018
Welcome back to This Week In Cardinal Athletics ladies and gentlemen, now without wasting any time, let’s jump right into it! Women’s Golf Our women’s golf team placed 8th out of 12 at the Evans Derby Experience last week, with Lauren Hartlage leading the Cards with 2-under par for the event, tying for 17th place…
The Louisville Cardinals are Columbus bound for the Women’s Final Four!! Check out the player’s reactions post celebration!!
A pair of Louisville Cardinals have earned AP All-American honors. Junior guard, Asia Durr, was named an AP First Team All-American – becoming only the second Louisville player to earn the honor. Angel McCoughtry was Louisville’s first First Team All-American in 2009. While Hines-Allen was named a Third Team All-American. The selection marks the first…
Vince Tyra came into an impossible situation back in September but won over everyone by his class, transparency and showing the UofL fanbase how deep his love for the university is. Today, he finally had that interim tag removed. The University of Louisville's Board of Trustees' personnel committee recommended to the full board that the…
Lexington, KY — The top-seeded Louisville Cardinals dominated the Lexington Regional to earn a spot in the Women’s Final Four. Junior guard, Asia Durr, was named the Lexington Regions Most Outstanding Player, while Sam Fuehring, Arica Carter and Myisha Hines-Allen were named to the All-Region team. Despite his team’s amazing season, Louisville head coach Jeff…
The Louisville Cardinals are headed to the Final Four!! After a complete domination of sixth-seeded Oregon State, the Cardinals will head to Columbus, Ohio to face the winner of the Mississippi State/UCLA game.
UConn is “bad for women’s basketball.” Geno Auriemma is a “bully.” It reads like an angry second grader wrote it. But, here we are… Again. A number of articles have been published recently claiming Connecticut is the problem with women’s basketball. One article went so far to say that the Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma…
Louisville women’s basketball continued their march towards a championship with a third round victory over Stanford in Lexington on Friday night. Click Here for full recap. Couldn’t make it to the game? We got you covered from both ends of the court. Here is another great photo gallery from Jeff Nunn & TJ Barr from…
The day before the NBA Dunk Contest, the Utah Jazz called and offered to pay for Darrell Griffith to come out and watch. While Dr. Dunkenstein couldn’t accept because it was so short notice, he was shocked to see that Donovan Mitchell was wearing his jersey during the contest. It made his evening. Marc Spears…
Lexington, KY — The top-seeded Louisville Cardinals are moving on to the Elite Eight after defeating the Stanford Cardinal, 86 – 59. The fourth-seeded Stanford Cardinal, led by legendary head coach Tara VanDerveer, came into its 11th consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance motivated. It was also Stanford’s third straight appearance in the Lexington Regional. The last…
Tim Sullivan with the Courier Journal reported that it seems like all signs are pointing towards Tyra getting named as the permanent AD sooner rather than later. ULAA board member Bill Stone says “unless Superman comes in from Krypton, I can’t see who can be better than Vince.” Hopefully we will find out early this coming…
On the morning of Louisville’s Sweet Sixteen matchup, The Players’ Tribune released a post that junior guard, Asia Durr penned. The Douglasville, Georgia native talked about the fun she’s had with her family – like when she dunked on her older brother when she was in eighth grade. But, she also talked about serious family…
For months, Chris Mack has been the name atop the UofL list for candidates for the head coaching job. This weekend, the first step in that becoming possible , takes place. Chris Mack himself has confirmed this to a USA Today network reporter in Cincinnati. Tyra said in his press conference yesterday his goal is…
David Padgett is not a hall of fame coach but, like Batman to Gotham, he was exactly what Louisville needed him to be. “I’m whatever Gotham needs me to be.” – Batman He willingly accepted the head coaching position at a program that was in complete turmoil. Some media outlets went as far as to…
After UofL’s NIT loss, UofL players were asked by a host of reporters about their futures. Though none of them provided definitive answers about their futures, they did provide some clues. Ray Spalding and Deng Adel were 2 players that provided some definitive answers. Both players advised they are going to test the NBA waters,…
The final game of the 2017-2018 season took place on a snowy Tuesday night in March. The fans came out in force to show their support for the team and the coaching staff that have been through the ringer this season. Anas and Q played their final game in a Louisville uniform and got the…
David Padgett was officially told that the University of Louisville will be going in a different direction with their coaching search. While this was expected, it does not mean it makes it easier to hear. David Padgett stepped up and did the absolute best he could with a situation that was nearly doomed from the…
Donovan Mitchell continues to shine in the NBA. He is currently on the cover of SLAM Magazine and he looks mighty comfortable in the spotlight. He talks in the interview with Adam Figman that he knows that all of this can be taken from him in a flash, so he is not letting it get…
After 20 games, U of L currently sits at 16-4, alternating between wins and losses in its last five games. The Cardinals started 14-0, becoming the last undefeated team in Division I baseball for the second season in a row. They managed to take a weekend series against North Carolina and split the weekday series…