Lady Cards roll again ...97-43 over SEMO

- 5 in double figures in 54 point UofL win.

-Volleyball advances in BIG EAST tournament.

If University of Louisville women's basketball fans are getting a bit spoiled...one can hardly blame them. For the second time in three days, Jeff Walz's juggernaut jolts another visitor to the KFC YUM! Center by 50+.

The Cards sprinted out to a 16-0 lead in the first five minutes of tonight's contest and led by Tia Gibbs 3-3 perfection from the three point line...scooted to a 52-19 halftime lead.

Different night, same style. Louisville utilized the transition game and hard nosed defense to force SEMO into 14 1st half turnovers and managed nine steals in the first twenty minutes. Once again, Walz tried a variety of combinations and all 12 players that dressed tonight saw at least 4 minutes of court time in the first half. Monique Reid entered the halftime locker room with 12 points, Gibbs 11 and LaToya Johnson seven...that included a buzzer beater three from well beyond the trifecta arc as time ran out in the first stanza.

Charmaine Tay did not dress for this evening's contest...suffering from a cold and remaining in the locker room.

The Cards maintained the pressure to begin the second half...going on a 28-9 run in the first 10 minutes to hold a commanding 80-28 advantage. From that point, Walz emptied the bench again and all but Shelby Harper put points in the scorebook for the 97-43 victory.

It was Harper who got the largest crowd reaction of the evening when she drained a jumper with less than a minute to go but had it waived off by one of the referees...who called a charging foul instead on the diminutive guard. The crowd, anxious for the Cards to top 100 points for the second game in a row, howled in dismay about the whistle. A missed Antonita Slaughter three was the final attempt to hit the century mark and Louisville settled for 97 points and a 54 point win.

Reid led all scorers with 16 points and Keisha Hines got her first double/double of the year with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Tia Gibbs finished with 13, Sherrone Vails and Antonita Slaughter had 10 points each. All Cardinals played at least 7 minutes in the blowout.

Louisville out rebounded the Red Hawks 48-25 and forced 25 turnovers. The Cards nabbed 19 steals and shot 56.4% for the game. Louisville went 7-19 from the three point arc and 28-38 from the charity stripe. SEMO was led by Bailie Roberts nine points and seven rebounds.

POST GAME

Coach Walz was pleased in general with the effort of his team this evening and alluded to the fact that the Lady Cards seem to get a little better each time out. He commented that the Cards reached their pre-game goal of 35 deflections but fell short of keeping SEMO from getting less than 10 offensive rebounds (they had 11). He was also looking for more than 25 created turnovers..the Cards forced the Red Hawks into 25 exactly...so after a day off tomorrow, he indicated that "they'd run" for failing to hit two of their goals.

-He also chuckled when he was asked if Louisville was running a "dribble drive" offense.

"You can't drive the ball unless you dribble it. Otherwise, they blow a whistle on you for travelling. We dribble drive every possession, I guess. Everyone does."

-Walz on the aspect of ever getting an Angel McCoughtry type player again:

"We certainly hope to...but Angel was pretty unique in what she could do. If we could get three players that combined equalled one Angel...I'd settle for that."

The road gets a little tougher next week for the Lady Cards. Three straight on the road, beginning with a Tuesday tussle against #6 Xavier. The Cards travel to dangerous Old Dominion for a Friday night game and complete the road swing Nov. 29th. against Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne.

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Louisville Volleyball advanced in the first round of the BIG EAST Volleyball Tournament in Pittsburgh Friday evening against Seton Hall. The Cards took the match 3-1, winning 25-17, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21. Lola Arslanbeckova had 25 kills for Louisville, who will face Marquette next on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

Louisville jumped out to an early lead in the first match but saw Seton Hall rally to get within four at 17-13. The Cards then went on a 6-0 run and held on to win by eight. In game two, the Pirates...

(excuse me while I chuckle at the visual of a bunch of Pirates playing volleyball..."ARRGHHH, Matey...It's yer serve!")

...rallied in game two to top Louisville by three. Louisville had drawn close at 23-20 but two straight hits misplayed by the Cards ended the match.

After the break, Louisville jumped out 5-0 and led 9-6 but saw Seton Hall roll back and climb within one at 23-22. Anastasia Artemeva slammed home a kill at 24-23 for the win. The final was in Louisville favor all the way...the Cards leading 17-8. Seton Hall did manage to climb within three at 21-18 but the Cards held on for the four point win.

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Football Cards vs. West Virginia today at noon. Wear your black and let's make sure that PJCS isn't "almost heaven" fo the invading Eers. Get the ball to Bilal.

Cards rack up honors in Field Hockey and Volleyball

FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE:

-Field Hockey puts four on All-West region team

-Volleyball gets five on All-BIG EAST team

-Preview of the UofL vs. SEMO women's basketball game

-Football Cards host WVU

Welcome to the weekend! We're glad you made it! Shoni Schimmel (pictured here with her sister Jude) hopes you have as much fun at the Lady Cards basketball game tonight against SEMO as she is having in this candid.

Nicloe Youman and Hayley Turner have been selected to participate on the 1st Team National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division 1 West Region team. Fellow teammates Rachel Hollenbach and Tuli Lim were placed on the 2nd team. All are seniors except Turner.

Youman was the Offensive Player of the Year in the BIG EAST and holds the Louisville school record for season and career assists. She, Hollenbach, Turner were All-BIG EAST selections and Lim was selected to the All Big East Tournament team with them.

The Flock (13-7, 5-1) narrowly missed getting an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament despite being ranked as high as sixth during the season and being in the top ten for six weeks.

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It's BIG EAST Volleyball Tournament time and Louisville had five Cards selected to the All-Conference teams. Lola Arsenbeckova made the 1st team and Emily Juhl, Taylor Brauneis, Gwen Rucker and Amanda Simmons were selected for the 2nd team. Arsenbeckova is a sophomore, Simmons a senior, Rucker a junior and Juhl and Brauneis is a freshmen. Louisville drew the second seed for the event in Pittsburgh and will await 1st round action to see who their opening opponent will be in the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals and semifinal matches will be shown free at http://www.bigeast.org/ and ESPNU will televise the finals on Sunday.

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Southeastern Missouri State visits the KFC YUM Center for women's basketball tonight against the Lady Cards. It'll be your last chance to catch Walz's bunch at home until Dec. 2nd. SEMO (1-2) comes into the game following a home opener loss to Northern Iowa on Wednesday 70-57. The Cards (2-1) romped Houston Baptist Wednesday in the YUM 100-34.

The RedHawks are expected to be a contender for the Ohio Valley Conference title this year and the team from Cape Girardeau, Missouri is led by 6'1" soph. forward Brittany Harrel and 5'7" junior guard Bianca Beck. Juco transfer Karley Evans, a 5'9" junior guard collected eleven points in the loss Wednesday and 5'10" forward/guard Ballie Roberts is one of several dangerous long distance shooter. The RedHawks rely on speed and quickness to get it done, so they'll try to turn this one into a track meet...since their size doesn't come anywhere close to Louisville's.

For Walz's crew...it'll hopefully be a repeat of the transition game and defensive dominance that they displayed against Houston Baptist. Expect the Cards to once again play many different combinations and all 13 players if they are able to gain an early advantage on the Red Hawks.

It's a directional school. Although the remote possibility of a "trap game" scenario does exist, WE at CARDINAL COUPLE aren't very worried and think the Cards will put on another fun display of steals, three pointers, creating Red Hawk turnovers and running the transition game for layups.

WAZOO Sports network will televise the contest and Jim Kelch and Paul Sanderford will handle the radio duties on WKRD 790 AM/101.7 FM. Tip off is 7 p.m.

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Louisville football hosts the West Virginia Mountaineers Saturday at noon in Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Charlie Strong's guys need one more win to become bowl eligible. WVU has won 10 out of the 12 lifetime meetings between the schools and already has 6 wins on the season. Louisville will have their hands full with the speedy running backs in the Mountaineer stable and WE don't expect the Cards to defend their home turf successfully. Make it WVU 33- Louisville 17. WE hope we're wrong...Play huge, defense.

Kickoff is at noon.

Houston? Lady Cards have no problem...100-34

THURSDAY @ C.C.



-LADY CARDS roll past Houston Baptist 100-34.


Maybe they made Louisville mad by scoring the first two points of the game.


A jumper by Mele Leasau gave Houston Baptist University a 2-0 lead twenty six seconds into the Wednesday night contest between HBU and Louisville.

The Huskies would not score again until the clock showed 12 minutes to go in the first half. In the meantime, Louisville rolled off 26 straight points en route to a 57-26 first half lead.


Jeff Walz played all 13 Cardinals for at least 3 minutes in the first half. In a dizzying display of rebounding, steals, layups and transition basketball...the actual combination of Cardinals on the court really didn't matter...Louisville got the ball and scored. Especially Monique Reid. 16 of her 18 points came in the first twenty minutes of the game...mostly on layups and put backs. Shoni Schimmel and Antonita Slaughter preferred a little more difficult task...they nailed 5 out of the 6 three pointers they attempted in the first half and seven Cardinals scored in the organized blitzkrieg that the Cards delivered in the first half.


The run and gun continued after the Ladybirds entertained the halftime crowd (generously announced as 6466 in attendance.) The Lady Cards went on a 17-0 run to begin the final twenty minutes. Houston Baptist finally got on the board at the 12:10 mark but would manage only 8 points in the final stanza.


A Charmaine Tay three with 42 seconds in the game got the Cards to the century mark and by then Walz had Tay, LaToya Johnson, Rachel Story, Polly Harrington and Sherrone Vails (four of the freshmen) in the game to await the final buzzer.


Vails and Reid led Louisville in scoring with 18 points each. Keisha Hines added 12, Shoni Schimmel's 11 came all in the first half and Tia Gibbs' 10 points rounded out the double figure scorers. Asia Taylor grabbed 10 rebounds..leading the Cards on the boards and narrowly missed a double-double with nine points. All 13 Cardinals played and only Story and Shelby Harper failed to get in the scoring column.


This was the blowout most expected. Most impressive in the stats was that Louisville dished out 25 assists (Schimmel with 5) and committed only 12 turnovers. Louisville scored 49 points off turnovers...allowing Houston only six points off miscues.

The road gets a little harder Friday night when South East Missouri State comes to the KFC YUM! Center. For the record, the 100 points scored marked the 11th. time in Lady Cards history that they've reached the century mark and first time under Jeff Walz. The 66 point margin of victory is third largest of all time.

POST GAME COMMENTS:

Monique Reid on Coach Walz's challenge:

"He challenged us this game. They (Houston Baptist) couldn't score more than 38 points. We knew we could hold them. We held them to two points for ten minutes. Over thirty turnovers. They had 33."

Reid on the defense:

"On our defense there's really no way you can get easy layups. You have to beat us from shooting way out on the court...because we're pressuring the ball. It's a really cool defeense and I'm glad he (Walz) put it in.We caught on to it quick and it's a lot easier than playing man to man. It's like a match up zone...but we're helping out a lot . A lot of pressure with the back line working really hard."

Antonita Slaughter on her performance:

"It was a really good game for me. The Tennessee game I really didn't too too much. Tonight I got a chance to show a little bit what I can do.

On what the team learns from a blow out win:

"It's really not who we play. We just have to go hard, no matter who we play."

Jeff Walz on the rotation:

"We're doing a really good job of trying to get players as many minutes as we can. Eventually, I'm not going to be able to play Monique just 15 minutes. She'll need to play the minutes like she played in the Tennessee game (32). The important thing is that I've got to be able to get Antonita Slaughter and Asia Taylor minutes at the "4" slot. With the loss of Shawnta' Dyer, we have to find someone who can get in there and rebound for us. I thought Asia did a really nice job of rebounding tonight (10 grabs) and Antonita (5 boards) in rebounding tonight."

Walz on the focus:

"I'm pleased with our depth. We've really got some kids who can play. Shelby Harper played eleven minutes tonight. She played 40 minutes a game last year and did well. Shoni Schimmel...she's played really well the last five halves this year. The first half of the Tennessee game was rough but she's played extremely well since then."

Pitino's Cards upset Butler

WEDNESDAY @ CARDINAL COUPLE:

-Buckles leads Cards to win over Butler

-UConn holds on against Baylor

-Lady Cards Weds. Night in the YUM

Plenty to smile about Tuesday evening in the KFC YUM! Center...

The University of Louisville's men's basketball team rolled past Butler 88-73 in a game that can best be described as exciting in the first half and boring in the second half. The Cards were on fire early and jumped out to an 8-0 lead. It was loud in the YUM...as loud as I've ever heard ANY arena and quite an electric atmosphere. Louisville played like a top twenty team against the 16th ranked Bulldogs for the first twenty minutes and took a 18 point lead into the locker room at the half.

Then came the second half. Frankly, it was long, boring, full of fouls and turnovers...but the Cards managed to hold on to the lead.. despite several Butler runs that got them within 11 a couple of times...and pull the upset in front of a capacity house. Matt Howard was the main highlight for the Bulldogs. after a 2 point first half..he exploded on the Cards in the final twenty. Shelvin Mack carried Butler in the first 20 minutes....how did this Lexington kid get away from Kentucky and Louisville?

-Rakeem Buckles can shoot the three. Who knew? He led the Cards with 17 points tonight. The sophomore looks like he's going to be a valuable contributor to Rick's squad this year.

-Elisha Justice is just a blue collar, pack the lunch box and go to work type of ball player. Gotta say he's fast becoming a favorite of mine in this Pitino bunch.

-The Mike Marra hairdo this year is a definite "yes!". Kinda looks like "Chris" from The Sopranos.

-Hoping Preston Knowles is OK after falling to the floor in obvious pain during the second half. The consensus in the seats was that he had cramped up. He looked in agony and the trainers and Terrence Jennings carried him off the court.

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Just watched a replay of the UConn vs. Baylor women's hoops game in the XL Center in Hartford, CT. and Geno Auriemma is one lucky guy. After blowing a 15 point first half lead and falling behind by eight points in the second half...his Huskies staged a rally and defeated the visiting Bears by one. Did anyone else beside me think the Huskies were done for? Very obvious that Geno's team misses Tina Charles. Samarie Walker did the best she could against the 6'8" Brittany Griner (along with about 3 other UConn players at times) but the only thing that looks like it could stop the gigantic Bear this year will be her own lapses of play. Maya Moore is all that...again this year and it looks like she's found a freshman friend to help her score this year. Bria Hartley has game. And a deadly mid-range jumper.

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Lady Cards Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the YUM vs. Houston Baptist. This one could get ugly early. HBU was "baptized" by TCU in their opener by 50+. The Cards will be looking to run the transition game and emphasise the defense. WE fully expect Coach Walz will used all 13 players at his disposal again Wednesday night. Hope Jim Kelch and Paul Sanderford have plenty of "filler" material for the broadcast.

Cards get #2 seed in BIG EAST Volleyball Tournament

TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE PRESENTS:


-Volleyball #2 seed in BIG EAST Tournament

-UConn vs. Baylor tonight

-We catch up with Tise...

-Preview of Houston Baptist

The University of Louisville Volley Cards will open BIG EAST Tournament play against #7 seed Seton Hall (13-17, 7-7) on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Pittsburgh at the Peterson Event Center. A dangerous first round opponent for the Cards...Seton Hall defeated Louisville during regular season play in Cardinal Arena in five games back on Sept. 26th. Emily Juhl, pictured here played one of her best games of the year against Seton Hall in the defeat.

Louisville has improved dramatically since that early season match up but cannot take the Pirates lightly. The Cards (16-7, 12-2) would advance to play the winner of the #3 Marquette vs. #6 Pittsburgh match on Saturday if they can defeat the pesky Pirates. The final will take place on Sunday and will be shown on ESPNU. All other matches will be available on BIG EAST TV and streamed free of charge. You can find BIG EAST TV online at http://www.bigeast.tv/

The rest of the first round action:

#1 Cincinnati vs. #8 South Florida

#4 Villanova vs. #5 Notre Dame

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ESPN has started their 25 straight hours of college basketball. As I write this Central Michigan is in a dogfight with home standing Hawaii. Both ESPN and ESPN 2 are showing games. A hoop junkie's dream if I ever did see one. What WE don't like about this is that in the 25 hours of action there is only one women's game. It's a goodie, though. UConn vs. Baylor. It'll show on "the deuce" at 6 p.m. Tuesday night. Should make for a good night of hoops, since the UofL men's team plays Butler at 8 p.m. on ESPN.



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WE ran into former Lady Cards center and one of the most popular Lady Cards of all time...that being Tise Wright...at the Tennessee game Friday night. Still has the big smile and hug for everyone. Tise is still living here and working. She was excited to be there for Angel's big night and excited about the prospects of this team. She plans on trying to get back into some kind of competitive basketball once her knee fully heals. She's working on getting back in shape and still talks with her former teammates quite a bit...in addition to the current crop of Cards.


It was good to see Tise again. In her prime, she was an unstoppable force in the paint. She led the BIG EAST in shooting percentage during the 2007-08 season and is second all-time in Cardinal shooting percentage at .579. She led Louisville in shooting percentage in 2006-07 and 2007-08.

She also led the Cards in blocked shots in 2007-08. Tise sat out the 2008-09 season with knee problems and returned briefly to play in the 2009-10 season but continued knee problems forced her to hang up the jersey for good.



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The University of Louisville women's basketball team will face Houston Baptist on Wednesday night in the KFC YUM Center at 7 p.m. The Huskies come to town 0-1 after losing to #23 TCU 96-38 in Fort Worth, TX. Destini Texada led the way for HBU with nine points and eleven boards. Brittany Maxey, Mele Leasau, Joselyn Pugh and Tia Jackson are the other starters for Houston Baptist...who went 1-10 from three point range and shot 27.5% for the game.

This game should be a good chance for coach Walz to do some further on-court experimentation with his lineup combinations and develop the transition game. The Cards need to show a strong performance on the boards Weds. night as well. Despite the weak opponent and weeknight game, try to get out for this one if you can. The players always appreciate the fans packing the stands and it should be fun to watch the Cards in this probable rout of HBU.

Lady Cards romp Ohio U. 84-47

CARDINAL COUPLE - MONDAY EDITION


-LADY CARDS GO TO 1-1 with win over Ohio U.

-VOLLEYBALL wins at Syracuse

-CROSS COUNTY in the NCAA Regionals

-Breaking down the Ohio U numbers

The University of Louisville women's basketball team shook off a 13 point loss to Tennessee on Friday with a 37 point dismantling of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio on Sunday afternoon.

The Cards came out strong...jumping to an 8-2 lead in the first four minutes of the game. After a couple of Ohio baskets, UofL went on a 21-0 run to take a commanding lead 29-6 with slightly more than seven minutes to go in the first half. They would lead 42-14 before heading to the locker room up 44-20 at the half. Monique Reid led a balanced scoring attack for Louisville with 9 points.

The Cards came out rolling in the second half and took a 52-26 with two scores by Reid and Hines each. Although Ohio would cut the lead to 21 at 55-34...Louisville then went on a 20-3 run to take a 75-37 lead after Becky Burke's (pictured above) fourth 3-point goal of the game with a little more than five minutes remaining.

Louisville ran the transition game to perfection against the Bobcats and the defense created a wealth of Ohio U. turnovers...including 13 in the first 12 minutes of the game. Shoni Schimmel had seven assists for the Cards and 13 points. Reid finished with 13, Burke 14 and Hines 12 points. Asia Taylor contributed nine points and Charmaine Tay added eight points. All thirteen players for Louisville got into the game and all but Polly Harrington, Antonita Slaughter and LaToya Johnson scored. Slaughter did have eight rebounds for the Cards...who host Houston Baptist next on Weds.

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Finally listened to a Cards game on the radio and was most impressed with the job that Paul Sanderford did with Jim Kelch. The veteran coach gives a good account of the defensive sets, offensive patterns and player action in the color analyst role and seems to mesh pretty well with the affable Kelch. Jim still tends to stray away from the action when a contest is a blow out and he doesn't give the time remaining in the game out nearly enough to suit us...but he's a lot better and quite more professional than the guys doing the UK women's games on radio.

We still aren't happy that the UK Ladies get WHAS Radio and Louisville doesn't. If the UofL men, UK men and UK women aren't playing...why are the Lady Cards still relegated to 790? More politics being played by Clear Channel.

The game was available for viewing at OhioBobcats.com. At least for some. WE never could pick up the video for it at the site...but we always enjoy a Jim Kelch call...so it really didn't matter.


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Louisville started slow against the Syracuse Orange in volleyball Sunday but swept the final three games on the road. The 15-25, 25-12, 25-19, 25-13 match results put the Cards in second place for the BIG EAST Tournament. The field of eight teams should be announced Monday.

It was Senior Day for the Orange and that emotion carried them to a first game win over UofL. An early 12-2 run for Syracuse was the deciding factor. Louisville came back strong in game 2 behind Lola Arslanbeckova and had a 21-5 lead before coasting in to win by 13.

After the break, the Cards took a 11-3 early lead and with Arslanbeckova leading the way again, held on to take the third game by six. In the final match, the Cards once again jumped on Syracuse early with a 8-2 start and head coach Leonid Yelin emptied the bench after that...Louisville winning by 12.

Arslanbeckova had 15 kills for the Cards (18-7, 12-2) and Emily Juhl added 12

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Kim Grieshaber finished 21st in the NCAA Southeast Regional cross-country at E.P. Sawyer Park in Louisville. The women placed 13th in the event that was won by Virginia. The top five team spots went to the ACC. Besides Grieshaber's finish, other individual numbers for the Cards saw Emily Borsare in 28th, Monica Hernandez 68th, Cassie Martin in 143rd and Ariel Briggs at 161.

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A lot to like on the stat sheet from the Ohio University game. Louisville went 34-66 from the field for a 51.5%. The first half the Cards were 62.1%. A much better effort from 3-point range...Louisville going 9-17..four of those belonging to Becky Burke. Louisville had 13 steals, created 22 turnovers and actually won the rebounding battle 46-36

The starters (Schimmel, Taylor, Hines, Reid and Gibbs) accounted for 52 Cardinal points and 20 rebounds. The freshmen (Schimmel, Vails, Harrington, Slaughter and Tay) had 28 points and 20 boards. 1o Lady Cards played 10 minutes or more...Vails leading the way with 22 on court minutes. The freshmen had 11 of Louisville's 20 assists, Schimmel with seven of those.

Polly Harrington fouled out of the contest in 11 minutes of play. Hines was whistled for four, Harper and Vails three each.

The win was Jeff Walz's 75th as the Louisville skipper.

Cards travel to Ohio for Sunday basketball

SUNDAY @ CARDINAL COUPLE:

-Lady Cards vs. Ohio University 2 p.m Sunday

-Volleyball falls to Marquette.

-A look at the U.T. vs UofL stats.

-Tough loss at PJCS.

-Hammond makes it official.

(Terry Jackson, top notch photographer for CARDINAL DOMINANCE, caught CARDINAL COUPLE Co-Owner Paul Sykes at the Louisville vs. Tennessee women's basketball game. We were in the end zone...directly in front of the cheerleaders, the pep band right behind us and next to where Tennessee entered and left the court. Bob Domine and Tony Vanetti were on either side of Paul. Domine is very insightful on game comments and Vanetti was probably just there for the media buffet. Assigned seating for this one, otherwise Paul would have headed for center court.)

Jeff Walz takes the Lady Cards to Athens, OH. Sunday afternoon for a 2 p.m. tipoff against the Bobcats. The Cards will be seeking their first win of the season after falling to the Vols Friday night in a closer than expected 63-50 loss.

The Bobcats are fueled by a couple of transfers and showed balanced scoring in an exhibition game against Ohio Dominican. Tenishia Benson, a transfer from Cincinnati, tossed in 17 points for O.U. and Ashley Fowler added 14. Thia Gholson, who played her high school ball at Louisville Assumption, hit the net for nine and Alesia Howard, a transfer from UMass, was good for eight in the 30 point 66-36 romp. Today's game will be the first regular season contest for the Bobcats.

For Louisville, Monique Reid leads the team with 19 points and 9 rebounds. Jim Kelch and Paul Sanderford (who we mistakenly identified as Charlie Just earlier last week) will handle the play by play on 790 AM / 101.7 FM WKRD. The game can also be heard over at http://www.uoflsports.com/ for the out of towners.

Look for Walz to try and establish the transition game that never seemed to get off the ground against the defensive minded Lady Vols. Also look for a little deeper rotation in today's contest. Walz played only ten of his charges against Pat Summitt's team and three of them (Taylor, Tay and Story) saw less than ten minutes on the court. Shelby Harper, LaToya Johnson, Polly Harrington watched the action from the Cardinal bench.

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Louisville fell to Marquette 25-23, 25-16, 19-25, 19-25 14-16 in a hotly contested match in Milwaukee Friday night. The Cards looked to shut down the Golden Eagles after winning the first two games but a poor hitting percentage in the third game and an a 12-3 by Marquette in the fourth game forced the fifth game. Louisville fell behind early in the deciding game but roared back to tie it at 14 behind Anastasia Artemeva getting four points before Marquette managed the final two points.

For Louisville, Lola Arslanbeckova had 15 kills, Anastasia Artemeva added 14 and Emily Juhl contributed 12. The Cards travel to Syracuse Sunday for a 2 p.m. match against the Orange.

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Some interesting numbers from the UofL vs. UT basketball game:

-Louisville managed only ten rebounds in the second half against the Vols...most of those by wing Monique Reid and guard Tia Gibbs. The Louisville front line grabbed just one in the second half (Keisha Hines). The Vols were tall, no doubt...and blocked out well...but 1 rebound in the second half from your "4" and "5" spots is woeful.

-Louisville forced Tennessee into 29 turnovers...5 of those from freshman guard Meighan Simmons. She made up for it with 22 points on 9-20 shooting. Her two second half treys during the Vols 10 point run were the only treys she made in 7 attempts.

-Louisville canned only 4 attempts from the three point arc in 21 attempts. Becky Burke had two of those in five attempts, Shoni Schimmel went 1-8 behind the arc and Charmaine Tay nailed her only attempt from trifecta land.

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It's official. Sara Hammond is a Card. She sent the paper in and will be on campus next fall. She'll join Quaneisha McCurty, who is expected to sign in the spring and Cierra Robertson Warren, a transfer from UNC, who is already on campus and sitting out.

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WE don't like the "Sunday Morning Quarterback" scenarios....but the subject of debate yesterday in the post game tailgate parties at PJCS centered around UofL's decision to go for a first down on 4th and one in overtime. They failed. USF scored to win the game during the next possesion on a field goal after stopping the Cards.

To kick or not to kick a field goal....that was the decision Charlie strong was faced with. He chose the latter. Despite the criticism WE'VE heard about the choice...WE gently remind all Louisville football fans that he....not you or I or Joe Blow...is the head coach. End of debate.