Monday, November 6
Cincinnati OH
6 PM
University of Louisville
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Cincinnati
No. 17/15 Cardinals Begin Season at Cincinnati
November 05, 2023 | Women's Basketball
It is the second-straight season the Cardinals open the year with the Bearcats
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The 2023-24 season is officially here and the University of Louisville women's basketball team is set to open the season on the road. The Cardinals will make the short drive up I-71 and face off with Cincinnati on Monday, November 6. The Cardinals and Bearcats will square off from Fifth Third Arena at 6 p.m. ET and the game will be streamed on ESPN+.
This will be the 17th season under head coach Jeff Walz as the Cardinals are coming off another Elite Eight appearance in 2022-23. The Cardinals have made five-straight Elite Eights, the only team in the country to make each of the last five Elite Eights. The Cardinals also have a six-year Sweet Sixteen streak, the third-longest active streak in the country.
The Cardinals won 26 games last season, extending the streak of 11-straight seasons with 25 or more wins. The Cardinals have won 20 or more games in each of the last 13 seasons. Louisville finished fourth in the ACC but advanced to the ACC Tournament Championship game for the fourth time in program history. The Cardinals have finished fourth or higher in the ACC in each of the last nine seasons, the only team in the conference to do so.
Under Walz, the Cardinals are 13-3 in season openers and have won six of their last seven to begin the season. The Cardinals are 8-0 in true road games to begin the season under Walz. This will be the first season-opening road game since Nov. 25, 2020, when the Cardinals traveled to Cape Girardeau, Missouri and defeated SEMO 74-53.
This is not the first time the 2023-24 Cardinals have hit the court as the team competed in the 2023 GLOBL JAM in Toronto back in July. The Cardinals won the gold medal after Sydney Taylor hit the game-winning three with under a minute left to lift the Cardinals over hosts Canada in the Gold Medal Game. Taylor led the Cardinals in scoring over the four games and was named Tournament MVP.
Date: Monday, Nov. 6
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Site: Cincinnati, Ohio | Fifth Third Arena
TV: ESPN+ (Anthony Mazzini, play-by-play; AB Stocks, analyst)
Radio: 970-AM WGTK (Nick Curran, play-by-play; Cortnee Walton, analyst)
Last Meeting: W, 87-68 (Nov. 7, 2022 at KFC Yum! Center)
Series History: Louisville leads 41-24 (25-5 home, 13-14 away, 3-5 neutral)
ABOUT THE BEARCATS
Cincinnati enters the 2023-24 season under a new regime as former Bearcats captain Katrina Merriweather returns to Cincinnati and begins her first season as the head coach of the Bearcats. A four-year letterwinner for the Bearcats' Hall of Fame head coach Laurie Pirtle from 1997-01, Merriweather became the program's first women's basketball player to advance to four consecutive postseason tournaments. Additionally, she helped lead the program to its first-ever NCAA Tournament win as a graduate assistant coach in 2001-02. Merriweather returns to her alma mater with a 151-70 overall record in seven seasons as the head coach of Memphis and Wright State. Most recently, Merriweather led Memphis to a 22-11 season in 2022-23, the program's first 20-win season in more than a decade, and an appearance in the 2023 WNIT Sweet 16.
Series History - Louisville faces off with former conference foe Cincinnati in the season opener for the second-straight season. After squaring off as conference foes in Conference USA, the BIG EAST and the American, the two teams will meet for the 66th time on November 6. Louisville leads the all-time series 41-24. The Cardinals have won seven-straight games over the Bearcats and this will be the first meeting between the two schools in Cincinnati since 2014, when they were both in the American Conference.
Last Meeting (Nov. 7, 2022) - The seventh-ranked Louisville Cardinals began the 2022-23 season on the right foot with an 87-68 win over Cincinnati at the KFC Yum! Center Monday night. The Cardinals broke the game open with a 15-0 first-quarter run and led 46-25 in the final minute of the first half. Morgan Jones, a 6-foot-2 Florida State transfer, scored 14 points and blocked three shots in her Louisville debut. Liz Dixon, a 6-5 forward, added 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting. The Cardinals shot 51.7% and outrebounded the Bearcats 39-27.
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For the latest on Louisville women's basketball, visit GoCards.com, or follow the team's Instagram account at @LouisvilleWBB, Twitter account at @LouisvilleWBB or on Facebook at facebook.com/louisvillewbb.
This will be the 17th season under head coach Jeff Walz as the Cardinals are coming off another Elite Eight appearance in 2022-23. The Cardinals have made five-straight Elite Eights, the only team in the country to make each of the last five Elite Eights. The Cardinals also have a six-year Sweet Sixteen streak, the third-longest active streak in the country.
The Cardinals won 26 games last season, extending the streak of 11-straight seasons with 25 or more wins. The Cardinals have won 20 or more games in each of the last 13 seasons. Louisville finished fourth in the ACC but advanced to the ACC Tournament Championship game for the fourth time in program history. The Cardinals have finished fourth or higher in the ACC in each of the last nine seasons, the only team in the conference to do so.
Under Walz, the Cardinals are 13-3 in season openers and have won six of their last seven to begin the season. The Cardinals are 8-0 in true road games to begin the season under Walz. This will be the first season-opening road game since Nov. 25, 2020, when the Cardinals traveled to Cape Girardeau, Missouri and defeated SEMO 74-53.
This is not the first time the 2023-24 Cardinals have hit the court as the team competed in the 2023 GLOBL JAM in Toronto back in July. The Cardinals won the gold medal after Sydney Taylor hit the game-winning three with under a minute left to lift the Cardinals over hosts Canada in the Gold Medal Game. Taylor led the Cardinals in scoring over the four games and was named Tournament MVP.
Date: Monday, Nov. 6
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Site: Cincinnati, Ohio | Fifth Third Arena
TV: ESPN+ (Anthony Mazzini, play-by-play; AB Stocks, analyst)
Radio: 970-AM WGTK (Nick Curran, play-by-play; Cortnee Walton, analyst)
Last Meeting: W, 87-68 (Nov. 7, 2022 at KFC Yum! Center)
Series History: Louisville leads 41-24 (25-5 home, 13-14 away, 3-5 neutral)
ABOUT THE BEARCATS
Cincinnati enters the 2023-24 season under a new regime as former Bearcats captain Katrina Merriweather returns to Cincinnati and begins her first season as the head coach of the Bearcats. A four-year letterwinner for the Bearcats' Hall of Fame head coach Laurie Pirtle from 1997-01, Merriweather became the program's first women's basketball player to advance to four consecutive postseason tournaments. Additionally, she helped lead the program to its first-ever NCAA Tournament win as a graduate assistant coach in 2001-02. Merriweather returns to her alma mater with a 151-70 overall record in seven seasons as the head coach of Memphis and Wright State. Most recently, Merriweather led Memphis to a 22-11 season in 2022-23, the program's first 20-win season in more than a decade, and an appearance in the 2023 WNIT Sweet 16.
Series History - Louisville faces off with former conference foe Cincinnati in the season opener for the second-straight season. After squaring off as conference foes in Conference USA, the BIG EAST and the American, the two teams will meet for the 66th time on November 6. Louisville leads the all-time series 41-24. The Cardinals have won seven-straight games over the Bearcats and this will be the first meeting between the two schools in Cincinnati since 2014, when they were both in the American Conference.
Last Meeting (Nov. 7, 2022) - The seventh-ranked Louisville Cardinals began the 2022-23 season on the right foot with an 87-68 win over Cincinnati at the KFC Yum! Center Monday night. The Cardinals broke the game open with a 15-0 first-quarter run and led 46-25 in the final minute of the first half. Morgan Jones, a 6-foot-2 Florida State transfer, scored 14 points and blocked three shots in her Louisville debut. Liz Dixon, a 6-5 forward, added 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting. The Cardinals shot 51.7% and outrebounded the Bearcats 39-27.
FOLLOW LOUISVILLE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ON SOCIAL MEDIA
For the latest on Louisville women's basketball, visit GoCards.com, or follow the team's Instagram account at @LouisvilleWBB, Twitter account at @LouisvilleWBB or on Facebook at facebook.com/louisvillewbb.
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