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4 PITT GAME STATS, LOUISVILLE DEPTH CHART6 UOFL ROSTER, UCONN DEPTH CHART, SCHEDULE8 SPORTS NEWS AT UOFL NOT ALL BAD By Jack Coffee10 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY By Howie Lindsey11 SWOPSHIRE NOT ONLY BACK, BUT BETTER THAN EVER By Russ Brown15 HUSKIES WILL BE SEEKING REVENGE FOR LAST YEAR By Rick Cushing

16 BIG EAST: WITH COLLAROS OUT, CINCY IN TROUBLE By Rivals.com17 RECRUITING: ROZIER FOLLOWS THROUGH AND SIGNS By Jeff Wafford 18 LOUISVILLE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULES20 WOMEN’S SOCCER ADVANCES FOR FIRST TIME By Howie Lindsey21 THREE THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED By Rick Cushing21 CARDINAL STARS OF THE WEEK By Howie Lindsey

9 BAD LUCK CONTINUESJunior Mike Marra is out for the season after a torn ACL in the second half of Louisville’s win over Lamar Sunday. “It felt like the bone came right out of the socket and then snapped right back in,” Marra said.

5 CALL OF DUTY VS. UCONN? WINLouisville coach Charlie Strong said his team was distracted, in part, last week by a video game called Call of Duty. “I said to them ‘How can you allow a video game to take control of what you have in your hand?’”

19 STARTING OUT ON THE SHELFLouisville women’s basketball star Shoni Schimmel started the season on the bench as she was sidelined by the NCAA for participating in an unsanctioned 3-on-3 tournament this summer near her hometown. She’ll be back for EKU.

9 PITINO GETS WIN NO. 600Rick Pitino celebrated his 600th collegiate win Friday and quickly turned his attention back to the future. “I hope we get to 700 in a short time. I want to win a championship here badly, not just go to a Final Four,” he said.

22 FROM UZBEKISTAN WITH LOVEJunior Lola Arslanbekova has come along way since arriving at Louisville. She’s the team’s leader on the court, and “she has really taken to school and is serious about her degree,” coach Anne Kordes said.

PROUD MOMENT ON SENIOR DAYA junior college transfer originally from Houston who was nearly paralyzed in an unfortunate collision during the Louisville-Rutgers game on October 21, senior Anthony Conner is an inspiration to his teammates and fans for his incredibly positive attitude despite a broken neck. Conner, who will graduate in May with a degree in Justice Administration, was joined on the fi eld by his mother Delores Conner. - photo by Gail Kamenish

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7 CARDS COMPLACENCY PUZZLINGWith so much on the line last Saturday against Pittsburgh, Louisville’s lack of intensity and focus in practice and pre-game warmups had Charlie Strong hopping mad. “It was a great example of poor preparation, poor execution,” he said.

LOUISVILLE SPORTSREPORT NOVEMBER 17, 2011

CARDINAL FOOTBALL

GAME STATSPITT (5-5,3-2) vs. LOUISVILLE (5-5,3-2)Date: Nov 12, 2011 Site: Louisville, KY Stadium: Papa John’s Cardinal

Attendance: 51,321

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1 2 3 4 SCOREPITT 7 0 7 7 21

LOUISVILLE 0 0 7 7 14

SCORING SUMMARY:1st 09:13 PITT - BENNETT,Isaac 1 yd run (HARPER,Kevin kick) 12

plays, 80 yards, TOP 5:47, PITT 7 - LOU 0

3rd 10:30 PITT - SHANAHAN,Mike 17 yd pass from SUNSERI,Tino

(HARPER,Kevin kick) 4 plays, 80 yards, TOP 1:12, PITT 14 - LOU 0

03:59 LOU - ANDERSON, Vic 3 yd run (Philpott, Chris kick) 2 plays,

11 yards, TOP 0:44, PITT 14 - LOU 7

4th 01:53 PITT - SUNSERI,Tino 4 yd run (HARPER,Kevin kick) 5

plays, 33 yards, TOP 3:05, PITT 21 - LOU 7

00:12 LOU - Radcliff, Scott 25 yd pass from BRIDGEWATER,

T. (Philpott, Chris kick) 7 plays, 71 yards, TOP 1:41, PITT

21 - LOU 14

KICKOFF TIME: 12:08PM END OF GAME: 3:07PM

TOTAL ELAPSED TIME: 2:59

OFFICIALS: REFEREE: D. HENNIGAN; UMPIRE: M. DELANEY;

LINESMAN: C. RICE; LINE JUDGE: K. CODEY; BACK JUDGE:

G. DANCEWICZ; FIELD JUDGE: T. TARANTINI; SIDE JUDGE: F.

KINDRED;

TEMPERATURE: 61 WIND: SW-15 WEATHER: PARTLY CLOUDY

TEAM STATS PITT LOU FIRST DOWNS................... 21 15

Rushing..................... 12 4

Passing..................... 9 11

Penalty..................... 0 0

NET YARDS RUSHING............. 200 115

Rushing Attempts............ 45 29

Average Per Rush............ 4.4 4.0

Rushing Touchdowns.......... 2 1

Yards Gained Rushing........ 225 138

Yards Lost Rushing.......... 25 23

NET YARDS PASSING............. 196 165

Completions-Attempts-Int.... 16-23-0 18-26-1

Average Per Attempt......... 8.5 6.3

Average Per Completion...... 12.2 9.2

Passing Touchdowns.......... 1 1

TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS........... 396 280

Total offense plays......... 68 55

Average Gain Per Play....... 5.8 5.1

Fumbles: Number-Lost.......... 2-2 1-1

Penalties: Number-Yards....... 0-0 5-56

PUNTS-YARDS................... 5-157 7-277

Average Yards Per Punt...... 31.4 39.6

Net Yards Per Punt.......... 27.4 36.7

Inside 20................... 2 4

50+ Yards................... 0 1

Touchbacks.................. 1 1

Fair catch.................. 2 3

KICKOFFS-YARDS................ 4-218 2-140

Average Yards Per Kickoff... 54.5 70.0

Net Yards Per Kickoff....... 42.8 50.0

Touchbacks.................. 0 2

Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD. 0-0-0 1-0-0

Average Per Return.......... 0.0 0.0

Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD 1-0-0 4-47-0

Average Per Return.......... 0.0 11.8

Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD.. 1-2-0 0-0-0

Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD. 0-0-0 0-0-0

Miscellaneous Yards........... 0 0

Possession Time............... 32:41 27:19

1st Quarter................. 9:03 5:57

2nd Quarter................. 7:52 7:08

3rd Quarter................. 7:10 7:50

4th Quarter................. 8:36 6:24

Third-Down Conversions........ 7 of 14 3 of 11

Fourth-Down Conversions....... 0 of 0 1 of 1

Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 3-4 1-1

Touchdowns.................. 3-4 1-1

Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 3-14 3-23

PAT Kicks..................... 3-3 2-2

Field Goals................... 0-1 0-0

INDIVIDUAL STATSRushing No Gain Loss Net TD Lg AvgBRIDGEWATER, T. 10 68 14 54 0 26 5.4

ANDERSON, Vic 12 49 0 49 1 8 4.1

BROWN, D. 6 21 4 17 0 8 2.8

Perry, Senorise 1 0 5 -5 0 0 -5.0

Totals... 29 138 23 115 1 26 4.0

Passing Att-Cmp-Int Yds TD Long SackBRIDGEWATER, T. 18-26-1 165 1 25 3

Totals... 18-26-1 165 1 25 3

Receiving No. Yds TD Long HARRIS, M. 4 38 0 15

CHICHESTER, J. 3 29 0 12

ANDERSON, Vic 3 15 0 13

Davis, Jarrett 2 13 0 10

BROWN, D. 2 -2 0 11

Radcliff, Scott 1 25 1 25

Smith, Andrell 1 25 0 25

Parker, DeVante 1 12 0 12

White, Chris 1 10 0 10

Totals... 18 165 1 25

Punting No. Yds Avg Long In20 TB

Bleser, Josh 7 277 39.6 50 4 1

Totals... 7 277 39.6 50 4 1

Punts Kickoffs Intercept

All Returns No.Yds.Lg No.Yds.Lg No.Yds.Lg

BROWN, D. 0 0 0 2 11 6 0 0 0

Rogers, Eli 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Perry, Senorise 0 0 0 2 36 19 0 0 0

Totals... 1 0 0 4 47 19 0 0 0

Kickoffs No. Yds TB OB Avg

Philpott, Chris 2 140 2 0 70.0

DEFENSIVE STATSNo. Player Solo Ast Tot

29 Smith, Hakeem 10 3 13

46 Heyman, Dexter 8 1 9

2 Brown, Preston 6 3 9

1 Bellamy, Josh 6 1 7

91 Savoy, William 3 1 4

95 Salmon, Randy 2 2 4

19 Floyd, Terell 3 . 3

25 Pryor, Calvin 3 . 3

99 Brooks, Jamaine 2 1 3

15 Johnson, Andrew 2 . 2

93 Philon, Roy 2 . 2

33 Evans, Mike 1 1 2

90 Dubose, B.J. 1 . 1

44 Butler, B.J. 1 . 1

48 MOUNT, D. . 1 1

OFFENSEQUARTERBACK 5 Teddy Bridgewater 6-3 205 Fr. 4 Will Stein 5-10 176 Jr.10 Dominique Brown 6-2 221 So. RUNNING BACK 10 Dominique Brown (or) 6-2 221 So.20 Victor Anderson 5-10 189 Sr. 28 Jeremy Wright INJ. 5-11 199 So. 32 Senorise Perry (or) 6-0 201 So. 30 Kamal Hogan (or) 5-11 209 r-Fr. 22 Corvin Lamb 5-9 206 Fr. X-WIDE RECEIVER 14 Andrell Smith 6-3 209 Jr. 9 DeVante Parker 6-3 180 Fr. H-WIDE RECEIVER82 Eli Rogers 5-10 184 Fr. 1 Josh Bellamy 6-0 206 Sr. Z-WIDE RECEIVER 2 Michaelee Harris 6-2 198 r-Fr. 89 Scott Radcliff 5-10 182 Jr. 88 Jarrett Davis 5-10 172 So. TIGHT END 11 Josh Chichester 6-8 240 Sr. 81 Chris White 6-4 243 So. 85 Nate Nord 6-5 248 Jr.80 Stephon Ball INJ. 6-4 231 Jr. LEFT TACKLE 66 Alex Kupper 6-3 295 Jr. 73 Hector Hernandez 6-5 294 Sr. 78 Aaron Epps 6-5 265 Fr. LEFT GUARD 70 John Miller 6-2 308 Fr. . 68 Kamran Joyer INJ. 6-3 299 So. CENTER 55 Mario Benavides 6-4 300 Jr. 62 John Clark 6-2 305 Sr. RIGHT GUARD 53 Jake Smith 6-3 315 r-Fr. 72 Hunter Stout (or) 6-4 291 So. 76 Chase Petersen 6-4 294 Fr. RIGHT TACKLE 75 Ryan Kessling 6-5 314 Sr. 79 Jamon Brown 6-5 320 Fr 71 Chris Acosta 6-3 275 r-Fr.

DEFENSEFOX END 44 B.J. Butler 6-2 276 So. 91 William Savoy 6-1 248 Sr. 47 Malcolm Mitchell 6-2 236 So. DEFENSIVE TACKLE 93 Roy Philon 6-3 272 So.

95 Randy Salmon 6-3 291 Jr. NOSE TACKLE 92 Brandon Dunn 6-3 308 So. 99 Jamaine Brooks 6-4 318 r-Fr. DEFENSIVE END 6 Greg Scruggs 6-4 280 Sr. 17 Marcus Smith 6-4 255 So. 90 B.J. Dubose 6-4 257 Fr. SAM LINEBACKER 2 Preston Brown 6-0 258 So. 31 Champ Lee 6-0 204 So. MIKE LINEBACKER 46 Dexter Heyman 6-3 239 Sr. 51 Mike Privott 6-0 224 So. 37 Tyon Dixon 6-0 208 So. WEAKSIDE LINEBACKER 48 Deiontrez Mount 6-5 215 Fr.24 Daniel Brown 6-1 219 Jr. 43 Deon Rogers 6-2 200 So. CORNERBACK 41 Stephan Robinson 5-8 175 r-Fr. 3 Charles Gaines INJ 5-10 176 Fr. STRONG SAFETY 29 Hakeem Smith 6-1 183 So. 27 Jermaine Reve 6-2 175 Fr. FREE SAFETY 25 Calvin Pryor 6-1 190 Fr. 36 Shenard Holton 6-1 187 Jr. 33 Mike Evans 5-11 188 Sr. CORNERBACK 21 Adrian Bushell 5-11 190 Jr.5 Andrew Johnson 5-10 178 Fr.

SPECIAL TEAMSPUNTER

12 Chris Philpott (or) 6-0 198 Sr.

40 Josh Bleser 6-2 213 Sr.

PLACEKICKER

12 Chris Philpott (or) 6-0 198 Sr.

35 Andrew Fletcher 5-8 170 r-Fr.

LONG SNAPPER

33 Grant Donovan 6-1 213 r-Fr.

85 Nate Nord 6-5 248 Jr.

HOLDER

40 Josh Bleser 6-2 213 Sr.

4 Will Stein 5-10 176 Jr.

PUNT RETURN

89 Scott Radcliff (or) 5-10 182 Jr.

82 Eli Rogers 5-10 184 Fr.

KICKOFF RETURNS

20 Victor Anderson 5-10 189 Sr. 21 Adrian Bushell 5-11 190 Jr.

CURRENT DEPTH CHART


RECRUITING NOTEBOOK10 AMAZING AND MEMORABLE MOMENTS OF THE 2009-2010 SEASONCARDINAL FOOTBALL

STRONG CALLS HIS TEAM TO DUTY IN TRIP TO UCONNBy Russ BrownOne of the distractions for the University

of Louisville football players last week appar-ently was a new video game -- “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” -- that captured their at-tention more than Pittsbugh, and now coach Charlie Strong has called his team to duty.

Their mission, should they choose to ac-cept it -- and that’s not a given with this fi ckle group -- is to beat Connecticut (4-5, 2-2) Sat-urday in East Hartford to earn bowl eligibility and stay alive in the muddled race for the Big East Conference championship.

By listening to what he called the “buzz” among his players last week and checking in on their Twitter messages, Strong learned they were obsessed with the new video game. Like a host of others, because the game sold 6.5 million units at $60 each in the fi rst 24 hours it went on sale.

That, he said, led in part to their unin-spired performance during a 21-14 loss to Pittsburgh that wasn’t really that close.

“I said to them, ‘How can you allow a vid-eo game to take control of what you have in your hand and what’s ahead of you?’” Strong told reporters during his weekly press confer-ence Monday. “’This video game is that im-portant, we’ll see how important it is on Sat-urday. In about a week or two you’re going to be throwing that video game away.’”

That’s doubtful, of course, especially be-cause it is such a hot item and the console to play the game retails for more than $300. But sophomore nose tackle Brandon Dunn confi rmed that many of his teammates were playing “Call of Duty” all week instead of putting in extra time studying the game plan or watching fi lm of Pitt. And Strong said some of the players even missed class one morning because they had stayed up most of the night in front of their TVs.

Add “Call of Duty” to the euphoria and fool’s gold the players were feeling about their upset of West Virginia and you’ve got the makings of exactly the kind of poor show-ing the Cards (5-5, 3-2) turned in against the Panthers.

“Wasn’t nobody over here (at the football complex), to be honest,” Dunn said. “Only people getting treatment or meeting with ac-ademic advisors. But a lot of people weren’t coming over because they felt good about themselves and felt they didn’t have to do as much as they did to get to a certain point. They got a little complacent and weren’t do-ing what we did when we won three games in a row.”

Dunn says he didn’t play “Call of Duty,” but “we talked about it so much I feel I did. It was a great distraction.” He also said that the players have undergone an attitude adjust-ment and things will be different at UConn, but we’ve heard that before (See Marshall and Pittsburgh).

“We’re embarrassed,” Dunn said. “Now we’re more focused, locked in. At yesterday’s practice a lot of people understand what can happen if you don’t lock in the whole week and prepare. People were moving around, knowing what they had to do. It was more of how we looked when we were on a three-game winning streak.”

Strong isn’t so sure, however. He’s taking a wait-and-see attitude and said his team regressed against Pitt after several weeks of steady progress that thrust the Cards into the thick of the Big East scramble after starting 2-4 overall and 0-1 in the league.

“What has to be understood in this pro-gram is that when we’ve taken a step you have to be able to build on that step,” he said. “Players have to understand that there’s no way of taking a step backward. You set a standard, now it’s all about living up to that

standard. It’s all about winning, and winning has to become a habit around here.

“A lot of times when you win a game ... you beat Kentucky and everybody thinks it’s a big deal, you beat West Virginia and ev-eryone thinks it’s a big deal. It can’t become a big deal any more; it has to be a habit in this program, and we have to continue to build that. It has to be ingrained in our players that you can no longer roll your helmet out on the fi eld, you can no longer roll the ball out on the fi eld. You can’t get ready to play on Saturday when you sit there (all week).”

Strong emphasized with his players how big an opportunity they missed by not giv-ing their best effort against Pitt. West Virginia upset league-leading Cincinnati (7-2, 3-1) the same afternoon, so if the Cards had defeat-ed the Panthers they would be tied in the loss column and in fi rst place by a half-game.

“There’s only so many opportunities to go do something that hasn’t been done in a long time, and this football team had an oppor-tunity Saturday that we let slip by,” Strong said. “You get 12 opportunities (games), and when you waste one you never know what’s going to happen. Our message always has been ‘Today, not tomorrow’ (and what a fi t-ting statement that was Saturday).

“We go out and stub our toe, and then you look at what happens later in the day with West Virginia beating Cincinnati. We have two games left and we need to get in position where we can go to a bowl game. I don’t know if we can get there right now. I don’t know what our mindset is; we have to get our mindset changed, and that has to come from the coaching staff and the lead-ership, guys need to step up and lead this team.”

Going into the last few weeks of the sea-son the Big East race is a cluttered mess. Cincinnati was in charge until Saturday. But then, not only did the Bearcats lose to West Virginia, they lost senior quarterback Zach Collaros, who suffered a broken ankle and is out for the rest of the season.

He had surgery Monday and will miss games Saturday at Rutgers, at Syracuse and at home against UConn. That means sopho-more Munchie Legaux, who took over for Collaros on Saturday, will be the starting quarterback. Legaux completed 10 of 21

passes for 144 yards with one interception against WVU. He also ran for 113 yards and one touchdown.

More importantly for Louisville, the loss of Collaros throws the Big East race wide open. There are too many scenarios to mention, but the bottom line is that six of the eight teams remain alive for the championship and the automatic BCS bid that goes with it.

UC is the only team that is in control of its own destiny. If the Bearcats sweep their last three games they will earn their third BCS bowl in four years. A loss will make things even more interesting. If the Cards are in-volved in a tie for the title, they have to hope it’s with either WVU or Rutgers because they own the tie-breaker with each. They would lose the tie-breaker against Pitt or Cincinnati. After UConn, UofL will close the regular sea-son at USF on Nov. 25.

Either UofL or UConn will be eliminated from title contention for all practical purpos-es Saturday. Asked who he thinks is the title favorite now, Strong replied, “I don’t know, I’d like to think it’s us if we go take care of business.”

“Anybody can still win this league right now,” he added. “There’s so much par-ity within the league. It’s such a toss-up be-cause everybody is so jumbled up, and now with Cincinnati losing their quarterback who knows what’s going to happen or which team is going to end up on top?”

Saturday’s contest shapes up as a defen-sive struggle because both teams’ strength is on that side of the ball and each has been offensively challenged for most of the sea-son. UConn has allowed just 22.3 points per game and ranks sixth in the FBS in rushing defense, allowing only 89.9 yards per game. Pass defense is another story, however, with the Huskies giving up 282.6 ypg and check-ing in at No. 112 nationally.

“They’re just so big and strong up front with their front seven, and they do a great job stopping the run,” Strong said. “They’re unbelievable. People can throw the ball be-cause you have to fi nd another avenue, and right now people are attacking Connecticut through the air. What they’re doing is making you one-dimensional so you have to throw the football to beat them. They’re a very physical, very tough team, but we have to fi nd a way to run the ball.”

The Huskies have been relatively impo-tent on offense, ranking 107th (three spots behind UofL) with an average of 329.4 ypg. They’ve also allowed 34 sacks, next-to-last in the FBS.

“We’re setting the standards high this week,” Dunn said. “We want to get to a bowl game, so we need to get to the quar-terback and stop the run. Our whole focus is to do those two jobs.”

UConn is coming off a bye week after defeating Syracuse 28-21 in its last out-ing, overcoming fi ve fi rst-half turnovers in the process. Its biggest offensive weapon is 5-foot-8, 172-pound freshman running back Lyle McCombs, who gained 152 yards against the Orange and is closing in on 1,000 yards for the season.

One factor in the Cards’ favor is that the game isn’t in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, where they are only 3-3. Although they’re also at .500 on the road (2-2), they’ve played much better, beating UK, upsetting WVU and turning in good performances at North Carolina and Cincinnati while losing both by a touchdown.

“Sometimes on the road you don’t have the outside infl uences impacting them,” Strong said.

Now if he can just make sure there are no “Call of Duty” games in the luggage that

N O V I D E O G A M E S W I T H B O W L , T I T L E O N T H E L I N E

RUSS BROWN’S RUNDOWN

PITT 21, UOFL 14The game was over when: Pitt quarterback Tino Sun-seri ran off right tackle for a 4-yard touchdown with 1:53 remaining, giving the Panthers a 21-7 lead. UofL scored with 12 seconds left, then recovered an onside kick, but it was too little too late.

Turning point: UofL freshman Eli Rogers’ fumbled punt, which gave Pittsburgh the ball on the UofL 33-yard line, setting up Sunseri’s TD. Rogers appar-ently lost the ball in the sun, and it bounced off his facemask right into the hands of Drew Carswell. Car-swell ran into the end zone, thinking he had scored a touchdown, but the ball can’t be advanced in that situation (a muff). It took Pitt only fi ve plays to score the decisive TD, however.

UofL Offensive Player of the Game: None chosen.

UofL Defensive Player of the Game: Sophomore strong safety Hakeem Smith celebrated his 22nd straight start by getting a game-high 13 tackles, 10 of them solo. Honorable mention goes to senior end William Savoy, who had two of the Cards’ eight tack-les for loss and recovered a fumble that stopped a Pitt drive on the UofL 28 in the fourth quarter.

Who’s Hot: Let’s turn this category over to UofL coach Charlie Strong, who said, “We didn’t just play bad, we played horrible in every phase.”

Who’s Not: UofL’s defense has now given up more yardage in back-to-back games -- 929 yards -- than in any other two games this season. The Cards sur-rendered 533 yards in their 38-35 victory at West Virginia, then allowed Pitt 396. “We just weren’t very good,” Strong said. “Guys have to understand their responsibilities.” Things fi gure to improve this week against a UConn team that ranks last in the Big East in total offense at 318.8 ypg.

On the Rise: Josh Bellamy. The senior from St. Pe-tersburg, Fla., by way of Butte Community College in California had been a wide receiver at UofL last year and this season but was pressed into action at cornerback when Adrian Bushell was suspended and Stephan Robinson didn’t suit up. Bellamy started for the fi rst time against Pitt and had seven tackles. “I like Bellamy because of his toughness,” Strong said. “He’s very talented. He plays with so much energy, probably the only guy who had that Saturday.” Show-ing his inexperience, however, Bellamy did drop cov-erage on a pass to Devin Street that went for 55 yards and led to Pitt’s second touchdown.

On the decline: After getting only three penalties at WVU, fl ags fl ew again, but it wasn’t the number as much as the timing. Among UofL’s fi ve penalties for 56 yards were two costly chop blocks. Pitt, mean-while, was penalty-free.

Quotable – ”I think we can bounce back. We’ve been playing pretty good on the road so far. We’ve got to play like we’ve got something to prove, like we’ve got a chip on our shoul-der.” – UofL running back Dominique Brown.

Dominique Brown took a header after being hit by Pitt linebacker Carl Fleming. - photo by Darrell Russell


CARDINAL FOOTBALL

DATE OPPONENT / EVENT TIMEDATE OPPONENT / EVENT TIME

Thu., Sept. 1 Murray State W, 21-9

Fri., Sept. 9 Florida International L, 24-17

Sat., Sept. 17 at Kentucky W, 24-17

Sat., Oct. 1 Marshall L, 17-13

Sat., Oct. 8 at North Carolina L, 14-7

Sat., Oct. 15 at Cincinnati L, 25-16

Fri., Oct. 21 Rutgers W, 16-14

Sat., Oct. 29 Syracuse W, 27-10

Sat., Nov. 5 at West Virginia W, 38-35

Sat., Nov. 12 Pittsburgh L, 21-14

Sat., Nov. 19 at Connecticut (WHAS-11) Noon

Fri., Nov. 25 at USF (ESPN2) 11 a.m.

2011 LOUISVILLE 2011 LOUISVILLE FOOTBALL SCHEDULEFOOTBALL SCHEDULE

V I S I T C A R D I N A L S P O R T S . C O M FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE CARDINAL INFORMATION

NO NAME HT Wt EXP HT/WT HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) 1 Josh Bellamy 6-0 206 WR SR St. Petersburg, Fla. (Butte CC)2 Michaelee Harris 6-2 198 WR RS FR Miami, Fla. (Northwestern)2 Preston Brown 6-0 258 LB SO Cincinnati, Ohio (Northwest)3 Charles Gaines 5-11 176 CB FR Miami, Fla. (Central)4 Will Stein 5-10 185 QB JR Louisville, Ky. (Trinity)5 Teddy Bridgewater 6-3 205 QB FR Miami, Fla. (Northwestern)6 Greg Scruggs 6-4 285 DT SR Cincinnati, Ohio (St. Xavier)7 Damian Copeland 6-1 186 WR SO Bradenton, Fla. (Palmetto)8 Darius Ashley 5-8 186 CB JR Cincinnati, Ohio (St. Xavier)9 DeVante Parker 6-3 196 WR FR Louisville, Ky. (Ballard)10 Dominique Brown 6-2 221 QB SO Cincinnati, Ohio (Winton Woods)11 Josh Chichester 6-8 240 TE SR West Chester, Ohio (Lakota West)12 Chris Philpott 6-0 198 K SR Atlanta, Ga. (St. Pius X Catholic)13 Preston Pace 6-1 199 CB SR St. Petersburg, Fla. (Butte)14 Andrell Smith 6-3 210 WR JR Miami, Fla. (Palmetto)15 Andrew Johnson 5-9 174 CB FR Miami, Fla. (Southridge)17 Marcus Smith 6-3 251 DE SO Columbus, Ga. (Hardaway)18 Matthew Nakatani 5-8 160 K RS FR Shelbyville, Ky. (Shelby County)18 Titus Teague 5-11 170 CB SO Pomona, Calif. (Pomona)19 Terell Floyd 5-10 170 CB FR Port Pierce, Fla. (Port St. Lucie)19 Joe Castaneda 5-10 186 DB FR Covington, Ky. (Covington Catholic)19 Jerry Arlinghaus 6-4 197 QB FR Louisville, Ky. (Holy Cross)20 Victor Anderson 5-9 188 RB SR Louisville, Ky. (St. Xavier)22 Jordon Paschal 5-8 180 CB RS FR Trotwood, Ohio (Trotwood-Madison)22 Corvin Lamb 5-9 203 RB FR Miami, Fla. (Northwestern)23 Terence Simien 6-3 218 S SR Sacramento, Calif. (San Mateo)24 Daniel Brown 6-1 221 LB JR Atlanta, Ga. (Douglass)25 Calvin Pryor 6-2 200 S FR Port St. Joe, Fla. (Port St. Joe)26 Zed Evans 5-11 173 CB SO Seagoville, Texas (Seagoville)27 Mike Addesa 5-11 200 LB FR Bradenburg, Ky. (Meade County)27 Jermaine Reve 6-0 180 S FR Miami, Fla. (Northwest)28 Jeremy Wright 5-11 199 RB SO Clermont, Fla. (East Ridge)29 Stephen Goodwin 6-0 190 WR SO Louisville, Ky. (St. Xavier)29 Hakeem Smith 6-1 183 S SO Jonesboro, Ga. (Riverdale)30 Kamal Hogan 6-0 209 RB RS FR Montvale, N.J. (St. Joseph’s Regional)31 DeMarcus Topp 5-10 180 WR JR Paducah, Ky. (Paducah-Tilghman)32 Senorise Perry 6-0 192 RB SO Summerville, Ga. (Chattooga)33 Grant Donovan 6-1 213 LS RS FR Louisville, Ky. (Male)33 Mike Evans 5-10 187 S SR Los Angeles, Calif. (Nevada)34 George Durant 6-0 231 LB SO St. Petersburg, Fla. (Boca Ciega)35 Andrew Fletcher 5-8 162 K RS FR Nashville, Tenn. (Montgomery Bell)35 Anthony Conner 5-11 190 CB SR Houston, Texas (Butte CC)36 Shenard Holton 6-1 190 S JR Bowling Green, Ky. (Warren East)37 Lincoln Carr 5-9 158 WR JR Crestwood, Ky. (Oldham County)37 Tyon Dixon 5-11 208 LB SO Cincinnati, Ohio (Colerain)38 Rashad Stewart 6-0 183 DB SO Marietta, Ga. (Drake)38 Ryan Johnson 5-11 175 P RS FR Louisville, Ky. (DeSales)39 Kenneth Jaboin 6-1 203 DB SR Miami, Fla. (NIACC)39 Chris Zelli 5-11 201 LB FR Jeffersonville, Ind. (Jeffersonville)40 Agyei Williams 5-11 184 S JR Louisville, Ky. (Trinity)40 Josh Bleser 6-1 213 P SR Park Hills, Ky. (Covington Catholic)41 Stephan Robinson 5-10 170 CB RS FR Louisville, Ky. (Central)42 Champ Lee 6-0 204 LB SO Lakeland, Fla. (Lake Gibson)42 Jalen Harrington 6-2 205 LB FR Fern Creek, Ky. (Fern Creek)43 Deon Rogers 6-2 200 LB SO Port St. Lucie, Fla. (Treasure Coast)44 B.J. Butler 6-2 276 DE SO Kissimmee, Fla. (Osceola)45 John Wallace 6-0 180 P/K FR Cecilia, Ky. (Central Hardin)46 Dexter Heyman 6-3 238 LB SR Louisville, Ky. (Male)47 Malcolm Mitchell 6-2 230 DE SO Stone Mountain, Ga. (Dunwoody)48 Deiontrez Mount 6-5 219 DE FR Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (Fort Walton Beach)49 Patrick Grant 6-4 236 DL JR Sunrise, Fla. (Boyd Anderson)49 Jarel McGriff-Culver 5-11 190 RB RS FR Downers Grove, Ill. (Downers Grove North)51 Mike Privott 6-0 224 LB SO Norfolk, Va. (Lake Taylor)53 Jake Smith 6-4 315 OL RS FR Jacksonville, Ala. (Jacksonville)54 Mike Romano 6-4 275 C FR Port St. Lucie, Fla. (Treasure Coast)55 Mario Benavides 6-4 300 C JR Los Fresnos, Texas (Los Fresnos)56 Tarik Rollins 6-2 223 LB SO Hollywood, Fla. (Clemson)57 Nick Heuser 6-0 229 LB JR Louisville, Ky. (St. Xavier)59 Zach Perkins 6-4 290 OL SO Shepherdsville, Ky. (North Bullitt)62 John Clark 6-2 305 OL SR Louisville, Ky. (St. Xavier)65 Dylan Kupper 6-5 265 OL FR Louisville, Ky. (Trinity)66 Alex Kupper 6-3 285 OL JR Louisville, Ky. (Trinity)68 Kamran Joyer 6-3 292 OL SO Tampa, Fla. (Wesley Chapel)69 Chris Walker 6-3 306 OL SO Louisville, Ky. (Ballard)70 John Miller 6-2 304 OL FR Miami, Fla. (Central)71 Chris Acosta 6-3 279 OL RS FR Miami, Fla. (Hileah)72 Hunter Stout 6-4 291 OL SO Tampa, Fla. (Wharton)73 Hector Hernandez 6-5 294 OL SR Naples, Fla. (Naples)74 Ryan Mack 6-5 316 OL FR Memphis, Tenn. (Wooddale)75 Ryan Kessling 6-5 314 OT SR Tallahassee, Fla. (Chiles)76 Chase Petersen 6-4 291 OL FR Bentonville, Ark. (Bentonville)78 Aaron Epps 6-7 250 OT FR Tucker, Ga. (Tucker)80 Stephon Ball 6-4 228 TE JR Cincinnati, Ohio (St. Xavier)81 Chris White 6-4 243 TE SO Elizabethtown, Ky. (John Hardin)82 Eli Rogers 5-10 185 WR FR Miami, Fla. (Northwestern)83 Jerrell Moore 5-10 169 WR FR Fern Creek, Ky. (Fern Creek)84 Aaron Nance 6-3 197 WR SO Louisville, Ky. (Seneca)85 Nate Nord 6-5 230 TE JR Boca Raton, Fla. (West Boca Raton)87 Kai Dominguez 6-0 172 WR SO Montvale, N.J. (St. Joseph’s Regional)88 Jarrett Davis 5-9 171 WR SO Tyrone, Ga. (Sandy Creek)89 Scott Radcliff 5-10 183 WR JR Louisville, Ky. (Trinity)90 B.J. Dubose 6-5 238 DE FR Oakland Park, Fla. (Northeast)91 William Savoy 6-1 246 DE SR Elizabethtown, Ky. (John Hardin)92 Brandon Dunn 6-3 308 DT SO Louisville, Ky. (Pleasure Ridge Park)93 Roy Philon 6-3 272 DT SO Lexington, Ky. (Bryan Station)94 Lorenzo Mauldin 6-4 225 DE FR Atlanta, Ga. (Maynard Jackson)95 Randy Salmon 6-3 291 DT JR Atlanta, Ga. (Hutchinson CC)96 Jamon Brown 6-6 325 DT FR Fern Creek, Ky. (Fern Creek)99 Jamaine Brooks 6-4 329 DL RS FR Miami, Fla. (Palmetto)

2011 FOOTBALL ROSTER

OFFENSEQB18 Johnny McEntee | 6-3, 224, Jr.,11 Scott McCummings | 6-2, 218,

TB43 Lyle McCombs | 5-8, 172, Fr., 1 J. Jean-Louis | 6-0, 207, Sr.

FB 39 Mark Hinkley | 5-11, 226, Jr., 47 Reuben Frank | 6-3, 238, Fr.,

WR 83 Isiah Moore | 6-1, 195, Jr., 85 Geremy Davis | 6-3, 211, Fr.,

WR6 Kashif Moore | 5-10, 175, Sr., 84 Tebucky Jones | 5-11, 186, Fr.

TE89 John Delahunt | 6-3, 247, Jr., 94 Ryan Griffi n | 6-6, 248, Jr.,

OT71 Mike Ryan | 6-5, 335, Sr., 50 Tyler Bullock | 6-4, 298, So.,

OT77 Kevin Friend | 6-5, 300, So.,61 Stephen Brown | 6-6, 290, So.,

OG69 Steve Greene | 6-4, 304, So.,70 Gary Bardzak | 6-3, 289, Sr.,

OG

63 Adam Masters | 6-4, 292, Jr.,65 Gus Cruz | 6-4, 288, Fr.,

C57 Moe Petrus | 6-2, 302, Sr., 70 Gary Bardzak | 6-3, 289, Sr.,

DEFENSE DE48 Trevardo Williams | 6-1, 231, Jr.,26 Marcus Campbell | 6-3, 231, Sr.,

DE98 Ted Jennings | 6-5, 248, Jr.,91 Jesse Joseph | 6-3, 262, Jr.,

DT 4 Twyon Martin | 6-2, 273, Sr., 53 Ryan Wirth | 6-2, 268, Jr.,

DT 99 Kendall Reyes | 6-4, 295, Sr.,59 Shamar Stephen | 6-5, 315, So.,

LB 3 Sio Moore | 6-1, 232, Jr., 32 Jefferson Ashiru | 6-1, 210, Fr.,

LB 28 Jory Johnson | 6-1, 227, Jr., 46 Marquise Vann | 6-0, 225, Fr.,

LB 33 Yawin Smallwood | 6-2, 229, Fr.,36 Michael Osiecki | 6-1, 238, Fr.,

CB 7 Dwayne Gratz | 6-0, 195, Jr.,

21 Gary Wilburn | 5-11, 197, Sr.,

CB 5 Blidi Wreh-Wilson | 6-0, 192, Jr.,29 Taylor Mack | 5-9, 169, So.,

S 15 Jerome Junior | 6-1, 215, Jr., 2 Gilbert St.Louis | 5-11, 183, So.,

S 25 Harris Agbor | 5-11, 199, Sr.,16 Byron Jones | 6-1, 187, Fr.,

SPECIAL TEAMS K38 Dave Teggart | 6-0, 203, Sr.,13 Chad Christen | 6-1, 201, So., P86 Cole Wagner | 6-2, 211, So.,13 Chad Christen | 6-1, 201, So.,

H13 Chad Christen | 6-1, 201, So.,86 Cole Wagner | 6-2, 211, So., LS67 Adam Mueller | 6-1, 207, So.,66 Dominick Manco | 5-1, 251, Fr.,

KR31 Nick Williams | 5-10, 185, Jr.,16 Byron Jones | 6-1, 187, Fr., PR31 Nick Williams | 5-10, 185, Jr.,29 Taylor Mack | 5-9, 169, So.,

UCONN DEPTH CHART


CARDINAL FOOTBALL

I M M A T U R E T E A M C A N ’ T H A N D L E B I G W I N – A G A I N

WITH HIGH STAKES ON TABLE, CARDS’ COMPLACENCY PUZZLINGBy Russ BrownCharlie Strong learned from his mistake.

Apparently, his players did not.After the Cardinals beat Kentucky, they

were unfocused in practices leading up to the game against Marshall on Oct. 1. Then, after a 17-13 loss to Marshall, the University of Louisville’s head football coach second-guessed himself for not tak-

ing his team off the fi eld and back into the locker room during warmups when he sensed they weren’t ready to play.

When the same sce-nario arose prior to last Saturday’s kickoff against Pittsburgh (af-ter a week of desultory

practices following an upset of West Vir-ginia), he made a different decision. This time, he did yank his team back into the locker room in an effort to try and get them refocused.

Didn’t work.Although Pitt (5-5, 3-2), a typical bum-

bling Big East version of a college football team, tried its darndest to hand the vic-tory to the Cardinals (5-5, 3-2) by miss-ing a chip shot fi eld goal, fumbling away a promising drive and gift-wrapping a UofL TD with a 7-yard punt, the Cards refused to accept.

In losing its regular-season home fi nale by a deceptive 21-14 count, UofL blew a golden opportunity to move into position for a shot at a Big East title. Cincinnati’s 24-21 loss to West Virginia on Saturday, coupled with a Louisville victory, would have enabled the Cards to take over fi rst place with a half-game lead over the Bearcats (7-2, 3-1).

Instead, with two games remaining, UofL is just one of fi ve teams with two conference losses and still entertaining title hopes.

Strong said he could see the listless, uninspired performance coming, but obvi-ously he couldn’t do anything to head it off. He said the Cards were still celebrat-ing their 38-35 upset of West Virginia the previous week.

It showed. UofL’s offense, which seemed to come out of its shell in Morgantown, generated only 209 yards before a mean-ingless 71-yard touchdown drive in the closing seconds. Besides the two TDs, the Cards’ other nine possessions ended in two turnovers and seven punts.

Louisville’s defense, which had surren-dered 533 yards to West Virginia, allowed Pitt to march downfi eld unhindered on its opening drive, convert 50 percent of its third downs (7 of 14) and rack up 396 yards total offense.

“Great example today of poor prepara-tion, poor execution,” Strong said. “For

some reason, we win three games (in a row) and think we have all the answers. We’re nowhere near where we should be. I saw this coming, the complacency. They hear so much, get a big pat on the back like in the West Virginia win, and this team cannot handle winning. Today was a great example. It comes from this team not being very mature. We were just lackadaisical.”

Strong said he started practice over on two occasions last week because of a lack of focus and intensity. He said he saw the same approach during warmups, with players dropping balls and going through the motions. In the locker room, he hoped to get their attention, telling them they had to get focused.

“What I told them wasn’t very good,” he said.

Said sophomore running back Domin-ique Brown: “He said he saw tendencies from what we were feeling about our-selves from the UK victory when we came out fl at for pre-game against Marshall. He told us we’d better get ourselves to-gether.”

Josh Bellamy, a senior who started his fi rst game at cornerback after playing wide receiver the past season and a half, said he talked to his teammates after Strong left the room.

“I tried to calm everybody down, not let them get discouraged about what Coach Strong was saying, get everybody focused up and play like we know we can play,” he said. “I feel like some players were ready

to play. I don’t know who wasn’t or who was, but everybody seemed ready to me.”

Strong told the players, just as he did after the Marshall game, that he saw fake emotion, or what he and the players refer to as “fake juice.”

“You get a sense you’re not really into it,” senior defensive end William Savoy said. “You’re just faking it til you make it. It’s easy to see, and he (Strong) doesn’t like fake juice. The coaches know when we’re into it and when we’re not because they’re around us all the time. But you’ve got to fi nd it. You might be hurt, tired, you’ve got to fi nd it. When it’s game time, it’s game time.”

Said Bellamy: “Kentucky week was real emotion. West Virginia, the games we won. The Marshall game and this game were about the same, fake emotion.”

Like Strong, Savoy said he could see it coming during the week of practice and voiced his concern to teammate Marcus Smith, a sophomore defensive end.

“I was talking to Marcus Wednesday and I said, ‘I’m scared,’” Savoy recalled. “He said, ‘You’re scared?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, not from Pittsburgh, of course, because we can beat any team we want to beat, but just from our lack of preparation.’ We didn’t practice right, and that’s why we lost. It’s a lack of maturity. Just because you win doesn’t mean you stop practic-ing.”

What’s puzzling about the lack of in-tensity and emotion is that the Cards had so much going for them and lots on the

line -- bowl eligibility, the Big East Con-ference championship race, Senior Day,a three-game winning streak and an en-thusiastic crowd of 51,321, fi fth-largest inPapa John’s Cardinal Stadium history.

Not to mention a very beatable oppo-nent in a Pitt team that had lost three ofits previous four games, was 0-2 on theroad, came to town with an injury-deplet-ed offensive line that had allowed 43 sacks-- dead last in the FBS -- and was tied for105th in turnover margin.

How could the Cards not have been ready to play under those circumstances?Good question.

“I wish I had that answer,” Strong said. “They had everything going for them, soyou’d think they’d come out here and play.As coaches, we have to do better.”

All the pre-game talk centered around how the Cards had learned their lesson af-ter losing to Marshall following the victoryover UK, and how things would be differ-ent this time. As it turned out, though,the talk was just that -- talk that the Cardsfailed to walk.

Like their coach, the players also were at a loss for an explanation.

“I’m not sure why, but it was like that all week,” sophomore defensive backHakeem Smith said. “A lack of focus, theneverybody was going to turn it up and justcouldn’t. We got a little complacency inthe team. Not everybody, but it rubbed offon everybody.

“We didn’t show no emotion like we did in previous games. No focus. Everybodywas just going through the motions. Weweren’t prepared. Why? I don’t know.”

One thing is certain this week heading into Saturday’s game against Connecticut(4-5, 2-2) in Hartford.

“It will be hard practices,” Brown said.

Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri took off to escape the rush of Roy Philon, who was obviously being held. Pitt was whistled for no penalties all game, however. - photo by Gail Kamenish

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLCOFFEE BREAK

Despite the football team’s loss last Saturday, it was a good weekend for the University of Louisville athletic department. Speaking of football, there were two things that stood out for the Cards: Chris Philpott’s sending four kickoffs into the end zone, with the open-ing kick out of the end zone into a strong wind, and Teddy Bridgewater’s being the leading rusher for the team with 54 yards. This is another aspect of the game that UofL fans had been hoping for in the development of the freshman quarterback.

Now the good news:Women’s Soccer won it’s fi rst-ever NCAA Tournament game, defeating Dayton 2-0.

This has been a breakout season for the ladies as they won the National Division of the Big East and came in second in the conference tournament. They are led by sophomore Christine Exeter, the Big East Offensive Player of the Year. She has scored 14 goals this season. In comparison, Colin Rolfe, the leader for the men, has just seven. Karen Ferguson-Dayes was named Women’s Coach of the Year. After going 10-9 last season the Cards im-proved to 13-6-3 and were 8-1-2 in the conference. There are six play-ers from Kentucky and six from Canada on the roster, including Exeter from Pickering, Ontario.

Swimming and Diving put an exclamation point on its dominance of the Big East by defeating Notre Dame at home. The men won 191-109 and the women outscored the Irish 188-112. This is especially notewor-

thy because prior to UofL entering the Big East Notre Dame had dominated Swimming and Diving, with its men and women winning the conference tournament every year until the UofL men stopped the string in 2010. In 2011 UofL’s men and women both won the Big East and sent a message that there was a new player in town.

Basketball, both Men’s and Women’s, started the season with somewhat easy victories in what promises to be a banner year for UofL hoops.

Now on a sadder note:What has happened to the hallowed halls of our fabled universities that once were con-

sidered centers of virtue and morality? Example after example screams from the headlines of our newspapers and blares from radio and TV the depravity of those entrusted with the oversight of our young people and our public universities. People held in high regard are found to be without a moral compass and in many cases capable of degenerate behavior without a twinge of conscience. Even the once-revered Joe Paterno of Penn State (there since 1950), a seeming paragon of virtue, is found to be unable to react to evil in his midst. Since the fi rst report of Jerry Sandusky’s molesting young boys occurred in 1998, why was he allowed to continue this evil for 13 more years with the knowledge of Paterno and oth-ers? It’s simple, because those with the knowledge of his actions were his friends. For some reason, as in the Catholic Clergy mess, people who are friends or associates of the perpe-trator fi nd that pedophilia is not so evil if it is committed by someone we know. Talk about moral relativity! Is there really a gray area when the well being of children is concerned?

But our universities are only a symptom of our culture at large. From a President who lies to a grand jury or a senator who solicits a homosexual partner under the partition in a bathroom stall in an airport, our society is defi ning deviancy down. But sex isn’t the only human emotion that causes men to stumble. Sometimes it’s greed, as in the case of our own Robert Felner, a respected academic who came to UofL as the Dean of the Education Department and immediately began defrauding the school to the tune of $510,000 in fi ve years and even more if he hadn’t been caught. I’m not sure what it was that caused Uni-versity of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg to continually mislead and lie to his Big East counterparts while his own school negotiated a move to another conference. Was it the money or the academic prestige that swayed him to defraud his conference partners, or both?

And than there’s the entire leadership at West Virginia University. How indignant were they when football coach Rick Rodriquez left after the 2007 season and went to the Uni-versity of Michigan? They turned to the school’s most important team to get Rodriquez -- the legal team of Flaherty, Sensabaugh and Bonasso. Filing suit against Rodriguez in West Virginia State Court, they won payment of $4 million owed by Rodriquez for terminating his contract. Michigan agreed to pay $2.5 million of that in the worst investment since Enron. Rodriquez was fi red from Michigan in 2010. Now that West Virginia University has found a more lucrative conference (the Big 12), it has sued, again in State Court, to break its contract with the Big East. The Big East then sued West Virginia in Rhode Island Superior Court for breach of contract. I thought it was only the fans at WVU who were classless.

Let’s not forget the University of Central Florida, a potential Big East member. The ath-letic director was terminated last week after he was accused by the NCAA of having a relationship with an agent’s runner, a Mr. Ken Caldwell, along with his associate, Brandon Bender. Yes, that Brandon Bender. The Louisville SportsReport was mentioned in the charg-es after sending the A. D. an e-mail asking for Mr. Bender’s role with the university.

Thankfully, the University of Louisville, in my opinion, is blessed with men and women of honor and dignity at the top. Evidently, the president of Penn State knew of the allega-tions against Sandusky and also chose to ignore them. He was let go along with Paterno. I can’t envision our leaders turning their heads should this type of deviant behavior occur and they are made aware of it.

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The Louisville men’s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the 2011 NCAA Tournament as the No. 12 seed. The Cardinals, who will host a second round game, found out their tourna-ment seeding during a live selection show Monday afternoon.“I think what the draw showed is that our strength of schedule helped us out tremen-dously,” coach Ken Lolla said. “We got a fi rst round bye and we are able to play our second round game at Cardinal Park. We know every opponent we play is going to be a quality side from here on, but we are happy to start the tournament at home.”It is the fi fth consecutive NCAA tournament bid for the Cardinals and the second straight year as one of the Top 16 seeded teams. The Top 16 teams are seeded in the 48-team fi eld, earning a bye in the fi rst round and will host at least one home game. The Cardinals will face the winner of the Bradley and Loyola-Chicago game on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. in Cardinal Park.“To be honest we don’t know a whole lot about either team,” Lolla said at the selection show. “Right now is when the homework starts.”The Cardinals fi nished the regular season with an overall record of 12-6-2, playing argu-ably the toughest schedule in the nation. Louisville faced six of the top 16 seeded teams in the NCAA Tournament. Since taking over the program six years ago, Lolla has guided the Cardinals to fi ve straight NCAA Tournament appearances. The Cards head into the NCAA tournament ranked in the Top 15 of all fi ve soccer polls.“This team has a run in them, no question,” Lolla said. “We have played some very good soccer. We are playing actually the best soccer we have played all year at this time.”Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for youths, students and senior citizens. Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. at the athletic ticket offi ces. You can also call the athletic ticket offi ce at 852-5151 for tickets. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets for $4.

By Russ BrownUniversity of Louisville basketball coach

Rick Pitino celebrated his 600th collegiate victory with the Cardinals’ 83-48 rout of Tennessee-Martin last Friday night in the KFC Yum! Center, then assured Cardinals fans that his, and the team’s ascension, isn’t over. Far from it.

Professing his fondness for UofL, his cur-rent group of players and athletic director Tom Jurich, who hired him 10 years ago, Pitino talked about how badly he wants to reach 700 career victories here and bring a national championship to the school.

“I’ve had so many great memories here,” said Pitino, who has a contract through the 2016-17 season. “I’m so appreciative to Tom Jurich because he’s been very loyal to me. You always want to reach milestones coach-ing great people, and that’s been the case here. I hope we get to 700 in a short time. I want to win a championship here badly, not just go to a Final Four.

“We have the character and we have the discipline. We just have to keep recruting the Chane Behanans (a freshman forward). If we have freshmen like that, there will always be a chance to make it to the Final Four and win a championship.”

After Friday’s win the 59-year-old Pitino was presented with the game ball and stood on the court with his players watching a vid-eo montage of his college career, from Provi-dence College’s run to the 1987 Final Four, to his national championship at Kentucky in 1996 to his accomplishments at UofL.

The Cardinals were amused seeing their coach during his younger days.

“He had that Beatles look,” senior guard Chris Smith said. “That’s when he was in his youth. He was probably a little tougher back then, but right now he’s still pretty tough.”

Said senior forward Kyle Kuric, “It was pretty funny seeing young Coach P and how he is now, all the teams he’s coached.”

The players said they were grateful for getting to be a part of Pitino’s milestone.

“That feels great,” Smith said. “That’s a great accomplishment for anybody. Six-hun-dred wins? That’s amazing, that’s unheard of, really, where I’m from anyway.”

While acknowledging that it was an hon-or to have helped Pitino reach No. 600, there was another reason the players were glad to beat UT-Martin.

“When you win around this place, it’s a lot better mood for everybody,” junior point guard Peyton Siva said.

Pitino, who is in his 26th collegiate sea-son overall (he spent eight years coaching the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics) and 11th at UofL, became the 38th coach in NCAA Division I history to reach No. 600, and the 15th-fastest. He got there one game faster than former UofL coach Denny Crum, who achieved it in 1997 in his 825th game.

Pitino’s overall record at fi ve different schools going into Sunday’s game against La-mar was 600-224 (.728). There are 10 other active coaches with 600 or more wins.

Pitino joked the day before the game with UT-Martin that he would rather be going for his 200th win because that would mean he was 20 years or so younger. He added that he hasn’t thought of how much longer he will coach but suggested that it probably won’t be as long as Jim Boeheim, who is in his 36th season at Syracuse, or Jim Calhoun, who is in his 40th season overall and 26th at UConn.

“When you’re a coach, you’re just look-ing to survive,” Pitino said. “I probably don’t have the longevity of some of the older coaches like a Boeheim or a Calhoun be-cause of all the things I do during the day. You can’t do that if your body slows down.

“I don’t really think about when the win-dow might close. It might happen, so why not take advantage of every game, every practice and really enjoy it?”


LOUISVILLE BASKETBALL

PITINO GETS WIN NO. 600, PITINO GETS WIN NO. 600, EYES 700 AND NATIONAL TITLEEYES 700 AND NATIONAL TITLE

By Russ BrownJust when the picture seemed to be

brightening for the University of Louisville basketball team -- with the resurgence of Jared Swopshire and the return of Stephan Van Treese this week -- the hard-luck Cardi-nals suffered another blow.

Junior reserve forward Mike Marra, who had been battling back problems through-out most of the preseason, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee in Sunday’s 68-48 victory over Lamar and will undergo surgery. He will miss the rest of the season.

Marra’s injury occurred with 12:17 left in the game when he was driving with the ball near the UofL bench, tried to cut toward the basket and crumpled to the fl oor.

“I was making a turn, I planted, my body turned and my foot stayed planted,” Marra said in the locker room before leaving to get an MRI that revealed the tear. “I felt it right away. As soon as I planted and turned, it felt like the bone came right out of the socket and then snapped right back in. The initial scare -- you heard the scream, that was the worst part -- I’ve never felt anything like that.

“I felt that immediately and fell. It wasn’t excruciating pain, but I heard the pop and it scared the s--- out of me. I fell, gasped, and when the initial scare went away I calmed down and it was OK.”

After the game Marra said he wasn’t in any pain but that his knee was stiff and felt very weak. Initial indications were that the injury was only a sprain that could heal in about two weeks, but it wasn’t to be.

Instead, Marra will join several teammates in street clothes on the bench in what has become an unwelcome sight for the Cards during the last two years. Currently, in ad-dition to Marra, forward Rakeem Buckles (knee) and freshman forward/guard Wayne Blackshear (shoulder) are sidelined, and Stephan Van Treese has missed most of pre-season practice. Earlier, point guard Peyton Siva missed a week with a concussion and backup guard Elisha Justice also was side-lined for a while.

“You don’t think about injuries,” Pitino said. “You know it’s going to get better, you know we’re going to get stronger. So let’s just get through every day and try to become a better team.”

“It’s nothing that we do that creates any of these injuries. It’s unlucky,” said associate coach Richard Pitino while fi lling in for his fa-ther, head coach Rick Pitino, during the post-game press conference. “It’s part of sports and, unfortunately, it is unlucky and we just have to deal with it.”

Marra played 14 minutes in Louisville’s season-opening 83-48 victory over Tennes-see-Martin last Friday, getting six points and three rebounds. Before going down against Lamar he had six points and two rebounds in 11 minutes.

“We’ve had some tough luck this year, but we’ll fi ght through it,” Marra said. “It’s frustrating, me being a junior trying to step into a role and help the team. It’s tough try-ing to battle these injuries, but you can’t let it get to you. You’ve got to stay positive.”

When he returns, Marra still will have to deal with his genetic back problems caused by a herniated disk.

“I just have a bad back in general,” he said. “It’s tough, but that’s the cards I was dealt and that’s how it works.”

Rick Pitino said that getting Van Treese back this week should be a big boost be-cause he can fi ll in at both forward and center, although he isn’t sure when the 6-8 junior will be ready to play.

Van Treese will be particularly valuable

backing up the foul-prone Gorgui Dieng in the middle.

“We desperately need Van Treese to back up Gorgui,” Pitino said. “Van Treese had a problem even before we started practice, and we really need him. We need a big body in there with some experience offensively and defensively.”

Pitino said Van Treese has improved since his sophomore season when he started 12 games, averaging 13.3 minutes per out-ing while producing 2.9 points and 3.5 re-bounds. His main job is not to score, but to rebound and play solid interior defense.

“He ran very well at the offensive end and very poorly at the defensive end, and I think he’s over that,” Pitino said. “He knows how to screen, he brings toughness. We need a big body in there with some experience.”

Pitino said Van Treese “is about two weeks away” but left open the possibility that he could play against Butler Saturday afternoon in Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

“That doesn’t mean he can’t play in a week,” Pitino said. “But anytime you come off an injury when you’re out more than a week, it takes you a good week to get back into basketball shape. Basketball shape is the most diffi cult conditioning to get back into, and I’m not totally certain of the reason why. It’s just a lot different.”

With Van Treese sidelined, the coaches spent more time trying to develop 6-10 fresh-man Zach Price, but Pitino said the Cleve-land native isn’t ready to play and may not be much help even later in the season. Price played 10 minutes in the rout of UT-Martin, with two points and one rebound, but didn’t see action against Lamar. When Dieng was out, Jared Swopshire took his place.

“Zach is going to be a very good player down the road, but he’s a lot like Nazr Mo-hammed was for me at Kentucky,” Pitino said. “He’s a major project who just needs time.”

Trying to fi nd a silver lining in a dark cloud, Pitino noted that the injuries have provided quality practice time and playing opportuni-ties for others who normally wouldn’t have gotten as much.

“You can fi nd a blessing in anything if you’re a positive person,” Pitino said. “Cer-tainly, we wouldn’t have put as much time and effort into Zach Price if Van Treese was available. We’re going overboard trying to make Zach Price into a basketball player, rush the process. We would not have done that if Van Treese was healthy. That’s some-thing that will prove very valuable down the road.”

Pitino said Buckles has started individual instruction, looks good and could begin practicing in 2-3 weeks. Freshman Kevin Ware will start practice Dec. 14.

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CARDS’ BAD LUCK CONTINUES

PITINO HEAD COACHING HISTORY

SCHOOL FIRST YEAR LAST YEAR WON LOST PCT. Hawaii 1975-76 1975-76 2 4 .333Boston U. 1978-79 1982-83 91 51 .641Providence 1985-86 1986-87 42 23 .646Kentucky 1989-90 1996-97 219 50 .814Louisville 2001-02 Present 246 96 .719 x-Totals 600 224 .728 x-Does not include Sunday’s game vs. Lamar.


GAME THREE PREVIEW - KENTUCKY

We were pleased - strike that, elated - to know that our concerns over UCF’s recruiting tactics in the city of Louisville were heard. Nine months ago the Louisville SportsReport’s Jack Coffee sent an e-mail to administrators at the University of

Central Florida asking what former UofL basketball player Brandon Bender’s job title was with UCF. You see, we’d been told for a month by local players and those close to them that Bender was telling local recruits they should consider UCF. The appearance was that he was recruiting for the school, and we wanted an answer as to what his role was with UCF. And although Coffee’s e-mail to UCF went unanswered, they were listed among the dozens of items requested by the NCAA Infractions Committee when UCF’s Notice of Infractions was released last week. Check out a scanned copy of Coffee’s e-mail below.

From the document released by the NCAA last week, it is alleged that UCF was using Bender and Chicago-based felon Ken Caldwell to steer recruits to the Orlando campus. The Notice of Allegations is 16 pages long; Two people representing

a professional sports agency (Bender and Caldwell) assisted UCF in recruiting 11 prospective student-athletes (six in men’s basketball and fi ve in football) by promoting the institution’s athletic programs. Caldwell provided impermissible benefi ts to those recruits. Athletic Director Keith Tribble and a program booster attempted to arrange employment in the UCF area for the guardian of a recruit, and Tribble arranged to provide extra benefi ts for a friend of a recruit. Tribble also tried to provide employment to the mother of a recruit and then lied about it to his compliance offi ce. The charges also include one of a “lack of institutional control,” which is the NCAA’s way of saying UCF’s athletic department is rotten to the core.

The scandal at UCF is measurably worse than the scandal at Ohio State. Even though the Buckeyes’ tattoos-for-memorabilia scandal was covered as a national event, the UCF scandal likely will prove to incur stiffer consequences from the NCAA. Why?

It’s about who was involved. Many of the e-mails the NCAA has requested involve the basketball coach and the athletic director. That kind of knowledge and participation is why Tribble is out of a job already. Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel said it best: “These are supposed to be the brightest days in UCF sports history. Instead, we have reached the darkest hour. This is supposed to be the time when UCF is celebrating its imminent move into the Big East. Instead, the school is mourning the fact that it is in big trouble — massively big trouble — with the NCAA. ‘This is what the kids call a buzz kill,’ a disappointed UCF President John Hitt said on this woebegone Wednesday at UCF.... ‘It’s hard not to be angry on one level or another.’ There is no other way to put this: UCF’s athletic department is dirty from the head down, and on Wednesday Hitt did what he had to do: He sliced off the head.”

How about Michael Bush?! A week after we noted his success with the Raiders, he explodes for one of the greatest performances in franchise history. Bush rushed for 157 yards on 30 carries and totaled 242 yards from scrimmage (he had

85 yards receiving as well) in Oakland’s 24-17 victory over San Diego last Thursday night. Bush eclipsed Bo Jackson’s team mark of 235 total yards and was the most for the Raiders since the 1970 merger of the NFL and AFL. Also, former UofL star Harry Douglas caught eight passes for 133 yards for the Atlanta Falcons, including several catches late in the game to help the Falcons push the game into overtime before the Saints won 26-23. And former Louisville star William Gay had a couple of big plays to help the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 24-17. Gay,

a defensive back who had been a target of opposing offenses in recent weeks, defl ected a pass that was intercepted by teammate Lawrence Timmons in the fourth quarter. Then, two possessions later, Gay got an interception of his own that sealed the Steelers’ victory.

Charlie Strong knows his team. That’s a GOOD thing, even though what he knows about them is BAD. On Monday, a full fi ve days before last Saturday’s disappointing loss to Pitt, Strong was asked whether he was talking to his players about

being in a bowl game. He scoffed at the idea and explained that he didn’t believe his team was mature enough to handle thinking about a bowl yet. “Yesterday I told them we were in position last year and we lose to South Florida, so let’s make sure we handle our business at home,” he replied. “Last game for our seniors at home, so let’s make sure we send them out the right way. They know (about a bowl possibility, I just don’t want to talk about it because I don’t know if our team is ready to handle that, so I just say, ‘Guys, let’s worry about Pitt and everything else will take care of itself.’” It turns out he was right. His players weren’t ready to think about a bowl and they didn’t focus on Pitt. The good news? Strong believes Saturday’s loss will refocus his team. We hope he’s right this time as well.

The future looks bright for Louisville with Teddy Bridgewater at the helm. After Saturday’s loss, Bridgewater was understandably frustrated with the Cardinals’ performance, but he didn’t show it in his demeanor. Bridgewater spoke about his need to humble himself and get back into the fi lm room. These words came from

an 18-year old! What 18-year old do you know who talks about making sure he humbles himself and works harder because his team is depending on him? What a remarkable young man. “He’s just so fun to watch play because each week he gets better and better,” Strong said. “He’s so poised. He’s a guy that doesn’t jump around, he’s not rah-rah. His demeanor is so low-key. He directs the offense and takes us down the fi eld. Everyone on that whole offense has developed, and that makes his job easier.”

We understand why the NCAA developed a rule about impermissable games during the summer, but we can’t help but be confused by their ruling in the case of Louisville sophomore point guard Shoni Schimmel. The NCAA said Schimmel must sit

out two games - the Cardinals’ fi rst two games against Missouri State and Texas A&M - because she played in a tournament near her hometown this summer. The problem? The tournament had a cash prize for the winner and, of course, Schimmel’s team won. The rule was developed to prevent amateur student-athletes from winning cash and prizes during the summer. What we believe is that because Schimmel didn’t take a dime, her punishment shouldn’t be that harsh. Yes, they reduced the punishment from four games to two, but still - it seems harsh for participation in games that Schimmel has been playing in for most of her life.

Commenting on freshman forward Chane Behanan led Pitino to digress into an observation about rookie collegiate players in general. “Chane is a distracted player at times,” Pitino said. “They (freshmen) have a very diffi cult time focusing. It’s just tough to

get them to focus because of the lifestyles they’ve led in high school. If you ever see a young man walking around without a headset (headphones) on, someone is either very poor or someone stole their headset. It’s a very distracted generation.” Pitino said he has several rules regarding headphones. “We don’t bring them to restaurants, don’t wear them to games, don’t allow people to warm up with them on,” he said. “Things of that nature. From time to time I go ballistic when I see someone studying with headphones on.”

Help is on the way for Louisville basketball. UofL offi cials sent a press release Monday evening saying Kevin Ware, a 6-foot-4 guard from Conyers, Ga., has met NCAA intial eligibil-

ity requirements and will join the University of Louisville men’s basketball team in mid-December. Ware, who signed a fi nancial aid agreement with the Cardinals in June, was denied a waiver and subsequent appeal for admittance in early September. He continued to work on improving his standing and will enroll for the 2012 spring semester. He will join the Cardinals on Dec. 14, the day after UofL’s fall semester fi nal examinations. A fi rst-team all-state selection as a senior last season, Ware averaged 13.2 points, 4.1 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 2.2 steals in helping Rockdale County High School post a 26-6 record and fi nish as the Georgia 4-A state runner-up.

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By Russ BrownJared Swopshire said his Christian faith

kept him from getting discouraged during his forced hiatus from basketball due to a groin injury, and now the University of Louisville junior forward appears to be back stronger than ever.

The 6-foot-8 St. Louis native missed all of last season with an abductor tear and had

been slower than expect-ed to recover, but he has given ninth-ranked UofL (2-0) a lift off the bench in its fi rst two games and there’s no reason to expect he won’t do the same when the Cardinals meet Butler (0-1) Satur-day at 2 p.m. in Hinkle

Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.In UofL’s season-opening 83-48 victory

over Tennessee-Martin last Friday night in the KFC Yum! Center, Swopshire scored eight points, grabbed fi ve rebounds and hit all four of his shots while playing 16 high-energy, turnover-free minutes.

Then he was even more effective in Sun-day’s 68-48 victory against Lamar, coming close to his second career double-double with 13 points and eight rebounds. His last double-fi gure game had come in a 78-68 up-set of No. 1 Syracuse on March 6, 2010, in Freedom Hall when he got 10 points.

“I feel my recovery is going great,” Swo-pshire said in his deep, baritone voice that could rival the late soul singer Barry White. “I’m taking steps forward every day I step on the court in my overall strength, my leg and what I can do. I’m constantly progressing.”

In the fi rst two games Swopshire showed even more aggressiveness than he did during his sophomore season when he averaged 7.5 points and was the team’s second-leading rebounder behind Samardo Samuels at 6.1 rpg. He’s driven to the basket with authority and crashed the boards, which got the at-tention of both head coach Rick Pitino and his teammates.

“The guy who has made the most im-provement is Jared Swopshire,” Pitino said. “In a short period of time he is over injuries, grabbing rebounds, blocking shots and mov-ing without the basketball. Jared is playing the best basketball I’ve seen him play. Jared is improving every single day. He’s jump-ing higher, he’s running better, he’s coming back.”

Some would say he is already back.“Swop’s doing great,” senior guard Chris

Smith said. “And we need that. Swop picked up right where he left off before he got hurt. Actually, he’s better than I saw him a year ago. He prepared himself mentally and physi-cally to get back where he needs to be to play.”

A large part of that preparation included relying on his faith and getting encourage-

ment from family, friends and teammates. Not only did he have to deal with sitting out an entire season, plus rehabbing, but also the almost constant pain from the in-jury, which involved the muscle tearing away from the bone. Still, he was able to keep his spirits up.

“It was through my faith in Jesus Christ,” he said. “I am a strong believer in Jesus, and my family and friends really encouraged me. And I tried to be an encouragement to my guys on the court. That’s how I was able to get through the whole thing and come out of it stronger mentally.

“There were defi nitely times you get down, but I have a great support crew with my friends and teammates, so I didn’t have too many down days. I knew I would play eventually at some point, I just didn’t know when. I felt like I was back a month ago when I fi rst stepped on the court. Coming back, I have a stronger drive. I am much more thankful for the opportunity to be able to play the game of basketball.”

Swopshire said his biggest hurdle when he returned to practice was overcoming any fears he might have subconsciously harbored

about reinjuring his groin.“I thought about it at fi rst, but as time

went on it started to go away,” he said. “I wasn’t going to make any excuses about my leg.”

Swopshire said he’s grateful to be a part of the 2011-12 team, which he thinks has much potential.

“My goal is to help this team win in any way I can,” he said. “I’ll do whatever it takes. I think we have a great team, a lot of talent. We have a lot of new pieces, but guys are will-ing to work hard and sacrifi ce, so I’m excited about this season and what we can do.”

Even though Swopshire has another year of eligibility remaining, Pitino has indicated this will be his fi nal season here and that he will fi nish his college career at another school, but Swopshire evidently isn’t so sure.

“I don’t know, I’m just taking it one day at a time,” he said. “I really don’t know what the future holds. If I could play another year here, that would be great, but if not, other doors will be open for me.”

HINKLE A MYSTERY TO CARDSLouisville’s players don’t seem to be very

aware of the history or iconic status of Hinkle

Fieldhouse, where they will face Butler Sat-urday.

Located on the Butler campus, Hinkle was built in 1928. At the time it was the largestbasketball arena in the U.S., and it retainedthat distinction until 1950. It is the sixth-old-est college basketball arena still in use, and itis a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

The facility, which seats 10,000, was originally called Butler Fieldhouse but wasrenamed in 1966 to honor Paul D. “Tony”Hinkle, the school’s long-time coach and ath-letic director.

It was as host to annual Indiana high school basketball championship games thatthe fi eldhouse was home to the Milan Mira-cle, the memorable 1954 victory of tiny Mi-lan High School over the much larger MuncieCentral. The fi lm “Hoosiers,” based on thatevent, used Hinkle Fieldhouse in fi lming theclimactic game in the popular movie.

But even Indiana native Kyle Kuric of Evansville isn’t very familiar with Hinkle’s his-tory, except for the fi lm.

“I know a little bit, very basic,” Kuric said. “’Hoosiers,’ that’s pretty much it.”

Junior point guard Peyton Siva of Seattle didn’t know about “Hoosiers” but did havean idea of what Hinkle represents.

“I know it’s very traditional, an older place, and I know the fans are going to be wild inthere,” Siva said. “We’re expecting that hos-tile environment, and it’s good to get on theroad early and experience that.”

Chris Smith, from Millstone, N.J., said he had seen “Hoosiers” and knew it was fi lmedin part in Hinkle, “so I’m excited to go upthere and play. I’m going to take it all in andhopefully come out with a ‘W’.”

UofL rolled over then-No. 16 Butler 88-73 in the dedication game of the new KFC Yum!Center on Nov. 16, 2011. The Bulldogs wenton to make their second straight appearancein the national championship game, losing toConnecticut, but they have gotten off to aslow start this season and are unranked.

Butler lost an exhibition game at home to Division II Northern State, 53-50, then fell atEvansville, 80-77, in overtime in its season-opener. Before taking on the Cards, the Bull-dogs played Chattanooga Tuesday night.

“It’s just another game on our schedule that we have to buckle down and focus on,”Siva said. “Last year we had all off-season toprepare for them because we opened withthem. This year we’ve got a week, so weshould know them pretty well again. It willbe a tough test on the road.”

Butler returns only two starters from last year’s team, but Kuric said that won’t mat-ter.

“Last year we had them scouted really well,” he said. “We were ready to play them,we knew what they were going to do and weplayed a very good game. I’m sure they haveanother good team and we’ll have to lockdown on them.”

Freshman Chane Behanan grabbed this rebound away from junior teammate Jared Swopshire in the UT-Martin game. Behanan has had double-doubles in both of UofL’s games and is averaging 12 points and 12.5 rebounds a game, Swopshire, who is returning from an injury that sidelined him all last season, is averaging 10.5 points and 6.5 rebounds. - photo by Gail Kamenish

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLSENIOR DAY 2011

A fi fth-year offensive lineman who has emerged as a starter this year at the tackle position and will graduate in December with a degree in Health & Human Performance,

Hector Hernandez was joined on the fi eld for Senior Day by his father Luis Hernandez Sr. - photo by Howie Lindsey

Injured former starter Anthony Conner reached to give Charlie Strong a hug on

Senior Day Saturday. Conner received a loud and long standing ovation from the 50,000-plus in attendance. - photo by Chuck Feist

Defensive lineman Greg Scruggs will graduate in December with a degree in Sociology. He was.joined on Senior Day

by his mother Anita Felton, grandmother Lurita Felton and brothers Craig, Chaun and Darion. - photo by Howie Lindsey

Another fi fth-year offensive lineman who graduated in December 2010 with a degree in Justice

Administration, Ryan Kessling was joined on the fi eld by his parents Kristi and Paul Kessling and brothers

Paul Jr. and Christopher. - photo by Howie Lindsey

Josh Chichester cracked up laughing as something Charlie Strong said when Strong was giving Chichester a rose during the Senior Day ceremony. - photo by Darrell Russell

A former walk-on from John Hardin High School who will earn a degree in Marketing in May, William Savoy was joined on the fi eld by his mother Mia Savoy, father William Savoy and sister Starr. - photo by Howie Lindsey

A former walk-on from Louisville St. Xavier High School who will earn his degree in Justice Administration in December, John Jay Clark was joined by his parents

Wendy & John Clark, sister June and his fi ancee’ Stephanie Havard. - photo by Howie Lindsey

Victor Anderson kissed the turf as he was introduced to the crowd on Senior Day. Anderson, from Louisville’s Saint Xavier High, scored a touchdown in the third quarter. - photo by Chuck Feist


SENIOR DAY 2011

A three-year starter at the running back position from Louisville St. Xavier High School, Victor Anderson was named Big East Newcomer of the Year after rushing for 1,047 yards in 2008. He graduated in August 2011 with a degree in Communications, and was joined

on the fi eld by his mother Cherry Russell, father Victor Anderson Sr., sister Constance Russell, his nephew and fi ancee’ Shelby Mattingly. - photo by Howie Lindsey

Fifth-year senior Josh Chichester has caught more than 90 passes and scored 10 touchdowns. He graduated in May 2011 with a

degree in Justice Administration and was joined on the fi eld on Senior Day by his mother Stephanie Chichester, father Joseph

Lindsey and grandmother Gladys Lindsey. - photo by Howie Lindsey

A product of Louisville Male High School, Dexter Heyman was named MVP in Louisville’s win over in-state rival Kentucky earlier this

season. He will earn a degree in Political Science in May 2012 and was joined for Senior Day by his father Earl Dickerson, brothers Earl

and Eric and sister Katherine Heyman. - photo by Howie Lindsey

A junior college transfer at the wide receiver position who recently added a bit of defense to his resume, Josh Bellamy was joined on the fi eld by his parents Alicia & Tim Daniels. He will earn a degree in Sport

Administration next summer. - photo by Howie Lindsey

One of the top kickers in the country, Chris Philpott has kicked 27 fi eld goals in his career, including a school record-tying 52-yarder vs. Rutgers. Philpott, who will graduate in May with a degree in Communications, was joined by his parents Sharon & Rob Philpott. - photo by Howie Lindsey


BIG EAST NOTEBOOKOPPONENT PREVIEW - UCONN

HUSKIES SEEKING REVENGE FOR LAST YEAR

BOTTOM LINEThe Cards should be able to handle the Huskies, but they should have been able to handle Pitt. UofL appears to be a team that plays better on the road, however, plus the Cards know that a loss to UConn would put their bowl hopes in jeapordy because they’ve never won at South Florida.

BY RICK CUSHINGThe Huskies, who were coming

off the best season in program history, began this season with a new quarterback, a new tailback, a revamped offensive line, a new coach who is an old coach and some unhappy alumni.

The alumni were unhappy that Paul Pasqualoni had been cho-

sen to replace Randy Edsall, who had departed to take over at Maryland following his team’s 48-20 pounding by Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. Pasqualoni had been away from college coaching since 2004, when he was fi red by Syracuse.

The unhappiness was magnifi ed after losses to Van-derbilt, Iowa State, Western Michigan and West Virginia dropped UConn to 2-4, but the Huskies have won two of their last three games to improve to 4-5, 2-2 in the Big East and are in contention for another Big East title if they could win their fi nal three games -- against UofL and Rutgers and at Cincinnati. Lest you think that feat unat-tainable, remember that UConn won its fi nal fi ve regular-season games last year.

After beginning the season with virtually no experience at quarterback, the Huskies have settled on junior Johnny McEntee, who has done an adequate job despite being among the most sacked QBs in the country. At tailback they have found redshirt freshman Lyle McCombs, who is 16th in the country at 109 rushing yards per game. And the defense has been tough, ranking 38th in scoring D at 22.33 points per game and 52nd overall at 372.44 yards per game, and especially tough against the run, allowing just 89.89 ypg.

UConn will have had two weeks to prepare for the Cards, having had a bye week following a 28-21 victory over Syracuse. The Huskies also will want to avenge a 26-0 loss at UofL last Oct. 23, their last loss of the regu-lar season.

OFFENSEMcEntee (6-3, 224) hasn’t set the world on fi re (he

ranks 94th in the country in passing effi ciency), but he has stabilized the offense. Overall, he is 124 of 236 (52.5 percent) for 1,515 yards (168.3 a game) and nine TDs with six interceptions.

Backing McEntee is running quarterback Scott Mc-Cummings (6-2, 218), a redshirt freshman who is coming off the best game of his career, a two-touchdown per-formance against Syracuse, including the game-winning 7-yard TD run. For the season he has rushed 53 times for 184 yards (3.5 average) and three TDs. He also is 4-for-7 passing for 135 yards and two TDs.

The top receiver is senior Kashif Moore (5-10, 175) with 28 catches for 413 yards (14.8 per catch, 45.9 a game) and four TDs, with a long of 62 yards. Senior Isiah Moore (6-1, 195) has 32 catches for 436 yards (13.6 a catch, 48.4 a game) but has not caught a TD pass. Junior tight end Ryan Griffi n (6-6, 248) has 25 catches for 380 yards (15.2 a catch, 42.2 a game) and two TDs.

McCombs (5-8, 172) has had six 100-yard rushing games this season and is coming off a monster game against Syracuse, when he rushed 24 times for a career-high 152 yards and a TD. For the season he has rushed 224 times for 981 yards (4.4-yard average) and fi ve TDs, with a long of 65 yards. He also has caught 13 passes for 119 yards (9.2 a catch) and a TD, with a long of 26 yards.

The O-line has been shaky, allowing 3.78 sacks a game, which is 119th in the country and, despite McCombs’ suc-cess, hasn’t been too successful clearing the way for a running attack. UConn ranks only 88th in the country at 127.78 rushing ypg.

Senior Dave Teggart gives the Huskies a solid place-kicking game. He holds the Big East record for extra-points made without a miss -- 121 -- but he’s made only 14 of 20 fi eld-goal attempts this season, with a long of 53 yards. He’s 11th in the country in fi eld goals made. Curiously, he’s 3 for 3 beyond 50 yards but only 5 for 11 from between 40 and 49 yards.

DEFENSESenior defensive tackle Kendall Reyes (6-4, 295) is a

stud and is the main reason UConn is so tough against the run. He leads the team and is 27th in the country with 11.5 tackles for a loss, including 4.5 sacks.

Junior DE Trevardo Williams (6-1, 231) leads the team and is tied for 18th in the country with 6.5 sacks, and junior LB Sio Moore (6-1, 232) is second on the team with 10.5 tackles for a loss. He made a late interception against Syracuse that led to the winning TD.

Junior LB Jory Johnson (6-1, 227) leads the team with 74 tackles, with RS freshman LB Yawin Smallwood (6-2, 229) second with 73.

The Huskies have given up a lot of yards passing but have intercepted 12 passes, with Moore, Johnson, redshirt freshman DB Byron Jones and RS freshman safety Ty-Meer Brown (6-0, 192) each having two. Brown returned an INT for a TD.

Smallwood and Jones each has returned a fumble for a TD, with Smallwood taking his back 64 yards. The Huskies have recovered three fumbles in all.

PLAYER TO WATCHMcCombs looks to have a bright future. He’s having

a splendid rookie season despite the fact that he’s op-erating behind a weak offensive line. He must be a heck of a tough runner.

TEAM STRENGTHThe rushing D is outstanding and, given UofL’s desire

to run the ball effectively, it promises to be a battle up front.

TEAM WEAKNESSUConn’s pass defense ranks 112th in the country, al-

lowing 282.56 ypg, although it has picked off more than its share.

COACHING RESUMEPasqualoni returned to the college ranks after six sea-

sons in the NFL, most recently as the D-line coach and interim defensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys. Before that he was the defensive coordinator with the Miami Dolphins.

He was the coach at Syracuse from 1991-2004, going 107-59-1, winning four Big East titles and going 6-3 in bowl appearances, winning the Fiesta Bowl in 1992 and Gator Bowl in 1995. Before that he was the head coach at Division III Western Connecticut State, where he was 28-13. His overall coaching record is 139-77-1 in 19-plus seasons.

ALL-TIME SERIESUofL and UConn have met seven times, with the Cards

holding a 4-3 advantage. They won last year, but UConn won the previous three meetings. The Huskies are 2-1 against the Cards in Hartford.

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2011 SCHEDULEDATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULTSept. 3, 2011 Fordham W, 35-3Sept. 10, 2011 at Vanderbilt L, 24-21Sept. 16, 2011 Iowa State L, 24-20Sept. 24, 2011 at Buffalo W, 17-3Oct. 1, 2011 Western Michigan L, 38-31 Oct. 8, 2011 at West Virginia L, 43-16 Oct. 15, 2011 South Florida W, 16-10 Oct. 26, 2011 at Pittsburgh L, 35-20Nov. 5, 2011 Syracuse W, 28-21Nov. 19, 2011 Louisville Noon Nov. 26, 2011 Rutgers TBADec. 3, 2011 at Cincinnati TBA

2010 RESULTSDATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULTSept. 4, 2010 at Michigan L 30-10 Sept. 11, 2010 Texas Southern W 62-3 Sept. 18, 2010 at Temple L 30-16 Sept. 25, 2010 Buffalo W 45-21 Oct. 2, 2010 Vanderbilt W 40-21 Oct. 8, 2010 at Rutgers L 27-24 Oct. 23, 2010 at Louisville L 26-0 Oct. 29, 2010 West Virginia W 16-13 Nov. 11, 2010 Pittsburgh W 30-28 Nov. 20, 2010 at Syracuse W 23-6 Nov. 27, 2010 Cincinnati W 38-17 Dec. 4, 2010 at South Florida W 19-16 Jan. 1, 2011 vs. Oklahoma L 48-20

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FAST FACTSConnecticut won the Big East Championship

last season and represented the

league in the BCS. The men’s basketball team

won the national championship, and

the women’s basketball team made the

Final Four and was the No. 1 team in the nation

for the majority of the 2010-11 season.

SATURDAYNOVEMBER 19, 2011

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BIG EAST NOTEBOOK

WITH COLLAROS OUT, CINCY IN TROUBLEBy Rivals.comPlaying in front of their largest conference

crowd in the history of Cincinnati football (48,152), and with an opportunity to take an insurmountable lead in the race for the Big East crown, the Bearcats fell to West Virginia 24-21 last Saturday.

Not only did Cincinnati lose its fi rst Big East game, the Bearcats (7-2, 3-1) also lost quarterback Zach Collaros for the fi nal three games of the regular season.

Collaros broke his ankle during the sec-ond quarter and had surgery on Monday, leaving the Big East leaders in the hands of sophomore Munchie Legaux.

“I’ve been told the surgery was a great success and they were very encouraged by what they saw when they went in to do the surgery,” coach Butch Jones said.

Legaux takes over for a pivotal game Saturday at Rutgers, which has the league’s top-ranked defense. The Bearcats have a half-game lead in the Big East, followed by Rutgers (3-2), West Virginia (3-2), Pittsburgh (3-2), Louisville (3-2) and UConn (2-2).

Legaux is more of a running threat at quarterback, one of the reasons Jones made him a priority in his initial recruiting class last year. He showed it on a 65-yard run against the Mountaineers, which got the crowd at Paul Brown Stadium chanting, “Munchie! Munchie!”

He brought them back from a 10-point defi cit in the second half and was 10 of 21 for 144 yards with an interception. He also ran eight times for 89 yards and a touch-down. The Mountaineers regained the lead, and Cincinnati’s attempt to tie it with a last-second fi eld goal was blocked.

Legaux got into some of the Bearcats’ nonconference games early in the season, throwing seven passes during lopsided victo-ries, but Saturday will be his fi rst start. Jones said the Bearcats will have a little different look with Legaux.

“Probably we’ll open it up,” he said. “That may seem hard to imagine, but we may open it up because not only can he throw the football, but he can run the football.”

Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said he doesn’t expect Cincinnati to change too much, but he doesn’t have much to go on.

“We have limited tape on Munchie,” Schiano said Monday. “I think Cincinnati has a very fl exible system. I don’t expect there to be a wholesale change.

“He’s an incredibly powerful guy. He’s fast, elusive. Once he settled down a little bit, he threw the ball very well. You could see he’s a cool customer. We’ll prepare as much as we can and adjust as we go along.”

Few running backs have had the single-game success against Rutgers that Cincy’s Isaiah Pead had last season: 31 carries, 213 yards, four touchdowns. He added a receiv-ing touchdown as well in the Bearcats’ 69-31 victory.

Pead likely will loom large once again as the Bearcats roll into High Point Solutions Stadium with the inexperienced Legaux calling the signals, a likelihood that causes Schiano justifi ed concern.

“I hope he can’t be more of a factor,” Schiano said of Pead. “He is legitimately just the best running back that we’ve seen, and I

thought (Pitt’s) Ray Graham was exceptional, but this kid is strong, he’s decisive, he’s a downhill runner. He can outrun you to the perimeter. He’s gotten better every year. He’s really a premier back right now.”

RUTGERS BACK IN THE HUNTSchiano told the media on Monday that

the Scarlet Knights have in front of them what will be the biggest game Rutgers has played this late in the season since 2006.

Heading into this weekend’s slate of games, six of the eight teams in the Big East conference are still very much alive in the chase for the league’s BCS bid. The confer-ence is much-maligned for its lack of a ma-jor dominant team, but the competition in a league makes up for that, according to Schiano.

“I’ve said all along, I think every coach has, this is the most balanced, competitive league in the country, and I think that makes it exciting,” he said. “Some people, tradi-tionalists, like a team that runs away and hides. You’re not going to get that in the Big East Conference. For the fans who follow Big East football, you never know. It’s like the NFL; every week is an adventure.”

PITT, WVU OFFNo. 23 West Virginia enters its second

bye week of the season before taking on rival Pittsburgh in the Backyard Brawl on Nov. 25 on national TV. Both teams have this week off.

WVU coach Dana Holgorsen said he’ll keep it fairly low key this week for the Mountaineers.

“We’ll try to get as healthy as we can and do some recruiting,” he said. “Then get back to work on Saturday for the Pitt game.”

Holgorsen said the challenge this week will be getting his players to focus on Pitt but avoid getting too amped up in prepara-tion for the game.

“We’ll do it the same way,” he said. “We’ll just try to approach what we’ve got to do to get our guys ready to play a little differently, which I assume will take care of itself because it’s the Backyard Brawl, it’s at 7 p.m. at night, it’s in Morgantown, you’d think that would take care of itself.”

EVERYONE’S A CONTENDERConnecticut and Louisville, the other two

teams with just two league losses, will play Saturday at noon at Rentschler Field in Hart-ford, Conn. (WHAS-11). First-year UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni likes that the Big East could be anyone’s to win, saying it is not like the old days.

‘’When we started in this thing (in 1991), Miami had the best players in America. Miami was hard to beat,’’ said Pasqualoni, who spent 14 years at Syracuse and is in his fi rst season at Connecticut. ‘’They won like the fi rst 13 championships. Virginia Tech in some of those years was the best - they had some terrifi c teams. They had a guy named Michael Vick. They were good ... but Miami was the dominant force in the league. There was no question.

‘’Realistically, some of the teams in the league in those years were not going to beat Miami.”

Syracuse and South Florida are tied for last place in the league at 1-4, but Syracuse beat West Virginia earlier this season, and the Bulls beat Notre Dame.

‘’We can sit here and argue we’re three plays away from being 7-1 and Syracuse can say the same thing, and so can Rutgers and everybody else,’’ South Florida coach Skip Holtz said. ‘’The difference from winning and losing is that close.’’

Added Pasqualoni: ‘’There are no bad teams in this league. There are teams that have better records, but that’s the way it is. There is tremendous parity in this league. It’s hard to win.’’

Pitt QB Tino Sunseri was sacked by Louisville’s Deiontrez Mount and

Jamaine Brooks. With Pitt’s win over Louisville and West Virginia’s win over

Cincinnati, the league champion is still anyone’s guess. - photo by Chuck Feist

2011 BIG EAST FOOTBALL SCHEDULES

CINCINNATI 7-2 (3-1)Thu., Sept. 1 Austin Peay W, 72-10Sat., Sept. 10 at Tennessee L, 45-23Sat., Sept. 17 Akron W, 59-14Thu., Sept. 22 North Carolina State W, 44-14Sat., Oct. 1 at Miami (Ohio) W, 27-0Sat., Oct. 15 LOUISVILLE W, 25-16Sat., Oct. 22 at USF W, 37-34Sat., Nov. 5 at PITTSBURGH W, 26-23Sat., Nov. 12 WEST VIRGINIA L, 24-21Sat., Nov. 19 at RUTGERSSat., Nov. 26 at SYRACUSESat., Dec. 3 CONNECTICUT

CONNECTICUT 4-5 (2-2)Thu., Sept. 1 Fordham W, 35-3Sat., Sept. 10 at Vanderbilt L, 24-21Fri., Sept. 16 Iowa State L, 24-20Sat., Sept. 24 at Buffalo W, 17-3Sat., Oct. 1 Western Michigan L, 38-31Sat., Oct. 8 at WEST VIRGINIA L, 43-16Sat., Oct. 15 USF W, 16-10Wed., Oct. 26 at PITTSBURGH L, 35-20Sat., Nov. 5 SYRACUSE W, 28-21Sat., Nov. 19 LOUISVILLESat., Nov. 26 RUTGERSSat., Dec. 3 at CINCINNATI

LOUISVILLE 5-5 (3-2)Thu., Sept. 1 Murray State W, 21-9Fri., Sept. 9 Florida International L, 24-17Sat., Sept. 17 at Kentucky W, 24-17Sat., Oct. 1 Marshall L, 17-13Sat., Oct. 8 at North Carolina L, 14-7Sat., Oct. 15 at CINCINNATI L, 25-16Fri., Oct. 21 RUTGERS W, 16-14Sat., Oct. 29 SYRACUSE W, 27-10Sat., Nov. 5 at WEST VIRGINIA W, 38-35Sat., Nov. 12 PITTSBURGH L, 21-14Sat., Nov. 19 at CONNECTICUTFri., Nov. 25 at USF

PITTSBURGH 5-5 (3-2)Sat., Sept. 3 Buffalo W, 35-16Sat., Sept. 10 Maine W, 35-29Sat., Sept. 17 at Iowa L, 31-27Sat., Sept. 24 Notre Dame L, 15-12Thu., Sept. 29 USF W, 44-17 Sat., Oct. 8 at RUTGERS L, 34-10Sat., Oct. 15 Utah L, 26-14Wed., Oct. 26 CONNECTICUT W, 35-20Sat., Nov. 5 CINCINNATI L, 26-23Sat., Nov. 12 at LOUISVILLE W, 21-14Fri., Nov. 25 at WEST VIRGINIASat., Dec. 3 SYRACUSE

RUTGERS 7-3 (3-2)Thu., Sept. 1 North Carolina Central W, 48-0Sat., Sept. 10 at North Carolina L, 24-22Sat., Sept. 24 Ohio W, 38-26 Sat., Oct. 1 at SYRACUSE W, 19-16 2OTSat., Oct. 8 PITTSBURGH W, 34-10Sat., Oct. 15 Navy W, 21-20Fri., Oct. 21 at LOUISVILLE L, 16-14Sat., Oct. 29 WEST VIRGINIA L, 41-31Sat., Nov. 5 USF W, 20-17Sat., Nov. 12 at Army W, 27-12Sat., Nov. 19 CINCINNATISat., Nov. 26 at CONNECTICUT

USF 5-4 (1-4)Sat., Sept. 3 at Notre Dame W, 23-20Sat., Sept. 10 Ball State W, 37-7Sat., Sept. 17 Florida A&M W, 70-17Sat., Sept. 24 UTEP W, 52-24Thu., Sept. 29 at PITTSBURGH L, 44-17Sat., Oct. 15 at CONNECTICUT L, 16-10Sat., Oct. 22 CINCINNATI L, 37-34Sat., Nov. 5 at RUTGERS L, 20-17Fri., Nov. 11 at SYRACUSE W, 37-17Sat., Nov. 19 Miami (Fla.)Fri., Nov. 25 LOUISVILLEThu., Dec. 1 WEST VIRGINIA

SYRACUSE 5-5 (1-4)Sat., Sept. 3 Wake Forest W, 36-29 OTSat., Sept. 10 Rhode Island W, 21-14Sat., Sept. 17 at Southern California L, 38-17Sat., Sept. 24 Toledo W, 33-30 OTSat., Oct. 1 RUTGERS L, 19-16 2OTSat., Oct. 8 at Tulane W, 37-34Fri., Oct. 21 WEST VIRGINIA W, 49-23Sat., Oct. 29 at LOUISVILLE L, 27-10Sat., Nov. 5 at CONNECTICUT L, 28-21Fri., Nov. 11 USF L, 37-17Sat., Nov. 26 CINCINNATISat., Dec. 3 at PITTSBURGH

WEST VIRGINIA 7-3 (3-2)Sat., Sept. 3 Marshall W, 34-13Sat., Sept. 10 Norfolk State W, 55-12Sat., Sept. 17 at Maryland W, 37-31Sat., Sept. 24 LSU L, 47-21Sat., Oct. 1 Bowling Green W, 55-10Sat., Oct. 8 CONNECTICUT W, 43-16Fri., Oct. 21 at SYRACUSE L, 49-23Sat., Oct. 29 at RUTGERS W, 41-31Sat., Nov. 5 LOUISVILLE L, 38-35Sat., Nov. 12 at CINCINNATI W, 24-21Fri., Nov. 25 PITTSBURGHThu., Dec. 1 at USF


RECRUITING NOTEBOOK

By Jeff WaffordUniversity of Louisville basketball coach

Rick Pitino has signed one player during the early signing period, and that may be all the Cards get in this recruiting class.

According to Pitino, the Cards got just what they needed last week when they signed Terry Rozier (6-1, 170), a guard from Shaker Heights H.S. (Ohio). Rozier is expect-ed to enroll next summer and be a member of the UofL roster for the 2012-13 season.

“Terry is the perfect fi t for not only our style of play, but what we want to do at both ends of the fl oor,” Pitino said. “He’s a combo guard, capable of playing two posi-tions, who is equally as good on defense as he is on offense. He passes the ball well and

is an outstanding scorer off the bounce as well as with his jump shot. He is fundamentally sound and is capable of coming in and playing as a fresh-man.”

Rozier averaged 18.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists as a junior last season at Shaker Heights.

An All-Lake Erie League selection as a soph-omore and junior, Rozier is rated 88th in the 2012 ESPNU Top 100 and is listed No. 112 by Rivals in the class of 2012.

Many assumed that Rozier, the cousin of current UofL freshman center Zach Price, was introduced to UofL by his cousin. “They actually didn’t know they were cousins,” Pi-tino said. “They met each other at a fam-ily picnic in the summer time. They are like second or third cousins.”

Pitino noted that Rozier became a UofL fan after watching the documentary “Through the Fire” about former UofL re-cruit Sebastian Telfair, who ended up going straight to the NBA.

Rozier also had considered attending Cin-cinnati, Illinois, West Virginia and Cleveland State before signing with the Cardinals.

“He’s perfect for the way we play,” Pi-tino said. “He can play two positions, and everybody we recruit we want to be able to play two positions. He’s a point guard that shoots it well, passes well, plays good de-fense. He has very good athleticism and is a big-time scorer. He’s someone that is ready as a freshman to come in and contribute.”

Some have compared Rozier to current Louisville point guard Peyton Siva. But that’s not a good comparison, according to Pi-tino.

“I don’t like comparing players unless they are similar in stature or similar players,” Pitino said. “His game is not very similar to Peyton’s. He’s a much better shooter than Peyton was coming in. They are different types of basketball players.”

Many thought Pitino would add more than one player in this year’s recruiting class, and the Cards seem to continue to court four-star small forward Andrew White (6-6, 210, Cheser H.S. – Va.) and fi ve-star center Robert Upshaw (7-0, 275, San Joaquin H.S. – Calif.).

On Monday, Upshaw committed to Kan-sas State over Louisville and Georgetown, his other two fi nalists. Also on Monday, Louisville dropped out of the running for White, moving on to other prospects in-stead.

Pitino made it seem that Rozier might be the only one, however.

“It could, but no one knows sometimes what happens in recruiting,” Pitino said. “We don’t expect anyone else to sign with us right now, so we are real happy with Terry. He’s going to play as a freshman, and we have a very strong team coming back.

“We said whoever we bring in has to be able to contribute. We have a veteran team coming back. We have 11 or 12 players back for next year, so that will be a very strong lineup. You can either look at it two ways - you could either bring in a project who you can bring along slowly or you can get some-body you think can contribute right away, and that is what we did.”

There are already a couple of new players

slated to join the Cardinals’ roster that fans tend to forget.

Point guard Kevin Ware (6-4, 175) is now eligible for the second semester. The four-star player from Rockdale County H.S. (Ga.) signed with UofL in the spring but was ruled ineligible for the fi rst semester. He’ll suit up for the Cardinals starting Dec. 14.

Pitino is excited to add Luke Hancock (6-6, 180), a small forward who transferred from George Mason over the summer. Due to NCAA transfer rules, Hancock is sitting out this season.

“We also have a really good basketball player sitting out in Luke Hancock,” Pitino said. “You guys didn’t see it in the Red-White Scrimmage because he’s not used to what we do yet. But he’s really a good bas-ketball player, and an old-school guy. He’s fun to watch every single day.”

STRONG LANDS A BIG FLORIDA OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Football coach Charlie Strong and his staff hosted a pair of three-star offi cial visitors last weekend and got a commitment out of one of them. While the players didn’t get to see the Cardinals pick up a win, they both seemed impressed with what Louisville had to offer.

“It went very well,” said Abraham Garcia (6-6, 330), an offensive lineman from Uni-versity School (Fla.). “It was a very nice trip. I liked the campus, and it was all very nice. Everything was really impressive. There’s a lot of things that caught my eye.”

Garcia was so impressed that he called the coaches and committed Monday. Nick-

named “Nach,” Garcia claims offers fromFlorida, Marshall, Louisville and South Floridaand is being recruited by UofL defensive linecoach Clint Hurtt. He said he got to talk toseveral coaches on the trip.

“They were explaining to me about the program,” he said. “It is a young team, andthey are trying to still learn. They have someinjured guys on the offensive line and had tostart one freshman and change a defensiveguy to an offensive guy. They are really ad-justing right now.”

The Cardinals weren’t able to defeat Pitts-burgh while Garcia was in attendance, buthe noted just how young Strong’s programis and added that they seem to still be learn-ing.

“Louisville’s always been a school I’ve been watching,” he said. “This (visit) justputs a picture to the words that people havebeen telling me about it. I actually have aguy I go to school with whose dad played atLouisville. Bruce Armstrong’s son (Nick) goesto our school. He’s been up there before, andhe’s told me about Louisville and how greata school it is. This visit just puts a picture towhat he’s been telling me.”

The other visitor was Lakeith Walls (6-3, 185), a versatile athlete from Rhodes H.S.(Ohio). “Louisville was a nice place and anice city,” he said. “It’s a real positive atmo-sphere, and I think it is an up and comingprogram because Coach Strong really hasn’thad a chance to get all his guys being that itis only his second year.”

The fi rst offi cial visit Walls took was to NC State back in September. After seeing UofLand getting a chance to compare the twoprograms, he said the Cardinals stacked upwell.

“It defi nitely drew some interest,” he said. “I liked spending time with the players andthe game. Even when they were down, theykept playing and there was never a pointwhere they gave up.”

Walls was able to get a sense of the stu-dent-athlete experience at Louisville from hisplayer-host, sophomore wide receiver Da-mian Copeland.

“He was just telling me how there is no pro team in the state, so they get treatedwell wherever they go because they are thepro team,” Walls said.

A player who stars on both offense and defense for his high school team, Walls couldproject to several positions in college.

“(The Louisville coaches) really told me in order for me to play early, if I were to comein at linebacker that would be better,” Wallssaid. “I think their defense is pretty muchwhat I’m looking for right now. My rolewould basically be to make sure nothinggets outside of me and check the No. 2 orNo. 3 receiver. They blitz a lot off the edge,so that would give me the chance to get inthe backfi eld as well, so it’s a nice fi t.”

Walls is still in the process of planning out his three remaining offi cial visits, but he hasa good idea of where two of those trips willgo.

“I know I am going to go to Cincinnati in December and Toledo in December,” hesaid. “The options are Dec. 9 and Dec. 2,but I can’t say for sure which one I will go to(which weekend).”

Duke, Northwestern, Ohio University and Pitt are some of the schools Walls mentionedrecently as contenders for his fi fth and fi naloffi cial visit.

ROZIER FOLLOWS THROUGH AND SIGNS WITH CARDS

JEFF WAFFORDJEFF WAFFORD

2012 FOOTBALL COMMITSPROSPECT POS HOMETOWN HIGH SCHOOL HT. WT.Sid Anvoots OL Indianapolis, Ind. Bishop Chatard 6-4 285Big, tough offensive lineman from a strong program in Indianapolis.

Joshua Appleby K Harvest, Ala. East Limestone 6-3 230Rated one of the top kickers in the Southeast. Appleby fi gures to replace senior Chris Philpott.

Hunter Bowles TE Glasgow, Ky. Glasgow 6-6 245Strong tight end with a big frame could easily develop into an offensive lineman. Bowles’ Dad played baseball for Kentucky.

Demetrius Frazier ATH Brunswick, Ga. Brunswick 5-10 174Extremely quick athlete could play any number of positions at the collegiate level.

Abraham Garcia OL Miami, Fla. University 6-6 339Big, physical lineman is nicknamed “Nacho.” A three-star lineman with several other BCS offers before he picked Louisville

Will Gardner QB Douglas, Ga. Coffee County 6-5 190Louisville’s top choice at quarterback in the 2011 class. Also had offers from Alabama and Mississippi State.

DeAndre Herron OL Avon, Ind. Avon 6-5 325Big, heavy and mean offensive lineman just set a school record with seven pancakes in one game.

Gerod Holliman DB Miami, Fla. Milford Academy 6-0 185Four-star defensive back is ranked the No. 2 overall prep school athlete in the class of 2011. Elite safety prospect.

Kevin Houchins DB South Euclid, Ohio Brush 5-11 175Fast with speed to burn. Likely a cornerback, but could also return kicks.

Patrick Jean LB Port St. Lucie, Fla. Treasure Coast 6-3 200Three-star linebacker with great size and speed from a program that produced UofL players Deon Rogers and Mike Romano.

Larry Jefferson DE College Park, Ga. Banneker 6-5 218Reminds fans of BJ Dubose or Aaron Epps. Tall, athletic lineman who will gain weight, strength.

T.C. Klusman OL Cincinnati, Ohio Elder 6-4 270Clone of Eric Wood? Maybe. Same height, same weight and same high school.

Joe Manley OL Bowling Green, Ky. Bowling Green 6-7 307Has a long way to go to live up to his massive potential. Raw but huge frame.

Devontre Parnell DB Winnsboro, SC Fairfi eld Central 5-11 163Four-star defensive back is among the best cover men in the nation for 2011.

Daqual Randall LB Palmetto, Fla. Palmetto 6-0 225Short but strong linebacker with speed to play outside at Louisville.

Brandon Snell WR Miami Gardens, Fla. Carol City 5-11 160Could he be the fastest wide receiver in Florida for 2011? Maybe. Scouts really like him.

TERRY ROZIERTERRY ROZIER



2011-12 MEN’S SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME OCTOBER10/14/11 Red-White Scrimmage KFC YUM! CENTER White, 86-8510/22/11 Red-White Scrimmage KFC YUM! CENTER Red, 105-6010/26/11 vs. PIKEVILLE * KFC YUM! CENTER W, 74-55NOVEMBER 11/03/11 vs. BELLARMINE * KFC YUM! CENTER W, 62-54GLOBAL SPORTS INVITATIONAL11/11/11 vs. TENNESSEE-MARTIN KFC YUM! CENTER W, 83-4811/13/11 vs. LAMAR KFC YUM! CENTER W, 68-4811/22/11 vs. ARKANSAS STATE KFC YUM! CENTER TBA11/25/11 vs. OHIO KFC YUM! CENTER TBA11/28/11 vs. LONG BEACH STATE KFC YUM! CENTER TBA11/19/11 at Butler Indianapolis, Ind. TBADECEMBERBIG EAST / SEC CHALLENGE12/02/11 vs. VANDERBILT TV KFC YUM! CENTER 8:30 p.m.12/07/11 vs. IUPUI KFC YUM! CENTER TBA12/10/11 vs. FAIR. DICKINSON KFC YUM! CENTER TBABASKETBALL HALL OF FAME SHOOTOUT12/17/11 vs. MEMPHIS TV KFC YUM! CENTER 4:00 p.m.12/20/11 vs. C. OF CHARLESTON KFC YUM! CENTER TBABILLY MINARDI CLASSIC12/23/11 vs. WESTERN KENTUCKY KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m.12/28/11 vs. GEORGETOWN # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m.12/31/11 at Kentucky TV Lexington, Ky. 12:00 p.m.JANUARY01/03/12 at St. John’s # TV New York, N.Y. 7:00 p.m.01/07/12 vs. NOTRE DAME # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 4:00 p.m.01/10/12 at Providence # TV Providence, R.I. 7:00 p.m.01/14/12 vs. DE PAUL # KFC YUM! CENTER TBA01/16/12 at Marquette # TV Milwaukee, Wis. TBA01/21/12 at Pittsburgh # TV Pittsburgh, Pa. 9:00 p.m.01/25/12 vs. VILLANOVA # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m.01/28/12 at Seton Hall # Newark, N.J. TBAFEBRUARY02/04/12 vs. RUTGERS # KFC YUM! CENTER TBA02/06/12 vs. CONNECTICUT # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m.02/11/12 at West Virginia # TV Morgantown, W.Va. 12:00 p.m.02/13/12 vs. SYRACUSE # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m.02/18/12 at DePaul # Chicago, Ill. TBA02/23/12 at Cincinnati # TV Cincinnati, Ohio 9:00 p.m.02/26/12 vs. PITTSBURGH # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m.02/29/12 vs. USF # KFC YUM! CENTER TBAMARCH03/03/12 at Syracuse # TV Syracuse, N.Y. 4:00 p.m.BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP: New York, N.Y. (Madison Square Garden) 03/06-10/12 TBD TBA * - Exhibition game, # - Big East Conference game

2011-12 WOMEN’S SCHEDULE

DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME

OCTOBER

10/30/11 VS. LINDSEY WILSON * KFC YUM! CENTER W, 118-41

NOVEMBER

11/13/11 at Missouri State Springfi eld, Mo. W, 73-64

11/15/11 at Texas A&M TV College Station, Texas 4:00 p.m. ET

11/17/11 at Eastern Kentucky Richmond, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET

11/20/11 vs. XAVIER KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m. ET

11/22/11 vs. AUSTIN PEAY KFC YUM! CENTER 12:00 p.m. ET

11/25/11 at Florida State Tallahassee, Fla. 7:00 p.m. ET

11/26/11 at Florida A&M Tallahassee, Fla. 4:00 p.m. ET

11/29/11 vs. MURRAY STATE KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ET

DECEMBER

12/04/11 at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. TBA

12/10/11 vs. GARDNER-WEBB KFC YUM! CENTER 12:00 p.m. ET

12/14/11 at Cincinnati # Cincinnati, Ohio 7:00 p.m. ET

12/17/11 at Portland Portland, Ore. 5:00 p.m. ET

12/19/11 at Washington State Pullman, Wash. 10:00 p.m. ET

12/28/11 vs. UT-MARTIN KFC YUM! CENTER 12:00 p.m. ET

JANUARY

01/03/12 vs. MARQUETTE # KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ET

01/08/12 at St. John’s # TV Queens, N.Y. 1:30 p.m. ET

01/11/12 vs. SOUTH FLORIDA # KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ET

01/14/12 at Rutgers # Piscataway, N.J. 2:00 p.m. ET

01/18/12 vs. PROVIDENCE # KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ET

01/22/12 at Georgetown # TV Washington D.C. 5:00 p.m. ET

01/28/12 vs. VILLANOVA # KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m. ET

01/31/12 at DePaul # TV Chicago, Ill. 9:00 p.m. ET

FEBRUARY

02/04/12 at West Virginia # Morgantown, W.Va. 4:00 p.m. ET

02/07/12 vs. CONNECTICUT # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ET

02/11/12 vs. SYRACUSE # KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m. ET

02/14/12 at Pittsburgh # Pittsburgh, Pa. 7:00 p.m. ET

02/20/12 vs. NOTRE DAME # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m. ET

02/25/12 vs. DEPAUL # TV KFC YUM! CENTER 12:00 p.m. ET

02/27/12 at Seton Hall # South Orange, N.J. 7:00 p.m. ET

MARCH

BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP: Hartford, Conn.

03/02-8/12 TBD TBA

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL


By Howie LindseyUniversity of Louisville star sophomore

Shoni Schimmel was suspended for the fi rst two games of the season due to an inadvertent NCAA rules infraction last sum-mer. Schimmel, who missed Sunday’s game against Missouri State and Tuesday’s game against Texas A&M, was ruled to have par-ticipated in unsanctioned 3-on-3 summer league games by the NCAA.

A Basketball Times fi rst-team Freshman All-American who averaged 15.1 points per game as a freshman, Schimmel led the Big East in three-pointers made and was Louis-ville’s top perimeter scoring threat.

Despite her absence and a lackluster game from leading returning scorer Monique Reid (2 for 10 for four points in 22 minutes), the Cardinals beat host Missouri State 73-64. Tuesday’s game against defending NCAA champion Texas A&M was played after this week’s Louisville SportsReport went to press.

“Hopefully, Monique will decide to show up and play for us Tuesday, because she was pretty much a non-factor out there today,” Walz said Sunday.

Without Schimmel, and with sophomore point guard Charmaine Tay out for the fall semester due to academics, Louisville was forced to start junior walk-on Shelby Harper at point guard. Freshman Jude Schimmel, Shoni’s little sister, also played at the point at times.

“We are going to have to fi nd more scor-ing from our guards,” Walz said. “I thought Jude Schimmel played extremely well. She had fi ve assists, three turnovers and came up with three steals. Shelby played well, but we have to be able to fi nd more scoring from our guards, especially at point guard.”

Harper and Jude Schimmel fi nished a com-bined 0 for 3 from the fi eld for one point (a Schimmel free throw).

“When Shoni comes back, she is going to play the point,” Walz said. “She is too good with the ball for us to take her off the point. She will get a spell every once in a while to play the two, but she is effective at point.”

Missouri State, picked to win the Missouri Valley Conference, was no pushover, so how did Louisville win without Shoni Schimmel and Reid? The newcomers stepped up.

“(Getting Shoni back) is going to make a big difference for us,” Walz said. “But this is giving other players an opportunity to play and show what they can do.”

Redshirt sophomore transfer center Cierra Warren came off the bench to hit all eight of her shots for 18 points and four rebounds in just 12 minutes. Freshman forward Sara Hammond, the program’s fi rst McDonald’s All-American signee, was 5 of 12 for 13 points with 13 rebounds and four blocks in 22 minutes. Freshman shooting guard Bria Smith started her fi rst college game and had 10 points, six steals and fi ve rebounds.

“Sara Hammond played outstanding in this one,” Walz said. “All three of the fresh-men (Hammond, Smith and Schimmel) had good games. Sara had 13 points and 13 boards. She is always around the basketball. The big thing for me is that she has got to stop tipping the basketball. She tips it and she needs to grab it. We have to work at her hand strength, but for her fi rst game as a

freshman I was very pleased.“And then Bria Smith had a good game,

but she struggled from the free-throw line. She went 2 for 8, but she came up with six steals, and for a freshman that is pretty im-pressive. Bria is OK, though. She got hit in the throat and was having a hard time swal-lowing, and she had to catch her breath.”

It didn’t look good for the Cardinals early on. UofL was down by double-digits late in the fi rst half when increased pressure de-fense and better passing sparked a run. UofL cut the margin to 33-32 by halftime and out-scored the Bears 41-31 in the second half.

“It was a very good win,” Walz said. “I was proud of the way we played in the last 24 minutes. We were down by 10 with 3:54 to go in the fi rst half and we fi nally started to defend and we fi nally started to play with some urgency.”

Walz knew the Missouri State game would be tough for his team.

“My main concern all week was our team looking past the Missouri State game to the Texas A&M game,” he said. “I kept telling them that this is a very good basketball team and we have to be prepared to play. Unfor-tunately, we came out very lackluster in the fi rst 16 minutes and we missed several wide-open one-footers. You can’t do that if you are going to be successful.

“We found a way to regroup. We cut a 10-point defi cit to one by halftime, and then we got it going.”

The Cardinals fi gured out MIssouri State’s double-team defense in the second half. Louisville hit just 11 of 33 shots in the fi rst half with just two assists. In the second half the Cardinals hit 16 of 39 shots (41 percent) with six assists.

“They did a very good job defensively,” Walz said. “They would come and double from the weak side, and we never reversed the ball. Our guards were open, but then we started to make the extra pass. In the fi rst half we had 11 made fi eld goals, but the problem is I think we had just two assists. In the second half we went six assists on 16 made fi eld goals, and a few of the others were on offensive rebounds, so you aren’t going to get an assist on that. I thought we fi nally started to attack, play hard and make

the extra pass.”Warren’s 18-point game included 16

points in the second half. Missouri State just didn’t have a way to stop her on the low block. Three of her baskets came on offen-sive rebounds.

“She is a talented young lady, and she can score in the post,” Walz said. “What I have to do is to get her play on both ends of the fl oor. In the fi rst half she was a liability for us because she gave up so many points. In the second half she scored more than she gave up so I kept her in the game. In order for us to be good, she has to work a little harder in the post for me. She can score. She is a very, very talented offensive player.”

The Cardinals could have had a 20-point win were it not for a dismal day at the foul line.

“We aren’t going to win too many games going 15 of 27 from the free-throw line,” Walz said.

GIBBS INJUREDStarting shooting guard Tia Gibbs left

the game after just four minutes when sheaggravated an old shoulder injury. She wasquestionable for the Tuesday game againstTexas A&M.

“Tia, I’m not sure yet,” Walz said. “Tia isa big, big player for us. Unfortunately, shegot her shoulder pulled back and it was thesame one she had surgery on during her red-shirt year. We have to see if there is a tear inthere. If there is no tear, we have to see if shecan play through some pain. She is a ques-tion mark for Tuesday’s game.”

UP NEXT?After Tuesday’s game in College Station,

Texas, the Cardinals will fl y back home andtake on Eastern Kentucky Thursday nightat 7 in Richmond. UofL then will have a re-match with Xavier Sunday at 2 p.m. in theKFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals knockedoff No. 2-seeded Xavier in the second roundof the NCAA Tournament last season to ad-vance to the Sweet 16.

LOUISVILLE WOMEN OPEN SEASON WITHOUT STAR SHONI SCHIMMEL

Shoni Schimmel (left) was replaced in the starting lineup by Shelby Harper

(right) for Louisville’s fi rst game of the season.

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By Howie LindseyWith a 2-0 victory over visiting Dayton

last Saturday night, the University of Louis-ville women’s soccer team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the fi rst time in school history.

“It is fantastic because this couldn’t hap-pen to a better team,” coach Karen Fergu-son-Dayes said. “This team has defi ed the odds all year long, even when we started out 1-4-1 or 1-5-1 or whatever, I never stopped believing in this group and they never stopped believing in each other.... Now we know we can do it.”

Louisville advanced to face No. 5 Mem-phis (22-0-1) on Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Memphis.The Tigers crushed UT-Martin 7-0 in the fi rst round.

“It just means the world,” senior co-cap-tain Kaitie McDonald said of UofL’s victory. “This is something we have always dreamed of, and to be advancing with this team is just such an honor. We are behind each other 100 percent.... We’re still going!”

Prior to Saturday night Louisville was 0-1-1 in its two NCAA Tournament appear-ances. The Cardinals fi rst made the tourna-ment in 2006, battling Duke to a double-overtime scoreless tie before falling 5-4 on penalty kicks. UofL made the tournament the following season as well, falling 1-0 to Illinois in a fi rst-round game in South Bend, Ind. But fi rsts are nothing new to this year’s team.

“A lot of our program fi rsts have come with this team,” Ferguson-Dayes said. “We won a regular-season Big East champion-ship, we beat Notre Dame on the road when they were on a ridiculous home win-ning streak, we are the fi rst team to beat Notre Dame twice in a season, and then we got a home game in the NCAA Tournament for the fi rst time ever. That is special for these seniors - Caitlin Beck, Kaitie Mac (Mc-Donald), Chloe Kiefer, Jennifer Jones...”

The seniors - and such powerhouse un-derclassmen as sophomores Christine Ex-eter and Angelika Uremovich - have helped the Cardinals tie the school record for wins in a season at 13-6-3. This after starting the season 1-4-1.

UofL has just one loss since the begin-ning of October, a 2-0 Big East semifi nal fal-ter to No. 11 West Virginia last week. They are 9-1-0 in that span.

Saturday the Cardinals got an early goal from McDonald and a late goal from Ure-movich to secure the win. The action was fast and wild in the fi rst half. The teams combined for 19 shots, with nine shots on goal.

With the wind howling at Louisville’s backs in the fi rst half, Ferguson-Dayes told her team they’d better get a goal before the wind changed.

“We wanted to pressure them and get after it with the wind on our side,” she said. “To their credit, to be able to still get the shots on the frame that they did was im-pressive, especially considering the wind. In all honesty, that made me nervous for what was to come in the second half when we were against the wind.”

The Flyers had an 18-yard shot on goal that was saved by Chloe Kiefer in the sixth minute. With just under 29 minutes to go in the fi rst half Exeter had a fast break, moving through two Dayton defenders and fl icking a shot toward the goal with her right foot. Dayton goalkeeper Jordin Melchert got her hands on it, and then quickly smothered the rebound, protecting the ball from Exeter.

With 24 minutes left in the fi rst half Day-ton’s Alexis Garcia had a corner kick that bent toward the Louisville goal, but Exeter headed the ball away and the Flyers’ chance

was kicked away. Seven minutes later Day-ton’s Kelsey Smigel had a shot from 18 yards, but it was blocked up and over the goal by Kiefer. Just a minute later, Colleen Williams had a header in the box that was saved by a pair of UofL defenders.

The Cardinals’ next shot came just a minute later when Exeter blasted a 15-yard shot right into the gut of the Dayton keep-er. A shot by Erin Yenney was blocked away by Dayton’s Melchert with 11 minutes left in the half.

UofL’s goal came at the 10:44 mark when McDonald headed in a loose ball in a crowd of about 10 players. The ball was knocked around and was headed back into the goal a second later, but the goal was credited to McDonald on the fi rst header. At the end of the play, three Dayton play-ers were inside the goal as Louisville ran to midfi eld in celebration. Fellow senior cap-tain Jones was credited with the assist.

“It was off of a corner kick, and I saw that Jennifer overhit it,” McDonald said. “I just wanted to get anything I could on it. After the initial contact it hit the Dayton girl on the post and she was in the goal so I raised my hand. I was saying ‘Goal!’ and then her attempt to clear ricocheted off someone and back into the goal. But I think the fi rst one was already in.”

The Cardinals had another shot on goal with seven minutes left in the fi rst half when Zakiya McIntosh beat her defender and lofted a shot over Melchert, but it was kicked away inches from the goal line by Emily Kenyon.

With just over two minutes left, UofL’s Casey Whitfi eld has a shot on goal from 8 yards out that was grabbed in the middle of the goal by Melchert.

“I think having the wind at our backs in the fi rst half gave us momentum and al-lowed us to dictate the tempo,” Ferguson-Dayes said. “Probably what I am most proud of is that we still did that in the second half. Despite going against the wind in the sec-ond half we still out-battled them and im-posed our will. That allowed us to get our second goal.”

The second half wasn’t as shot-fi lled, but Louisville still kept the pressure on Dayton’s defense. And Dayton, too, had some good-looking shots thwarted by Kiefer. In all, the Cardinals’ keeper fi nished with seven saves.

“She is big time,” Ferguson-Dayes said. “She made some game-changing saves. We see her make those saves all the time in practice against our shooters. She has been great in practice and even better in games. To some degree, I think she has been our unsung hero. Christine (Exeter) grabs the attention because she scores so many goals, but without our back line and Chloe Kiefer, we wouldn’t be here.”

With 37 minutes left, Dayton’s Williams had a 30-yard shot that was grabbed by Kiefer. With 23 minutes left, a Dayton play-er lofted a shot towards the goal from 20 yards out, but Kiefer snagged it out of the air.

“It took a lot of focus,” Kiefer said. “Day-ton came at us pretty hard, and we knew they were a team that could shoot from anywhere. I am used to it because I have these two (Uremovich and McDonald) shooting at me all the time.”

With 14 minutes left Uremovich scored a goal from 20 yards out on the left side, with an assist to Whitfi eld.

“It started with Casey’s pressure in our at-tacking third,” Uremovich said. “I wanted the ball. I had a defender on me, on my left, and I listened to my coach for the fi rst time all year and kept it outside and then put it away.”

MEMPHIS NEXTThe No. 5 Tigers will be a tough test. They

just walloped UT-Martin and have a fast and agile goal-scorer in Christabel Oduro, who recorded a hat trick (three goals) in the fi rst half Saturday.

“Memphis is good, very good,” Fergu-son-Dayes said. “Brooks (Monaghan) is a great coach, and he has a good program there. They have a couple of international players (and) have been ranked in the top

10, top 15, all season long. We have to shiftgears quickly.”

Memphis’ only non-win of the seasonwas a double-overtime tie against SMUon Oct. 7. Among their victories are LSU,Alabama, WKU, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt andHouston.

The winner of the UofL-UM game willadvance to a third-round game against ei-ther No. 1 seed Florida State or Portland onSunday afternoon in Memphis.

PAGE 20 LOUISVILLE SPORTSREPORT NOVEMBER 17, 2011

WOMEN’S SOCCER

CARDS ADVANCE IN NCAA TOURNAMENT FOR FIRST TIME

The UofL women’s soccer team was introduced to rousing applause at the UT-Martin game on Friday at the Yum!

Center. The ladies then got UofL’s fi rst-ever NCAA Tournament victory on Saturday night, 2-0 over Dayton.

LOUISVILLE ATHLETICS


CARDINAL STARSCHANE BEHANAN - BASKETBALLThe freshman from Cincinnati had 10 points and 13 rebounds for a second straight double-double to start his college career as the ninth-ranked Cardinals beat cold-shooting Lamar 68-48 in the Global Sports Invitational last Sunday. He had 14 points and 12 rebounds in his collegiate debut, an 83-48 victory over Tennessee-Martin last Friday. Behanan has hit 77 percent of his shots, 4 of 6 free throws and has 25 rebounds in his fi rst two games. He’s averaging 12 points and 12.5 rebounds in just 27 minutes playing time per game.

CIERRA WARREN - WOMEN’S BASKETBALLThe redshirt sophomore from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., made all eight of her shots and scored 18 points to help No. 9 Louisville beat Missouri State 73-64 Sunday in the opener for both teams. Warren replaced Keshia Hines, Louisville’s lone departed starter from last season’s Sweet 16 team. A 6-foot-4 center, Warren attended North Carolina as a freshman, where she played in 31 games, averaging 4.2 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. She scored in double-fi gures four times for the Tar Heels, with a high of 15 points against Presbyterian.

LOLA ARSLANBEKOVA - VOLLEYBALLThe junior from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has lived up to her billing as Big East Preseason Player of the Year, leading the league in kills per set with 4.94. Arslanbekova was named Big East Offensive Player of the Week a league-leading four times. A 5-foot-11 outside hitter, Arslanbekova fi nished the regular season with 494 kills and a .295 hitting percentage. She also had 238 digs and 40 blocks during the regular season for a total of 545 points.

KAITIE MCDONALD - WOMEN’S SOCCERThe senior captain from Nashville, Tenn., scored the fi rst goal in Louisville’s 2-0 victory over Dayton in the fi rst round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday night at Cardinal Park. In the 35th minute, McDonald was in a scrum of 10 players in front of the Dayton goal when she directed a corner kick from Jennifer Jones into the goal with a quick header. It was McDonald’s second goal of the season, both coming in the postseason. The 5-10 defender has been honored as a Dean’s Scholar, Red and Black Scholar, Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and Big East Academic All-Star.

MATT HUGHES - MEN’S CROSS COUNTRYThe redshirt senior from Oshawa, Ontario, fi nished 13th at the NCAA Southeast Regional on Saturday morning at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park to help UofL register a sixth-place team fi nish. Hughes, who earned all-Region honors for the second straight season, paced the team with a time of 30:26.0 in the 10K. He is a two-time NCAA champion in the 3,000m Steeplechase during the outdoor track and fi eld season.

PEDRO OLIVEIRA - MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVINGThe senior from Rio Maior, Portugal, won the 200-back and 200-fl y to help UofL’s men crush Notre Dame 191-109 Saturday at Ralph Wright Natatorium. Oliveira also fi nished third in the 100-fl y. There was a time when Notre Dame dominated the Big East in men’s and women’s swimming, but Louisville took both titles last season and appears to be the odds-on favorite for 2012 as well. Other multi-event winners were Carlos Almeida (100-breast, 200-IM) and Joao De Lucca (100- and 200-free).

ESZTER POVAZSAY - WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVINGThe junior from Dunakeszi, Hungary, won both the 100- and 200-backstroke events as UofL beat Notre Dame 188-112 Saturday in a dual meet. Povazsay won the 100-back in 55.74 as the Cardinals swept the top three spots, and she took the 200-back in 2:00.44, barely out-touching teammate Victoria Mitchell. Povazsay was named to the Hungarian National Team last summer and competed in the European Championships.

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OF THE WEEKOF THE WEEK

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Three things you may have missed By Rick Cushing

I BEG TO DIFFER

Following UofL’s 21-14 loss to Pittsburgh last Saturday, UofL coach Charlie Strong and his players ascribed the loss to “lack of focus,” to “fake juice” and to a poor week of practice that led to the team being fl at.

I saw the game, and I’m not buying it.College teams come out ”fl at” at times for various reasons, two of the most prominent ones being

overconfi dence because the opponent is deemed unworthy and failure to come back to earth following a big victory. In UofL’s case it was the latter reason (the game following an upset of West Virginia) that led to a week of poor practices.

Top-ranked LSU fell prey to the former reason in its game against Western Kentucky last Saturday. The Bengal Tigers, who were 41-point favorites, led just 14-7 at the half. But they regrouped at halftime, went out and dominated the second half to post a 42-9 victory.

Pitt dominated the fi rst half against the unfocused Cards but led just 7-0 despite outgaining UofL 193 yards to 137 and having 11 fi rst downs to fi ve by the Cards. The halftime intermission gave the Cards plenty of time to shed their “lack of focus” and come out ready to play.

So what happened in the second half? Pitt pushed the Cards around again, outgaining them 203 yards to 143, with 71 of those yards coming on a meaningless closing TD drive. Before that drive Pitt had outgained the Cards 203 to 72 in the half. I don’t call that “lack of focus,” I call it “domination.”

Pitt ran for 200 yards, with its alternating tailbacks averaging 5.7 and 5.3 yards per carry. Even Strong admitted the Panthers dominated the line of scrimmage.

The story of the game was simple. The Cards got pushed around.

BELLAMY PUSHED INTO SERVICE AS DB

Josh Bellamy, who began the season as a starting

wideout, found himself in the starting lineup as

a cornerback against Pittsburgh. The shift was

necessitated by the inavailability of cornerbacks

Adrian Bushell and Stephan Robinson. Bushell, a

junior, was held out for the second time this season

because of an undisclosed in-house discipline.

Robinson, a freshman, was not in uniform for

an undisclosed reason, although a team offi cial

acknowledged that he “was not injured.”

The speedy Bellamy fared well in the fi rst half,

with seven tackles, second on the team. But on

Pitt’s fi rst possession of the second half he made

a critical mistake, dropping coverage on wideout

Devin Street and coming up to attempt a tackle

on Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri, who then lobbed

a pass over Bellamy to a wide-open Street, who

gained 59 yards on the play down to the UofL 21-

yard line. Pitt scored three plays later to make the

score 14-0.

Bellamy acknowledged his error. “That was on

me,” he said after the game. “That was just a

broken coverage by me.”

Said Strong: “You can’t drop that coverage. You

should never leave coverage there.”

Bellamy was replaced on the next series by

freshman Terrell Floyd, and UofL went the rest of

the way with two true freshmen at the corners –

Floyd and Andrew Johnson.

Strong said that both Bushell and Robinson would

be back for Saturday’s game at Connecticut.

GRIDIRON MUSINGS

The NCAA instituted a new rule this season that penalizes a team when its player engages in a showboat celebration when scoring a touchdown, such as high-stepping, thrusting the ball into the air, etc. Under the new rule such actions would negate the TD. The purpose of the new rule was to discourage a player from taking actions that draw attention to himself.

I know of only one instance where the new rule was enforced this season, and it involved a player thrusting the ball into the air before he crossed the goal line in scoring the fi rst TD of his career. I believe it involved a blocked or fake punt, but I’m not certain

My question is: Why aren’t defensive players being penalized for drawing attention to themselves, such as making wild and showy gestures after making a sack or a big tackle? What’s the difference?

Last season players were penalized for “excessive celebration” following a TD. The worst example of that being enforced occurred in the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee Stadium matching Syracuse and Kansas State. K-State scored a touchdown in the fi nal seconds to close within 36-34, needing a two-point conversion to force overtime. But the K-State receiver who scored the TD had snapped off a salute to the thousands of military member in attendance, and a 15-yard unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty was assessed. K-State then had to run its two-point conversion play from the 17-yard line, and it was, predictably, unsuccessful. It was criminal, if you ask me.

I can see no fault in celebrating a touchdown. But if the NCAA wants to discourage celebrating by penalizing it, do the same on both sides of the ball. I fi nd it more egregious for a defensive player to step out in front of the crowd and pound his chest or pose after making a tackle than for a player to celebrate a TD.

I see this as another example of the NCAA being unreasonable.


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By Russ BrownWhen Lola Arslanbekova was an ener-

getic 7-year-old in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, her mother went to her grade school one day to plead for school offi cials to put her in an activity that would diminish some of her daughter’s pep.

Thus began a love affair with volleyball and a path that would eventually lead her thousands of miles from home to the Uni-versity of Louisville, where she has become the brightest star for the Cardinals’ surging program, which has earned the No. 1 seed for the Big East Tournament starting Friday in Milwaukee. UofL is 20-7 overall, 13-1 in the Big East.

(We pause here for a geography lesson. Uzbekistan is one of six Turkic states in Cen-tral Asia that prior to 1991 was part of the Soviet Union. The country shares a southern border with Afghanistan. Arslanbekova’s hometown of Tashkent is an Islamic city of about 4.5 million that is the capital of Uz-bekistan. It means “Stone City,” and Rus-sian is the primary language.)

“When I was young I had so much en-ergy and my mom didn’t know what to do with me because I’m crushing everything, running everywhere,” Arslanbekova said with a grin. “She came to school and asked them, ‘Can you put her in something so she can get rid of this energy? We need to do something with her.’”

A teacher suggested volleyball, and Ar-slanbekova had found her passion.

“So 14 years later, I still like it, I’m still learning, it is still interesting,” Lola said.

She was recruited to UofL by former coach Leonid Yelin, who was a friend of her high school coach, the father of for-mer Cardinal Tatyana Kolesnikova. When Yelin offered Lola a scholarship, she didn’t hesitate to accept it, even though she knew no English at the time and would be living far away from her family with little hope of seeing them for four years or more.

“It was a good opportunity for me,” she said. “I took it right away. I saw a big fu-ture at a big university where I could get a good education, plus I can play sports and it would be free. Now my team and their parents are my family. They’re awesome”

When she arrived, she knew two English words, yes and no, but it took her only six months or so to learn to communicate, of-ten with the help of her teammates. Some of it unwarranted.

“The fi rst six months were the hardest,” Arslanbekova said. “My team was laugh-ing at me. They would point and say, ‘This is food. You need to eat.’ I’d say, ‘I’m not stupid. I can see what I’m supposed to do.’ They teach me how to speak. It was fun.”

“Fun” pretty much describes the per-sonality of Arslanbekova, an ebullient ju-nior outside hitter who was an immediate smash, both on the court and with her teammates and coaches.

“First of all, what’s pretty impressive about Lola is how proud I am of her overall off-the-court leadership and work ethic,” said Anne Kordes, who succeeded Yelin as UofL’s coach this season. “She’s really taken to school and is very serious about

her degree and her grades. She realizes she has a career and a life ahead of her with-out volleyball and has gotten really serious about that future. If she’s not on the fl oor or in class, she’s with tutors every day, even when I leave here. And that’s a lot, and then to go out and perform every week.

“She’s a fun kid, easy to joke around with but at same time you’ve got to think about all she has on her plate. She’s com-pletely on her own, across the world from her family. She becomes a real easy kid to love because they need it a little bit more. She’s been someone who, as much as you rely on her and challenge her, you also want to hold her up and love her and say, ‘Hey, everybody here is real proud of you.’”

Aside from her skills on the court, Arslan-bekova is also known around the volleyball offi ces for her dancing ability, which she of-ten demonstrates in the locker room before matches and during warmups when music is being played.

“Oh my gosh, she’s amazing,” Kordes said. “She’s got more rhythm and more groove than any kid I’ve seen at that age.”

Arslanbekova, 21, said she was taught her groovy moves by her older sister, who is a professional dancer. She wishes she had time to go to clubs, but she’s far too busy. She said she likes a variety of music, “everything but country.”

As playful and full of vitality as she is off the court, Arslanbekova is extremely intense, driven and competitive during matches, a trait she said she has had since childhood.

“I grew up with the instinct that I need to protect myself and do better in everything,” she said. “Every time if we don’t have a good pass or a good set, I need to fi x it. Every bad ball goes to me, and I need to save it. If it’s off, it’s going to me and I need to take care of it.”

Said Kordes: “She’s competi-tive and she also has a lot of pride. She wants to kill you, but she also wants to play the best. She wants to be No. 1. She wants to beat you, but at the same time she has pride in herself and the way she plays.

“When somebody blocks her or digs a ball from her and they go crazy, oh man, it just takes her up to another level. She gets mad. I love it. It’s fun to watch. There’s also times in a match when they’re sending every blocker they have -- they’ll put three blockers on

her and put their entire defense up against her. As a coach, that’s when you tell your setter to go away because you’ve got all these free hitters, but she gets in such a zone she’s unstoppable, so you just say, ‘Let her go.’”

As a rookie Arslanbekova earned a multi-tude of honors, including Big East Freshman of the Year and Big East Tournament MVP. She repeated as an All-Big East selection last season, but her performance wasn’t up to the standards she had set the year be-fore because she had to adjust to being the focus of opposing teams’ efforts, attracting double- and triple-teams.

Now, however, Arslanbekova has learned to deal with the extra attention and she is having another banner season. She leads the Big East in kills with 494 and in digs with an average of 5.47 per game, and she tops the Cardinals in total attacks with 1,148.

In last Friday’s 3-2 victory over Vil-

lanova that clinched the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, Arslanbekova registered a double-dou-ble with 25

kills and 23 digs.

“On the court I can hear

(opposing play-ers) say, ‘OK,

t h e y ’ re g o -

ing to send No. 9,’ so they give me a tripleblock and nobody for the other girls,” shesaid. “It never stopped me. Triple block,two blocks, one block, I’m going. I’m hav-ing fun all the time on the court. I’m justdoing my job and I know the team behindme will cover me and support me.”

After Arslanbekova graduates from UofLwith a degree in communications, Kordessaid there is no doubt that an opportunityto play professional volleyball awaits, prob-ably in Europe. Besides her competitiveness,Kordes said Arslanbekova’s assets includeher versatility, her court vision, her hangtime and her ability to hit a precision shot.

“She’ll be a top prospect when she leaveshere,” Kordes said. “She’s already a strongattacker, and she’s able to perform at a highlevel as much in the back row as the frontrow. There might be a kid around here whocan jump higher and hit harder, but theycan’t do what she can do in the back row,so she becomes a more important player forher team.”

When her playing days are over, Arslan-bekova said she would like to return to Lou-isville and work with Kordes on the UofLcoaching staff.

“It is wonderful here,” she said. “Greatfacilities, the people and coaching staffare wonderful. It’s a whole ‘nother world Ihave found out about. I would like to stayhere.”

CARDS SEEK 4th TITLE IN ROWLouisville will be seeking its fourth straight

Big East Tournament championship and willbe a slight favorite to earn the automaticNCAA Tournament berth that goes with thetitle, but Kordes said the Cards won’t lackfor challenges.

“I think it’s anybody’s title,” Kordes said,naming Cincinnati, Notre Dame and Mar-quette as the most dangerous contenders,with Villanova and South Florida as dark-

horses. “We’ve got to stay healthy. Wedon’t have any subs, and that’s a big,

big part of it.“We’ve dominated in greatfashion for the majority of this

Big East season. However,we’ve had some slip-ups,

too, and for whateverreason, kids seem to

hold on to that.So for me it’skeeping them

mentally con-fi dent, men-tally tough,and theway youdo that is

prepare likecrazy. We break

down everything.We go over that

days, days, days in ad-vance.”In between the con-

ference and NCAA tourna-ments, the Cards will play one

fi nal home game in the KFC Yum!Center, taking on the Ohio Valley Con-

ference champion at 2 p.m. on Nov. 26.

P O P U L A R A R S L A N B E K O V A A H I T W I T H C O A C H E S , T E A M M A T E S

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Dylan Thomas Johnson of Atlanta, GA. Dylan’s Dad, Daniel, is a 2001 UofL grad.

Eight-month-old Dylan Madden Sale at his fi rst UofL football game (Marshall)

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