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Wake Forest might be our best competition for the number two spot. They are 4-0 since they made Ty-laur Johnson their starting point guard. Coming here in a couple weeks. Go Cards.

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Bardman said:

One RS’d last year and she is more of a project and ultimately may be more use to the team in practice. Hardy is FR. I am not sure if she is RSing or not. She has some serious hops - better than any player 6’1” or greater on our roster. I think with the Aussie, I agree, she looks unsure of herself at times. She suffers from what all of our bigs do - weak hands. I think she just needs time to grow into the game. Elif, to me, is much better this year than last. She still has her moment and still needs to get stronger. But, she is more confident on the court and makes some pretty good moves. We don’t have any leapers; which equates to a lack of athleticism in the front court. Jazmine exhibited the type of athleticism we are missing. She wasn’t huge but she could jump and she made an impact because of that alone.

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I loved Jazz Jones and still find it hard to believe she didn't become a star.

You're dead on about the weak hands and lack of jumping. Both Harris and Cochran would be all-Americans if they were more athletic.

Elif has improved since earlier in the season, but she's the Noah Waterman of the women's team, and isn't a 3 point shooter but seems to believe she is.

I would like to see Walz give more PT to Berry and Arenas over Russell. I know they're smaller but Russell mostly shoots 3's anyway.

And let's get Curry going early in these games. Show her Dana Evans videos on how to get open for that 3 point shot.

nccardfan said:

I think the women just did the same thing last night against Syracuse, securing the 2nd spot in the ACC. Have faith in CJW! Go Cards!

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It's remarkable how the women are matching the men with 7 wins in a row. They even both played Syracuse for the 7th win.

However, the men are doing it with a ton of experience and a new coach, while the women are doing it with largely inexperienced players with a long standing coach.

Both are in 2nd place in the ACC and neither have had much fanfare from the media. However it's starting to go that way as Cards fans wonder which will lose first?

PushupMan said:

Pretty simple to me, really. Latest bracketology, which is based purely on metrics without any bias (or at least as little bias as is humanly possible), has us as an 8 seed. That’s a ranking of anywhere from 29 to 32. Sounds like the AP poll having us at 30 has it about right.

After 12-52 the last two years, with more than half of those 52 not even being competitive, the name “Louisville” doesn’t give ANY poll voters a reason to rank us highly based on reputation. Call that bias if you want. We’ve got to earn all of that back, one game at a time.

The exciting news for all of us is that we’re on a 7 game winning streak currently, so we’re very much trending in the right direction, and we should begin to be ranked very soon, as long as we keep winning.

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I will call it what it is. It's that simple. Taking into consideration how bad Louisville was the past two seasons is a legitimate metric when voting in the pre-season polls, and before very many games are played. But not now in mid January when Louisville has won 7 games in row and has played one of the toughest schedules.

I could understand if we had beaten mostly cupcakes and bottom dwellers, but that's not even close to being the case. I sit here typing on my phone shaking my head that some of you give excuses for Louisville being judged not for this season but for the seasons before. I mean what's it going to take?
A 8 seed in March when Louisville is 26 and 7?

Why couldn't the shitty KP years not be used for seeding this Louisville team so low? Louisville could lose just two more games and they would still probably be a #4 seed. Remember 2005?

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That game was like riding a rollercoaster and not as much fun. We did "enough" to win and that is what counts. Hopefully we don't have a scoring drought, like tonight's, against a good team. GO CARDS!

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