2009–10 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team
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The 2009–10 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team will represent the University of Louisville
in the 2009–2010 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Cards, coached by Jeff Walz, are playing their final season at Freedom Hall
at the Kentucky Exposition Center
in Louisville, Kentucky
. In 2010–11, the Cardinals women's team will join the school's men's team
at the new KFC Yum! Center
in Downtown Louisville
. The Cardinals are a member of the Big East Conference
and will attempt to be as worse as the other sports teams that uL has.
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...
in the 2009–2010 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Cards, coached by Jeff Walz, are playing their final season at Freedom Hall
Freedom Hall
Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
at the Kentucky Exposition Center
Kentucky Exposition Center
The Kentucky Exposition Center , formerly Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center , is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States...
in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
. In 2010–11, the Cardinals women's team will join the school's men's team
Louisville Cardinals men's basketball
The Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team is the 18th winningest college basketball team in NCAA Division I history and has the 10th best winning percentage in college basketball history. Currently coached by Rick Pitino, the Cardinals of the University of Louisville have been to 37 NCAA...
at the new KFC Yum! Center
KFC Yum! Center
The KFC Yum! Center is a US $238 million, 22,000-seat basketball and multipurpose arena that opened on October 10, 2010, on the Ohio River waterfront in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on Main Street between Second and Third Streets. The project is part of a $450 million project that includes...
in Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west...
. The Cardinals are a member of the Big East Conference
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...
and will attempt to be as worse as the other sports teams that uL has.
Offseason
- April 21, 2009 : Freshman forward Gwen Rucker will play volleyball during the 2009 season while redshirting during the 2009-10 women's basketball season. Rucker was a starter for both the Louisville volleyball and women's basketball teams this past season, helping lead both to NCAA tournament play. Rucker saw action in 32 games for the Cardinals, starting in the final 27 games. She finished the year averaging three points and 2.1 rebounds per game.
- April 28, 2009: The University of Louisville women's basketball team will serve as Honorary Grand Marshals of the Pegasus Parade. The Cardinals advanced to the 2009 NCAA Championship game. The 54th annual Parade will begin at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 30.
- April 29, 2009: BasketballScoop.com and ONS PerformanceTM announced that Louisville women's basketball assistant coach Stephanie Norman was named a finalist for their "Coaches of the Year" awards focusing on the "Rising Stars" of the college basketball coaching profession. The finalists were nominated by their peers, and were the 10 leading vote getters in our online voting. Norman joined Walz on the Louisville staff two years ago when he took over the program.
- May 5, 2009 : Freshman guards Mary Jackson and Tiera Stephen will not return to the University of Louisville women's basketball team for the 2009-10 season. Jackson and Stephen are currently exploring other options to continue their playing careers.
Exhibition
| Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Leading scorer | Record |
| Nov. 1 | Freedom Hall | Northern Kentucky | 79-54 | Keshia Hines, 22 | 1-0 |
Roster
| Number | Name | Height | Position | Class |
Schedule
| Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Leading scorer | Record |
| Nov. 15 | Dayton, OH | Dayton | 65-63 | Monique Reid, 18 | 1-0 |
| Nov. 17 | Hartford, CT | Hartford | 50-62 | Becky Burke, 15 | 1-1 |
| Nov. 22 | Freedom Hall | Tennessee Tech | 84-54 | Becky Burke, 16 | 2-1 |
| Nov. 27 | Cancun, Mexico | 3-1 | |||
| Nov. 28 | Cancun, Mexico | 4-1 | |||
| Dec. 2 | Mt. Pleasant, MI | Central Michigan | 75-84 | Becky Burke, 18 | 4-2 |
| Dec. 6 | Freedom Hall | Utah | 60-55 | Becky Burke, 20 | 5-2 |
| Dec. 9 | Freedom Hall | Middle Tennessee State | 5-3 | ||
| Dec. 13 | Freedom Hall | 6-3 | |||
| Dec. 16 | Knoxville | Tennessee | 56-86 | Becky Burke, 23 | 6-4 |
| Dec. 20 | Lexington | Kentucky | |||
| Dec. 22 | Durham, NH | New Hampshire | |||
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Player stats
| Player | Games Played | Minutes | Field Goals | Three Pointers | Free Throws | Rebounds | Assists | Blocks | Steals | Points |
Team players drafted into the WNBA
| Round | Pick | Player | NBA Club |
See also
- 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball seasonThe 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began in November 2009 and ended with the 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament's championship game on April 6, 2010 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The tournament opened with the first and second rounds on Thursday through Sunday,...
- 2009–10 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team
- Kentucky-Louisville rivalryKentucky-Louisville rivalryThe Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals, athletic programs for the most prominent universities in Kentucky, are intense sport rivals. The teams first played each other in 1912 and 1913 but both rivalries were largely dormant for several decades until the teams started playing regularly in...