For the fifth straight season - but for the first time at Lynn Stadium - the University of Louisville men’s soccer team will host an NCAA Tournament match.
Ken
Cardinals (10-7-3), who are the No. 13 overall seed in the 48-team tourney, will meet Saint Louis (14-4-2) at 6 p.m. Sunday evening in a second-round match at Lynn Stadium. The
Billikens
bettered Tulsa 2-0 in a first-round match Thursday night.
This will be the second meeting of the season between
UofL
and Saint Louis. The
Billikens
beat the Cards 1-0 Sept. 9 in St. Louis.
Louisville, which is coming off a heartbreaking double-overtime loss to Clemson in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament final, is on the same side of the bracket as No. 4 seed Maryland (13-5-3). The Cards beat the Terrapins 1-0 in their first-ever game at Lynn Stadium on Aug. 29.
The Final Four will be held Dec. 12 (with the final Dec. 14) at Cary, N.C., which was also the site of the ACC tourney.
Here’s a look at what else there is to follow, and/or watch, in
UofL
sports this weekend:
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams host the UofL Invite, which begins Friday and runs through Sunday at the Ralph Wright Natatorium.
The volleyball team (15-12, 7-8), which has lost four of its last five matches, will try to get a winning streak going when it hosts ACC opponents Duke and North Carolina this weekend at Cardinal Arena. The Cards host the Blue Devils at 6 p.m. Friday night and the Tar Heels at noon Sunday.
The men’s basketball team (2-0), which is No. 7 in the Associated Press Top 25 and No. 8 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, hosts Marshall at 9 p.m. Friday night and Savannah State at 7 p.m. Monday night at the KFC Yum! Center as it continues play in the Global Sports Showcase.
Men’s cross country runners Edwin
Kibichiy
and
Ernest
Kibet
will compete in the NCAA Championships, which will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Terre Haute,
Ind
.
Kibichiy
and
Kibet
finished second and third, respectively, in the NCAA Southeast Regional last Friday at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park.
The
24th-ranked
football team (7-3), led by freshman quarterback Reggie Bonnafon, will play at Notre Dame at 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon in South Bend,
Ind
.
The
12th-ranked
women’s basketball team (3-0), which blasted Belmont 95-35 Thursday night behind a game-high 17 points from freshman
Mariya
Moore, hosts Ball State at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Yum! Center.
Photo courtesy University of Louisville Men’s Soccer Facebook Page