Cardinals Journey to ACC TipOff on Tuesday

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville girls’s basketball workforce can be well-represented at Tuesday’s 2025 ACC Women’s Basketball TipOff as head coach Jeff Walz, senior Laura Ziegler and sophomore Tajianna Roberts will attend the occasion on the Hilton Charlotte Uptown in Charlotte, N.C.

Coach Walz and the gamers may have a press convention that can be streamed on the ACC Network Extra beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET. Fans can watch the press convention by way of the link here. Roberts and Ziegler may have a reside section on ACC Network beginning at 9:45 a.m. earlier than the press convention. Coach Walz can be reside on ACC Network later within the morning at 11:30 a.m.

The Louisville contingent may even participate in numerous interviews and media alternatives all through the morning. Fans can regulate the festivities by following Louisville girls’s basketball on social media and utilizing the hashtag #ACCTipoff.

Roberts is in her second season with the Cardinals and is coming off a powerful freshman marketing campaign. Roberts was among the best freshmen within the league final season, as she earned a program document 5 ACC Rookie of the Week honors. Roberts was named to the ACC All-Freshman Team together with Second Team All-ACC honors. She is one among simply two freshmen that earned All-ACC honors. Roberts led the workforce with 1.7 steals per sport and was second on the squad with 12.8 factors per sport final season.

Ziegler involves the Cardinals after spending three seasons at Saint Joseph’s. She is coming off a standout junior season the place she was a finalist for the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year award. Last season with the Hawks, she led the A-10 with 10.4 rebounds per sport and was second within the convention with 17.5 factors per sport. She was the third participant in Saint Joseph’s program historical past to document 500+ factors, 200+ rebounds and 100+ assists in a single season. Ziegler was a primary workforce All-Conference honoree in every of the final two seasons. 

Walz is getting into his nineteenth season as the top coach of the Cardinals with a 486-146 document and is the all-time winningest coach in program historical past. The Cards are coming off their Fifteenth-straight 20-win season, which is the fourth longest energetic streak within the nation and the longest energetic streak within the ACC. Louisville received 13 ACC video games final season, the Eleventh-straight season with 12 or extra convention wins. No different ACC workforce has received 10 convention video games or extra in every of the final 11 seasons.

Louisville opens the 2025-26 marketing campaign in Ramstein, Germany in opposition to the reigning nationwide champion UConn Huskies as a part of the Peraton Armed Forces Classic on Tuesday, November 4. The dwelling opener can be on Sunday, November 9 when the Cards tackle Northern Kentucky at 2 p.m. ET on the KFC Yum! Center.