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Louisville Cardinals head coach Jeff Walz met with the media following his team's 63-58 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Walz opened his press availability congratulating Nebraska on their season.
I first want to start off and congratulate Nebraska on an incredible year. Amy has done a remarkable job out there. It's been fun to watch. Especially having coached there for four years and still have friends that worked in the athletic department. Jeff Griesch and Matt Coatney have been the voice of Husker basketball for a long time, and it was really neat to see them.
Jamie Kubik Hagedorn, you know, she's now one of their senior sport administrators for women's basketball was on that same team that I had the opportunity to coach and be a part of. It was really nice to see her as well.
Walz has been in charge of the Louisville program since the 2007 season. He holds an overall record of 485-145. He's also made four Final Fours, with the most recent appearance coming in 2022. He also has four ACC regular season titles and one ACC tournament title. Walz went on to talk about how hard it is to end a season on a loss.
It's a game where things go full circle throughout your career, and it's really, it's something special, and that's one of the things when you play a game like this, sure, you're playing out there to win, but I do feel for her because I've been there. I understand how hard the amount of time and effort your staff, head coaches, the players all put into it, especially this time of the year.
We are a sport where we don't have bowl games. You can still end the year on a win, even though you might not win a championship. For us, there's one team that's going to finish the year with a win. The rest of us are faced with a loss. So it's tough, but I just want to congratulate them.
Walz also has Nebraska connections. He was an assistant in Lincoln from 1997 to 2001 and even coached Nebraska head coach Amy Williams in 1997 when she was a senior with the Huskers. The Louisville head coach also challenged the media for not doing more to promote emerging stars in the game and cited Nebraska freshman Britt Prince as an example.
Before a question, I'd just like to challenge ESPN on some different things because we get stuck on -- we don't change the narrative in women's basketball very often.
For people to not know more about Britt Prince, really sad. It's a shame. But she wasn't a big name -- well, she was to a lot of us in recruiting circles because we sat there and recruited her hard. If you don't start the year up there on a pedestal, it doesn't matter what you do. You ain't getting there.
Walz also believes that more resources need to be spent on the women's game and that expanding coverage of the sport would only help identify more stars.
That's the difference between the men's game and the women's game. We get stuck on a narrative. We'll spend our money and put a preview out there or whatever. God forbid if we spend any more money on women's basketball. She's good, but we'll wait 'til next year.
It's really sad because that kid's special. For a freshman, it's amazing how she played and how good she is. But it's unfortunate that we don't do a better job within women's basketball of just not sticking with one or two or three or five players. Expand it. When somebody starts showing how good they are during the year, God forbid if we do a special on them. So I'll go with questions now. I'm sure I'll get yelled at by people, but I'm not even talking about my own players.
The Louisville Cardinals will next play on Sunday, March 23, against the TCU Horned Frogs. Tip time has not yet been set.
This article originally appeared on Cornhuskers Wire: Louisville coach Jeff Walz praises Nebraska basketball following win
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I first want to start off and congratulate Nebraska on an incredible year. Amy has done a remarkable job out there. It's been fun to watch. Especially having coached there for four years and still have friends that worked in the athletic department. Jeff Griesch and Matt Coatney have been the voice of Husker basketball for a long time, and it was really neat to see them.
Jamie Kubik Hagedorn, you know, she's now one of their senior sport administrators for women's basketball was on that same team that I had the opportunity to coach and be a part of. It was really nice to see her as well.
Walz has been in charge of the Louisville program since the 2007 season. He holds an overall record of 485-145. He's also made four Final Fours, with the most recent appearance coming in 2022. He also has four ACC regular season titles and one ACC tournament title. Walz went on to talk about how hard it is to end a season on a loss.
It's a game where things go full circle throughout your career, and it's really, it's something special, and that's one of the things when you play a game like this, sure, you're playing out there to win, but I do feel for her because I've been there. I understand how hard the amount of time and effort your staff, head coaches, the players all put into it, especially this time of the year.
We are a sport where we don't have bowl games. You can still end the year on a win, even though you might not win a championship. For us, there's one team that's going to finish the year with a win. The rest of us are faced with a loss. So it's tough, but I just want to congratulate them.
Walz also has Nebraska connections. He was an assistant in Lincoln from 1997 to 2001 and even coached Nebraska head coach Amy Williams in 1997 when she was a senior with the Huskers. The Louisville head coach also challenged the media for not doing more to promote emerging stars in the game and cited Nebraska freshman Britt Prince as an example.
Before a question, I'd just like to challenge ESPN on some different things because we get stuck on -- we don't change the narrative in women's basketball very often.
For people to not know more about Britt Prince, really sad. It's a shame. But she wasn't a big name -- well, she was to a lot of us in recruiting circles because we sat there and recruited her hard. If you don't start the year up there on a pedestal, it doesn't matter what you do. You ain't getting there.
Walz also believes that more resources need to be spent on the women's game and that expanding coverage of the sport would only help identify more stars.
That's the difference between the men's game and the women's game. We get stuck on a narrative. We'll spend our money and put a preview out there or whatever. God forbid if we spend any more money on women's basketball. She's good, but we'll wait 'til next year.
It's really sad because that kid's special. For a freshman, it's amazing how she played and how good she is. But it's unfortunate that we don't do a better job within women's basketball of just not sticking with one or two or three or five players. Expand it. When somebody starts showing how good they are during the year, God forbid if we do a special on them. So I'll go with questions now. I'm sure I'll get yelled at by people, but I'm not even talking about my own players.
The Louisville Cardinals will next play on Sunday, March 23, against the TCU Horned Frogs. Tip time has not yet been set.
This article originally appeared on Cornhuskers Wire: Louisville coach Jeff Walz praises Nebraska basketball following win
Continue reading...
