WNBA’s a whole new game for Angel McCoughtry: ‘Everybody is just as athletic as you’.

Angel McCoughtry broke free for a layup, floating toward the basket as she did so effortlessly during a college career that made her the University of Louisville’s all-time leading scorer. But before she could deposit the ball through the net, Michelle Snow, a 6-foot-5 center in her fifth WNBA season, closed in from behind. Snow [...]

Angel may be due to be Angel tonight.

Angel McCoughtry is going to leave the University of Louisville as one of its most decorated athletes ever. The senior All-American is the school’s all-time leading scorer — female or male — and has rewritten the women’s basketball record book. But in four NCAA Tournament games this season, McCoughtry hasn’t been her usual spectacular self. [...]

Louisville’s McCoughtry tries to save best for last.

Angel McCoughtry is writing a book. The Louisville senior has been working on it all season, in fact. The working title is “The Angel Who Wanted to B-more,” she says, and it’ll be an inspirational tome about a girl who grows up in Baltimore, overcomes challenges and hardships and eventually leads her college basketball team [...]

Preps detour helped create star for Louisville.

Angel McCoughtry had decided she would play college basketball in New York. As a senior at St. Francis High School in Baltimore, she signed with St. John’s, and she planned to help the Red Storm grow as a Big East Conference contender. It was all set. But she didn’t score high enough on the SAT [...]

Heaven Sent: Louisville’s Angel McCoughtry.

Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich hasn’t decided yet where he’ll put the statue of Angel McCoughtry, the Cardinals’ 6′1″ senior All-America forward. Should it go outside the new 22,000-seat Downtown Arena, due to open in November 2010? Or somewhere on campus? Perhaps a prominent spot among the array of facilities at the Cardinal Park sports [...]

U of L has been blessed by a real Angel.

Yesterday Sports Illustrated had a reporter in Louisville, and not to cover today’s matchup of top-10 men’s powers in Freedom Hall. SI was here for Angel — who is on a first-name basis, it seems, with the entire city. Mayor Jerry Abramson has occupied a courtside seat for just about every home game McCoughtry has [...]

McCoughtry brings respectability to Louisville.

This season she’s helped a team that lost center Chauntise Wright to a knee injury in October, anchoring No. 8 Louisville’s spot in the Top 10 and almost assuring the Cardinals (25-3, 12-2 Big East) of a high seed when the NCAA tournament begins in three weeks. McCoughtry leads the Big East in scoring (23.4 [...]

King, queen and court.

You can’t miss them if you drive down Floyd Street. They are bigger than life, these banners. There is Angel McCoughtry, rising on one side of a parking garage that welcomes visitors to campus, and Terrence Williams on the other. In leading their basketball programs into the preseason national top 10, these two players have [...]