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. [...]

Oklahoma, Louisville are in it to win it.

Louisville versus Oklahoma feels like the consolation game of the Women’s Final Four. Good reason. Both semifinalists have been drubbed by top-ranked Connecticut. Twice in the Cardinals’ case. Louisville coach Jeff Walz, whose team lost by 28 and 39 points, joked that it was all part of the plan to lull the unbeaten Huskies into [...]

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 [...]

Walz learns that nice guys do finish last.

The University of Louisville women’s basketball team has made a comfortable home in the top 10 of the national polls for the past eight weeks. You deserve that love when you win 21 of your first 23 games, 20 of them by 10 points or more. You’re not Connecticut, but nobody else is, either. You’re [...]

Who’s the best?: Top players meet with Big East lead on the line.

Pregame hype. Maya Moore vs. Angel McCoughtry. Two of the five Associated Press Preseason All-Americans are on the floor tonight as top-ranked UConn (with Moore) meets No. 7 Louisville (with McCoughtry) in a nationally televised women’s basketball game. Who’s better? ”In any other time and place, they’re player of the league hands down,” DePaul coach [...]

Huskies, Cardinals women still the class of the Big East.

It seems that not much has changed in the Big East pecking order in the last 10 months. When the dust cleared in March’s Big East tournament, UConn and Louisville were the last two teams standing. Now as other contenders for conference supremacy are still struggling to find their way, the Huskies and Cardinals once [...]