Two of college basketball’s most competitive guards heard their names called Monday night during the first round of the WNBA Draft.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) – For Georgia Amore and Kenny Brooks, for a while at Virginia Tech, Louisville was the team they could not beat. And for…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) – For Jeff Walz, the problem was free throws. And he’s not wrong. In the fourth quarter of what would become a 71-61 ove…

No. 18-ranked Louisville made just three of its final 18 shots, and went 0-for-6 in overtime, with several costly turnovers, as No. 20 Kentucky erased a seven-point deficit to end a seven-game losing streak in the rivalry.

The University of Louisville women's basketball team will enter the coming season ranked No. 17 in the nation in the Associated Press preseason poll released Tuesday.

Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart announced Monday that women's basketball coach Kyra Elzy has been relieved of her duties after four seasons with an overall record of 57-59.

It’s a strange situation, but sometimes a coach has to settle is team down in front of its own home crowd. With a team full of transfers, most of whom hadn’t experienced an environment quite like the one in the KFC Yum! Center on Sunday, with 11,291 fans in attendance to watch No. 22 Louisville face rival Kentucky.

The Wildcats are 4-6. Against power conference teams, they are 1-5. Louisville comes into the game with an 8-1 record, ranked No. 18 nationally.

Rhyne Howard, who became just the eighth three-time consensus All-American in women's basketball history as a player at the University of Kentucky, was taken with the No. 1 pick of Monday night's WNBA Draft by the Atlanta Dream.

The women's basketball teams at Louisville and Kentucky are consistently excellent, usually come into their rivalry game nationally ranked, and regularly feature some of the top players in the nation.