Louisville women’s basketball may not know where its season opener will be.

But the Cardinals are assured that their schedule won’t be easy. They play UConn to start the 2025-26 season and South Carolina in the ACC/SEC Challenge — the respective No. 1 and 2 teams in the AP preseason poll . U of L also is scheduled to play No. 24 Kentucky, No. 8 Tennessee and ACC foe No. 11 North Carolina.

Louisville expects to be a much different team later in the season and will use those games to move toward its goal of returning to the Sweet 16.

“And then as I've always said, once you get to there, anything can happen,” U of L coach Jeff Walz said during Wednesday’s media day.

Louisville has missed the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament in each of the past two seasons but expects to get back ther

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