The Nebraska women’s basketball team not only has a chance to start another March Madness run on Friday evening, it also has a chance to jam another knife in the gut of the Louisville Cardinals. In the process, Amy Williams has the chance to show once again that while it might at times, be a bit more under the radar, the women’s side of the program has actually been quite a bit more successful than the men’s side.
When the Huskers take the court against Louisville, it will officially be their 17th NCAA Tournament since 1988. Unlike the men’s teams, not only has the women’s basketball program won an NCAA Tournament game but they did it on their first try. And they have far more than one win.
For her part, Williams is turning the Nebraska women’s basketball team into a perennial participant in March Madness. After getting her squad into the tourney just once in her first five years in Lincoln, the Cornhuskers have gone to the Big Dance in three of the last four years. Williams got her first win with NU in the tourney last season and now she’s back for more.
Nebraska women’s basketball team has a chance to 1-2 punch Louisville
The Huskers will take on a Louisville team as an underdog, but they likely already watched Creighton do the same. The Bluejays took on the ACC school on Thursday on the men’s side of things and dismantled them in the process.
It’s one of the oddities of the tournament that two schools from the state of Nebraska could both hand the Kentucky program a first-round loss. And the Nebraska women’s basketball team should take advantage of that. Rub some dirt into the eye of the Cardinals. And move onto the second round as a bonus.