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Pat Kelsey has his first commitment from a non-Charleston player out of the transfer portal.
And it’s a big one for the University of Louisville.
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year Terrence Edwards from James Madison is on a visit to Louisville on Tuesday and has committed to the Cardinals. Jeff Goodman from the Field of 68 first reported and Cardinal Authority has confirmed.
Williams arrived late Monday night after a visit to Florida State.
Edwards appeared in 36 games this season and averaged 17.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 3.4 assists a game on 34.3 percent shooting from three-point range.
After winning Sun Belt Sixth Man of the Year last season, the 6-foot-6, 190-pound wing out of Atlanta earned Sun Belt Player of the Year honors this season prior to leading the Dukes to an NCAA tournament bid. James Madison won 32 games this season but lost to Duke in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Edwards played four seasons and 117 games during his career at James Madison. He scored 1,414 career points, while collecting 525 rebounds, 278 assists, and 111 steals. He hit 46.2 percent from the field during his career with the Dukes.
Once Edwards selects his next school, he will have a year of eligibility remaining.
Edwards has had a bunch of schools reach out, including U of L, Florida State, Arkansas, Oregon, Tennessee, Auburn, Creighton, Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Xavier, and others. He entered the transfer portal on Wednesday.
247Sports lists Edwards currently as the No. 34 prospect in the transfer portal and the No. 4 combo guard in the portal.
Kelsey was announced as the new Louisville coach last Thursday. He has been in contact with several targets out of the transfer portal, including Edwards and Iowa guard Tony Perkins.
Coming to Louisville from Charleston, Kelsey has a record of 261-122 as a head coach over 12 college seasons, including nine years at Winthrop.
Louisville currently only has two players on the roster from last season that are not in the transfer portal, including Ty-Laur Johnson and Emmanual Okorafor. Most of the current U of L players in the portal are still on campus and expected to meet with Kelsey before making a final decision on their futures.
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Louisville baseball claims series win against No. 19 NC State with a 7-6 victory
Louisville baseball claims series win against No. 19 NC State with a 7-6 victory
Jody Demling
JODY DEMLING
Apr 6th, 10:05 PM
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The University of Louisville baseball team knocked off No. 19 NC State again on Saturday, winning the series and capturing its first ACC series win since this weekend one year ago.
The Cardinals had lost nine straight ACC series but claimed this one over the Wolfpack with an 11-1 win on Friday night and then a 7-6 victory on Saturday at Jim Patterson Stadium. The teams will play game three on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Louisville jumped out to a 5-1 lead, fell behind 6-5, scored two in the bottom of the fourth inning, and then relied on the bullpen to get this victory.
Jared Lessman picked up the victory out of the bullpen, working three innings and allowing just one walk and three strikeouts. Ty Starke allowed one hit in the eighth inning, while Tucker Biven picked up his second save of the season with a perfect ninth inning, striking out two.
It was all Louisville early on.
The Cardinals had bases loaded with no outs in the bottom of the first inning but did not score off NC State starter Dominic Fritton. U of L then plated three in the bottom of the second inning and added two more in the bottom of the third to grab a 5-1 lead.
U of L starter Evan Webster found trouble in the fourth. He walked the leadoff batter and the left fielder Eddie King Jr., dropped a fly ball. The error led to four unearned runs in the inning as the Wolfpack stormed ahead 6-5.
But the lead didn’t last for long.
Michael Lippe walked to lead off the inning and was doubled home by Dylan Hoy. After a ground out, Hoy scored on a single to right by King.
The bullpen did the rest. Lessman was fantastic, getting the Wolfpack in order in the fifth and seventh innings. He walked the leadoff man in the sixth but retired the next three batters and saw his season-long ERA slip to 2.70. Starke allowed a two-out hit in the eighth and Biven threw eight pitches to get out of the ninth.
College Football Playoff expansion: Penn State, Tennessee benefit most from 12-team field
Playoff expansion could be a game-changer for these programs.
Carter Bahns
CARTER BAHNS
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The 2024 college football season is the first with a new postseason format as the College Football Playoff expands this year to a 12-team model. The five highest-ranked conference champions and seven additional highest-ranked, at-large teams compete in December and January for the national championship in a first-of-its-kind event in FBS history.
With the changes to the Playoff come positive consequences for the nation’s most prominent teams. Access to the sport’s biggest stage increases, while the most deserving squads still have a leg up on the rest of the competition as they earn first-round byes. Teams outside the traditional top tier also have a shot at a championship, needing only to rank around the top 12 instead of inside the top four to get into the field.
Some schools benefit more from the expanded Playoff than others, though. Teams like Penn State and Tennessee, which have a history of finishing the season just shy of the cut line, stand to gain far more than CFP regulars and afterthoughts.
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Here are the programs that benefit most from College Football Playoff expansion.
- TULANE GREEN WAVE
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Tulane exploded from a two-win team into the nation’s premier Group of Five program in the span of just one year, and even with head coach Willie Fritz departing for the same job at Houston, the Green Wave appears poised to run the American Athletic Conference for the foreseeable future. Had the expanded Playoff taken effect in 2022, Tulane would have been in the field during its inaugural year and would have finished one win shy of getting in last fall. A couple of CFP appearances could position Tulane for a step up to the power conference level the next time leagues realign.
- LIBERTY FLAMES
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Jamey Chadwell guided Liberty into its first year of FBS conference membership and ran the table in Conference USA en route to a Fiesta Bowl appearance. The Flames’ resources, coaching and league competition make this program a strong candidate for perennial Playoff contention under the expanded model. While the likelihood of two Group of Five teams making the CFP remains slim, but if Liberty finds itself in an annual battle with Tulane for an automatic bid, it would be hard to complain about what is essentially a 50-50 chance of getting into the field — especially for a squad competing in the FBS’ weakest league.
- LOUISVILLE CARDINALS
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The ACC is wide open in the post-Clemson dominance era, and Louisville might be a legitimate candidate to compete for conference titles for the foreseeable future under coach Jeff Brohm. Playing at the highest level of a power conference should be enough to stand in the Playoff conversation on a yearly basis, as evidenced by the Cardinals’ No. 15 final ranking last season as the ACC runners-up. Brohm could guide his alma mater to the CFP even without winning the league, and playing on college football’s biggest stage would go a long way in helping him take this program to its greatest heights.
- MISSOURI TIGERS
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Across Missouri’s 12 years in the SEC, two of its teams finished a season ranked in the top 12 nationally. With the 2024 squad, on paper, measuring just as strong as last year’s breakout group, a Playoff berth could be on the table for Eli Drinkwitz. Should Brady Cook, Luther Burden III and company take this rising program to a level of national success it has essentially never seen before, the Tigers could build themselves into a perennial upper-half team in the crowded SEC. The 12-team field makes that attainable, whereas Mizzou had little chance of ever getting into a four-team Playoff that essentially required it to win the conference.
- OLE MISS REBELS
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Lane Kiffin is in the middle of a historic tenure at Ole Miss in which he just completed the first 11-win campaign in program history. The Rebels have more momentum than nearly any team in college football, particularly given their incredible talent acquisition efforts this offseason. With the advent of the 12-team Playoff, Kiffin does not even need to become the first coach in 62 years to lead Ole Miss to an SEC title in order to compete for a national championship. For a program that spent more than a half decade as a conference title afterthought, that the expectation in 2024 is to be one of the 12 best teams in America is a testament to tremendous coaching.
- FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES
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There was no more controversial omission from the four-team Playoff across its decade of existence than the 2023 Florida State Seminoles, who went a perfect 13-0 but became the first power conference champion to be excluded from the field. That scenario is no longer possible under the new format. Playing in the ACC, arguably the shallowest of the four power conferences, will no longer hurt the Seminoles’ national championship hopes so long as they win the league, and even if they come up a win or two short of league supremacy, they would still have a decent chance of ranking in the top 12.
- UTAH UTES
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Twice, Utah won the Pac-12 but missed out on the Playoff. The Utes are easily among the best programs to have not reached the CFP, and they now have a much better chance of cracking the field. Winning the Big 12 will be no easy feat as it figures to be just as competitive, and likely more so, than the old Pac-12, but doing so would guarantee Kyle Whittingham and his squad a seat at the table. Neither of Whittingham’s conference championship teams won their Rose Bowl matchups, but both had the defensive strength to go toe-to-toe with national title hopefuls.
- TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS
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The SEC should be well-represented in the Playoff moving forward as one of college football’s two premier conferences. Expansion bodes well for teams that consistently contend for conference titles but ultimately fall just short, like the Vols did in each of the last two seasons. Josh Heupel’s 2022 team figures to be one of the last 11-win squads to miss the CFP, and so long as he returns the program to that level of success after a slight step back last year, the Vols have the potential to be perennial postseason hopefuls.
- PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS
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No longer does Penn State need to get past Ohio State and Michigan on its path to the Playoff. Six times in the last eight years, the Nittany Lions finished the regular season inside the top 12 of the CFP rankings, but they have yet to qualify for the tournament due to their consistent inability to get over the hump and defeat one or both of the Buckeyes and Wolverines. The Big Ten gets tougher when four new teams arrive ahead of the 2024 season, but so long as James Franklin continues to lose no more than two or three league games per year, his program will finally make the Playoff and do so regularly.
- NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH
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The lack of conference affiliation undoubtedly limited Notre Dame’s ceiling during the four-team era. Playing one fewer game than league champions consistently made a negative mark on the Fighting Irish’s résumé, which was especially costly during the 2021 season when they went 11-2 and finished No. 5 in the rankings — one spot out of the field. If Marcus Freeman leads another modest step forward this fall, his program will at the very least squeak into the Playoff for the first time since 2020. Moving forward, this consistent 10-win program will rarely be penalized for its inability to win a conference title game, though it remains ineligible for a top-four seed and first-round bye.
