PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas—Sixth-ranked Louisville scrapped on the boards and gave coach Jeff Walz the level of fight he didn’t see a night before.
Third-ranked Texas did the same for coach Vic Schaefer. It just wasn’t enough to beat the Cardinals and avoid an 0–2 start in the Battle 4 Atlantis.
Chrislyn Carr scored 19 points to help Louisville beat Texas 71–63 in Sunday night’s consolation bracket, sending the Longhorns to their worst start in nearly a quarter-century.
Morgan Jones and Hailey Van Lith each added 18 points for the Cardinals (4–1), who pulled away in the fourth quarter to bounce back from their first loss of the season….