The Louisville women’s basketball team (14-3, 4-0 ACC) took down Virginia Tech (11-5, 1-3 ACC) in convincing fashion, 85-60, Sunday afternoon at the KFC Yum! Center. With the win, head coach Jeff Walz collected his 500th career win at the helm of the Cardinals. 

Walz became just the seventh active coach in women’s college basketball to win 500 games at his current school. Walz is the all-time winningest coach in program history at Louisville and is the fourth coach in all sports at Louisville to win 500 career games (Denny Crum, Dan McDonnell and Sandy Pearsall).

Walz is the all-time winningest coach in program history and averages 27.1 victories per season. He directed Louisville to a program-record 36 victories in 2017-18 en route to being named ACC Coach of the Year, 34 victories in 2008-09, 33 wins in 2013-14, 32 wins in 2018-19 and 29 wins in 2021-22.

The Cardinals have reached 20 wins 15-consecutive times and they have won at least 20 games in 17 of Walz’s 18 seasons. It is the fourth-longest active streak in the country. The longest run previously was three, achieved twice, and UofL had just 10 20-win seasons in its 32 previous years.

Walz led Louisville to four consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and over that four-year span, the Cardinals went a combined 122-15, which marked the fewest losses and best winning percentage over a four-year period in program history.

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