2013 was unbelievable. “The Year of the Cardinal”, they called it. It was a year that belonged to Louisville and Louisville Cardinals fans from start to finish, literally.
On the second day of the year, Louisville won the Allstate Sugar Bowl. A few months later both the men’s and women’s basketball teams reached the NCAA championship game, with the men’s team prevailing. In the summer, the baseball team made a deep run into the College World Series in Omaha. In late November Louisville accepted an invitation to the ACC. To cap things off, the football team finished a 12-1 season with a Russell Athletic Bowl victory on December 28th.