LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Headlined by home games against Virginia, Clemson, NC State and Notre Dame as well as 29 of 56 contests against NCAA Regional qualifiers from last season, the University of Louisville baseball program released its 2016 schedule on Wednesday.
The Cardinals will follow their third straight NCAA Super Regional season with a 34-game home slate in 2016, including 19 games against NCAA postseason clubs. Overall, Louisville will play seven games against 2015 CWS teams — a three-game series at home against Virginia, a three-game road set at Miami and a midweek road visit to Vanderbilt in the annual Battle of the Barrel.
For the first time since 2010, the Cardinals will open their season at home as they host SIU Edwardsville for a three-game series at Jim Patterson Stadium on Feb. 19-21. Following a midweek visit from in-state foe Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 23, Louisville will take to the road for the first time on Feb. 26-28 for a three-game set at Ole Miss.
As the calendar transitions to March, Louisville will begin a 10-game homestand with an NCAA Regional rematch against Morehead State on the first day of the month. The Cardinals will host Ivy League foe Princeton for a trio of games (March 4-6) and Longwood University for a midweek game (March 8) before kicking off the challenging 30-game ACC slate with home series against Notre Dame on March 11-13.
Louisville will conclude the two-week stretch at home with midweek games against Xavier (March 15) and Wright State (March 16) before returning to the road for a weekend series at Miami on March 18-20. After a midweek game at Big Ten foe Purdue (March 23), the Cardinals host reigning NCAA champion Virginia on March 25-27. Louisville will close the month of March with a midweek game at Western Kentucky (March 29).
The month of April will begin with a three-game home series against Virginia Tech (April 2-4), while on April 6, the Cardinals will travel to Lexington for the first of two midweek games against rival Kentucky. That will be followed by a weekend series in Tallahassee against Florida State on April 8-10. Louisville will then return home for the first of its two five-game homestands starting with a midweek visit from WKU on April 12. Clemson will visit Jim Patterson Stadium for the first time on April 15-17 and the second of the Battle of the Bluegrass games is set for April 19 against the Wildcats.
On April 22-24, the Cardinals visit Boston College for the first time before returning home to host FIU for a midweek game on April 27. For their late-season non-conference weekend, Louisville will host former Big East Conference rival St. John’s for a weekend series on April 29-May 1. The Cardinals’ second five-game homestand of the season will conclude on May 3 with a visit from another former conference foe, Cincinnati.
The final stretch of the regular season will commence with a three-game series at North Carolina on May 6-8 and will be followed by a midweek road contest at Vanderbilt. Louisville will conclude its regular season home schedule with a weekend series against NC State on May 13-15 and a single game against Indiana on May 17. The Cardinals will then close the regular season with a weekend visit to Wake Forest on May 19-21.
The 2016 ACC Baseball Championship is set for May 24-29 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C., while the 2016 NCAA Championship is scheduled to begin on June 3 with regional play. The College World Series in Omaha, Neb., is slated from June 18-28/29 at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha.
2016 Louisville Baseball Schedule
