• The ACC will have at least one team in the 2025 College World Series bracket with Louisville baseball hosting Miami in NCAA Tournament super regionals.
• Louisville routed Miami 8-1 in Game 1 at Jim Patterson Stadium on Friday thanks to impressive pitching by righty Patrick Forbes and clutch hitting by Jake Munroe. The Hurricanes won Game 2.

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Louisville baseball still win away from College World Series after falling short vs. Miami

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The ACC will have at least one team in the 2025 College World Series bracket. Louisville baseball and Miami are set to play in Game 2 of the NCAA Tournament super regionals at 11 a.m. today. Both teams have experience playing in Omaha, though Louisville has been most recently.

The Cardinals routed Miami 8-1 Friday on a rainy evening at Jim Patterson Stadium thanks to impressive pitching by righty Patrick Forbes and clutch hitting by Jake Munroe. 

Miami’s last trip to the CWS was in 2016, and U of L went three years later. So, which one will return to Omaha this year?

Stay tuned below for updates throughout the second game of the Louisville vs. Miami super regional series.

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The Cards’ rally fell short, after bringing the tying run to the plate with no outs.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB

Miami’s Daniel Cuvet hit his 18th homer on the season with a three-run shot off Starke.

3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

The Canes brought their closer Brian Walters, who has 10 saves this season, and he got the Cards out in order.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

Dorian Gonzalez hit a lead-off double and was brought home by a Renzo Gonzalez single.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB

The Cards brought in left hander Ty Starke to relieve Jack Brown, who faced five batters in 1.1 innings. Starke will face Renzo Gonzalez with a runner on third and one out.

Just when it seemed the Cards bats had cooled off, Eddie King Jr., belted his second homer of the game to tie the score.

1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB

The Cardinals turn a 5-4-3 double play to eliminate the Hurricanes’ scoring opportunity.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB

Jack Brown will start the sixth inning on the hill for the Cardinals. Wyatt Danilowicz ends his day with a strikeout and walk without giving up a hit over 1 1/3 innings.

The Hurricanes retire the side to preserve their one-run lead.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

After walking one batter and hitting another, Wyatt Danilowicz made the final two plays to end the inning.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB

Eddie King, Jr. and Garret Pike are left stranded after Carson Fischer struck out the final two batters.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB

Jake Ogden’s two-out, three-run home run helped the Hurricanes regain the lead.

4 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB

Tucker Biven’s day ends with him allowing five runs, one earned, on seven hits with a strikeout and two walks in 3 2/3 innings. Wyatt Danilowicz will now enter the game for the Cardinals

With the bases loaded and two out, Kamau Neighbors got caught stealing to end the inning.

0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB

Evans threw 2/3 of an inning, allowing a hit while plunking a batter, and is replaced by Carson Fischer.

After giving up a leadoff home run to Jake Munroe and a single to Tague Davis in the top of the fourth inning, Griffin Hugus is replaced on the mound by Rob Evans. Hugus ended the day allowing four earned runs on five hits with one strikeout and two walks in three-plus innings on the mound.

The Cardinals preserve their lead with a 1-2-3 inning.

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Eddie King, Jr.’s two-run home run to left-centerfield highlighted the Cardinals’ three-run inning.

3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

The Hurricanes strike first with Michael Torres’ two-out RBI base hit.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB

Eddie King, Jr. and Tague Davis were left stranded at the corners after Griffin Hugus struck out Kamau Neighbors.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB

Jake Ogden is left stranded after hitting a leadoff double as the Cardinals retired the next three batters.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

Matt Klein reached base after getting hit with a pitch, but a Hurricanes double play ended the inning.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

Tucker Biven will get the start for the Cardinals with a trip to Omaha on the line. The right-handed pitcher is 3-0 on the season with 31 strikeouts over 35 innings and 20 appearances with four starts.

• Date: Saturday, June 7
• Time: 11 a.m. ET  
• Where: Jim Patterson Stadium

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On Friday Night, College Football changed forever as Judge Claudia Wilken signed off approving the settlement in the landmark House Vs NCAA case. The case brings about wholesale changes to College Athletics like we know it as revenue sharing, roster limits, NIL regulations, and a ton of new aspects are brought to the sport.

As part of the settlement, the NCAA also agreed to back pay former athletes $2.8 billion over the next ten years. The athletes that will receive the funds had to of played since 2016 through current day. It seems more fair that the players prior to 2020 who weren’t in this modern era should get the lions share of the funding.

Based on star power, potential earnings they missed out on, and their impact to the game, 5 former College Football stars deserve the backpay more than anyone else.

The NCAA makes changes to its roster limits, NIL guidelines and revenue sharing with players

On Friday night, the NCAA got news that its hearing in the House vs. NCAA suit had been resolved, with a significant amount of changes heading across college sports as On3 reports.

A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that defined it for more than a century.

Nearly five years after Arizona State swimmer Grant House sued the NCAA and its five biggest conferences to lift restrictions on revenue sharing, U.S. Judge Claudia Wilken approved the final proposal that had been hung up on roster limits, just one of many changes ahead amid concerns that thousands of walk-on athletes will lose their chance to play college sports.

The sweeping terms of the so-called House settlement include approval for each school to share up to $20.5 million with athletes over the next year and $2.7 billion that will be paid over the next decade to thousands of former players who were barred from that revenue for years.

Syracuse University has said it intends to distribute the full $20.5 million spending cap on its athletes, though it has declined to say how that money will be distributed across football, men’s and women’s basketball and the other sports.

Le Moyne, which recently moved its sports programs to compete in Division I, has not said how much it will pay its players. Division I schools can choose to “opt in” to revenue sharing by June 15.

All Division I athletes will be subject to the new rules around third-party pay regardless of whether their school opts in to revenue sharing.

One of the lead plaintiff attorneys, Steve Berman, called Friday’s news “a fantastic win for hundreds of thousands of college athletes.”

The agreement brings a seismic shift to hundreds of schools that were forced to reckon with the reality that their players are the ones producing the billions in TV and other revenue, mostly through football and basketball, that keep this machine humming.

The scope of the changes — some have already begun — is difficult to overstate. The professionalization of college athletics will be seen in the high-stakes and expensive recruitment of stars on their way to the NFL and NBA, and they will be felt by athletes whose schools have decided to pare their programs. The agreement will resonate in nearly every one of the NCAA’s 1,100 member schools boasting nearly 500,000 athletes.

NCAA President Charlie Baker said the deal “opens a pathway to begin stabilizing college sports.”

The road to a settlement

Wilken’s ruling comes 11 years after she dealt the first significant blow to the NCAA ideal of amateurism. Then, she ruled in favor of former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon and others seeking a way to earn money from the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL) — a term that is now as common in college sports as “March Madness” or “Roll Tide.”

It was just four years ago that the NCAA cleared the way for NIL money to start flowing, but the changes coming are even bigger.

Wilken granted preliminary approval to the settlement last October. That sent colleges scurrying to determine not only how they were going to afford the payments, but how to regulate an industry that also allows players to cut deals with third parties so long as they are deemed compliant by a newly formed enforcement group that will be run by auditors at Deloitte.

The agreement takes a big chunk of oversight away from the NCAA and puts it in the hands of the four biggest conferences. The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC hold most of the power and decision-making heft, especially when it comes to the College Football Playoff, which is the most significant financial driver in the industry and is not under the NCAA umbrella like the March Madness tournaments are.

Roster limits held things up

The deal looked ready to go, but Wilken put a halt to it this spring after listening to a number of players who had lost their spots because of newly imposed roster limits being placed on teams.

The limits were part of a trade-off that allowed the schools to offer scholarships to everyone on the roster, instead of only a fraction, as has been the case for decades. Schools started cutting walk-ons in anticipation of the deal being approved.

Wilken asked for a solution and, after weeks, the parties decided to let anyone cut from a roster — now termed a “Designated Student-Athlete” — return to their old school or play for a new one without counting against the new limit.

Wilken ultimately agreed, going point-by-point through the objectors’ arguments to explain why they didn’t hold up. The main point pushed by the parties was that those roster spots were never guaranteed in the first place.

“The modifications provide Designated Student-Athletes with what they had prior to the roster limits provisions being implemented, which was the opportunity to be on a roster at the discretion of a Division I school,” Wilken wrote.

Her decision, however, took nearly a month to write, leaving the schools and conferences in limbo — unsure if the plans they’d been making for months, really years, would go into play.

“It remains to be seen how this will impact the future of inter-collegiate athletics — but as we continue to evolve, Carolina remains committed to providing outstanding experiences and broad-based programming to student-athletes,” North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham said.

Winners and losers

The list of winners and losers is long and, in some cases, hard to tease out.

A rough guide of winners would include football and basketball stars at the biggest schools, which will devote much of their bankroll to signing and retaining them. For instance, Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood’s NIL deal is reportedly worth between $10.5 million and $12 million.

Losers, despite Wilken’s ruling, figure to be at least some of the walk-ons and partial scholarship athletes whose spots are gone.

Also in limbo are the Olympic sports many of those athletes play and that serve as the main pipeline for a U.S. team that has won the most medals at every Olympics since the downfall of the Soviet Union.

All this is a price worth paying, according to the attorneys who crafted the settlement and argue they delivered exactly what they were asked for: an attempt to put more money in the pockets of the players whose sweat and toil keep people watching from the start of football season through March Madness and the College World Series in June.

What the settlement does not solve is the threat of further litigation.

Though this deal brings some uniformity to the rules, states still have separate laws regarding how NIL can be doled out, which could lead to legal challenges. Baker has been consistent in pushing for federal legislation that would put college sports under one rulebook and, if he has his way, provide some form of antitrust protection to prevent the new model from being disrupted again.