The Louisville Cardinals have advanced to the championship game of the NCAA women's basketball tournament.Angel McCoughtry scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the third-seeded Cards defeated number one seed Oklahoma 61-59 Monday night in a national semifinal in St. Louis.Louisville is playing in the program's first ever Final Four.The Cards will face Connecticut in the title game Tuesday night. The undefeated Huskies defeated Stanford 83-64 in the other semifinal.
Rick Howlett was midday host and the host of LPM's weekly talk show, "In Conversation." He was with LPM from 2001-2023 and held many different titles, including Morning Edition host, Assignment Editor and Interim News Director. He died in August 2023. Read a remembrance of Rick here.