Brown: Walz finds fight that was missing from Louisville women's basketball

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Taj Roberts led the Cardinals with 20 points but missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer with four seconds left.

Forward Elif Istanbulluoglu tied a season high with 15 points and led the team with nine rebounds.

Coach Jeff Walz found the fight he was looking for out of the Louisville women’s basketball team . Now the Cardinals just need to find how to finish.

No. 21 UofL had a five-point lead, its largest of the game, with 4:23 left only to watch No. 3 South Carolina go on a 10-2 run to take the lead and hold on for a 79-77 win in the ACC/SEC Challenge.

Taj Roberts , who led the Cards with 20 points, had a chance to give the Cards the lead late, but her 3-pointer with four seconds left clanked off the rim.

UofL squared up with South Carolina in ways that i