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BRISTOL, Conn. –
After last Monday's season opener in Paris, the Louisville women's basketball team will travel overseas again to open the 2025-26 season. The Cardinals have been selected for the Peraton Armed Forces Classic, which will be held in Ramstein
Air Base in Germany on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. The Cardinals will face UConn in the first-ever women's college basketball match in the event's history and it will be broadcast on ESPN.

“We are extremely grateful to be selected for the 2025 Armed Forces Classic,” said head coach Jeff Walz. “It will be an incredible experience
that our players and staff can play abroad in front of some of our nation's heroes. We look forward to the opportunity to showcase women’s basketball on an international stage.”

Read more: Cardinals WBB selected for 2025 Peraton Armed Forces Classic

Ramstein — site of the inaugural Armed Forces Classic in 2012, which pitted the UConn men against Michigan State — will host the event
third time. The air force base also hosted the Texas A&M vs. West Virginia game in 2017.

This will be the third straight season the Cardinals and Huskies have met, and at the third different venue. The two teams played
in Hartford in 2022 and will meet in Brooklyn this December as part of the Women's Champions Classic. The Cards and Huskies currently have a four-year home-and-home streak underway and this will push the home game between Louisville and UConn to the 2026-27 season.

Both teams have been among the most consistent teams in all of college basketball in recent years. They are both two of only three teams
having reached five of the last six Elite Eights in the country. Walz and UConn head coach Geno Auriemma are two of only four active head coaches to have appeared in four or more Final Fours. The Cardinals and Huskies are two of just six schools that won
200 or more games since the start of the 2017/18 season.

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ESPN Events Armed Forces Classic Locations:

Year

Location

Matchups

2012

Ramstein Air Force Base (Germany)

UConn vs. Michigan State

2013

Camp Humphreys Army Base (South Korea)

Georgetown vs. Oregon

2014

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen, Puerto Rico

Minnesota vs. Louisville

2015

US Marine Corps Base Smedley D. Butler (Okinawa, Japan)

Gonzaga vs. Pittsburgh

2016

Pearl Harbor-Hickam Joint Base (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Arizona vs. Michigan State
Indiana vs. Kansas

2017

Ramstein Air Force Base (Germany)

Texas A&M vs. West Virginia

2018

U.S. Army Fort Bliss (El Paso, Texas)

Texas vs. Arkansas

2019

Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base (Anchorage, Alaska)

Baylor vs. Washington
Alaska Anchorage vs. Coast Guard Academy

2022

USS Abraham Lincoln (San Diego)

Michigan State vs. Gonzaga