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TEMPE 2019 Hakeem Butler Jersey , Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals president Michael Bidwill went outside the traditional boundaries to find his new head coach, identifying Kliff Kingsbury as someone who can ignite the team’s moribund offense and mold Josh Rosen into a dynamic NFL quarterback.Kingsbury, with no NFL coaching experience and a losing record in six seasons at Texas Tech but a history of high-scoring offenses and prolific quarterbacks, was introduced as the Cardinals coach at a news conference at the team’s headquarters on Wednesday.Kingsbury called it “an incredible opportunity.”The reason for the hire, Bidwill made clear, is Kingsbury’s record as an innovative offensive coach.“Look at today’s NFL and you look at the college game, especially the last several years, has come into the pro game,” Bidwill said. “When you look at the output of his offenses, both when he was a coordinator in college and as a head coach, it’s really impressive, the amount of points he puts up, where he positions his offenses. And you look at the six quarterbacks that he tutored and coached that have come into the National Football League.”Among those quarterbacks are Patrick Mahomes, Case Keenum, Johnny Manziel and Baker Mayfield, who played at Texas Tech before transferring to Oklahoma.Kingsbury believes he can incorporate the high-scoring system he had at Texas Tech into the NFL.“I think that’s going to be the exciting part for me,” he said. “You watch the trends in the NFL. College football infiltrated that. There’s a lot of similar concepts to what we’ve done on the college level that are being widely used and are really successful in the league right now. … I do think there are a lot of things we did at Texas Tech that can be successful.”The Cardinals ranked last in the NFL in every major offensive category last season Womens Kyler Murray Jersey , so Bidwill went after someone who could turn that around.“The most successful teams in the league are teams that have great offenses, top 10 offenses,” he said. “Those are the teams that are in the Super Bowls, win divisions. We wanted to hire a great offensive mind. We wanted to make sure that we hired someone with head coaching experience and weren’t particularly concerned if it was at the college or pro level.“One name that kept coming back to us over and over as one of the most innovative bright minds as an offensive play caller and as an offensive mind is Kliff Kingsbury.”Kingsbury was fired after compiling a 35-40 record in six seasons at Texas Tech and, just over a month ago, was hired as offensive coordinator at Southern Cal. When USC wouldn’t allow him to talk to NFL teams, Kingsbury resigned and was interviewed by the New York Jets and Cardinals.“It’s been a whirlwind, I can say that,” he said. “When I took the job at USC I couldn’t be more thrilled to have that job. I thought it was an incredible opportunity with coach (Clay) Helton, Mr. Swann (athletic director Lynn Swann), that program, that tradition. But this is just an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”Kingsbury said his first order of business is building a staff, most significantly finding a defensive coordinator. He said he’s “leaned heavily” on Cardinals general manager Steve Keim in that process. Keim said the Cardinals will look to return to the 3-4 defensive scheme that they had in the Bruce Arians years. In its one season under coach Steve Wilks, Arizona switched to a 4-3 scheme and it never seemed to fit the personnel on hand.“I don’t think there’s any doubt that a veteran defensive coordinator would be ideal in this situation,” Keim said.Kingsbury said he has “some great candidates” for the job.“It will be an attacking style,” he said. “We want to be aggressive and get this defense back to where it’s been previous to last year.”Kingsbury said he’s talked to Rosen, who had a difficult rookie season behind an offensive line decimated by injury.“Josh Rosen is incredibly talented Byron Murphy Jersey , one of the most talented throwers you’ll see,” Kingsbury said, “a young player obviously that I’m excited to work with and develop. But as a pure thrower, it’s hard to find a guy that throws it better.”He said he wants to “get to know Josh, find out what makes him tick.”“I do think he wants to be a great player in this league,” Kingsbury said. “I think he’s very competitive. You watch him play this year, some of the shots he took and continued to get up, continued to fight. That says a lot about a young man so I’m excited to develop that relationship.” LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — No. 3 Louisville’s defense has been stingy since the Cardinals allowed a season high to Notre Dame in their lone loss.After an 82-68 defeat to the then-top ranked Notre Dame women’s team nearly three weeks ago, the Cardinals (19-1) have held five opponents under 50 points and a combined 32 percent shooting. Louisville is giving up just 59.6 points per contest heading into their Thursday night matchup with No. 2 UConn.Louisville coach Jeff Walz said the turnaround is the result of better execution.“We really haven’t changed anything,” Walz said Wednesday. “We’re just continuing to get better, which is something I said at the beginning of the year. … I always believe you can get better defensively, but it’s hard to get better offensively as you go throughout the year.“As you get game film, you’re able to prepare and come up with a game plan to try and stop people. Our kids have done a fantastic job and hopefully we’ll be able to keep things going.”Louisville will definitely be challenged by UConn (18-1).Huskies senior guard Katie Lou Samuelson (18.8 points per game) leads five starters averaging in double figures. UConn is ranked 10th nationally in scoring, putting up 81.9 points per outing.As good as Louisville has been lately, Walz acknowledges his team will be hard pressed containing the Huskies.“I don’t expect to hold UConn under 50 points unless most of them don’t make the trip,” he joked.Louisville’s wants to slow down UConn and would like to create turnovers.The Cardinals have forced an average of 19 turnovers during this latest five-game stretch Black D.J. Swearinger Jersey , including 21 in Sunday’s 70-42 rout of Pittsburgh. Louisville won despite leading scorer Asia Durr (21.1 points, 29 steals) sitting out to rest a sore knee. Walz said the senior guard would be ready on Thursday.Louisville’s perimeter defense has also thrived, holding teams to 21 percent from behind the arc over that span. The Cardinals have gone from 182nd nationally in scoring defense to being tied for 73rd.“We’ve got to communicate and box out definitely, keep people in front of us,” junior forward Kylee Shook said afterward. “I think it’s going to be a good game to see where we’re at and a good look for March because Connecticut is such a good team.”If nothing else, Walz wants Louisville to avoid repeating the first-quarter run that UConn rode to a 24-6 lead in last year’s 69-58 victory, its 17th in a row against the Cardinals. The Huskies meanwhile have won seven in a row since falling to Baylor —now No. 1 — and UConn coach Geno Auriemma seeks more of what he saw in Sunday’s 93-57 drubbing of UCF.The Huskies outshot the Knights 52 percent to 38 percent in that contest, but Auriemma suggested his team has had little margin for error this season. Especially against a Louisville team that’s clamping down on opponents.“If we were to find this state that we were in (against UCF) and able to get to it on a regular basis,” he said, “I think we have a chance to be really, really, really good.“Whatever state that is, on Thursday night we better be in it or we’re going to be in a bad state because those guys are good, really good. And they are really good at home.”