The Louisville women’s basketball team has advanced to the championship game after beating Oklahoma in a close 61-59 semifinal match on Sunday.

“Nobody expected us to be here,” Angel McCoughtry said after the game. “We have not one high school All-American on our team, but these girls worked hard. I’m so proud of them.”

Louisville was down 12 points at halftime but got back into the game with a 15-1 run in the 2nd half.

“Just a group of kids in that locker room that I challenged at halftime as much as I could have challenged a group,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said.

Walz knew his team could beat Oklahoma, he just had to get them to believe it.

“I told them, ‘If you want to come out here and compete and follow our game plan, tell me,” Walz said. “And they’re all like ‘Yeah, we will, we will.’ And I thought we did a great job.”