Mike Marra joins UofL staff after fateful practice session
Mike Marra has suffered his last injury as a college basketball player. He’s done after suffering another ACL injury during the first 10 minutes of a University of Louisville practice…
Louisville loses Marra for season
Mike Marra suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the University of Louisville basketball team’s 68-48 win over Lamar on Sunday and will miss the remainder…
Another day, another injury as Louisville coasts past Lamar
A few takeaways from the University of Louisville basketball team’s 68-48 win over Lamar University: Chane Behanan is the kind of player Rick Pitino has been missing during his first…
Mike Marra emerges, Louisville rips Marquette
Not a typical Louisville-Marquette game, or the everyday race-to-the-wire so commonplace in Big East games. Probably the easiest win U of L will ever get in Madison Square Garden, this…
Another day at work for Louisville basketball
Not much surprises one after decades of following University of Louisville basketball, not even a heart-stopping improbable 79-78 double overtime win at UConn. UConn with a six-game winning streak, fifth-ranked…
Gorgui Dieng out two games
Who’s next? The bad news is that Gorgui Dieng will not be on the airplane for the trip to UConn on Saturday. The good news is that he is expected…
Louisville sleepwalks past San Francisco
Maybe one of the bad ones is out of the system. Just in time for UNLV, which according to Rick Pitino, is a real threat, among the best teams around,…
Pitino keeps everybody guessing
So Rick Pitino is experimenting with his starting lineup entering Thursday’s exhibition basketball game with Kentucky Wesleyan. The starting lineup for Louisville will feature Stephan Van Treese at center, and…
U of L scraps from Big East Media Day feast
To appease your appetite while waiting for the hoops season, a few morsels and scraps from Rick Pitino on Louisville basketball and other topics (in a disturbingly random order): Really…
Mike Marra Delivers
“Coach lets me know if I’m open, I shoot it, because that’s what I do. I can’t hesitate, or else that’s just going to make it harder to make the…
Fans May Still Be Able To Get Tickets
To That Last Freedom Hall Game Yet
by Tom Stosberg Let’s clear one thing up. The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) isn’t such a bad thing. It’s televised. And usually it’s on Tuesdays when they don’t have the…
Lutz Tightens Grip On Freedom Hall
Bobby Lutz has a special place in his heart for Freedom Hall, and will be sorry to see the facility relegated to a virtual registry of historic places. In fact,…
For Starters, A Win Over Arkansas
Good way to start the basketball season, against an undermanned opponent that will get much better when all the suspensions are lifted, making a University of Louisville 96-66 win over…
Breaking In A New Basketball Season
By Paul Sykes Offering a brief respite from the trials and tribulations of a football season gone awry, Rick Pitino’s University of Louisville basketball team begins the 2009-10 season with…
Rick Pitino Lands Quite A Nucleus
Quite a haul, this latest University of Louisville basketball recruiting class, with muscle, speed and shooting ability to spare, giving Rick Pitino the nucleus he needs to nurture a contender…