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A strange sensation. All of college basketball compelled to consider the University of Louisville as the No. 1 seed as they complete their brackets. Many picking U of L without…
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A strange sensation. All of college basketball compelled to consider the University of Louisville as the No. 1 seed as they complete their brackets. Many picking U of L without…
Yes, there were the incredible microwave twins, Andre McGee, Preston Knowles. The magical Terrence Williams, enigmatic Earl Clark, unflappable Jerry Smith. unpredictable Edgar Sosa, a determined Samardo Samuels. The occasional…
Card Flag of the Week honors go to Rick Hall, the driver of this Louisville Gas & Electric vehicle, who was in the Douglass Hills area putting finishing touches on…
Okay, you’re a University of Louisville basketball fanatic or you wouldn’t be here. Should know just about everything about the team. So who was Will Scott’s basketball idol, the one…
The new Commander in Chief is obviously still learning how the free enterprise system works but he apparently knows his basketball. His NCAA bracket has Louisville, North Carolina, Memphis and…
By Paul Sykes We all like to brag or lament about our NCAA Tournament picking prowess. I actually won a bracket entry contest last year. Nevermind the five others I…
The similarities are striking between this season’s University of Louisville team and the one that won the national championship in 1980 for Darrell Griffith and Roger Burkman, the Dr. DunkensteinÂ…
Neither Alabama State nor Morehead State has been to the NCAA Tournament recently. But Alabama State’s five-year absence pales to that of Morehead State, which hasn’t made the field for…
By Paul Sykes Not long into the NCAA Women’s Selection show, the capacity crowd in Cardinal Arena knew the destination of the University of Louisville women’s basketball team for the…
Singling out individual players for praise on the University of Louisville basketball team is easy to do. One after the other has stepped up during critical situations, time after time…
No bubble. No Billy Packer. No waiting around this Selection Sunday. The Louisville Cardinals are the No. 1 team in the 2009 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Rick Pitino has returned…
These are the moments, these are the days, the times, the kind of achievements that fans hope against hope will happen for their teams. Magical mystery moments, the ultimate highs,…
“It’s a great feeling to get in a championship game, but it’s not at all over.” — Jerry Smith
The individual stuff, seen that before, doesn’t work, never has for this team. Revert back to what brought you where you are, passing, moving, cutting, hitting the open man. Too…
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“A lot of people are counting us out. If we get there, more people will start appreciating us, like ‘Okay, they’re for real.'” — Preston Knowles
Arrive Laguardia late the day before the game, retrieve the conference trophy, return to the hotel, eat dinner, sleep, eat breakfast, play basketball at noon. No distractions (where is DC…
A great regular season under the belt, the kind of season fans all but took for granted a couple of decades ago. Having endured the lean, in-between and too few…