Tag: Jared Swopshire

We’ve caught Jared Swopshire in Big Ten action a couple of times on TV this season, recognizing that familiar loping down court, pleased to see him playing a leading role…

Gotta give Marquette credit for wanting to play basketball the way it is meant to be played, going at breakneck speed, employing a full court press, attacking the basket, relentless.…

Where did the time go? Final game on Denny Crum Court, three more players making their way into the University of Louisville basketball archives. The calendar and clock running out…

UConn is Louisville three weeks ago, a team losing four out of its last five games, loaded with talent but missing essential elements, lacking confidence and chemistry, getting hammered, down…

Just so you know, every game from here on out is going to be an adventure. This University of Louisville basketball team could quite possibly be getting its act together,…

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…

Exhibition games don’t count for much, if anything. But if Jared Swopshire’s performance in the University of Louisville’s 72-62 win over Bellarmine is any indication, he may finally be ready…

A nice little break from football and the conference realignment drama, this exhibition basketball game against Pikeville. The defending champs of the NAIA play pretty sound basketball. A few seasons…

Every year it seems a key University of Louisville basketball player goes down in weeks leading up to the season. Already this year, two months until basketball practice officially begins,…

Rick Pitino still needs one more assistant basketball coach at the University of Louisville after announcing the addition of Richard Pitino, Jr. and Wyking Jones to his staff Tuesday. He’s…

As Rick Pitino keeps saying, the chances of Jared Swopshire returning to play basketball for the University of Louisville are nil. He confirmed it again Tuesday at his news conference.…

The word is not good on Jared Swopshire, the only returning starter from last season’s University of Louisville basketball team. “My guess is he’s not coming back anytime soon,” said…

The injured Jared Swopshire was not in uniform but his “I’m A Genius” sweatshirt ensured that he attracted plenty of attention during the University of Louisville’s Media Day practice session…

Athlon Magazine, which features Peyton Siva on this season’s cover, picked the University of Louisville basketball team to finish 10th in the Big East Conference and to do no better…

What … ? You expected more from this Louisville basketball team in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Expected players to emerge from a season-long mediocrity, represent the name…

Jared Swopshire and Jerry Smith in the starting lineup.

One More Homecoming Wreck For Edgar Sosa One could see it coming early. Edgar Sosa pumping his chest, waving his arms, winking at the camera, the kind of stuff players…

Here goes an exercise in futility. For the University of Louisville basketball team to get to the NCAA tournament, some unlikely things will have to occur, including some unbelievable breaks…

Just when one has filed a University of Louisville basketball player in the marginal to wasted category, Rick Pitino does his thing, getting inside the player’s head, pointing out the…

If visiting fans and players feel a little soiled after the trip to Morgantown, West Virginia, consider how it affects the guys blowing the whistles. Bob Huggins taunting an official,…