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—NET Rankings Update (men’s): No. 16. —NET Rankings Update (women’s): No. 11. —Episodes one and two of the Pat Kelsey/Louisville basketball documentary are now available. You can watch the first episode here. —Last Sunday’s Louisville-Duke matchup is the most-watched ACC Tournament championship game on record. —Pretty much every mock NCAA Tournament bracket on the internet […]
In a battle between a couple of evenly matched teams, it can take but a quick interlude of momentary superiority for separation. On the court, peripherals factor to a degree. That one team is without its best player with injury. That the other wants revenge for losing less than a week ago in its final […]
Five days after shooting the lights out and taking great care of the basketball in a 92-89 road win over Miami, Louisville failed to replicate either of those efforts in a 78-73 loss to the Hurricanes that ended U of L’s run in the ACC Tournament. The Cardinals, who shot 12-for-24 from three in the […]
Let’s keep the fun in Charlotte going. Go Cards.
6) Louisville Cardinals (23-9, 11-7) vs. 3) Miami Hurricanes (24-7, 13-5) ACC Tournament Quarterfinals Game Time: (Approximately) 2:30 p.m. Location: Spectrum Center: Charlotte, N.C. Television: ESPN2 Announcers: Kevin Brown (play-by-play), Jay Williams (analysis) and Taylor Tannebaum (sideline) Favorite: Louisville by 1.5 Series: Louisville leads, 16-8 Last Meeting: Louisville won, 92-89, on March 7 in Coral Gables Series History: Projected Starting Lineups: Louisville Miami Statistics: […]
Transcript: PAT KELSEY: A lot of credit to SMU. Andy is a really good coach. We played down at their place a couple weeks ago, and they just kicked the crap out of us. So ton of respect for them. Their offensive firepower is as good as anybody in the country. Proud of our guys. […]
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It looked nothing like the game anyone was expecting, but Louisville found a way to gut out a 62-58 win its first game of the ACC Tournament Wednesday afternoon in Charlotte. Cardinal star Ryan Conwell struggled mightily for most of the game, but made the two biggest shots of the contest to send the Cards […]
Let’s have ourselves a week. Go Cards.
6) Louisville Cardinals (22-9, 11-7) vs. 11) SMU Mustangs (20-12, 8-10) ACC Tournament Second Round Game Time: (Approximately) 2:30 p.m. Location: Spectrum Center: Charlotte, N.C. Television: ESPN Announcers: Kevin Brown (play-by-play) and Jay Williams (analysis) Favorite: Louisville by 6.5 Series: Louisville leads, 10-3 Last Meeting: SMU won, 95-85, on Feb. 17 in Dallas Series History: Projected Starting Lineups: Louisville SMU Statistics: SMU’s Season […]
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Louisville has announced that star freshman point guard Mikel Brown Jr. will miss the entirety of the 2026 ACC Tournament because of the back injury that has forced him to sit out 10 games already this season. “Mikel wants to play in the ACC Tournament,” U of L head coach Pat Kelsey said in a […]
Louisville will begin what it hopes is a second straight run in the ACC Tournament with a Wednesday afternoon game against SMU. The Mustangs, seeded 11th in the tournament, took out No. 14 Syracuse, 86-69, in a first round matchup from Charlotte on Tuesday. Second Team All-ACC honoree Boopie Miller led the way for SMU, […]
—NET Rankings Update (men’s): No. 13 —NET Rankings Update (women’s): No. 11 —Nearly every updated bracket projection on the internet has Louisville as a 6-seed. A few scattered projections have the Cards as a 5 or a 7. —The latest women’s Bracketology from ESPN has Louisville as a 3-seed in UCLA’s region. The Cardinals would […]
Sports Illustrated has announced the release of a new documentary series titled “Marching to Madness” which follows Pat Kelsey and the Louisville men’s basketball team. According to the official press release, the series follows “Coach Kelsey as he climbs the NCAA ladder, launching from mid-major College of Charleston to the living, breathing giant of Louisville […]
Leave it to college b-ball’s best play by play guy Ian Eagle to put it in perspective. During Sunday’s Great Lakes State Wolverines vs. Sparty take-no-quarter Gettysburg-ish bloodbath, Eagle proclaimed, “We’ve got here a serious case of March.” There’s no vaccine. Thank heavens. * * * * * Since my readership consists mostly of the […]
The ACC has announced its individual awards and accolades fro the 2025-26 men’s basketball season, and two Cardinals have been honored. Ryan Conwell has been named Second Team All-ACC by the league’s media and coaches, while Mikel Brown Jr. earned Third Team honors. Brown Jr. was also named to the league’s All-Rookie team, while Adrian […]
By virtue of its two wins last week, the Louisville men’s basketball team has climbed back into this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll at No. 24. The Cards will enter the postseason having been ranked in every week but one this season. Here’s the full poll: 1. Duke2. Arizona3. Michigan4. Florida5. Houston6. UConn7. Iowa State8. Michigan […]
No real update on Mikel, but some good stuff from PK as we get ready for the postseason.
—NET Rankings Update (men’s): No. 14. —NET Rankings Update (women’s): No. 11. —The CJ’s Brooks Holton looks at the reasons why Louisville can and cannot make a deep run at this week’s ACC Tournament in Charlotte. —The Miami Hurricane recaps The U’s loss to Louisville. —What a game to be a road fan for. —Bryan […]
Tonight I may wake up in a cold sweat screaming “REBOUND!” Louisville was out rebounded today 42 to 34 with Duke having 19 offensive rebounds. Every time the Cards would force a bad shot it was nullified by the fact that the Blue Devils would grab the rebound. Duke only shot 39% for the game. […]
Let’s cut down some nets. Go Cards.
The bracket is set for next weeks ACC men’s basketball tournament in Charlotte. Louisville will be the No. 6 seed and will open play on Wednesday at (approximately) 2:30 p.m. against the winner of Tuesday’s game between 11-seed SMU and 14-seed Syracuse. Should the Cards advance to Thursday, they would face third-seeded Miami at 2:30 […]
It was a game of runs. Both teams would go stretches without scoring. Louisville started the game 9 of 16 and finished the half 2 of 11 from the field. North Carolina took the lead in the third quarter but then the Cardinal defense seemed to lock in. Louisville took a 45-40 lead at the […]
Caveat Emptor: Your venerable Cardinal chronicler takes no responsibility if what you read makes zero sense, nor for any of the typos which may be contained herein. My fingers have the hippy hippy shakes. I have skipped a light fandango, turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor to get to my keyboard. I am exhausted. I am […]