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Kenny Payne and the Louisville Cardinals continue to deal with the pain of losing in the 2022-23 college basketball season. Louisville basketball failed anew to get its first victory of the season after falling prey to the Appalachian State Mountaineers at home Tuesday night to the tune of a 61-60 score. All three Louisville basketball […]

The Bellarmine Knights take on the Louisville Cardinals. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Bellarmine Louisville prediction and pick. The Bellarmine Knights were part of one of the craziest stories in college basketball last season. First of all, Bellarmine made its transition to Division I men’s basketball, moving up from a lower […]

The Louisville basketball recruitment scandal reached its verdict on Thursday, and the Cardinals program appears to have gotten away with a slap on the wrist. The Independent Accountability Resolution Process revealed its punishments for the Louisville basketball program on Thursday stemming from the wild recruitment scandal which gripped the program back in 2017, via Matt […]

Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari will see a familiar face across from him when his team next faces the rival Louisville Cardinals. Louisville hired Kenny Payne away from the New York Knicks to be the new Cardinals head coach, but Payne also coached under Calipari at Kentucky for nearly a decade. Calipari has a […]

The South Carolina Gamecocks are preparing to take on the Louisville Cardinals in the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament. The 33-2 Gamecocks are looking to cap off their excellent season with a title, led by their best player, junior forward Aliyah Boston. As South Carolina looks to continue their NCAA Tournament run, Boston […]

Louisville Women’s Basketball is taking March Madness by storm! For the first portion of the men’s and women’s tournaments, the unprecedented No. 15 St. Peter’s Peacocks and Doug Edert’s mustache stole the show. But with them recently losing to North Carolina, the attention has shifted to the women’s division where Hailey Van Lith and the […]

The Louisville Cardinals team endured a difficult 2021-2022 campaign that saw them miss out on March Madness altogether. They had entered the season with fairly high expectations which were not met. The school wants to avoid another disappointing basketball season next year so they recently announced a move which should provide them with the best […]

After four years, Chris Mack is out as the head coach of the Louisville Men’s Basketball program amid the team’s struggles this season. Following his firing, Mack reacted to the whole situation. Via Dalton Godbey: Chris Mack is out as Head Coach at the University of Louisville. We just spoke to him outside the athletic […]

The decorated rivalry game on Wednesday between the Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals has unfortunately been postponed due to COVID-19 issues. Louisville reportedly has numerous positive cases within its program. Senior center Malik Williams was already out on Saturday in their matchup with Western Kentucky due to the virus and it appears he isn’t the […]

The Louisville Cardinals have received some unfortunate news regarding head coach Chris Mack. According to multiple reports, Mack has been suspended for the first six games of the Cardinals’ upcoming college basketball season. Matt Norlander of CBS Sports has the details on the suspension. News: Louisville has suspended men’s basketball coach Chris Mack without pay […]

Not everybody deserves a participation ribbon in the NCAA. In a field of 68 college basketball teams, the line between No.’s 65, 66, 67 and 68 is sometimes tough to draw between No.’s 69, 70, 71 and 72. And at some point, the voice of Jean-Luc Picard—captain of the Star Trek: Enterprise—resonates deep in the […]

Donovan Mitchell just finished cashing in big on his rookie-scale max extension late in November, and now he’s once again leading the charge in giving back to the community. The 24-year-old has been seen accomplishing random acts of kindness during his time in the NBA, and this time around is no different for the All-Star. […]

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell expressed outrage after reports that authorities shot and killed David McAtee during protests in Louisville early Monday morning. “RIP DAVID MCATEE!!!! ANOTHER UNARMED BLACK MAN HIS BODY LAID IN THE STREET FOR 8 HOURS!!!” the Jazz All-Star tweeted.  Around 12:15 AM on Monday, Louisville police and the National Guard were […]

We often discuss small sample size theater in these blog posts. It’s a needed caveat when talking about college basketball this early in the season. Otherwise, whenever pointing to something good or bad, it comes off as insanely hyperbolic. Operating under the assumption everyone understands small sample size theater is used since there’s no other […]

Let it be known ledes are insanely difficult to write when the meaningful information comes after the initial word vomit. It’s similar to micromanaging college basketball coaches who rather run a few seconds off the clock before starting earnest offense. Basically, all this stuff you see here — the words barely forming sentences — are […]

The Louisville Cardinals continue to try to land 2021 4-star guard Zion Harmon, as head coach Chris Mack reportedly checked in on the talented recruit on Wednesday, according to Jake Weingarten of Stockrisers. The 5-10 point guard, who attends Marshall County High School in Kentucky, took his official visit to Louisville back in late September. […]

JJ Traynor, a 4-star forward in the 2020 recruiting class, is set to decide this week between the Louisville Cardinals and Cincinnati Bearcats, according to Jake Weingarten of Stockrisers. The 6-8 power forward, who attends Bardstown High School in Kentucky, had plenty of interest from other programs around the country before cutting his list to […]

Even with the season less than two weeks away from starting in earnest, it remains forever busy on the recruiting trail. Jalen Terry, a four-star prospect out of the 2020 college basketball recruiting class, has been offered a scholarship by the Louisville Cardinals. This news was relayed to the human population on the mean streets […]

D’Andre Davis, a four-star prospect out of the 2020 college basketball recruiting class, will be taking a visit with the Louisville Cardinals. This visit appears to be official in capacity. News of the recruitment happened was relayed to the masses by way of the mean streets of Twitter by Rivals and Stockrisers reporter Jake Weingarten. […]

JaDun Michael, a four-star prospect out of the 2021 college basketball recruiting class, has been offered a scholarship by the Louisville Cardinals. A few different people appear to have gotten in on the scoop. For the sake of citing someone for it, we shall go with 247Sports (paywall). It’s not exactly shocking to see Chris […]

According to those in the know, JJ Traynor not only had a visit with the Louisville Cardinals recently, but said visit went extremely well. How do we know Chris Mack made it all sorts of appealing to the young man? Well, tickle me glad you asked, as it was reported on the mean streets of […]

Louisville Cardinals coach Chris Mack is heading into the 2019-20 college basketball season with one of the best group of freshmen in the country. Having left the comfy confines of the Xavier Musketeers for a then-embedded in scandal Louisville program, he’s done a more than stellar since taking over for Rick Pitino. Plenty of it […]

ESPN college basketball bracketologist Joe Lunardi has released his Oct. 3 bracketology for the 2020 NCAA Tournament, with some familiar teams leading the way with No. 1 seeds. Michigan State, Louisville, Florida, and Kansas are at the top of the seeding list, and all four teams have national title expectations heading into the season. The […]

When the FBI began to investigate college basketball, with the Louisville Cardinals in the organization’s cross hairs, it was assumed it could potentially result in the death of one of the sport’s biggest and best programs. If not that, at least a huge transition period from the Rick Pitino to the Chris Mack era would […]

Former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is itching it get back into coaching again as he is ready to take the next steps in getting back onto the court. According to ESPN, Pitino wants to coach again, whether it’s in college or the NBA. The former head coach has hired agent Jordan Bazant and is […]

The Virginia Cavaliers own the nation’s best defense, but on Thursday night, they won through their offense – or at least it was what saved them from getting another blemish on their March Madness resume, as they escaped by only the skin of their teeth in a 67-66 road win over the Louisville Cardinals. Down […]

When it comes to the NCAA, it appears that Los Angeles Lakers rookie rising star forward Kyle Kuzma is not a big fan of how it operates. The 22-year-old rookie drafted No. 27 overall out of the University of Utah, was clearly not happy when it was announced yesterday that the NCAA forced the University […]

With Rick Pitino later going on television to address his situation, former Louisville Cardinals buddy Tom Jurich had already been fired by the program. With now both being unemployed, maybe they could go clubbing together or something. In what felt like the inevitable, Louisville “officially” canned Tom Jurich. That’s the immediate news bit here. Pitino and […]

Disgraced ex-Louisville Cardinals basketball head coach Rick Pitino isn’t going down without a fight – or at least without being an annoying figure hellbent on squeezing out whatever dignity is left inside of him. In a direct path to weird logic in an attempt to avoid accountability, Rick Pitino is claiming Adidas did things under […]

Some relatively good news is finally coming out of the Louisville Cardinals basketball program. In a statement, the university announced the hiring of Trent Johnson as an assistant coach. It is certainly worth noting that this came after the school announced that assistant coach Jordan Fair had been terminated. David Padgett released a statement in […]

Louisville has announced that the only two remaining assistant coaches on the staff in the era of Rick Pitino, Jordan Fair and Kenny Johnson, have been placed on paid administrative leave as the school continues to investigate their involvement in allegations made in last week’s FBI complaint. Jordan Fair had been with the program for […]

The Louisville Cardinals basketball program isn’t exactly having the greatest run as of late. Despite that, interim head coach David Padgett believes things are starting to return to form. “We’re returning to some sense of normalcy,” Padgett said Wednesday, as written by the AP, “and we’re getting there because we’ve been able to practice and […]

Rick Pitino can continue to be defiant. Rick Pitino can claim both ignorance and innocence. But what the effectively fired Louisville Cardinals coach can’t do is prevent the flood of news coming out that continues to paint him in the most awful of lights. According to a report, the (again) effectively fired Louisville Cardinals coach […]

The Louisville Cardinals stay losing in the wake of the FBI looming in the shadows. 4-star talent in the 2018 recruiting class, David Johnson, has announced that he is backing out of his commitment to the program. “I’ve decided that I’ll be reopening my recruitment,” Johnson told Scout. Obviously, this isn’t incredibly shocking. Most people […]

Rick Pitino must think he’s arguing against the NCAA. Or, maybe, he is truly innocent. Either way, it has to be one of those two, because rare is the man being this defiant against allegations as the feds are nearing the doorstep. In an interview with the Courier-Journal, Rick Pitino said some nice things. Like […]

Rick Pitino has released yet another statement. This time, following the university effectively firing him, the tone of his words are slightly different. No, silly. Of course he isn’t admitting to the logical theory that he knew of anything that went down at Louisville. Rather, he is willing to take blame… for things he continues […]

In what is the most shocking development in an incredibly stunning story, Rick Pitino is reportedly the unidentified Coach 2 in the FBI’s affidavit. Basically, if things were awful at Louisville as they are now, they are about to get worse 10 times over. According to CBS News and the Wall Street Journal, Rick Pitino […]

The Louisville Cardinals are in a bit of trouble. Not only is the FBI cornering in on the program’s connections to a shoe company, but Louisville was forced to fire Rick Pitino, and now two of the team’s top high school commitments — Courtney Ramey and Anfernee Simons — are bailing on them. For good reason, too. […]

The inevitable finally happened. The Louisville Cardinals have fired both head coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich in the wake of the FBI arrests on Tuesday. Coach Pitino leaving practice facility. Would not answer my or @mikelacett questions. @WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/Zm5RghAWn4 — Travis Ragsdale (@TravisRagsdale) September 27, 2017 Reportedly, Jurich was asked to fire […]