One way to limit transfers is to give a 5th year of eligibility to players that only transfer once. Transfer more than once you only have 4 years of eligibility period.

It isn’t Ballo fault, he is a really good player. It is how they constructed the team. College basketball is a perimeter game. What is the value of a back to the basket big man in today’s game? This is where coaches have to spend wisely. IU problem is they have average perimeter players.

The other factor is this isn’t the 80’s. The majority of shots aren’t close in or mid range. Rebounds are no longer right around the rim. The offensive systems are pulling the bigs out of paint. They don’t live in the paint. Therefore 7 ft guy is less effective. Now the Wolfe kid is a kind of big you want. You can run the offense through him if you need to. He can pass, shoot and play inside. He can adequately defend.

I would never pay 2M for a big that can’t do all three well. It limits what you can do in all the other positions. Budgets aren’t unlimited. The players compile good stats but the team is just OK.

TheRealVille said:

Yes it's nice, but we need to move on from comparing the past two seasons to what this team is. For me it was in the Battle for Atlantis that I knew this was a whole new deal for Louisville basketball.

But at the same time, Louisville is still a elite level program and it should be treated like one by the so called basketball experts. As I've said over and over, what exactly is it keeping the Cards out of these voters top 25? The five losses?

This six game winning streak is current and it shows multiple Quad 1 and 2 wins, most by double digits. How long does it take for the voters to notice? Apparently they only now do but they're not convinced so they omit Louisville from the top 25.

That's BS no matter how you slice it.

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Just like during the Syracuse game the announcer stated that Lee (I believe) scored 30 last year against us. My Son immediately yelled Bullsh@t at the screen and said that was a whole different team with a whole different attitude. He then yelled do that sh@t again against the REVIVILLE!

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rockycard said:

Honestly, it should be either 8 or 16. The teams that played in the first round had a warmup that the bye teams didn’t.

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if it happens again next year they'll make it 16. simplest solution is to have relegation and a 96 team div 1 structure. 16 divisions x 6 teams. those 6 play round robin so 10 games in division. then one game with rival. no rankings nor committee ever needed.

instead of computer or committee rankings to seed, make it like the KY Derby post draw, put all 16 teams names in a hat and draw on live tv and it will bring better ratings than the bowl games themselves.

you play each team twice home and home to prove your the best. only issue is deciding tie breakers but that should be easy.

if you want to add another game for money, instead make top 2 division teams play for title and chance to go to 16 team tourney.

this completely eliminates all polls, committees, computers and any subjective reasoning to put a team in the playoffs. it's all settled on the field.

to make it even more fun and exciting, you could potentially move teams around every couple of years thus removing any biases likei vandy being stuck with ga every year or something liek that. so no sec ro big 10 or acc, maybe every two years two teams switch in and out. so every team over time could play ever other team in the country in a home and home. all tv revenue split 96 ways. bargain all as one, not as conferences. so it gets exciting to go to new places to play.

then for even more bonus fun, you take the bottom 16 teams and again using a live tv blind draw to make even more money, you match those worst 16 and the winners stay in div 1, and the 8 losers drop down to lower level. and likewise in the lower levels, top 8 teams get to move up. that would be so much fun.

No, they would not be able to play and preserve their redshirt year.

Since we are at game 19 in the season (past the halfway point), they would not be able to play at this point and qualify for a medical redshirt. The rules to qualify for a medical redshirt are (1) that the injury has to happen during the first half of the season, and (2) the player has to have played in fewer than 30% of the team’s regular season games (9 or fewer). None of those games can be after the 15th game of the regular season, including the postseason.

The non-medical redshirt rule in basketball is very strict: you cannot play in any games at all. Coaches are lobbying to change that rule to be more like football, but so far that has not happened.

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shadow force said:

Interesting indeed. I'm sure Ty-Laur will be looking to have a big game against the Cards.

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Chucky going take his milkshake

glassmanJ said:

yup, will be 16 team playoff next year to make sure alabama gets in

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Honestly, it should be either 8 or 16. The teams that played in the first round had a warmup that the bye teams didn’t.

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2330859 said:

In one stretch, the ladies went 7 minutes without scoring, and that occurred here at home. The good news however, there were periods where our Cards kept Syracuse from scoring at the same time ….. this team can use its athleticism to execute some pretty good defense at times. I went back thinking I would see some horrible shooting percentage, but at 44%, that is not horrible. We out-rebounded the Cuse, and that was the difference.

Unrelated, Oklahoma’s Payton Velhurst scored 38 points; sorry but that sort of explosive offensive addition back at UL would make this team a huge ACC threat.

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I fear Imari Berry will be our next Payton Velhurst. She is shooting 44% on 3's (way better than any other player) is
very athletic, and hustles. I don't think she was overated as a 5*, but she is getting very little playing time.

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Lots of new faces ready to get this program back where it's been.

TheRealVille said:

I loved Jazz Jones and still find it hard to believe she didn't become a star.

You're dead on about the weak hands and lack of jumping. Both Harris and Cochran would be all-Americans if they were more athletic.

Elif has improved since earlier in the season, but she's the Noah Waterman of the women's team, and isn't a 3 point shooter but seems to believe she is.

I would like to see Walz give more PT to Berry and Arenas over Russell. I know they're smaller but Russell mostly shoots 3's anyway.

And let's get Curry going early in these games. Show her Dana Evans videos on how to get open for that 3 point shot.

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100% on Arenas and Berry!

We're set to crash the top 25 with another solid performance tomorrow. I think we'll have another lively crowd. Not the time to pump the brakes,but improve offensively and protect the home court.

A loss tomorrow takes away too much of all the gritty work that's been done since Christmas.

anyone know if redshirts can play in post season tourneys like football players can?

Gonzaga lost again last night to Oregon State. A team that has lost to North Texas, Loyola Marymount and Santa Clara.

Who thinks the Zags will still be ranked next week? I suppose it will be due to them being ranked all those years before?

Memphis lost to Temple last night, are they still going to be ranked? Looks to me there's some openings in the top 25.

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