Went to the funeral today. Saw a lot of past players. Said hello to Doc Rivers. But that’s not the story. I met Junior back about 1988. His son was in the band at Male with my daughter. Doris and my wife worked the fb concession stand a couple of times. Still not the story.
Speakers were David Novak, Paul Thompson(bus. connection), Kevin Cosby, Star Jones, Chauncey Billops and Bob Russell. All had great stories. What came through is how humble, hard working and faith based he was (first Wendy’s was in Milwaukee the hood; didn’t go great until he bailed out one the workers and things took off, because the employees realized how much he cared). He would work until midnight and then drive home to Louisville. We could all do well to follow his example on how to live.
You can watch the entire service on YouTube.
REST IN PEACE JUNIOR

Nevermind

Starting to look like Sean Miller is a serious candidate at Texas. Xavier opening up would be interesting. Kelsey has obvious ties there and I’m sure would be #1 dream candidate on their wishlist.

I want to be clear, I do not believe Xavier could pay Kelsey’s $10+ million buyout and get anywhere close to what we are giving him towards NIL. But their fans will be loud and want him. Similar to us and Brohm in 2018. Not realistic, but there will probably be some noise and Kelsey will likely have to speak on it. Ultimately, I think he could end up with a raise this season even after Indiana filled up.

I would predict a Chris Mack return to Xavier which would be funny.

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Cards strike for a run in the first. Just pick up another run in the second. Brown on the bump for the Cards. Still wondering about Detmers’ status.

He definitely gets in his head. Seeing Mr. Potato Head sitting on the Arky bench looking as dead as he did when he was “coaching” us made me want to puke.

I had the same feelings after the game as I did following my other favorite team the Minnesota Vikings this year. Their seasons were remarkably similar. Neither had high preseason expectations. They both lost critical players to early season ending injuries. They both put on huge winning streaks that defied all expectations. Both played for conference/division championships and finished second. Both were significantly under seeded in the post season. And unfortunately, both laid an egg in the first round of the playoffs/tourney.

I felt genuine joy following both teams this year and I just didn't want the joy to end. However, both are well positioned for great seasons next year so I am quite certain that joy will be back again next year.

Go Cards!!!

We did this on the football board so I thought we should have this thread on the basketball forum as well.

What is your grade for this Cards college basketball season?

In his words: What will this team be remembered by:

"After seeing all of the videos and stuff, that huge stack of letters (from fans) you saw on the video, it low-key just brought happiness to my heart. Everybody has appreciated us and I am just so proud to wear this uniform and I am proud to be in this city. I wouldn't want to go anywhere else. We revived the city and the city revived me too, so it worked both ways. . . . Just know that we gave it all we had, through adversity, through whatever."


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Anybody know when spring practice starts?

We left eastern Jeff. County (near Ganders) at 10:15. Traffic was slow until we passed the beginning of construction near Shelbyville. Exited I-64 at Griffin Gate to Broadway. Very slow from that point to near the arena. Started to look for parking. Long story/short, it took ONE hour to find a spot at Transylvania, approx. 1 mile away. By the time we got to the arena, I was about to bust. Waited in line for the restroom for about 25 min. 4 urinals and 2 stalls. As you were in line parallel to the wall, there was a guy selling beer out of a couple of cases. People had to go through the line to get the beer. When I found my seat, we were down big about 18 min remaining in the game. They do have a new scoreboard, but no place for other scores to be posted. The hallways are very narrow compared to the YUM.
Between the sessions we looked to eat. Unbelievably some places were closed.
I could go on, but one last thing; we sat perpendicular to the court looking toward the band. When you looked to the other end of the court, you couldn’t see all of the. What a dump.

Who will win and do we care? My 2 cents; If they shoot 3's, highly unlikely due to the law of averages, like they did against us they have a chance of pulling the upset. I would like to see that just for the fact that a sec 1 seed goes down. A side note about Creighton; over their last 10 games, not including against us, their 3 point shooting average was 34.4. They averaged 45.8 on 3's in our game. The game before ours against St Johns 23.1

Ugh. Right-handed pitcher and CDM starts EKJr at DH. Makes zero baseball sense when you have left-handed DHs available. I hope he hits the dang ball.

We are still the leader for Ament who will announce his decision April 1st at the McDonald’s All Star game. Right now we have put together close to $87,000 that is more money then Duke or sUcK. Duke is reaching out to Ament about becoming part of the Duke history and having so many of the former players contact him about how great it is to be a former Duke player.
They say who ever gets Ament is hating a player who could elevate their program to a higher level. He is described by the talking heads as a generational player.

Former cardinal Hailey Van Lith is playing for TCU. She is the leading scorer for TCU with 17.7 ppg

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What's going on everyone. Long time no see. Apologies for my absence. Although yesterday was not fun, we get to jump right into spring practice today and tomorrow! I will be live from the practice this afternoon, so I will try my best to provide the best notes and information I can while I am there.

If anyone has any questions, please do not be a stranger. Let's have a day!

Alright. I'm over it and console myself by saying Creighton and Auburn are less than thrilled at having to play us in the first and potentially second rounds. In Lexington no less though for every four Louisville fans in Rupp there will be a UK fan or some orange Terd from Buck Tustle, TN who looks like he's dressed for Deer season or road side trash pickup who can barely spell S-E-C let alone pronounce it.

That vent finished, Creighton first.

One I like that their offense is overwhelmingly in the hands of their PG Ashworth, and he plays 35 minutes a game. With a name like Steven Ashworth you'd think he'd be on the LIV Tour instead of playing point guard for a Big East program. Good luck shaking Omaha's own Chucky Hepburn, Douchebag. Little known fact...CardHack spent the first six years of his life not far from Creighton, though you won't find any plaques in my honor. Such is the fate of someone born in a town where Warren Buffet and Johnny Carson are from. Nonetheless, something I don't like is that Creighton doesn't foul and we are a team that really builds up a FT differential when we're right. This is the first Louisville squad since 1975 that averaged making as many FT attempts as our opponents attempted. It's what dogged us against Duke. Kalkbrenner doesn't foul and blocks nearly three shots a game which to me says we have to involve him heavily in pick-and-rolls. Side ball screen pick and rolls when it's Edwards or Hepburn on the elbow extended. And it also tells me that we HAVE to have Reyne in this game. Creighton hits 9.7 threes a game which is identical to us. If we are going to be getting to the FT line less than normal we simply can't have a three point deficit. The math doesn't work if we do if we're having to have an overwhelming volume and percentage on two point shots because we are a team sans a low post scoring option. Our points in the lane come from Chucky and Edwards drives or J'Vonne backdowns or putbacks. Despite Kalkbrenner's presence they are only a +3.6 a game on the boards whereas we're a +4.6. Statistically two evenly matched teams. It's those three point margins and how we manage Kalkbrenner that will determine who plays Auburn on Saturday. But I think we really have to have Reyne on the floor.

As of today, there's 9 players who are or will be currently on the roster.

Front court:
Scott
Khalifa
Pryor
Fru
Rooths

Back court:
Brown
Hadley
Rogers
Johnson

Some questions and some unknowns.

1. Will those who played return?
2. How good are the two redshirts?
3. How many other newcomers will there be?

The only sure thing would seem the two signed freshmen will be here. Pryor also said today he will be back. But we all know things could change in a minute in the NIL world. Even signed letter of intents are no guarantee.

This includes the two redshirts who both are 5th year seniors. Looking at their stats from their former teams, both appear to be more like role players instead of star players. Could they be recruited over with the portal?

Both Scott and Rooths are projects and have a lot of improvement to make. Will Kelsey seek to find more talented and polished players in the portal? Will the star recruit Nate Ament sign?

Will Koren Johnson return to be the backup to a true freshman? Will Hadley choose to accept a smaller role and come back?

Some people are privy to who the coaches believe are the players they want back regardless of who may transfer in. Both Khalifa and Rogers are supposed to be two of those players.

I guess it really all comes down to how many and how good any transfers will be. Pretty soon we will start reading about the many players that are in the portal. Kelsey may be content with his current roster and only needs to add a few complimentary transfers, or he may be looking to improve the rosters over some of the current players?

I don't have any insight, but I can produce a guess. I believe Kelsey would accept transfers over current players if those transfers are star players like Hepburn and Edwards. Players like Hadley and Johnson and the redshirts could easily be told they may want to make a date with the portal.

Would Coach Kelsey want to be loyal to guys like Rooths and Scott or would he be ready to recruit over them?

I'm more interested in this than the rest of the NCAA tournament.