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Legendary Coach Denny Crum Ranks Kentucky’s Anthony Davis Among Best College Players Ever

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Denny Crum has seen plenty of fantastic college basketball players come through over the last 50 years. He was an assistant at UCLA where he helped coach guys like Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton. He coached at Louisville from 1971 until 2001 and led the Cardinals to two national championships. All ...

The State of Kentucky Might Shut Down Saturday Night for the Cardinals and the Wildcats

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Last year the Connecticut Huskies won the Big East Tournament and rode that wave of momentum all the way to a National Championship. This year another Big East power, the Louisville Cardinals, are looking to do the same thing. Thanks to a great coaching job by Rick Pitino and a ...

Louisville Coach Rick Pitino: Kentucky Is In A Class By Themselves

Friday, February 24th, 2012

At one point this season, Rick Pitino had himself a top-five team. The Louisville Cardinals opened the season with a 12-0 run, but they're 9-7 since then, including a loss at Cincinnati last night. All of those games have come in Big East play except a 69-62 loss to Kentucky ...

Is Louisville Poised to Make a Final Four Run?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Dick Vitale isn't afraid to put Louisville in his Final Four. The Cardinals are coming off a solid run in the Big East tournament where they battled to the final minute of the title game with Connecticut, but fell short and wound up with a No. 4 seed in the ...

Rick Pitino Picks Florida as Sleeper Candidate for National Championship

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

While Ohio State certainly looked the part of the nation's top team in scorching Wisconsin on Sunday, this appears to be the most wide-open March Madness we've seen in a while. You could throw all kinds of teams out at me and convince me that they've got a shot to cut ...

Terrence Williams to the Nets on Draft Day

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Many people, me for one, thought Terrence Williams was the best athlete coming out of college. Sure Blake Griffin had the most basketball talent, but if you ever saw a Louisville game last year, Williams had amazing hops and showed that he could guard almost any 2 or 3 position ...

Rick Pitino Continues To Add To Already Illustrious Career

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Rick Pitino continues to establish himself as one of the very best coaches in college basketball history. He started his career at Boston University in 1978. In the two games before his arrival, the school had won just 17 games. It didn't take long for him to lead the Terriers ...

NCAA Tournament Midwest Region Interviews

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Take a listen to interviews from Midwest Region coaches in this year's NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament.  This is one tough region, with the defending champion Kansas Jayhawks occupying the third seed, a dangerous and perhaps peaking USC team all the way down at #10, and perennially tough March teams ...