November 20, 201312 yr ...... Their SOS is at 255 after tonight's game. Wouldn't be so bad but they literally play 11 straight cupcakes before UK on 12/28. 2003 Jim Boeheim thinks this schedule is soft.
November 20, 201312 yr Definitely not a great schedule. That said, the potential game against UNC is supposed to happen... and that was supposed to be a marquee early-season matchup.
November 20, 201312 yr Definitely not a great schedule. That said, the potential game against UNC is supposed to happen... and that was supposed to be a marquee early-season matchup. Did I see right that they're set up to play UNC on Sunday? At 1:00?
November 20, 201312 yr Did I see right that they're set up to play UNC on Sunday? At 1:00? UNC is playing Richmond on Saturday and UL on Sunday? Weird, I don't see it on my comprehensive CBB schedule.
November 20, 201312 yr ^ Uncasville, Connecticut. Potential final of a four-team event. Got ya, thanks. That helps for sure. Thanks.
November 20, 201312 yr ^ Uncasville, Connecticut. Potential final of a four-team event. Thanks. Hard to see UNC being able to stay with UL without Hairson & McDonald.
November 20, 201312 yr ...... Their SOS is at 255 after tonight's game. Wouldn't be so bad but they literally play 11 straight cupcakes before UK on 12/28. 2003 Jim Boeheim thinks this schedule is soft. Terrible schedule. Pitino knew he had a solid team back. He should have scheduled 3-4 marquee games.
November 20, 201312 yr Personally, I see an "It Factor" with these guys that not even last year's champions had. Last year, they really fed off the press, and at times played with a clear desire to impose their will on the other team; these Cards play like they NEED to dominate their opponents. Just a different group persona. I guess it probably has a lot to do with Siva and Dieng’s personalities as team leaders last year, as opposed to Trezl and Russ.
November 20, 201312 yr Terrible schedule. Pitino knew he had a solid team back. He should have scheduled 3-4 marquee games. I've thought about this too. How much is the current collegiate trend to neutral site games hurting Louisville in this regard? Truthfully, Louisville needs to be at home basically all of November and December to make sure the arena bills keep getting paid. That being the case, two-year home-and-home scenarios don't do the Louisville pocketbooks any favors. In the end, Pitino's always been a guy who schedules soft in November and December. Uses the time to play around with his team. The aberration was last year, when the team went to the Bahamas tournament. This has been the norm for his time in Louisville.
November 20, 201312 yr Terrible schedule. Pitino knew he had a solid team back. He should have scheduled 3-4 marquee games.With whom? And when? And where? The other top teams were already scheduled for their big event, and I don’t think a lot of teams after the elite tier are eager to play the mostly returning defending national champions in the first few weeks of the season. Louisville tried to get something worked out with IU, but Dwight isn’t interested. Louisville can’t play in Atlantis/Maui every year. They SHOULD get a chalk game against UNC on a neutral floor (who, again, was supposed to be pretty good) and I’m pretty sure later in the year they have a game against what I’ve heard is the greatest assemblage of basketball talent since Jordan defended the planet Earth with Bugs and Daffy. They play Western, then at FIU in what was supposed to be a more meaningful game when the contract was signed, and then the afore-alluded to unstobale basketball force, on their home turf no less; then it’s on to conference play. To recap: Who? Not Indiana. Not other marquee teams who had no room to play the Cards, and I don’t think Louisville looked like an attractive dance partner to teams outside of the elite, especially since… When? Louisville would only have had room for an early game. UNC is this Sunday, then they have Southern Miss (good not great last year, really a hard luck team that I felt like were a couple of bounces outside of the tournament, even ignoring how that is literally true as they lost in overtime against Memphis in the C-USA tournament), then after a pair of actual cupcakes it’s WKU, cupcake, contracted game @FIU, @UK and on to conference games. Where? Louisville plays UNC in Connecticut and Kentucky in Lexington. WKU is the home headliner until 2014. Outside of maybe IU in Indianapolis, Louisville would have wanted that game at the Yum, which compounds with the above: if you’re a team like Ohio State, do you really want to play at Louisville a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, when you could play Marquette instead and get plenty of big-game hype in the B1G anyway? If you’re Marquette, haven’t you had quite enough of playing Louisville lately, anyway, and maybe it can be someone else’s’ turn?
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