The Louisville Cardinals set a record tonight. I wish the article stopped there, but sadly it doesn’t. For the first time in program history, Louisville has allowed its opponent to score 50 points in 3 straight games. Tonight, it was Syracuse’s turn as the Orange steamrolled the Cards to a tune of 54-23. I would…
Author: Mitch Motley
University of Louisville student, Diehard Cards fan, Basketball Coach of the Louisville Spartans and St. Patrick Celtics
The Chris Mack era began with a win tonight over Nicholls with a final score of 85-72. Opening night highlights. Run back the 🎥 from tonight's win over Nicholls State. pic.twitter.com/SXuaUSjajA — Louisville Men's Basketball (@LouisvilleMBB) November 9, 2018 There are many things to work on. Defense, rebounding, and shooting percentage are glaring problems that…
Tonight at 7pm, the seemingly long-awaited Louisville-led Chris Mack era begins against Nicholls inside the Yum! Center. The Cards currently are 19-point favorites and the game can be watched on the ACCNetwork. Nicholls enters this game 1-0 with a win over MS College 86-58. However, the game was tied 35-35 at halftime. Nicholls was led…
Louisville and Wake Forest entered today’s contest with both teams searching for their first ACC win. The visiting Demon Deacons exited Cardinal Stadium today with a 56-35 victory over the home Cardinals. Puma Pass finished the game 30/54 for 358 yards and 1 touchdown. However, my biggest takeaway from Puma today was the horrific inaccuracy…
Despite missing A.J. Dillon, Boston College was able to run through the visiting Cardinals to a final score of 38-20. Louisville started slowly, seeing the Golden Eagles jump out to a 14-0 lead. Two BC fumbles aided the Cardinals 20-0 scoring run and that was about it for Louisville. Louisville led 20-14 and although two…
In a battle of the 2-3’s, Georgia Tech’s option offense thoroughly dismantled Louisville’s defense from start to finish leading to a final score of 66-31. Louisville allowed Georgia Tech to amass 554 yards of total offense, but the most impressive/disheartening part of that is 542 of those yards came on the ground. The Yellowjackets completed…
Yesterday, Louisville hosted Florida State in a battle of two teams desperate for a win to inject some life into a young, but fading season. Louisville led for the majority of the game, but a terrible playcall, pass, and the allowance of a big play sealed the Cards’ fate. Louisville fell to Florida State 28-24…
Entering today’s game, Louisville was sitting at 2-1 with a chance to move forward from their lackluster start and make a move in the right direction. Louisville not only failed on the scoreboard today, but a lot of the questions surrounding the team were answered in a way that everyone hoped was incorrect. Louisville was…
Last night, the unranked Louisville Cardinals traveled to Orlando to take on the No. 1 defending champ, Alabama. The Cards weren’t expected to win or even get close (the spread was 24) and those expectations proved to be accurate. The Tide jumped ahead early and never looked back behind rising star, Tua Tagovailoa. The final…
Last season: Lamar Jackson followed his 2016 Heisman campaign with another Heisman-worthy season. Don’t take this as a disservice to Lamar Jackson, but I’m not going to spend much of this article talking about the greatest player in Louisville/college football history. Like this team has to do, we as fans also have to move on…
Last season: Last season the running game was very obviously dominated by Quarterback, Lamar Jackson. He dominated the ground to a tune of 1601 yards, while the leading 5 running backs after him only accounted for 1418 yards. Although that stat is seemingly damning to the unit, Louisville’s offense was clearly at its best when…
Last season: Arguably the biggest issue of the defense last season was the lack of pressure put on opposing quarterbacks. The personnel wasn’t the problem. Trevon Young and James Hearns manned the edges and both wreaked havoc in opposing backfields. Jonathan Greenard also saw time at the edge position and had a solid redshirt-sophomore season….
Last season, we saw the consistency of Blanton Creque and Mason King in their unheralded, but all important roles. While the return game was managed by the likes of Reggie Bonnafon and Seth Dawkins, we missed out on the excitement of Jaire Alexander due to his injury suffered in the first game. The first two…
After thoroughly dismantling Middle Tennessee in the 2nd round, the Louisville Cardinals had to quickly shift their focus to tonight’s game against Mississippi State. The game is set to tip-off at 9pm in the Yum! Center and will be televised on ESPN. Mississippi State defeated Nebraska in the 1st round and Baylor in the second…
It started with smothering defense, followed by a massive 3-point barrage that helped Louisville gain an early big lead and the Cards never looked back. Louisville dominated Middle Tennessee and went on to win by a final score of 84-68. Ray Spalding led the Cards in scoring with 18 points on 8-11 shooting. VJ King…
After their gritty hard-fought win over NKU, the Louisville Cardinals take on the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders today in the 2nd round of the NIT at 6:30pm in the Yum! Center. The game can be watched on ESPN2. Middle Tennessee was one of the teams that felt slighted by the selection committee for being a…
By now it’s no secret, Louisville will not be playing in this year’s NCAA tournament. Instead, Louisville accepted a bid to the NIT and received a 2-seed. Louisville will play 7-seed Northern Kentucky tonight at 7pm in the Yum! Center on ESPN.
Louisville took one on the chin yesterday. The Cards suffered their 3rd loss of the season to Virginia (this one by 17 points) and left their NCAA tournament hopes in the hands of a group of people who probably don’t want to see them in it. We haven’t been in this position in a long…
After defeating 8-seed FSU yesterday, Louisville will lace em up at 12 again today against the 1-seed Virginia Cavaliers. The game can be watched on ESPN and Virginia currently sits as 6-point favorites. The last time these two teams met, the story blew up. Louisville outplayed and led Virginia by 10 points for 38 minutes…
9 Despite blowing a 26-point lead, the Louisville Cardinals were able to secure their first win in the ACC tournament against FSU by a final score of 82-74. Louisville led by 19 at halftime and held a 26-point lead with just over 11 minutes in the game. But, a ferocious comeback by FSU brought the…