According to WDRB.com, LMPD’s Dwight Mitchell confirmed that Louisville basketball player Mangok Mathiang was arrested Friday night for drinking alcohol in a public place and failure to disperse. From the post on WDRB’s website: An arrest report states the incident happened at 7:30 p.m. on May 2 at 3rd St. and Central Ave. In the…
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Brian Hamilton of Sports Illustrated is reporting that Louisville will face Ohio State in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge in the 2014-15 basketball season. If true, that means the Cards will face Ohio State, Minnesota, Indiana, and Kentucky all out of conference. And then they will begin conference play in the ACC. Not too bad! The…
It looks like Louisville could be a very realistic landing spot for 5-star (ESPN) shooting guard Antonio Blakeney from the class of 2015. Blakeney is 6’4 and 170 lbs from Orlando, Florida. It looked to be down to Louisville and Florida. With the commitment of 5-star shooting guard Kevaughn Allen to the Gators, it seems…
A 5-star point guard from Newark, New Jersey has named his final 7 schools, and the Louisville Cardinals are in that mix. Isaiah Briscoe, listed at 6’3 and 215 lbs, is the 3rd best point guard in the country according to 247sports. Rivals lists him as the 19th best player overall in the class of…
There has been talk in the last week or so that Chane Behanan may turn pro rather than attend Colorado State. Behanan shot down those rumors by saying he had not made his decision yet. He came out Monday afternoon on twitter and announced that he will, in fact, test his luck and declare for…
If you haven’t had a chance yet to make it out to one of the autograph signings for Russ Smith, you have another chance on Tuesday. This will be the 73rd autograph session since the season ended. Not really, but it just seems that way. This one will be at Brownie’s The Shed, which is…
Rick Pitino picked up a commitment from an in-state player that will be a walk-on. Trent Gilbert, who attends Scott County High School in Georgetown, Kentucky, has decided to join the Cards over scholarship offers from Marshall, Winthrop, and Tennessee Tech. Gilbert is 6’1 and averaged 26.1 points per game this season. He was also…
During his press conference on Wednesday afternoon to announce new assistant coach Kenny Johnson, Rick Pitino also mentioned that someone else would be joining the staff. Former UofL big man David Padgett will join the staff as an Assistant Video Coordinator. This could end up being a great move for the Cards. With two seven…
On Tuesday afternoon, the ACC released the men’s basketball conference matchups for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. The conference season will consist of 18 games for each team. Each team will play 10 teams once and 4 teams twice. The 2014-15 season at the KFC Yum! Center will be one to remember. Along with hosting…
Multiple media outlets are reporting that Indiana assistant coach Kenny Johnson will be hired at Louisville to replace Kevin Keatts on Rick Pitino’s staff. Johnson is most known for his ability to recruit, and most see this as a huge hire for Pitino. Kenny Johnson has accepted an assistant coaching position at Louisville, per a…
Here are the final stats from Friday night’s Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic.
Future Louisville Cardinal Jaylen Johnson was in the finals of the dunk contest Friday night at Freedom Hall during the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic. He finished 2nd with 74 points, as Isaac Copeland scored 79. Copeland will play his college ball at Georgetown. Here are the videos of Johnson’s dunks. He put on a…
Halftime of the Derby Festival Basketball Classic is always an entertaining one. It is when they have the finals of the dunk contest and 3-point contest. At the Night of the Future Stars on the night before, they have the early rounds of those contests and then that sets up the finals for Friday night. Tonight’s…
This morning an e-mail when out that said there would be a “significant announcement” that would affect all 23 sports at UofL. The press conference is scheduled at 2:00. This got the whole twitter world talking about what it could be. The natural idea was that it was about Louisville either staying with Adidas or…
If you haven’t been able to attend one of the autograph signings so far for the seniors, here is another opportunity. This one will feature Russ Smith and Luke Hancock. The information can be found on the flyer below.
From the KDF Press Office: April 14, 2014. Louisville, KY. – Tickets are still available for the 41st annual Derby Festival Basketball Classic presented by Papa John’s this Friday, April 18. The roster includes one McDonald’s All-Americans, 2 Parade All-Americans, as well as University of Louisville signees Chinanu Onuaku, Quentin Snider and Jaylen Johnson and Indiana recruits…
The WNBA Draft was held Monday night in Uncasville, Connecticut and three Louisville Cardinals were among the 36 players drafted. Shoni Schimmel was picked 8th overall by the Atlanta Dream, which means that she will be on the same team as Angel McCoughtry. If there was ever a WNBA team for the city of Louisville…
This is the Cardinal week in review 4/14/14: First off, this is the first week without 55 in several months but we had a ton of news. We did see our first edition of 4YourInfo by Daryl though. From TrezL to the road sweep of then #7 Houston, here is the week in review. …
Press release from UofL: April 14, 2014 LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville forward Wayne Blackshear has been named team captain for the 2014-15 Cardinals’ men’s basketball team. “We have great confidence in Wayne moving toward his senior year,” said UofL Coach Rick Pitino. “I’m sure he will continue the outstanding leadership we have witnessed the last four years.”…
Someone finally did it. They made the video that shows every dunk that Montrezl Harrell threw down from this past season. It even includes the Red-White scrimmages! There were 112 total dunks, 96 of them official. This is from “TheLouisvilleShow” on youtube.