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Location: Louisville, Ky. | Founded: 1798 | Enrollment: 21,000 | Colors: Red and Black
Coach: Rick Pitino | Home Court: Freedom Hall | Capacity: 18,865

Record: (0-0, 0-0 Big East)
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Cardinals report: Strategy and personnel
 

The Sports Xchange
 
 
Strategy and personnel · Notes, quotes · Getting inside
 

 

THE GOOD NEWS
Mark it down now: Louisville is next year's preseason Big East favorite. If the Cardinals don't return the soul of the club, they do return the heart of it with seven players who played regularly in the rotation coming back. The guard position is a gold mine of riches with Edgar Sosa, Preston Knowles, Andre McGee and Jerry Smith all returning. Up front, Rick Pitino also has Earl Clark along with versatile Terrence Williams. Derrick Caracter is likely to enter the NBA draft.

THE BAD NEWS
The team next year has to replace the senior leadership of C David Padgett and F Juan Palacios, who made up the soul of the team, and might lose Derrick Caracter to the NBA. Padgett was extremely important but Pitino is bringing in three highly promising front line players to fill the void.

KEY RETURNEES
F Terrence Williams, G Preston Knowles, G Edgar Sosa, F Earl Clark, G Andre McGee, G Jerry Smith and recruits F/C Terrence Jennings, F Samardo Samuels, F Jared Swopshire

ROSTER REPORT

--F Derrick Caracter first announced his plans to enter the NBA draft, then said he'd like to return. On May 22, Louisville coach Rick Pitino announced that Caracter was academically ineligible and likely had too many hurdles to overcome to return to UL.

Pitino said Caracter would most likely need to transfer to another school to return to the college game.

--C David Padgett came back from his early-season injury to set the Big East record in field goal percentage, hitting 68.3 percent during the league's 18-game schedule. He did not play enough games to qualify overall among the nation's leaders.

--F Terrence Williams showed his versatility by posting two triple-doubles during the season. Williams led the team in a rare double-double -- rebounds and assists.

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November 9, 2009 4:13 pm
Now usually I'm not one to open my mouth about our predicted finish or pre-season ranking but I can't see more than 20 teams being better than the Cards this year.  Don't get me wrong, our squad could go out there this year and lay an egg but I see us contending for another Big East title.  I think WV and Villanova are the only two teams who clearly have more talent than the Cards but th ...(more)
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November 9, 2009 3:29 pm
The rivals network has said it looks like Tobia Harris will be committing to the Cuse on the 19th. Rumor has it that 5 star PG Josh Selby is now a syracuse lean thanks to the likes of Mr. Johnny Flynn. Apparently Flynn. Tobias and Josh are quite the twiterers. If this is true Syracuse will have a very nice class for 2010 which could include Fab, Tobias, and Josh Selby.

So what does this
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November 6, 2009 2:57 am
This is link to the game.


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fist enter the 4 letters in the box and then click download file. wait 45 seconds and click on regular download. you have to have a videoplayer that MKV - h264 video. It doesn't take to long, like 20 mintues to download with Insi
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November 5, 2009 11:52 pm
Ok guys there is a petition going around to sign and try to get Wheat's 32 in the rafters.

One player that has sadly never been recognized is DeJuan Wheat. He was a star at U of L from 1993-97, becoming the first player in NCAA Division I history to have career totals of at least 2,000 points, 450 assists, 300 three-point field goals and 200 steals. His accomplishments far surpass numbe
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November 6, 2009 12:20 am

Here is a great article.  Alot of one line Jabs. 

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/coll
ege/mensbasketball/2009-11-04-kentu
cky-cover_N.htm

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October 28, 2009 9:43 pm
Like Pitino stated , this would be close throught and for the most part it was. First things first Smith, Knowles and Sosa did not show any amount of leadership early and Smiths fouls were not needed . Both Smith and Sosa fouled on 3pt shots THEY know better! Samuals played hard and took advantage of his big body inside. ITs apparent at least so far that we will be looking to go inside to him alot ...(more)
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November 6, 2009 12:23 pm
South Kent (Conn.) shooting guard Russ Smith says he plans on signing with Louisville during his Nov. 15 visit.

“I’m going to sign on my visit,” the 6-foot-2, 160-pound Smith said Friday. “We’re still working on everything officially but I did give coach Pitino my verbal.

“I liked his resume and everything overall, the program. It&rs ...(more)

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November 8, 2009 7:33 pm
Ya I know its a basketball board but im stoked Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is on the eve of release. Im very excited about this
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November 1, 2009 8:07 am
Wouldnt it have been nice if they would have mabe they Nov 17th games a round robin! You know winner of the first two games plays and losers play! I mean come on you get 4 good solid bball programs together and all your going to do is play 2 games? I think it would be a plus for this to have been set up better. In my opinion IT would be a great measuring stick for Uofl/ Ark / Memphis to play Kansa ...(more)
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November 5, 2009 9:17 am
What is his deal I understand he is a freshman trying to get his stuff together but we are playing against Bellarmine and Georgetown College why have i seen him only hit one shot and why is there all this talk of such a pure shooter he is. I hope he proves me wrong i hope that it's jus the pre-season jitters.
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November 4, 2009 9:04 pm
first off, Whe HAVE to use that starting lineup it will work this season! second good effort all around nice to see Delk do better. Siva, well hes got mad game i mean really do he dunk that back in that way? anyway we still need to improve on D but to do that to a much better team shows just how much a weeks differnce can make! Anyway hope we can step it up even more and get ready for a great seas ...(more)
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November 3, 2009 7:57 am
Well its been almost 6 days since we got to see Uofl play its first game and tomarrow night they will battle Bellarmine. I have heard that Bellarmine is Ranked #1 in their divison so im going to guess they will be scrappy and play you 40 feet out from the rim alot like Gtown.
I dont know how much size they have but im sure they have some. IT will be enteresting to see how Smith, Sosa and Delk
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November 6, 2009 6:23 am
Being from out of state ( Michigan ), I don't get a chance to see the continued construction of the new arena.  I'm excited about it and hope to one day be able to visit Louisville again; and look forward to seeing it and checking out the inside firsthand.  I'm asking you Card fans to give me an update on the progress being made, if you would please.  Thanks in advance.
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November 4, 2009 1:37 pm
People want to talk about how over the top UK fans are - with our high expectations and nit-picking of our teams performances to the Nth degree. But what is worse? Would you rather have a fan base that packs every game and has high expectations - or a fan base that totally abandons their program when they're not doing so well? Let me start off by saying that I live in the Louisville area. I ...(more)
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October 29, 2009 5:05 pm
I dont have links or confirmation but i have heard Mr. Harris will be at the Arkansas State game Saturday (A day earlier) and will be committing to the Cards next week! Hope my foot dont end up in my mouth!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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