Tipping Off The Big East Countdown: #1 Louisville
It is truly a testament to the coaching ability of Rick Pitino that last season’s offensively challenged Louisville team made the Final Four after finishing the regular season seventh in the...
View ArticleCards Roll After Slow Start: Notes and Observations
Will Tucker is an RTC correspondent and a Big East microsite writer. He can be found on Twitter @blrdswag. The Louisville Cardinals officially kicked off their season this afternoon with a decisive...
View ArticleBig East Opening Weekend: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
College basketball tipped off Friday and as the weekend drew to a close, all but two Big East teams have played and only two of them lost. From Connecticut’s shocking win over Michigan State to South...
View ArticleCan Louisville Adapt to a Life Without Threes?
Will Tucker is an RTC correspondent and a Big East microsite writer. He filed this report after Thursday night’s Louisville-Samford game. Louisville overwhelmed Samford in all facets of the game...
View ArticleWalk-on Contributions Help Louisville Exorcise Late-Game Demons Against...
Will Tucker is an RTC correspondent and Big East microsite writer. He filed this report after Monday night’s Louisville-Pittsburgh game. Louisville endured a three-point shooting onslaught from Pitt...
View ArticleBig East M5: 03.04.13 Edition
Twelve points doesn’t seem like a particularly crazy total, but in a 58-53 defensive deadlock in a bustling Carrier Dome against a Syracuse team desperate to get back in the win column, Luke Hancock‘s...
View ArticleBracket Prep: Akron, Louisville, Northwestern State, Montana, Oregon, Pacific...
Saturday’s flurry of bid snatching wound down out West and left us with a near-complete picture of the puzzle. Just four automatic bids remain to be earned on Selection Sunday. As we have for each of...
View ArticleLouisville Poised to Exploit a Manageable Field With Talent and Maturity
With seven regular season games remaining on the schedule in mid-February, Rick Pitino called on his team to win them all. The Cardinals had just lost a demoralizing five-overtime road game to Notre...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament Tidbits: 04.03.13 Edition
The NCAA Tournament is here and there’s more news, commentary and analysis than any of us can possibly keep up with. To make things a little easier, we’ll bring you a list of daily links gathered...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament Tidbits: 04.04.13 Edition
The NCAA Tournament is here and there’s more news, commentary and analysis than any of us can possibly keep up with. To make things a little easier, we’ll bring you a list of daily links gathered...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament Tidbits: 04.05.13 Edition
The NCAA Tournament is here and there’s more news, commentary and analysis than any of us can possibly keep up with. To make things a little easier, we’ll bring you a list of daily links gathered...
View ArticleUnsung Stars Henderson, Albrecht, LeVert & Hancock Define Final Four Winners
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. When people cite intangible qualities like “clutchness” and “savvy” and “composure,” the descriptions typically fall in line with...
View ArticleNational Championship Game Analysis
Brian Otskey is an RTC Contributor and filed this preview of tonight’s game for all the marbles. Follow him on Twitter @botskey. The National Championship Game: #1 Louisville (34-5) vs. #4 Michigan...
View ArticleIt’s A Love/Hate Relationship: Volume XVI
Jesse Baumgartner is an RTC columnist. His Love/Hate column will publish each week throughout the season. In this piece he’ll review the five things he loved and hated about the previous seven days of...
View ArticleRuss Smith’s Return to Louisville Inspires National Title Repeat Potential
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Most of college basketball’s truly elite programs annually grit their teeth and devise creative scholarship and recruiting...
View ArticleAmerican Athletic Conference Offseason Capsules
We are a little less than a month away from the start of another college basketball season and as teams start to get in to the swing of things, we here at the AAC microsite will be doing the same...
View ArticleAAC M5: 10.22.13 Edition
It’s possible that only in Kentucky can you find more than 1,400 people to attend a college basketball event in the middle of a Monday afternoon. I guess it also helps if you are the defending...
View ArticleAAC M5: 10.23.13 Edition
In today’s episode of “As The Chane Turns”, suspended Louisville forward Chane Behanan is now bumping into reporters at random Starbucks’ and telling them he is “positive” he will earn his roster spot...
View Article2013-14 RTC Top 25: Preseason Edition
And so it begins. The time of year where we hear familiar voices on the television, see the faces on the floor, and our favorite teams finally playing games that count in the standings. It is a...
View ArticleMorning Five: Opening Day Edition
We can appreciate the arguments made by people advocating for athletes to receive compensation beyond their scholarship even if we question the economics of it, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t...
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