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Question Louisville best team in Big East?
Suprise suprise the cards are playing excellent basketball and look like the top 10 team many people projected early in the year. Of all the Big East teams this season I think the Cards have the team to make the Final 4 this season. As everyone knows once you get to the Final 4 anything can happen03-shhhh
02-05-2008 11:20 PM
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RE: Louisville best team in Big East?
Far from a sure thing, but I think we can be in the discussion. We'd need to take out Georgetown at home on Saturday night to even begin to make the claim. UConn is red hot, and ND is in 2nd place, although I honestly don't see them making it past the opening NCAA weekend. To be honest, I don't diagree from the respect of picking UofL to possibly go further in the NCAA than anyone else in the league, but of course I am far from unbiased on that one!

I see it like this. We have the talent to play with anyone in the country, and I did say anyone. The team has some guys that are not completely disciplined however, and when a few of them regress and forget what the Pitino gameplan was, we can get beat. When we play smart, and by smart I mean play the defense we are capable of and take a limited amount of contested shots on offense, I like our chances against almost anybody.

We are far from unbeatable though, as our record obviously shows. We had horrible shot selection against UC and UConn, and got beat by both, even though in each game we took a shot in the last 5 seconds that would have won the games had they gone in. Seton Hall was honestly a fluke in my opinion. UofL was up 14 about halfway through the 2nd half. At that point we fell back into the poor offensive execution. The fluke part was Seton Hall, or more so, Jeremy Hazell, on offense. Hazell alone made 8 three's, and a post-game film breakdown revealed 6 of them were from 25 feet or further out. Tough to stop that once a career shooting night.

No excuses though, we have already dropped 3 league games, even if we would like our chances in a rematch. Georgetown has pulled out more of the games where they played poorly, and thus they are still a definite favorite to win the regular season title. In the Cards' 7 conference wins, they are winning by an average of 18 points a game. Great teams pull out those close games though, and they haven't done that yet.

The NCAA is a long way off still, but right now UofL is probably playing better than the seed they'd receive. Again, I'm biased, but my guess is a team slotted in say a 3 seed wouldn't be thrilled to see UofL as the 6 seed in their bracket for a 2nd round matchup.
02-05-2008 11:51 PM
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RE: Louisville best team in Big East?
CollegeCard Wrote:Far from a sure thing, but I think we can be in the discussion. We'd need to take out Georgetown at home on Saturday night to even begin to make the claim. UConn is red hot, and ND is in 2nd place, although I honestly don't see them making it past the opening NCAA weekend. To be honest, I don't diagree from the respect of picking UofL to possibly go further in the NCAA than anyone else in the league, but of course I am far from unbiased on that one!

I see it like this. We have the talent to play with anyone in the country, and I did say anyone. The team has some guys that are not completely disciplined however, and when a few of them regress and forget what the Pitino gameplan was, we can get beat. When we play smart, and by smart I mean play the defense we are capable of and take a limited amount of contested shots on offense, I like our chances against almost anybody.

We are far from unbeatable though, as our record obviously shows. We had horrible shot selection against UC and UConn, and got beat by both, even though in each game we took a shot in the last 5 seconds that would have won the games had they gone in. Seton Hall was honestly a fluke in my opinion. UofL was up 14 about halfway through the 2nd half. At that point we fell back into the poor offensive execution. The fluke part was Seton Hall, or more so, Jeremy Hazell, on offense. Hazell alone made 8 three's, and a post-game film breakdown revealed 6 of them were from 25 feet or further out. Tough to stop that once a career shooting night.

No excuses though, we have already dropped 3 league games, even if we would like our chances in a rematch. Georgetown has pulled out more of the games where they played poorly, and thus they are still a definite favorite to win the regular season title. In the Cards' 7 conference wins, they are winning by an average of 18 points a game. Great teams pull out those close games though, and they haven't done that yet.

The NCAA is a long way off still, but right now UofL is probably playing better than the seed they'd receive. Again, I'm biased, but my guess is a team slotted in say a 3 seed wouldn't be thrilled to see UofL as the 6 seed in their bracket for a 2nd round matchup.

I saw the Setan Hall game it was SNY here in Syarcuse, UofL had a monster lead on the Hall and then kind off let that hazell kid explode it was a fluke I agree. Just looking at the talent,expereince, coaching, and defensive pressure UofL score high. Other G'town no other Big East team has these factors especially come NCAA tourny time were your team has to win 3 two game tournys. If uofL can just stop taking bad shots and stop Terrence Williams from taking bad shot UofL has a real good shot at the Final 4, beter then any other BE team including SU IMO.
02-06-2008 12:48 AM
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RE: Louisville best team in Big East?
UL needs to win the BE first.
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SF Husky Wrote:UL needs to win the BE first.

Totally, totally agree. First things first, you've got to play for your conference championship before you play for a NC. It was my belief when Pitino took over, UL had not even won CUSA, then they did, a couple of times if I'm not mistaken. I believe it was that, actually winning their conf. which gave them the belief they could do more, and did with a FF trip. Win the BE first, then look for bigger prizes. Though the BE is a pretty big prize in and of itself, admittedly.
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SF Husky Wrote:UL needs to win the BE first.

Totally, totally agree. First things first, you've got to play for your conference championship before you play for a NC. It was my belief when Pitino took over, UL had not even won CUSA, then they did, a couple of times if I'm not mistaken. I believe it was that, actually winning their conf. which gave them the belief they could do more, and did with a FF trip. Win the BE first, then look for bigger prizes. Though the BE is a pretty big prize in and of itself, admittedly.

You guys still need to beat GTOWN. It is possible you need to beat UCONN again in the BE tournament. I won't bet against UCONN and Calhoun at MSG. BE championship game has almost been our birth right in the 90's.
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Crimsonelf Wrote:
SF Husky Wrote:UL needs to win the BE first.

Totally, totally agree. First things first, you've got to play for your conference championship before you play for a NC. It was my belief when Pitino took over, UL had not even won CUSA, then they did, a couple of times if I'm not mistaken. I believe it was that, actually winning their conf. which gave them the belief they could do more, and did with a FF trip. Win the BE first, then look for bigger prizes. Though the BE is a pretty big prize in and of itself, admittedly.

You guys still need to beat GTOWN. It is possible you need to beat UCONN again in the BE tournament. I won't bet against UCONN and Calhoun at MSG. BE championship game has almost been our birth right in the 90's.

I just want to see continued effort for the remainder of the regular season. Playing smart and tough. Then they might be ready for the BE tourney. Yeah, look, we all know how tough this conference is top to bottom, no team can be overlooked. I still don't truly believe at this point that this is UL's year. They have to show me more, and as was stated in an earlier post, they have to be able to win the close games. All I'm really saying at this point is that, if in future, a team wants to be truly ready to make some noise in the Dance, it has to begin in conference, no matter which conference they play in.

Having said that, if UL can split the 2 games with GTOWN, I'd be happy. UCONN will be tough no matter what, they've got the talent and have grown considerably. Hell, any of the 12 teams that make it this year are going to put up an absolute dog fight. It's one and done and nobody ever wants to go home early. Especially if a ticket to 'The Ball' is on the line based on this last chance at making an impact in the BE tourney. It'll be fun, regardless.
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I'd prefer to see UofL sweep Georgetown. That'll help WVU best.
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RE: Louisville best team in Big East?
Ville, Gtown and UConn are very good and all of them could make deep runs in the NCAA. Hopefully they all will.
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RE: Louisville best team in Big East?
I hope UL can beat GTOWN this weekend. Good luck guys. If GTOWN loses, it will make the BE race that much more interesting. Luck has been with GTOWN so far. They are a great team, but not head and shoulder above others. Seton Hall is making some noise as well.
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RE: Louisville best team in Big East?
Went to the MU-UofL game on Monday. UofL has enough talented big men to compete with anyone. If the guards keep up the level of play they had on Monday, and Pitino coaches as well as he has lately, they will be a tough out. It will be interesting to watch the game with Georgetown.
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MUAvalanche Wrote:Went to the MU-UofL game on Monday. UofL has enough talented big men to compete with anyone. If the guards keep up the level of play they had on Monday, and Pitino coaches as well as he has lately, they will be a tough out. It will be interesting to watch the game with Georgetown.

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