The Cardinals climbed from No. 28 to No. 15 in average attendance in Division I basketball.

“I wore number 23 because that’s the number my grandfather wore when he played for Louisville,” Carson Howard said. “It was so cool to do it for him this year.”

For the first time since Jan. 25, 2021, a gap of 1,456 days, the University of Louisville men’s basketball team made the Associated Press Top 25 Monday.

The Cards' focus has been on giving their "undivided attention to a very, very talented and dangerous Syracuse team."

This time I’ve settled on five guys with Louisville, Kentucky or Indiana connections who ARE getting it done at their new homes.

For the last four seasons, under Chris Mack, Mike Pegues and Kenny Payne, the Cardinals could not claim their three-point shooting was average.

A 6-foot-5-inch wing, James had a high game of 26 points when the Cardinals defeated Miami (Florida).

It was as strange a day as I remember in Louisville men’s basketball history, and there have been a few strange ones in the past decade. Chris Mack, 14 games (not counting six games for which he was suspended by the school) into his fourth season as Cardinals’ coach, announced that he was leaving the program.

Mack, whose tenure at Louisville ended in Jan. 2022, takes the position of head coach after Pat Kelsey accepted Mack's former job at Louisville. Kelsey had a 75-27 record in three seasons at Charleston before accepting the position at Louisville this week.