They did what they were supposed to do, if not exactly the way they wanted to do it.

The win slipped away. But the moment? Louisville seized that.

He’s still the football coach at Kentucky. Still the winningest coach Kentucky has ever had. But if there’s a way out of the hole he has dug, I don’t see it. They haven’t made the backhoe big enough. The only variable, a noted Kentucky alum once said, is time.

If Kentucky was going to spark any real enthusiasm for the rest of its season, it needed to happen here.

A game that looked daunting in the preseason suddenly feels like a toss-up.

Ready or not, Kentucky’s show is going on the road, at night, in the SEC — with a redshirt freshman quarterback making his first league start. But there's some optimism about it all.

The Atlantic Coast Conference released its 2025-26 women's basketball slate Tuesday, finalizing the full season schedule for Louisville. Game times and TV assignments will be announced later.

The 2025–26 Louisville women’s basketball non-conference schedule is a statement. 

Of all the SEC teams to let Netflix peek behind the curtain for its new docuseries SEC Football: Any Given Saturday, only one got caught with its pants down.