I don't follow national college basketball, only my beloved "Panthers", so I was truly shocked to see a lede on ESPN that Louisville had started the season with seven consecutive losses. And that turned out to be old news. It is now eight straight. The "Cardinals" are 0-8 on the season. Some perspective on that: teams in the royal basketball conferences, and the Atlantic Coast Conference is the purplest, schedule tomato cans to play at home before conference play begins. It's like a pre-season, or friendlies in soccer. They all do that. Pitt does it, North Carolina does it, Louisville does it. So that means Louisville's losses have come against:
Bellarmine, who I swear to almighty God I have never heard of, at home in the Kentucky Fried Chicken Center or whatever the hell it's called.
Wright State. Same hallowed venue.
Appalachian State. App State is known for upsets in football, not basketball.
Arkansas, then 9th. They got blown out of their own gym, L-ville did.
Texas Tech, then 21st. TT is known for its women's swim team. The "Red Raiders" beat Louisville 70-38--These are all Louisville home games now!
Cincinnati
Maryland (22nd)
And today Miami 80-53, again in Louisville, all in Louisville.
The Cards first road game, which they may welcome, is Saturday against almost equally wretched (1-9) Florida State.
Then, when I checked the ACC standings to get Louisville's schedule I noticed down at the bottom, way down at the bottom, North Carolina. Get the fuck out of town.
North Carolina starting the effing season...We're #1, We're #1, "Tar heel born, tar heel dead"...They remained #1 until the poll covering Nov. 30, on which date they lost their third in a row at Indiana (18). Today they lost their fourth straight at Va. Tech in their first conference game. When the new poll comes out whenever that is they will have fallen out of the top 25 altogether. North Carolina played in the national championship game last year!
I mean, dear God. What in hell is going on? I take my eye of the sport for five or six years and don’t recognize it anymore!
