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Matt Norlander of CBSSports.com wrote a great article about the UK vs UL game, in which he notes that tonight’s game symbolized a lot of what has defined this rivalry. It is a must read. An excerpt:
If you could embody, mold, depict the history and identity of the programs’ century-long clash and put them into one basketball game, you’d get Kentucky 69, Louisville 61. The game was workmanlike, never too flashy, nary a grudge on the floor and always Kentucky’s to decide. In finality, it was simply how it’s been more times than not in 45 meetings on the court and countless recruiting battles off it: Wildcats win, Cardinals lose. The biggest game in the history of basketball’s nastiest bout never got boring; it remained predictably emphatic. This was Kentucky’s night.
The patterns of Wildcat win/Louisville loss mimic the grooves in the ever-curling arc of the two teams’ tete-a-tete. Louisville trailed early, chased back. Then it reeled closer once more, late in the first half. A few times in the second half the game got close — even tied — before Kentucky pulled away again, showing it had the superior team, the latest and loudest reminder it has the superior program. Tonight and for a hundred years before this, Louisville: always there, never far behind, but never threatening to usurp UK. A game ended tonight; an intra-state college basketball narrative continued without interruption.
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March 31st, 2012 at 11:49 pm
I will have to change my name after this GO CATS !!!!!!!!!!!!
March 31st, 2012 at 11:49 pm
OH 1ST AND 2ND
March 31st, 2012 at 11:51 pm
delete the stuart hammer couch burning post….bad vibe!!!
March 31st, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Calm down norlander, there was a distinct period in the 80s where Louisville took the lead. Go cats!
March 31st, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Nice ending there.
March 31st, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Epic tournament storylines continue..Cal can avenge 2008 loss to Kansas/Self while Davis/Robinson finish what little debate remains on POY race.
March 31st, 2012 at 11:58 pm
we cats are in heaven
April 1st, 2012 at 12:01 am
From Norlander’s article: “”I marvel at what John does — I couldn’t do it,” he said of the one-and-done culture at Kentucky. “I can’t say hello and goodbye in seven months.” He can live with this, though.”
That’s what Pitino and the other critics of one and done never understand. We don’t say goodbye to these players after seven months. We keep up with their pro careers and they come back to Lexington often. You don’t think John Wall and Boogie were pulling for this team all year long? Those guys are part of La Familia forever regardless of what we do from here on. And the same with the current players.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:02 am
taking the night off Matt? just copy and paste someone else’s story…BRILLIANT
April 1st, 2012 at 12:02 am
I really want to forgive Pitino, but those “racist” remarks he made about UK earlier in the week remind me of the jerk he really is. Norlander’s article is a good read, but I don’t see why a coach, like Pitino gets a pass when he makes suck blatantly ignorant statements. Oh well, Go Big Blue!!!
April 1st, 2012 at 12:02 am
I think Pitino did a good job this year. Beside the 1987 providence team and the 91 Kentucky team (while we were still on probation) this was one of Pitinos best coaching jobs. If you would have told me the dirty cards wouldn have won the Big East and made the final four at Christmas I would have laughed at you. We had them out manned at every position and they gave us all we wanted.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:05 am
UK beats Kansas by 17.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:07 am
4) Not really. In the eighties, UK was 5-4 versus UL. UL won more national championships and went to more Final Fours but still come up short in head to head matchups.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:11 am
Anyone know how many charges were called tonight? 14 turnovers…we’re half BS charges?
April 1st, 2012 at 12:12 am
I said a period, not the whole decade. Uk is top 1 or 2 program all time depending on criteria while cards are 6-9. Uk rules but lets acknowledge that Louisville has still had their moments. I’m a rare uk fan that still loves pitino because of what he did for us. I respect the hell out of that man.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:14 am
12. We might just do that especially if TJ shows to play the whole game.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:31 am
UK own the ghetto commuter school once again. And Cal owns Ricky 3 Stacks. The tards will always be UK’s bitch.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:34 am
11 – The Cards were a Pre-season Top 10 team, and they were ranked #4 when we played them New Years Eve. Pitino coached a #4 team into 10 losses and a 4 Seed. Based on Pre-season predictins and ealry performances, the Cards should have been in the Final Four.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:36 am
I loved meeting all the UK fans on Bourbon St tonight
April 1st, 2012 at 12:43 am
seeing AD’s performance on a national stage has GOT to make the Flat Top Feller lean our way if he wasn’t already
April 1st, 2012 at 12:46 am
#14. Thinking the same thing. We are getting hosed on these bogus charging calls. They flop and cut sideways into our players as we drive to the basket and every time its a charge instead of a block. UL got away with a lot of pushing in the back on the rebounds. How else do you think they got 30 offensive rebounds against a superior front line. Watch the replays on some of the UL rebounds and you will see our players getting pushed off the court. No fouls being called on that. Very Strange. But even with the ref help, our awful foul shooting and sloppy ball handling, we still won by 8 points against a final 4 teams not bad.
April 1st, 2012 at 12:56 am
Did Bobby Knight fall asleep on live television?
Check it out on Yahoo.com
April 1st, 2012 at 1:07 am
we all need to pray tonight the 4 officials left for monday r 1. verne harriss , mike stuart , mark whitehead, and roger ayers . pray for harriss for sure always been fair to ky , the other 3 especially ayers have been anti uk everyone knows coach cal gets very few technicals AYERS HAS GOTTEN HIM THE LAST 2 TIMES WE HAVE HAD HIM the sad part he only does 1 uk game a year . so it could be very bad , whitehead is our next best choice he has been all right not great to us,. mike stuart called both baylors flop charges in the elite 8 at the top of the key and the 2 questionable slide under charges on gilchrist in the baylor game . everyone please pray for verne harriss or we r in real rough waters i believe . watch the baylor game and u will see the white ref[ stuart ]make these calls
April 1st, 2012 at 1:10 am
can we the post game inteviews? and does anyone know where to find the game online to watch again?
April 1st, 2012 at 1:24 am
#21 I agree that our guys got shoved around, but I think they, particularly MKG, were very cautious to not get fouls called on themselves. For some reason, the NCAA officials hate MKG. Unless the defenders knock MKG down onto his back, he never gets a call.
April 1st, 2012 at 1:36 am
I was just reading on the card chronicle…they are all convinced they will win the national championship next year….best coaching job ever…all star team next year…Pitino now the best coach ever (just a month ago, they all wanted him gone)…going to “steam roll” UK next year blah blah blah…what everyone needs to remember is that UL was a preseason top 5 team, expected to go to the final four and Pitino managed to coach them out of the top 25 and to double figure losses…We’ll see about next year.
April 1st, 2012 at 1:50 am
Seeing how jittery and turnover prone Kansas is I’d like to see us get out a bit more in the passing lanes early. T. Robinson will score some points for them – but he won’t get the shots like he got tonight against AD.
April 1st, 2012 at 1:54 am
Cats will ride over Kansas!
April 1st, 2012 at 2:11 am
Is Elijah Johnson from Kansas gay? He sounds like it.
April 1st, 2012 at 3:08 am
i will give pitino and his players credit. pitino obviously said something to cal that he meant and that cal appreciated because cal looked at him and said a genuine “thank you”. players were very respectful and i thought it was a nice sight at the end of the game. all the players were surprisingly friendly so much so that i said something and my gf said “yea, because they all just played their hearts out”. good scene. with that said, where da trolls at?!?!?!?!?! bunch of dbags.
April 1st, 2012 at 3:53 am
Can’t sleep… We are heading to the championship game and I am stoked!
April 1st, 2012 at 4:31 am
It’s a blog/OP-ED. That’s okay, though… I’ll do like Matt Jones and present it like it’s a real CBS Sports article.
April 1st, 2012 at 5:50 am
you guys are a bunch of negative ass dicks…
UK is heading for the Nat’l Champ Game and all you can do is bitch and whine like little whores. lol F*ckin’ C0cks!!!
April 1st, 2012 at 6:48 am
Where’s my cake?
April 1st, 2012 at 6:52 am
26) Glad to see the UL fans are so confident. They may win next year in the Yuk center and remain on the fringes of relevance but they still won’t make it up to Kentucky’s level. If we get Noel, which is likely, and Shabazz, which is looking good, then we will be right back where we left off.
April 1st, 2012 at 7:20 am
Didn’t watch the postgame but here is an awesome article on the maturity of TJ: http://goo.gl/Poh76
April 1st, 2012 at 8:01 am
Just about as poor a production of both semi-final games as you could imagine. It is obvious that from watching both games,,,,charge calls are in,,,blocking calls are out. Does anyone remember a blocking call in either game ? And how about moving screens ? Don’t remember one of those being called and some were very obvious. Damn guys,,,call what you see.
Who had final say on the announcers for the game ? If you closed your eyes you would swear that was Digger and Knight calling the game. And by the way,,,that was Louisville playing,,not Syracuse. Total crap. Thank god the players bailed them out and played two nice games. GO CATS
April 1st, 2012 at 8:24 am
#37 I also heard the Syracuse remark. Has to be the hand me down uniforms the turds were wearing since they are orange. Good grief loserville get rid of those awful rags.
Speaking of which were the Ohio St. uniforms generic or what even the cheerleaders.
April 1st, 2012 at 8:39 am
This is what I know. Pitino is 4-8 versus Kentucky, including losing the last 4 (to Calipari). Who’s your daddy?
April 1st, 2012 at 8:58 am
This game put the “Kentucky Effect” in full view for the world! The Kentucky Effect makes opponents play better than their best. While the Louisville Effect makes teams play worse than their normal game. Thankfully, the Cats have so many weapons the Louisville Effect was only a distraction on the way to Number 8!
April 1st, 2012 at 9:03 am
Louisville First….out of the Final Four
April 1st, 2012 at 9:27 am
Even when Siva tied it with the three pointer, I knew Syracuse was going down.
April 1st, 2012 at 9:44 am
http://rivals.yahoo.com/video/college-basketball/NCAA-Tournament-Anthony-Davis-celebrates-1103646
April 1st, 2012 at 10:52 am
Would Auburn’s coach publicly cheer for Alabama, would Ohio State cheer for Michigan, would IU cheer for Purdue, would Duke cheer for North Carolina, heck no. So why is Pitino publicly cheering for UK? He’s a UK fan and he needs to go back to Lexington KY and take his son with him. I will not send my beloved U of L any more money until they get rid of him!
April 1st, 2012 at 11:32 am
Whoa,,,Randy,,,you assume we would want him back. The people in Lexington got tired of Pitino and his damn wife,,,,there were a lot of people that were glad to see him leave. Never knew if we would have a coach or not,,,constant rumors about him taking a job somewhere else. Nope,,,we will stick with the coach we have.
I can’t believe it,,,,no glowing remarks from that bag of crap,,,Bill Plaschke.
April 1st, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Wow! Great article. I’m so pumped I’m gonna go burn something!! Woohoo!