I mean…in just this past summer there were over 13,000 people for a glorified Louisville/Kentucky alumni game.
And Kentucky sold out Rupp Arena for a press conference lol
I honestly believe college basketball means more in this red line than any other part of the country. I mean you sold out a scrimmage and thousands more watched on TV without Providence even being involved. You could make the argument that the two most passionate fanbases in CBB
So coming up Louisville has
150th Kentucky Derby on May 4
PGA Championship May 16-19
And now a UFC card on June 8
That’s a helluva five week run for the city
Louisville fans are really going to love Chucky Hepburn.
Brings experience, play making & an ability to excel in the biggest moments in the game to Louisville
NEWS: Wisconsin transfer Chucky Hepburn has committed to Louisville and Pat Kelsey, he tells
@LeagueRDY
.
Hepburn is a native of Omaha, Nebraska and has spent the last three seasons of his college career at Wisconsin.
He averaged 9.2PPG, 3.9APG, 3.3RPG and 2.1SPG this season.
Interesting note...with a 6-7 record in Q1 games,
#iubb
has more Q1 wins than 11 of the top 16 teams in the NET rankings.
The 11 are (in NET order):
Gonzaga
Dayton
San Diego St
Duke
Louisville
Arizona
Florida St
Michigan St
BYU
West Virginia
Texas Tech
NEWS: Stanford transfer Kanaan Carlyle, a top-10 player in the portal, has committed to Indiana,
@On3sports
has learned.
The 6-3 freshman guard averaged 11.5 PPG this season. Former top-50 recruit.
This is the first time in the College Football Playoff era (Since 2014) that the Big Ten Conference will only have one team in a New Years Six bowl game.
#iufb
PERSONAL NEWS: I’ve been sitting on this for a while bc of the pandemic (and have actually started some of my roles). But since it’s graduation day, I figured now is as good of a time as any to announce publicly that I’m super excited to be working at
@ESPN680
/
@939TheVille
! (1/3)
Picking fights with the local media to act high and mighty over a one point win against UMBC…only to get 20 pieced by Chattanooga two days later.
After going 4-28 last season.
Not a great look!
Jay Bilas just dropped a haymaker on
@ESPN680
with
@espnVshow
about
#iubb
“The Indiana fanbase has not helped the program...it has cannibalized the program.”
Advocates for IU to hire a former Knight player
Announced on air yesterday but wanted to share on here as well:
Next week is going to be my last week at
@ESPN680
/
@939TheVille
. It’s been a helluva ride since starting as an intern in the summer of 2017, to working as a board-op, producing, hosting shows, IU/UofL/UK postgames…
Thinking about how Calipari ranted a couple weeks ago about how UK/Auburn/UT/Ark would all make the Final Four if committee would put them in the four separate regions.
Well:
The SEC’s top 4 were all in different regions…& 3 of them lost to 10/11/15 seeds this weekend.
In honor of Ash Wednesday, I would like to share how a Jewish kid from Louisville learned what Ash Wednesday was…by asking my parents what was on Rick Pitino’s forehead
It’s same feeling as a UK fan watching us play Bama in football……the exact same feeling Bama feels when they play us in basketball. Ha
It is what it is. Mutual. Champions. Dynasty.
They good in football, we good in basketball.
Don't get me wrong, Cockburn's been really good this year. But in league play,
#iubb
's Trayce Jackson-Davis scored more points per game and shot a better percentage from the field, while Cockburn only held the rebounding edge by .3 pg. TJD also had four more blocks in B10 play
This is weird but this also probably a similar level of weird that Kentucky fans had when Pitino first went to coach Louisville
Oddest part of this dynamic is less about the UofL/UK aspect and more about the fact that Pitino is actively coaching still at St. John’s
"We can't beat teams with talent. We're never going to be the most talented team. We can beat them with fight."
Full quote from
#Louisville
head coach Kenny Payne on finding the disconnect with his team after losing to D2 Kentucky Wesleyan
#ForTheVille
@WHAS11
November: BBN proclaims Richmond as a bona fide top 25 team after the Spiders easily beat UK in Rupp.
March: Richmond hits one field goal in the last nine+ minutes while losing to Duquense in the A10 8/9 game
Atlantic Sun commissioner Ted Gumbart live on
@939TheVille
with
@Bellarminehoops
says that Saturday’s game between Bellarmine & Liberty will take place at noon at Freedom Hall and will be broadcast live on ESPNU.
The winner of the game will clinch the ASUN regular season title
Felt before the year the expectation was be top 2/3 in the Big Ten, top 4 seed in NCAAT & make the Sweet 16.
To accomplish 2/3 & be a game short of the S16 while playing w/o ur PG in Xavier Johnson since Dec 17 is pretty good.
They did about as much as they cud do w/o X
8pm on one of the biggest newsdays ever in Louisville with the Breonna Taylor decision & none of the 4 local networks are airing coverage. Instead...
WHAS (ABC) - Gardians of the Galaxy
WLKY (CBS) - Big Brother
WAVE (NBC) - America’s Got Talent
WDRB (FOX) - Masked Singer
There will be a feature called 'In Case You Missed It' in EA College Football 25 allowing you to replay iconic CFB moments you may have missed over the past decade.
Moments such as Auburn's 2013 'Kick Six', UCF's perfect season in 2017, or Alabama's title redemption against
Illinois transfer Coleman Hawkins, the top available forward in the portal, is visiting Louisville this weekend, his agent Nate Conley tells
@On3sports
.
Is this the first time a school has ever made it’s own graphic about being a one seed in a projected bracket?
Never mind the fact that said projected bracket is a full eleven months before the field is announced
Louisville transfer El Ellis just had back to back big buckets for Arkansas to help create a cushion to avoid an upset against ODU.
Ellis has 15 pts (7-10 FG), 7 ast and 0 turnovers for the Razerbacks tonight
I will never understand how WVU made 18-27 3s and led by 20 late in the first half, yet Louisville still found a way to come back and win.
One of the most fun games I can remember watching. Incredible shot making from both sides
March 26, 2005: Trailing almost the whole game, Louisville comes back to beat West Virginia 93-85 in OT in the Elite 8. This second half was amazing.
Gus on the call.
I asked John Calipari about if he has taked to new
#iubb
Head Coach Mike Woodson about trying to bring the IU/UK series back. Said “We've talked about stuff. But there's nothing imminent.
@KentuckyMBB
as an honest kentucky fan, its over for us. we are no longer a blue blood and coach cal needs to go. i speak for everyone when i say we need to switch fambases to the indiana hoosiers where they know how to run a real basketball program
Bellarmine shot 84 (!!!) percent from from the field in the second half vs Stetson today. Knights erased a 20 point deficit and scored 50 points after halftime to get the win.
Wow
A reminder that every NCAA champ since 2004 has been ranked in the top 12 of the week 6 AP Poll. Those top 12 this season are:
1. Arizona
2. Kansas
3. Purdue
4. Houston
5. UConn
6. Baylor
7. Marquette
8. Creighton
9. North Carolina
10. Gonzaga
11. Oklahoma
12. Tennessee
Left Bloomington for perhaps the last time as a full time IU student today. Wanted to take a minute to thank some of the people that have made the last 4ish years incredible for me at IU. (sorry in advance this about to be a long thread)
For the ultra late crowd...I break down
#iubb
's ball screen defense in their upset win vs No. 11 Michigan State, and show the adjustment Archie Miller made in order to get the game clinching stop
Goodman saying Great Osobor is out on UK after the Cats landed Brandon Garrison moments ago. Makes sense with that front court filling up with Garrison/Carr/Amari Williams.
Louisville will look to take advantage with Osobor with his visit later this week. Would be huge for UofL
Begging for a NBA team, the state would go nuts over it
Sad that the city of Louisville has blown so many chances & the league has basically moved on from it as an expansion option
This feels like most UofL/UK games from the Cal/Pitino era
Jacked up atmosphere, extremely intense…and an absolute inability to consistently put the ball in the hoop
Thinking about how when Carsen Edwards is not on the roster Matt Painter has now lost in the first weekend in seven of nine NCAA tourney appearances while at Purdue
ALSO...excited to announce that I will be hosting ESPN Louisville’s FIRST EVER IU postgame show on Saturday afternoon! Tune into
@ESPN680
right after the conclusion of the
#iufb
/Ohio State game where I will have immediate reaction from the game, take calls/texts & more!
New pod!
- recapping
#iufb
’s win over MSU
- what offensive issues from the Sparty are worrisome for OSU, & which aren’t
- why the Indiana/Ohio St game is the biggest game in program history
- March Madness to Indy?
With
#iubb
ranked 17th in the preseason top 25, &
#iufb
ranked 16th in this weeks 🏈 poll, this is the first time since the week of December 6, 1993 that both Indiana men’s basketball & IU football are ranked in the AP poll in the same week.
IU hoops was 12th, IUFB 21st in ‘93
POLL ALERT: Kansas tops AP Top 25 preseason men's basketball poll ahead of Alabama, defending champion UConn; SEC leads way with 9 teams in poll.
Full poll:
Most thought today would never come. But after almost 20 years, Bob Knight returned to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. With Knight's return also came tons of alumni. I was fortunate enough to have ESPN's
@sagesteele
give me her perspective of the "surreal" event
@IUSTVsports
#iubb
Former Louisville forward Dre Davis has the game winning bucket for Seton Hall to defeat Indiana St in the NIT title game.
Side note either one of these teams would’ve blasted Virginia by 25