—Spread check (football): Louisville by 3.5.
—It’ll be a top five showdown with huge ACC title implications in Dallas tonight when the third-ranked Louisville volleyball team faced No. 5 SMU at 8 p.m. on ESPNU. Here’s a preview.
—Jeff Brohm has the potential to finish what Bobby Petrino startedat Louisville. The Cards will face their old coach Saturday night in Chapel Hill.
—Couldn’t be happier about the news that Nick Coffey is joining the Big X family starting next Wednesday for a new show that will
air from 6-9 every morning. Should be a great new morning option for Cardinal fans.
—Pat Kelsey’s team has played just two games, but three early trends bode well for the Cards in 2026-27.
—It’s game day for the Louisville women’s basketball team, which faces Ball State on the road. Here’s a preview.
—CJ Moore’s latest college hoops rankingsfor The Athletic have Louisville at No. 13.
—SB Nation’s Ricky O’Donnell has Obinna Ekezie going 13th overall in his latest NBA mock draft for 2027.
13. Charlotte Hornets (via Mavs) – Obinna Ekezie Jr., F/C, Louisville
Ekezie reclassified to leave high school a year early and join a loaded Louisville squad, where he’s been backing up Flory Bidunga (another possible 2027 first-round pick) so far. Unlike other early college entrants like Duke’s Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, UCLA’s Nikola Kusturica, and Texas’ Marcus Spears Jr., Ekezie is actually draft eligible this year, and he just might turn into a first-round pick on raw talent alone. The 7’1 big man has a rare combination of size and shooting that will play at any level. He looks like a fearsome rim protector with a 7’5 wingspan, he hits the glass hard as a rebounder, and he dunks everything inside on offense. Best of all, he’s ready and willing to shoot from three, knocking down multiple triples throughout Louisville’s exhibition run. He’s a wildcard in a weak draft class, and he just might be worth taking a chance on with a lottery pick.
—Eric Crawford writes about the looming Jeff Brohm vs. Bill Belichick/Bobby Petrino coaching showdown.
—Louisville QB commit Dre’Mail Carothers from Owensboro Catholic has been named the 2A District 2 Player of the Year.
—Louisville basketball is No. 12 in ESPN’s latest power rankings.
—A 24-team College Football Playoff is officially coming next season. The major details for this major change are laid out in the graphics below:
—Louisville if the 4th-best city in America for Thanksgiving.
—As has typically been the case over the years in the Louisville-Memphis State rivalry, theCards look like the big brother of the two.
—Some former players express their appreciationfor Jeff Brohm following the coach’s 100th career victory.
—Just Cards mentoring Cats here.
Shough is the man.
—The Trinity Shamrock defense has not allowed a single point to an in-state opponent this season. They’ll look to continue that trend against arch-rival St. X in the second round of the playoffs on Friday.
—Memphis State should provide much more of a challenge to Louisville on Sunday than they did a year ago. Still, Memphis beat writer Jason Munz from the Commercial Appeal likes the Cards in a close one.
—The rest of this week in Cardinal athletics:
Thursday, November 12
- Volleyball at SMU – 8 p.m. ET (Dallas, Texas)
- Women’s Basketball at Ball State – 8 p.m. ET (Muncie, Ind.)
Friday, November 13
- Cross Country at NCAA Southeast Regional Championships (Spartanburg, S.C.)
Saturday, November 14
- Football at North Carolina – 7:00 p.m. ET (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Sunday, November 15
- Men’s Basketball at Memphis – 1 p.m. ET (Memphis, Tenn.)
- Women’s Basketball vs. UConn – 5:30 p.m. ET (KFC Yum! Center)
- Volleyball at Pittsburgh – 8:30 p.m. ET (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
—The New York Times has a feature this week on Louisville baseball commit Jackson Burke, who has completed over 80 percent of his passes and thrown for 60 touchdowns against ZERO interceptions so far this season for Christian Academy.
—Michigan handled Marquette with relative ease last night, and Golden Eagle fans got their first taste of Sananda Fru facing an imposing frontcourt (22 minutes, 3 points, 2 rebounds, 4 fouls).
—Only 5,000 people attended a game between Syracuse and Indiana earlier this week. As recently as 7-10 years ago, that sentence would have been unthinkable. Now, it’s evidence of one of the biggest problems facing college sports.
—Five feature films are shooting in Louisville right now.
—Donovan Mitchell had a small Louisville shoutout in his Tonight Show interview with Jimmy Fallon.
—Good stuff here from Chris Hatfield on Louisville’s demolition of Morehead State and the 33-0 run that defined the game.
—A look at Louisville vs. North Carolina by the numbers.
—North Carolina’s SI site highlights three U of L playersthat should concern the Tar Heels.
—Larry O confirming that he didn’t feel the least bit sorry for Darius Washington is exactly what I was hoping I would get out of this clip.
You can catch the full episode here.
—UNC fans are keeping an eye on three storylines heading into Saturday night’s game against Louisville.
—With Lawayne McCoy out, opportunity knocked for TreyShun Hurry. He answered the door in a major way.
—This Ringer story about the founder of Nets Daily also being an 81-year-old investigative journalist is nuts.
Windrem, a.k.a. “Net Income,” is the internet’s most prominent and prolific Brooklyn Nets blogger. But he is no ordinary sicko. He’s a sicko who has been with NetsDaily for almost 22 years, since before much of Web 2.0’s sports media landscape existed—before FreeDarko, TrueHoop, or Deadspin. And he has a background unlike that of anyone else who writes about the NBA. In 40 years at NBC News, Windrem covered national security, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the CIA. He cowrote a book on nuclear nonproliferation. He arranged interviews with heads of state. He used the Net Income pseudonym because, when he started posting, he wasn’t sure how his employer would feel about it.
“He would say, ‘Yeah, I was in Iran, I had to go interview [then-President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad,’” NBA.com’s John Schuhmann, who founded NetsDaily in 2004, said. “Like, all right. And then you come back and you’re talking about Chris Douglas-Roberts and Terrence Williams.”
Windrem is now 81 years old and presides over a team of 10 writers and contributors at NetsDaily. In 1962, he watched Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then a high school sophomore known as Lew Alcindor, dominate a game, and he shook the 15-year-old’s enormous hand afterward. In 1965, he became the sports editor of The Setonian, Seton Hall’s student newspaper, and the next year was promoted to editor in chief. He did color commentary for Seton Hall’s basketball games and cohosted the postgame show, too. He was a Knicks fan in the ’70s, but, obviously, that didn’t stick.
—U of L has offered a scholarship to class of 2029 tight end Max Hopkins from Indiana.
—David Kenyon of Bleacher Report predicts that Louisville will beat UNC by a touchdown on Saturday.
—Tyran Stokes’ key to playing with a chip on his shoulder and lighting up Kentucky: Act like he was playing for Louisville.
—Two Louisville men’s soccer players earned All-ACC honors.
—Some postgame notes on the U of L women’s basketball team’s throttling of Lindenwood.
—Before the latest helping of conference realignment happens, could Louisville use James Madison as a guide on how to prepare?
—If you’re headed to Chapel Hill this weekend to support the Cards, here’s a tailgate option:
—The U of L women’s soccer program hassigned seven playersfrom the class of 2027
—While Louisville is still hoping it can find its way to the ACC Championship Game, North Carolina has its sights set on bowl eligibility.
—Maybe the most dramatic victory in Lou City history.
And now the boys in purple are just two more wins away from a third USL championship. They’ll face Charleston for the Eastern Conference title Saturday night at 6.
—Louisville volleyball has announced its 2027 signing class.
—ESPN has the Cards at No. 6 in its women’s college basketball power rankings.
—Latest Card Tape video:
—Zion Rose is absolutely raking in the Arizona Fall League.
—He’s been gone for eight years now (and 20 years before that), but Bobby Petrino’s fingerprints are still all over the Louisville football program.
—There’s one key Cardinal weakness that UNC must exploit on Saturday if it wants to take down U of L.
—Swaggy Coop is still killing the Cats, just in a different uniform.
—The Protect College Sports Act isnot on the agenda for the House next week in their first week back.
—Florida State football’s nightmare doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon.
—College football’s obsession with young coaches iscausing the sport to overlook some of its best minds.
—They lost again on Saturday, by the way.
—Joe Lunardi’s latest Bracketology update has Louisville as a 3-seed.
—Chapelboro.com previews Louisville.
—And finally, beat SMU.
