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LOUISVILLE, KY - JANUARY 13: A young fan hold up a sign, unleash the Spida Power in the second half of play during a men's college basketball game between the Virginia Cavaliers and the Louisville Cardinals on January 13, 2026 at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, KY. (Photo by Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
—NET Rankings Update (men’s): No. 14.
—NET Rankings Update (women’s): No. 8.
—The Louisville women’s basketball team begins a three-game homestand with a 7 p.m. tilt against Wake Forest Thursday night. Here’s a preview.
—The Louisville baseball team kicks off its season tomorrow with the first of a three-game home set against Michigan State. U of L has announced an opening weekend starting rotation of Ethan Eberle, Jake Bean and Wyatt Danilowicz.
—Boink.
Flex porn for the hoops sickos pic.twitter.com/1aArgbdCO6
— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) February 10, 2026
—Louisville OL coach Richard Owens is reportedly headed to Alabama, where he’ll coach the tight ends.
—The CJ looks at how the U of L men’s basketball season has gone compared to preseason expectations.
—The CJ’s Alexis Cubit writes about Louisville QB Lincoln Kienholz, who’s looking to put Pierre, South Dakota on the map.
—This weekend in Cardinal athletics:
Thursday, February 12
- Women’s Basketball vs Wake Forest – 7:00 p.m. ET (KFC Yum! Center)
Friday, February 13
- Track & Field at Husky Classic (Seattle, Wash.)
- Track & Field at Music City Challenge (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Track & Field at Heartland Invitational (Indianapolis, Ind.)
- Track & Field at Don Kirby Elite Invitational (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Softball vs Boston (South Carolina Tournament) – 11:00 a.m. ET (Columbia, S.C.)
- Softball vs South Carolina (South Carolina Tournament) – 1:30 p.m. ET (Columbia, S.C.)
- Baseball vs Michigan State – 3:00 p.m. ET (Jim Patterson Stadium)
- Women’s Tennis vs Notre Dame – 4:00 p.m. ET (Bass-Rudd Tennis Center)
- Men’s Tennis at Middle Tennessee – 5:00 p.m. ET (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
Saturday, February 14
- Track & Field at Husky Classic (Seattle, Wash.)
- Track & Field at Music City Challenge (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Track & Field at Heartland Invitational (Indianapolis, Ind.)
- Track & Field at Don Kirby Elite Invitational (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Softball vs Kennesaw State (South Carolina Tournament) – 10:00 a.m. ET (Columbia, S.C.)
- Lacrosse at Virginia Tech – 11:00 a.m. ET (Blacksburg, Va.)
- Softball vs Boston (South Carolina Tournament) – 12:30 p.m. ET (Columbia, S.C.)
- Baseball vs Michigan State – 1:00 p.m. ET (Jim Patterson Stadium)
- Men’s Basketball vs Baylor – 4:00 p.m. ET (Fort Worth, Texas)
Sunday, February 15
- Women’s Golf vs Moon Golf Invitational (Melbourne, Fla.)
- Swimming & Diving at ACC Championships (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Softball vs Kennesaw State (South Carolina Tournament) – 9:30 a.m. ET (Columbia, S.C.)
- Women’s Tennis vs Indiana – 12:00 p.m. ET (Bass-Rudd Tennis Center)
- Baseball vs Michigan State – 1:00 p.m. ET (Jim Patterson Stadium)
- Women’s Basketball vs Florida State – 6:00 p.m. ET (KFC Yum! Center)
—The Athletic’s latest NFL mock draft has Chris Bell going 36th overall.
—Louisville Report previews this weekend’s season-opening baseball series against Michigan State.
—Very good video here on the three-point revolution in college basketball and whether or not it’s the best offensive philosophy moving forward.
—Villanova and Notre Dame will play a season-opening men’s and women’s basketball doubleheader in front of the Pope in Rome next November. Pope Leo is a Villanova grad and an ardent supporter of Wildcat basketball.
—Tickets are available for Louisville’s Senior Day game against Georgia Tech. It’s the first time the Cards are honoring the seniors on a game that isn’t the last home game of the season.
—The Winter Olympics have been completely unhinged in (mostly) the best ways possible.
Please turn the sound up. pic.twitter.com/nePY2HomKq
— Michael Rainey (@mikerainey82) February 11, 2026
—The J-Town Goose Wrangler must be stopped.
—Bob Valvano is giving his side of the story on his abrupt exit from ESPN680.
—Lorenzo Mauldin is the latest local signing for the Louisville Kings.
—Obsessed with Zou.
Desperately need more Zou in front of a microphone pic.twitter.com/6sYRldO3l6
— Logan Wade (@L_Wade22) February 12, 2026
—Steve Wiltfong of Rivals has logged an expert prediction for Louisville and Jeff Brohm to land a 4-star recruit.
—Rick Pitino appeared on Andy Beshear’s podcast and talked about his time in the Commonwealth and his dismissal at U of L (among other things).
“I deserved to be fired,” Pitino said on an episode of The Andy Beshear Podcast taped in New York on Tuesday. “Because my assistant coaches did the wrong thing. And looking back on it, I learned a valuable lesson: who to hire, who to trust, what to believe in.”
It’s not the first time Pitino has let Louisville off the hook for its decision to fire him in the aftermath of the FBI’s investigation into the Adidas college basketball’s pay-for-play scheme. But it is the first time he has talked about what he called some mistakes in hiring assistant coaches, and why he made them.
“I was trying to get more high school one-and-done players at Louisville,” Pitino said. “I never went in that area, right? And John Calipari was having great success at Kentucky. And so I hired some people I should not have hired. And I learned a valuable lesson with that.”
For all the years Pitino and Calipari played coy about their rivalry, this was as close to a strategic concession as Pitino has made — that Kentucky’s success under Calipari led him to shift recruiting tactics at Louisville, and that the shift unraveled everything.
It’s a revealing moment in a wide-ranging, 30-minute conversation that touches on everything from his coaching evolution to his time in Greece, from Billy Donovan’s transformation at Providence to Richie Farmer’s short-lived departure from Kentucky. Pitino, now 73, sounds more relaxed than he did even during his Iona tenure, more willing to turn over the stones of his past without the usual edge or defensiveness.
Rick Pitino’s conversation with Gov. Andy Beshear ran 30 minutes and covered considerably more ground than his remarks about Louisville.
“There’s always a learning experience,” he said. “As a leader, you’ve got to understand when you make mistakes. You’ve got to correct the mistakes by not blaming others.”
—The Louisville men’s tennis team will look to extend its three-match winning streak on Friday when it squares off against Middle Tennessee State. Here’s a preview.
—Make Louisville Lassie the captain for the Georgia Tech game.
—Former Card Ty-Laur Johnson has left the San Diego basketball program and will be looking for a fourth school in four years next season.
Points, assists and steal leader for University of San Diego Basketball, Ty-Laur Johnson, is no longer with the program
According to Coach Steve Lavin’s postgame comments, he is taking a leave for academic and health reasons and will enter the transfer portal#GoTorerospic.twitter.com/TtTACFQEWr
— San Diego Basketball Updates (@usdmbbguy) February 12, 2026
—Potential red flag for Louisville: Multiple schools that participated in this year’s Players Era Festival say they’re still waiting on their payment from the event. The Cards are set to spend the next four Thanksgiving weeks playing in the tournament.
—Here are five freshmen to watch out for on this year’s Cardinal baseball team.
—Terrific work from the social team here.
Kel found the glitch last night #GoCardspic.twitter.com/arWxX4XSB0
— Louisville Men's Basketball (@LouisvilleMBB) February 11, 2026
—Will Wade is taking the responsibility for the way his team looked during its blowout loss to Louisville on Monday.
—The Cards have suddenly won six of seven which has many re-evaluating what this team’s ceiling could be.
—And finally, the latest Bracket Matrix updates continue to show a six-seed as the most common prognostication for this Louisville team. The Cards are seeded as high as fourth in some projections and as low as seventh.
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