Well as mentioned yesterday, I expected Louisville to jump into the national rankings and that they did....just.
Louisville was the only newcomer to the top 25 this week at the expense of the rapidly dropping Marquette. As part of the Associated Press 25 Louisville jumped in at 23 with a total of 246 points. Their Big East rival Marquette dropped a massive 10 spots from 16th to an unofficial 26th.
In the ESPN/USA Poll the Cardinals are just out of the Top 25 sitting at the unofficial 26th, just 5 points behind Marquette.
It is still a long way to go for the Cardinals to climb the rankings. Memphis is leading the way with a total of 72 or a possible 72 first place votes to sit atop the AP Rankings with 1800 points. It is there I think they will stay unless they lose a game in the end stretch of the season, which I doubt.
Louisville have 7 games left in the regular season and that leaves them with a chance of going 15-3 for the year. Surely this will grant them a top 10 ranking. Unfortunately in those games they face Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Georgetown who are all going well this year.
With this still in mind I am excited about the chances of the Cardinals as they seem to enjoy the challenges of playing quality sides, and so far this season they have done well in those games.
Stay tuned for the 12th Feb game against DePaul, hopefully we can keep their scoring machine Draelon Burns down and come away with the Win.
Coach Onski
On a side note lets take a look back at DePauls scoring machine Draelon Burns. Back on November 28th this year the Blue Demons faced the Texas A&M-CC Islanders. True the Islanders are not quite the top of the quality tree but they put up a good fight against DePaul until 9 minutes remaining in the game. In this game Burns was on fire. He led the team with 32 points, on 11-13 shooting. But this also included an amazing 8-8 from beyond the arc, what a game, what shooting. DePaul ended up winning 85-70 but as mentioned the game was much closer until the final 9 minutes. Lets hope that the defence of Louisville can stop this kind of 3 point dominance from Burns tomorrow.
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Louisville was the only newcomer to the top 25 this week at the expense of the rapidly dropping Marquette. As part of the Associated Press 25 Louisville jumped in at 23 with a total of 246 points. Their Big East rival Marquette dropped a massive 10 spots from 16th to an unofficial 26th.
In the ESPN/USA Poll the Cardinals are just out of the Top 25 sitting at the unofficial 26th, just 5 points behind Marquette.
It is still a long way to go for the Cardinals to climb the rankings. Memphis is leading the way with a total of 72 or a possible 72 first place votes to sit atop the AP Rankings with 1800 points. It is there I think they will stay unless they lose a game in the end stretch of the season, which I doubt.
Louisville have 7 games left in the regular season and that leaves them with a chance of going 15-3 for the year. Surely this will grant them a top 10 ranking. Unfortunately in those games they face Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Georgetown who are all going well this year.
With this still in mind I am excited about the chances of the Cardinals as they seem to enjoy the challenges of playing quality sides, and so far this season they have done well in those games.
Stay tuned for the 12th Feb game against DePaul, hopefully we can keep their scoring machine Draelon Burns down and come away with the Win.
Coach Onski
On a side note lets take a look back at DePauls scoring machine Draelon Burns. Back on November 28th this year the Blue Demons faced the Texas A&M-CC Islanders. True the Islanders are not quite the top of the quality tree but they put up a good fight against DePaul until 9 minutes remaining in the game. In this game Burns was on fire. He led the team with 32 points, on 11-13 shooting. But this also included an amazing 8-8 from beyond the arc, what a game, what shooting. DePaul ended up winning 85-70 but as mentioned the game was much closer until the final 9 minutes. Lets hope that the defence of Louisville can stop this kind of 3 point dominance from Burns tomorrow.Images courtesy of www.viewimages.com
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