What isn’t wrong with Louisville?

How many of you here were at the Rivefront Coliseum in November 1988 when Xavier beat #4 Louisville? I was! Louisville's top choice according to the oddsmakers Kenny Payne was the Louisville player who hit the tying three pointer with just a few seconds to go. That set up Tyrone Hill's heroics as the Muskies hurried the ball downcourt and Hill hit the game winner at the buzzer.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

How many of you here were at the Rivefront Coliseum in November 1988 when Xavier beat #4 Louisville? I was! Louisville's top choice according to the oddsmakers Kenny Payne was the Louisville player who hit the tying three pointer with just a few seconds to go. That set up Tyrone Hill's heroics as the Muskies hurried the ball downcourt and Hill hit the game winner at the buzzer.

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I attended that game.

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Originally Posted by joe titan

I attended that game.

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I was a 12 year old kid from Louisville wearing Cardinal red who had never really heard of Xavier. That was the loudest environment I think I'd ever been in. Obviously it made an impression as 6 years later I was a Xavier student!

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

How many of you here were at the Rivefront Coliseum in November 1988 when Xavier beat #4 Louisville? I was! Louisville's top choice according to the oddsmakers Kenny Payne was the Louisville player who hit the tying three pointer with just a few seconds to go. That set up Tyrone Hill's heroics as the Muskies hurried the ball downcourt and Hill hit the game winner at the buzzer.

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I was there as well. I was a sophomore in High School. Thought for sure after that we would see Xavier in a final 4 relatively quickly. Well 33 years later still looking for that. Remember xavier almost beating them as well at Freedom hall a few years later and then beat them in Alaska late 90’s and in the Ncaa tourney early 2000’s.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

How many of you here were at the Rivefront Coliseum in November 1988 when Xavier beat #4 Louisville? I was! Louisville's top choice according to the oddsmakers Kenny Payne was the Louisville player who hit the tying three pointer with just a few seconds to go. That set up Tyrone Hill's heroics as the Muskies hurried the ball downcourt and Hill hit the game winner at the buzzer.

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I was there - on the floor and a hair to the left (if looking form the court) of the basket where Hill made that final bucket. One of about 10 students who were fortune enough to be given those special seats for that game. What amazing seats. What an amazing game and finish.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

How many of you here were at the Rivefront Coliseum in November 1988 when Xavier beat #4 Louisville? I was! Louisville's top choice according to the oddsmakers Kenny Payne was the Louisville player who hit the tying three pointer with just a few seconds to go. That set up Tyrone Hill's heroics as the Muskies hurried the ball downcourt and Hill hit the game winner at the buzzer.

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Meeeee!! Stan Kimbrough rushed the ball up the court and set up Ty for the game winner!

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

I was a 12 year old kid from Louisville wearing Cardinal red who had never really heard of Xavier. That was the loudest environment I think I'd ever been in. Obviously it made an impression as 6 years later I was a Xavier student!

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The greatest thing was, because we had end zone seats, was that when you looked at the stands, exactly half was blue and half was red.
Blue won

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

The betting favorites for the Louisville job are a familiar crew:

https://www.si.com/college/louisvill...louisville-job
Kenny Payne +400
Scott Davenport +500
Kevin Willard +500
Steve Forbes +600
Wes Miller +700
Mark Pope +900
Chris Holtmann +1000
Ed Cooley +1100
Nate Oats +1200
Eric Musselman +1300
Andy Enfield +1500
Mick Cronin +1500
Matt McMahon +2000
Scott Drew +2500
Bruce Pearl +2500

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That would be the height of hilarity if Davenport & Mack switched jobs! :-))

Louisville Twitter is hilarious.

They think Bruce Pearl is who they should hire and actually think they may get him.

They also acknowledge that former player and I guess current NBA Assistant Kenny Payne is a candidate, but worry about how he doesn't have any head coaching experience and fear that they'll become like Memphis if they hire a former player from the NBA with no experience.

Yes, Memphis is a school that went on several deep NCAA Tournament runs, but due to NCAA sanctions had to vacate them all and they haven't really recovered from it or been relevant since. Geez, what a shame if Louisville ended up like that!!!

I heard Travis Steele is a candidate.