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2017-18 Men’s Basketball Schedule

Date Opponent Site Time (ET) Television October Mon. 30 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN/exhibition KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ACC Network Extra November Tues. 7 BELLARMINE/exhibition KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ACC Network Extra Sun. 12 GEORGE MASON KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m. RSN Fri. 17 NEBRASKA OMAHA KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ACC Network Extra Tues. 21 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. RSN Fri. 24 ST. FRANCIS KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ACC Network Extra Tues. 28 at Purdue in Big Ten/ACC Challenge West Lafayette, Ind. 8:00 p.m. ESPN December Sun. 3 SETON HALL in Billy Minardi Classic KFC YUM! CENTER 4:00 p.m. ESPN2 Wed. 6 SIENA in Gotham Classic KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 Sat. 9 INDIANA KFC YUM! CENTER 2:00 p.m. ESPN Mon. 11 BRYANT in Gotham Classic KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ESPNU Sat. 16 vs. Memphis in Gotham Classic New York, N.Y. Noon ESPN2 Madison Square Garden Wed. 20 ALBANY in Gotham Classic KFC YUM! CENTER 9:00 p.m. ESPNU Sat. 23 GRAND CANYON KFC YUM! CENTER 1:00 p.m. ACC Network Extra Fri. 29 at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. 1:00 p.m. CBS

January Tues. 2 PITTSBURGH KFC YUM! CENTER 9:00 p.m. ESPNU Sat. 6 at Clemson Greenville, S.C. Noon ACCN/WAVE-TV Wed. 10 at Florida State Tallahasee, Fla. 9:00 p.m. RSN Sat. 13 VIRGINIA TECH KFC YUM! CENTER 4:00 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2 Tues. 16 at Notre Dame South Bend, Ind. 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 Sun. 21 BOSTON COLLEGE KFC YUM! CENTER Noon ACCN/WHAS-TV Wed. 24 at Miami Coral Gables, Fla. 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 Sat. 27 WAKE FOREST KFC YUM! CENTER 8:00 p.m. ACCN/WAVE-TV Wed. 31 at Virginia Charlottesville, Va. 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 February Sat. 3 FLORIDA STATE KFC YUM! CENTER 4:00 p.m. ACCN/WHAS-TV Mon. 5 SYRACUSE KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ESPN Thur. 8 GEORGIA TECH KFC YUM! CENTER 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 Sun. 11 at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa. 1:00 p.m. ACCN/WAVE-TV Sat. 17 NORTH CAROLINA KFC YUM! CENTER 8/8:15 p.m. ESPN Wed. 21 at Duke Durham, N.C. 9:00 p.m. ESPN Sat. 24 at Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Va. 1:00 p.m. CBS March Thur. 1 VIRGINIA KFC YUM! CENTER 8:00 p.m. ACCN/WHAS-TV Sat. 3 at NC State Raleigh, N.C. 6:00 p.m. ESPN/ESPN2 Tues. 6- at ACC Championship Brooklyn, N.Y. Sat. 10 Barclays Center The ACC Network (ACCN) consists of nearly 120 affiliates, including WAVE-TV and WHAS-TV in Louisville for selected events. The ACC’s regional sports network (RSN) consists of FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Southeast, FOX Sports Florida, FOX Sports Sun, Fox Sports Midwest, FOX Sports Indiana, Comcast SportsNet Mid Atlantic, NESN, YES Network and AT&T Sportnet Pittsburgh. All games are broadcast on the UofL Sports Radio Network produced by Learfield Sports (locally on WHAS Radio/840 AM or WKRD/790 AM in Louisville).

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Contents

2017-18 Louisville Men’s Basketball Information  Contents Media Information 4-5 Team Information Basketball Staff University of Louisville map 6 2016-17 Overall Record 25-9 Acting Head Coach David Padgett (Louisville ‘08) City of Louisville map, Arena Seating Chart 7 (Home 16-1, Away 5-5, Neutral 4-3) UofL Record First Year Directory, UofL Staff 8-9 Atlantic Coast Conference Record 12-6 Overall Record First Year Primary Media Outlets 9 Cardinal Facts & Figures 10-11, 22 ACC Finish second (tie) Dir. of Basketball Operations Michael Bowden UofL Athletics Facilities 12-21 2017 Postseason reached second round Head Trainer Fred Hina KFC Yum! Center 14-17 of NCAA Tournament, falling to Michigan 73-69 Strength Coach Ray Ganong Cardinals by the Numbers 22 Final UL National Ranking 10th Associated Press Equipment Manager Vinny Tatum 14th by USA Today Director of Video Operations Logan Baumann  Coaching Staff Lettermen Returning/Lost 6/8 Director of Player Development Wayne Turner Acting Head Coach David Padgett 26 Starters Returning 2 (F Deng Adel, Program Assistant R.J. Evans Basketball Support Staff 27-30 G Quentin Snider) Asst. Video Coordinator Patrick Reilingh

Starters Lost 3 (G Donovan Mitchell, Executive Asst. to Padgett Jordan Sucher  Players F Jaylen Johnson, C/F Mangok Mathiang) Receptionist Stephanie Davis Roster 32 All-Time Record 1,803-901 (103 yrs.) Team Doctors Dr. Jon Becker, Dr. John Ellis, Photo Roster 33 All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 76-43 Dr. Chris Pitcock Roster Analysis 34 (42 Appearances, 10 Final Fours, Player Profiles 36-55 Three NCAA Championships - 1980, 1986, 2013) General/Administration Location Louisville, Ky. 40292  2016-17 in Review Founded 1798 Review of 2016-17 58-59 Statistics, Final 2016-17 60 Enrollment 22,000 Results, Final 2016-17 61 Nickname/Colors Cardinals/Red and Black Box Scores, 2016-17 64-72 Conference Atlantic Coast Home Court KFC Yum! Center (22,000)  Louisville: University and City Interim President Dr. Greg Postel University of Louisville 76-77 Important Phone Numbers Faculty Representative Elaine Wise City of Louisville 78-79 Athletic Department (502) 852-5732 Vice President for Athletics/AD Tom Jurich Interim President Dr. Greg Postel 80 Ticket Office (502) 852-5151 Acting Director of Athletics Vince Tyra Vice-President/Athletics Director Tom Jurich 84 Sports Information Office (502) 852-6581 Web Site Address www.GoCards.com UofL Athletics Staff 86-93 Basketball Office (502) 852-6651 Spirit Groups 96 Sports Information Contact Note: David Padgett was named acting head coach

Senior Assoc. AD/Media Relations/SID at UofL on Sept. 29 after Rick Pitino was placed on  Atlantic Coast Conference/NCAA Kenny Klein administrative leave on Sept. 27. Vince Tyra was named Atlantic Coast Conference 98-99 Office: (502) 852-6581 acting director of athletics on Oct. 3 after Tom Jurich ACC Composite Schedule 100-101 Cell: (502) 599-7865 was placed on administravie leave Sept. 27. Staffing UofL NCAA Tournament Leaders 106-107 NCAA Champions 108 Email Address [email protected] was incomplete at presstime of this guide.

 Cardinal Tradition The NCAA Committee on Infractions imposed a penalty of four years of probation on the University Retired Numbers/Honored Jerseys 111-115 of Louisville from June 15, 2017 through June 14, 2021, among others, in a June 15, 2017 decision All-Americas 116 in which the committee found UofL responsible for certain violations of NCAA legislation. Included UofL Athletic Hall of Fame 117 were violations of NCAA legislation relating to 1.) impermissible inducements and benefits and ethical National Champions 118-120 conduct, which stem from a former operations director arranging striptease dances and sex acts for UofL Final Four teams 121-123 several prospective and enrolled student-athletes, a friend of a prospect and two nonscholastic bas- Lettermen, All-Time UofL 126-127 ketball team coaches over a three-year period; 2.) unethical conduct and failure to cooperate by the UofL Professional Players 128-132 former operations director when he refused to participate in interviews or provide relevant information to the enforcement staff during its investigation; 3.) failure to cooperate by a former program assistant  Records when he refused to provide phone records relevant to the investigation to the enforcement staff during Coaches’ Records 135 the investigation; and 4.) head coach responsibility when the head coach failed to monitor the former Statistical Records, Team & Individual 136-147 operations director when he gave the former operations director recruiting responsibilities but did not 1,000-Point Scorers 148-154 ensure that he complied with NCAA rules. UofL had self-reported the initial discovery of possible Top 5 Scorers Year-by-Year 155-158 misconduct to the NCAA enforcement staff, participated in an extensive joint investigation and later All-Time Tournament Results 158-161 self-imposed severe penalties. The complete report and additional information, including the imposed Results, Year-by-Year 162-173 penalties, may be found online at this link: http://uofl.me/2utS4LB UofL and Coach Rick Pitino have Year-by-Year Team Statistics 174 each filed separate appeals of certain aspects of the decision with the NCAA Division I Infractions Ap- peals Committee, appeals which were in progress at the time of this publication.  Opponents Opponents Information 176-179 Credits: Edited by Kenny Klein. Editorial assistance by Kathy Tronzo and the Louisville Sports Information staff. Interior design by Opponent Sports Information Directory 180 Jamie Barker, Provations Group. Cover and inside cover designs by Hannah Krill. Photographs by Jeff Reinking, Michelle Hutchins, All-Time Record vs. Opponents 181 Mike DeZarn and Adam Creech. Printed on recycled paper by VG Reed in Louisville, Ky. Record vs. 2017-18 Opponents 182-183

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Media Information

his publication featuring the 2017-18 Universi- summaries, written play-by-plays and shot charts will T ty of Louisville men’s basketball team has been be distributed at halftime and post-game. Broadcast prepared to aid you in covering the Cardinals this personnel will have access to a computer monitor season. Additional information is available through displaying live game statistics throughout the game. Senior Associate Athletic Director Kenny Klein, UofL’s primary men’s basketball contact (502-852-6581).  Interviews: Coach David Padgett and selected players are available at a news conference generally  Media Credentials: To obtain credentials for a the day prior to each game. Selected news confer- UofL home contest, please make the request via email ences may be available live via teleconference; contact to Kenny Klein at [email protected]. Credentials the sports information office at (502) 852-6581 to are held at Media Will Call, located inside the Suite obtain a schedule and the number to participate. Entrance on the Second Street side of the KFC Yum! The recorded video from all news conferences is Center (front right side of the arena). Credentials available online from the “CardsTV ” link from the David Padgett and selected players, and many other will not be mailed. Passes are limited to WORKING Cards’ web site at www.GoCards.com and each news resources. This media guide is also available online. MEDIA ONLY. We do not have complimentary game conference will be streamed live from that site. To The Atlantic Coast Conference site is located at www. tickets, but we will assist in purchasing tickets when request a specific interview with Coach Padgett or a theacc.com, with a protected media services site at they are available. The media room is located on the player, please call or email Kenny Klein (502-852- www.sportssystems.com/s/?scmsID=accmedia. event level, the first door to the right after entering 6581; email: [email protected]). Sports Information Staff the Suite Entrance/Media Entrance. Media seating is The best time to reach Coach Padgett either at courtside or at tables in designated corner is mid-day, while players are usually areas of the arena in sections 119 and 120. available between 2-2:30 p.m. EST. Home or cell phone numbers will not  Internet Access: Wireless internet access is be provided. available throughout the KFC Yum! Center. A password

is required for special media access. Wired connec-  Postgame: Coach Padgett is tions are also available in the media room. most often first up with the media in

the press room following the game, Nick Evans Rocco Gasparro Ira Green  Telephones: A limited number of telephones but that is subject to change. The UofL Assistant Sports Assistant Sports Asst. SID/Web Site are provided in the press room on a first-come, first- dressing room will be open to media Information Director Information Director Manager served basis. Media desiring personal phone service postgame for access to squad members should have a phone installed through the KFC Yum! following Padgett’s remarks. If agreed Center by calling (502) 690-9000 in advance. Please to by the visiting coach, we will have list Kenny Klein as the contact for placement of the that coach come to the interview room. line. There are no general media use phones available Visiting team locker rooms are located at courtside. A UofL sports information representative to the left as one exits the media room can to assist you if you need an item faxed or copied. hallway (southwest corner of the arena). The Louisville locker room is located Kevin Hulsman Kenny Klein Lori Korte  Photographers: Photographers are limited to the right when exiting the media Television Producer/ Sr. Assoc. AD for Assistant Sports to working the designated half of the end zone at room (southeast corner of the arena). Director Media Relations/SID Information Director each end of the court. Photo spaces in two rows Proper credentials are required to gain are reserved. An upper photo area position may be admittance to each area. provided if requested in advance. A photo work room, equipped with wired internet access, is available within  Teleconference: The ACC offers a the media work room (two digital photo rooms). periodic teleconference for its men’s head basketball coaches throughout the season.  Parking: Limited media parking is available in Please contact the ACC (336-369-1002) garages within one block of the KFC Yum! Center. Re- to obtain the phone number and times for Jeremy Noe Kim Pemberton Kathy Tronzo quests should be made well in advance to Kenny Klein. the call. Selected UofL news conferences Director of Television Assistant Sports Sports Information may be available live via teleconference; Production Information Director Program Assistant contact the sports information office at (502) 852-6581 to obtain a schedule  Notes/Stats: Updated notes and statistics and the number to participate. are maintained on the Men’s Basketball page of the Cardinals’ web site at www.GoCards.com. Please  Internet Services: UofL is part- contact us if you would like any materials emailed to nered with Sidearm Sports to host its your attention. official athletic site. Located at www. GoCards.com, the web site contains Garett Wall Nancy Worley  Statistical Services: Rosters, notes, game updated game notes, cumulative statis- Assistant Sports Associate Sports programs and cumulative statistics are available for tics, box scores from previous games, Information Director Information Director pickup in the media room prior to tipoff. Statistical weekly video interviews with Coach

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 Mailing Address: The mailing address for continue on Floyd Street, the Cardinals’ Sports Information Office is: Sports about 200 yards past the Information Office, University of Louisville, Louisville, traffic light at Warnock St. KY 40292. Express mail items should be sent to: After travelling under the UofL Sports Information, 2100 S. Floyd St., SAC Rm. Eastern Parkway overpass, E219, Louisville, KY 40208 (phone: 502-852-6581). the Yum! Center is the first building on the right.  Sports Information Office Location: The (Arriving on Interstate UofL Sports Information Office is located in the Swain 65 North for the Student Student Activities Center, room E219, on the UofL Activites Center) Off I-65 campus at the corner of Floyd and Brandeis Streets north, take the Warnock (2100 S. Floyd Street). Visitor’s parking is available Street exit (Exit 134) and in the garage adjacent to the Swain Student Activi- turn left at the end of ties Center. the ramp. At the second The men’s basketball offices are housed on campus traffic light, turn right onto in the Yum! Center, located at 2432 South Floyd Street. Floyd Street. After passing through the next traffic  Directions: (Arriving on Interstate 65 South) light, the Swain Student Take the Arthur Street exit (Exit 134) off I-65 south. At Activities Center will be the end of the ramp, turn right at the stop sign (Brandeis on the left after passing Street). Proceed through the traffic roundabout to the parking garage. The Sports Information office is (Exit 134) and turn left at the end of the ramp. At the turn left onto Floyd Street. The Student Activities in Room E219. second traffic light, turn left onto Floyd St. After travelling Center is the first building on the right and the SID’s (Arriving on Interstate 65 North for the Yum! about 200 yards under the Eastern Parkway overpass, office is in Room E219. To reach the Yum! Center, Center) Off I-65 north, take the Warnock Street exit the Yum! Center is the first building on the right.

KFC Yum! Center Information

Arena Location: The KFC Yum! Center (22,000) is the KFC Yum! Center, down the corridor on the right located on Main Street in downtown Louisville be- when exiting the media room. The Cardinals’ locker tween Second and Third Streets on the banks of the room is located in the southeast corner, down the Ohio River (201 West Main St., Louisville, KY 40202). corridor on the right when exiting the media room.

KFC Yum! Center Practice Time: Contact Dennis Team Entrance: Visiting team busses should enter Petrullo at the KFC Yum! Center (502-690-9011). through the Third Street garage entrance of the KFC Yum! Center (191 North Third Street), near the Uniforms: UofL wears its adidas white jerseys trimmed southwest corner of the building. The team bus may in red and black at home games in the KFC Yum! park at the loading dock within the building. Center. The Cards wear either red uniforms trimmed in white and black or black uniforms trimmed in red Media Entrance: Media should enter through and white on the road. the Suite Entrance located on Second Street (near southwest corner of the KFC Yum! Center, to the right Press/Scouting Credentials: Contact UofL Senior and below the main lobby; below the Second Street Associate AD Kenny Klein well in advance of a game bridge). There is limited seating for credentialed media at [email protected]. representatives and scouts at courtside and within the designated areas in Sections 119 and 120. Ticket Information: Many seats are sold on a season basis, but there are often single-game seats Will Call: Media credentials not picked up in advance avaialble through Ticketmaster (online at http:// will be left at Media Will Call inside the Suite Entrance, www.ticketmaster.com/Louisville-Cardinals-Mens- located on Second Street (near southwest corner Basketball-tickets/artist/845511). The UofL ticket of the KFC Yum! Center, to the right and below the office is located at 2800 South Floyd St., near Gate main lobby). The main will call window for tickets is 2 at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. Contact the UofL located to the right of the front entrance of the arena. ticket office (502-852-5151) for further information. Airport: Louisville International Airport is located off Athletic Trainer: Training facilities are available at the Watterson Expressway (I-264) opposite the KEC. the KFC Yum! Center through UofL trainer Fred Hina Major airlines: Allegiant, American, Delta, OneJet, (502-852-0116). Southwest and United. Airport information can be obtained at (502) 367-4636. NOTE: Further information on the KFC Yum! Locker Rooms: Visiting team locker rooms are lo- Center is included on pages 18-22 of this guide cated on the event level in the southwest corner of Taxi Service: Yellow Cab (502-636-5511). and a seating chart is on page 7.

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UofL Campus Map

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KFC Yum! Center Diagram

Interesting Figures on the KFC Yum! Center  Structural steel placed in the arena weighs 5,975,000 pounds - the same weight as 746 average- size Asian elephants.

 The center-hung scoreboard weighs 40,000 pounds - as much as 11 Ford Explorers.

 There are 130 miles of electrical conduit and 322 miles of electrical wiring installed in the arena - enough to stretch from Louisville to Chicago.

 There are 9,000 light fixtures in the arena with 17,000 lamps.

 The overall square footage of the arena (721,762) equals approximately 13 football fields.

 60,000 cubic yards of concrete were placed in the arena, equaling 6,000 concrete trucks - represented by 25 miles of concrete trucks parked bumper to bumper.

 The arena contains 58,655 square feet of exterior glass panels - the glass on the east side of the arena could provide for approximately 60 houses.

 The length of the arena’s catwalk totals ½ mile.

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Athletics Staff Directory

All Area Codes Are 502 Kara Talley (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-4975 Compliance Jack Raibikis (Iowa State ‘15)...... 852-3372 Men’s Basketball...... 852-6551 Learning Services John Carns (SUNY/Oswego ‘85)...... 852-7728 Manager-Business Development David Padgett (Louisville ‘08)...... 852-6651 Caroline Crafton (Kentucky ‘05)...... 852-1012 Senior Associate Athletic Director Barry Quinn (Western Kentucky ‘11)...... 852-1349 Acting Head Coach Academic Counselor Matt Banker (St. Thomas ‘97)...... 852-8871 Manager-Partnership Services R.J. Evans (Holy Cross ‘12)...... 852-6651 Regina Johnson (Tennessee ‘09)...... 852-2967 Assoc. Athletic Director Alex Stanley (Transylvania ‘13)...... 852-7829 Program Assistant Academic Counselor Lauren Rust (Morehead St. ‘99)...... 852-0863 Coordinator-Partnership Services Michael Bowden (Florida ‘08)...... 852-6651 Mioshi Cobble (Cumberlands ‘92)...... 852-1123 Assistant Athletic Director Connor Cummings (Elon ‘16)...... 852-0809 Director of Basketball Operations Computer Specialist Daniel Gossom (Louisville ‘01)...... 852-1680 Coordinator-Partnership Services Jordan Sucher (Centre ‘04)...... 852-6651 Bass-Rudd Tennis Center...... 852-1682 Associate Director Ralph Wright Natatorium...... 852-0948 Executive Assistant to Padgett Melinda Van Arsdale (UofL ’88) ...... 852-1685 Emily Spears (Bowling Green St. ‘10)...... 852-7472 Mike Zehnder (Louisville ‘75)...... 852-3961 Stephanie Davis (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-6651 Bass-Rudd Tennis Center Business Mgr. Assistant Director Aquatics Director Basketball Administrative Assistant Meg Peavy (Louisville ’81)...... 852-0223 Caroline Nourse (Miami (OH) ‘10)...... 852-0220 Seth Boone (Centre ‘12)...... 852-1681 Logan Baumann (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-6651 Assoc. Director, Bass-Rudd Tennis Center Assistant Director Aquatics Supervisor Director of Video Operations Brand Marketing, Licensing Grace Bonoma (St. Louis ‘14) Terry King...... 852-3495 Patrick Reilingh (Louisville ‘14)...... 852-6651 & Creative Services Compliance Coordinator Unit Business Manager Assistant Video Coordinator Lottie Stockwell (Kentucky ‘00)...... 852-2456 Equipment Spirit Groups Wayne Turner (Kentucky ‘11)...... 852-6651 Assistant Athletic Director/Brand Marketing Chuck Hall (Kansas State ‘99)...... 852-7121 Todd Sharp...... 510-4307 Director of Player Development Katie Kiper (Indiana ‘09)...... 852-0721 Director of Equipment Operations Spirit Coach Sports Information...... 852-6581 Creative Workflow Manager Ed Connell (Louisville ‘04)...... 852-7121 Misty Hodges (Louisville ‘95)...... 365-4811 Sports Information Fax...... 852-7401 Kevin Aka (McPherson ‘15)...... 852-1154 PJCS Assistant Equipment Manager All Girl Squad Coach Web Site: www.GoCards.com Graphic Designer Vincent Tatum ...... 852-5071 Sheryl Knight (Louisville ‘95)...... (812) 951-0086 Kenny Klein (Murray St. ’81)...... 852-6581 Hannah Krill (Western Ky. ‘14)...... 852-7707 Basketball Equipment Manager Ladybirds Coach Sr. Assoc. Athletic Dir. for Media Relations/SID Graphic Designer Scott Norton (Louisville ‘05) ...... 852-2505 James Speed (Louisville ‘86)...... 365-4811 email: [email protected] Jeff Reinking...... 852-4879 KEC Equipment Manager Cheerleading Coach Nancy Worley (Valparaiso ’80)...... 852-0113 Senior Photographer Brent Lamkin (Louisville ‘10)...... 852-2102 Al Greener (Iowa ‘87)...... 852-0224 Associate Sports Information Director Adam Creech ...... 852-1702 Cardinal Park Equipment Manager Director of Athletic Bands Nick Evans (Bellarmine ‘03)...... 852-3085 Photograper Jeremy Litzinger (Medaille Coll.’09)...... 852-6341 Mike Smith...... 852-7022 Assistant Sports Information Director Fred Reynolds (N.Y. Inst. ’93)...... 852-3896 SAC Equipment Manager Program Assistant for Athletic Bands Rocco Gasparro (John Carroll ‘95)...... 852-0102 Video Director David Moser (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-7121 Sports Medicine...... 852-0123 Assistant Sports Information Director Clay Barnes (South Florida ‘07)...... 852-3896 Lynn Soccer Stadium Equipment Manager Fred Hina (Western Ky. ‘87)...... 852-0116 Ira Green (Central Florida ’08)...... 852-4857 Video Coordinator Facilities...... 852-5732 Dir. of Men’s Basketball & Sports Medicine Assistant SID/Web Site Manager Andrew Osborne (Bellarmine ‘03)...... 852-3896 Rob Brawner (Cinc. Bible ’77)...... 852-0125 Carole Banda (West Va. ‘84)...... 852-2160 Lori Korte (Bellarmine ’93)...... 852-3086 Motion Graphics Artist Asst. Athletic Dir./ Int. Affairs & Facilities Director of Olympic Sports Medicine Assistant Sports Information Director Corey Daniels (Bradley ‘13)...... 852-3896 Jason Bond (Louisville’97)...... 852-7029 Kyle Johnston (Kentucky ‘04)...... 852-3474 Kim Pemberton (Louisville ‘93)...... 852-7711 Video Producer/Editor Computer Operations Dir. of Football & Sports Medicine Assistant Sports Information Director Laura Clemente (Northwestern ‘09))...... 852-0270 Scott Flavell (Slippery Rock ‘03)...... 852-2103 Pat Hassell (Florida ‘04)...... 852-8093 Garett Wall (Murray St. ‘03)...... 852-3088 Director of Digital Marketing Technology Specialist/Facilities Associate Director Assistant Sports Information Director Tim Haag (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-7400 Ray Bronger ...... 852-7010 Steve Hoelscher (Missouri ‘01)...... 852-2508 Kathy Tronzo (Louisville ’74)...... 852-6581 Graphic Design/Video Services Coordinator Coordinator Facilites/Operations Associate AthleticTrainer Program Assistant Jennifer Hanson (Georgetown Univ. ‘07)...... 852-0723 Stanley Hall (Louisville ‘07)...... 852-2415 Allegra Lucia (Iowa State ‘07)...... 852-2764 Jeremy Noe (Western Ky. ‘01)...... 852-6581 Exec. Dir. of Game Production & Fan Experience Coordinator Facilites/Operations Associate Athletic Trainer Director of Television Production Sean Moth (Colorado St. ‘93)...... 852-2159 Grounds Crew...... 852-2863 Blake Leblanc (LSU ‘02)...... 852-8778 Kevin Hulsman (Western Ky. ‘08)...... 852-0792 Sr. Dir., Advertising & Broadcast/Promotions Mike Winkenhofer (Western Ky. ‘98) Assistant Athletic Trainer TV Producer & Director Katie Berry (South Alabama ‘10)...... 852-7776 Superintendent of Athletic Fields/Grounds Tiff Haub (Toledo ‘11)...... 852-2506 Athletic Administration...... 852-5732 Assistant Director of Marketing Rick Dant (Western Ky. ‘82) Assistant AthleticTrainer Tom Jurich (No. Arizona ’77)...... 852-7030 George Barbetto (Rutgers ‘13)...... 852-3331 Athletic Fields/Grounds Sam Zuege(Purdue ‘09)...... 852-4746 Vice President/Director of Athletics Assistant Director of Marketing Brice Gordon (Penn State ‘73) Assistant Athletic Trainer Kevin Miller (Western Ky. ’73)...... 852-0118 Chelsea Bemis (Louisville ‘11)...... 852-0675 Athletic Fields/Grounds Salvador Lopez (Fresno State CAL ‘13)...... 852-2498 Exec. Sr. Assoc. AD for Internal Operations Assistant Director of Marketing Rodney New (Eastern Kentucky ‘99) Assistant Athletic Trainer Christine Herring (Louisville ‘08)...... 852-2161 Ticket Sales Athletic Fields/Grounds Jimmy Dorenman (Kings’ College ‘08)...... 852-2504 Associate AD/Senior Woman Administrator Matt Fahr (Northwood ‘05)...... 852-7254 Thomas Theobald (Binghamton ‘01) Assistant Athletic Trainer Julie Waldron (DePauw ‘97)...... 852-0814 General Manager Ticket Sales and Operation Athletic Fields/Grounds Adam Diamond (Eastern Ky. ‘13)...... 852-7693 Associate AD for Marketing Dan Cerwinske (Dayton ‘02)...... 852-0120 Bruce Dukes Assistant Athletic Trainer Christine Simatacolas (Northwestern ‘93).....852-4149 Senior Director of Ticket Sales Athletic Fields/Grounds Jeremy Dockter ATC (Nebraska ‘14)...... 852-7122 Associate AD for Student Life Bo Hilger (Arkansas ‘13)...... 852-5564 Mike Hetzel Assistant Athletic Trainer Danny Plasencia (Louisville ‘05)...... 852-2473 Account Executive Athletic Fields/Grounds Keressa Ackles (LSU ‘15)...... 852-2762 Director of Championships/Development Eric Finley (Louisville ‘14)...... 852-4984 Tommy Lewis Assistant Athletic Trainer Kelly Anderson...... 852-3858 Account Executive Athletic Fields/Grounds Kate O’Bryan (Louisville ‘02)...... 852-0123 Special Assistant to the AD Lindsley Purdom (Transylvania ‘14)...... 852-4983 UofL Golf Club LCARE Lead Counselor Ronee Baxter (Miami U. ‘00)...... 852-2015 Inside Sales Representative Denny Thompson, PGA (Louisville ‘80)...... 852-7064 Debbie Cox ...... 852-0123 Director of Special Events Dylan Bickel (Louisville ‘16)...... 852-3706 General Manager Program Assistant Susan Faul-Ernst (Louisville ‘91)...... 852-2399 Inside Sales Representative Kevin Esposito (Louisville ‘02)...... 852-4772 Sports Nutrition Community Outreach/Liaison for VIP Hotels Business Business Manager Nick Yonko (Houston ‘11)...... 852-4321 Maggi Constantz (Mo.-St. Louis’76)...... 852-2471 Jeff Spoelker (Dayton ‘90)...... 852-2413 Jake Spott, PGA (Minnesota State ‘07)...... 852-2216 Sports Dietitian Director of Special Forces Business Manager Head Golf Professional Becky Lindberg (Virginia Tech ‘16)...... 852-7057 Christy Steiden (Kentucky ‘10)...... 852-0706 Russell Hill (Kentucky ‘98)...... 852-7754 John Ballard (Tennessee ‘97)...... 852-2689 Sports Dietitian Special Events Coordinator Assistant Business Manager Golf Course Superintendent Lillian Rozanski (LSU ‘14) Valerie Wells, Administration Receptionist...... 852-5735 Scott Miller (Louisville ‘04)...... 852-7826 Sam Hitner (Bellarmine ‘12)...... 852-7055 Sports Dietitian, Graduate Assistant Vickie Way, Administrative Associate...... 852-2161 Assistant Business Manager Marketing & Membership Director Stadiums Management Elaine Jones, Clerical Assistant...... 852-2106 Deanna McMahel (IU Southeast ‘11)...... 852-5002 Human Resources Michael Ortman (Western Illinois ’95)...... 852-0083 Donna Adkisson, Clerical Assistant...... 852-2106 Accountant Kimberly Maffet (Kentucky ‘90)...... 852-2411 Asst. Athletic Director/Stadiums Manager Athletic Academic Services Opal Newton ...... 852-2412 Associate AD for Human Resources Andrew McClung (Louisville ‘08)...... 852-8570 Marvin Mitchell (Wake Forest’92)...... 852-7940 Accounts Payable Specialist Lauren Sharrock (Jacksonville St ’12)...... 852-7250 Operations Assistant Sr. Assoc. AD for Student Services & Diversity Sandy Short ...... 852-2414 Human Rescources Generalist Dave Dow...... 852-8463 Scott Sallade (Louisville ’92)...... 852-7913 Administrative Associate Jeremy Toles (Louisville ‘11)...... 852-7801 Facilities Assistant Asst. AD for Student Services Lynn Lands...... 852-2381 Program Assistant Strength and Conditioning Staff Justin Ruffin (James Madison ‘02)...... 852-1446 Financial Coordinator Margaret Womack...... 852-7120 Ray Ganong (Miami, Fla. ’85)...... 852-2761 Asst. AD for Academic Services Bryce Wooley (Louisville ‘14)...... 852-7324 Administrative Assistant Director of Performance/Men’s Basketball Chris May (Louisville ‘03)...... 852-6006 Administrative Assistant KEC Facility...... 852-4932 Joe Miday (Kent State ‘02)...... 852-4924 Director of Academic & Student Services Cardinal Athletic Fund...... 852-5735 Jim McGhee (Miss. Valley ’69)...... 852-3776 Director of Performance/Football Marc Ellis (Texas Southern ‘12)...... 852-7934 Mark Jurich (Louisville ‘04)...... 852-2994 Asst. Athletic Director for Varsity Sports Scott Wilks (Marshall ‘05)...... 852-6778 Director of Facilities TACE Senior Associate AD/Development Robert Beahl (Louisiville ‘09)...... 852-3776 Assistant Dir. of Performance/Football Alyssa Murphy (Miami U ‘00)...... 852-0216 Michael Dudas (Austin Peay ‘06)...... 852-3195 Varsity Sports Operations Asst. Teddy O’Connor (New Hampshire ‘12)...... 852-4836 Dir. of Student-Athlete Leadership & Development Asst. AD/Development Angela Todd, Program Assistant...... 852-4935 Assistant Dir. of Performance/Football Lauren Hansen (Louisville ‘12)...... 852-8863 Megan Edwards (Bowling Green ‘09)...... 852-2472 Louisville Sports Properties George Carpenter (Marshall ‘12)...... 852-4836 Associate Director-Academic Services Executive Director/Annual Fund Bill Glenn (Missouri ‘84) Assistant Dir. of Performance/Football Courtney Hehn (Louisville ‘12)...... 852-7271 Zach Brooks (Louisville ‘08)...... 852-7079 Vice President/General Manager Teena Murray (Wilfrid Laurier ‘93)...... 852-2760 Associate Director-Academic Services Director of Development Mark Fields (Muskingum ‘01)...... 852-0858 Director of Performance/Olympic Sports Carlton Hill (Alma ‘06)...... 852-4750 Director of Business Development Dr. Vanessa Shannon (Rice ‘99)...... 852-0856 Associate Director-Academic Services Jason Prado (USF ‘12)...... 852-8460 Jason Sucher (Wittenberg ‘07)...... 852-5313 Director of Mental Performance Rachel Overton (Louisville ‘06)...... 852-2578 Director of Premium Services Senior Manager-Business Development Jason Dierking (Eastern Ky. ‘98)...... 852-3775 Associate Director-Academic Services Rachael Bilney (Richmond ‘12)...... 852-1266 Lisa Turner (Louisville ‘02)...... 852-4613 Asst. Dir. of Performance Kamari Wooten (Kentucky State ‘07)...... 852-8853 Asst. Director of Development Manager-Business Development Michael Naperalsky (Ball State ‘06)...... 852-3786 Associate Director-Academic Services Charlie George (Miami (Ohio) ‘12)...... 852-4699 Brent Johnson (Louisville ‘05)...... 852-0224 . Asst. Dir. of Performance Asst. Director of Development Manager-Business Development

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Athletics Staff Directory

Heather Engel (Louisville ‘07)...... 852-3786 Samantha Williams (Auburn ‘96)...... 852-1309 Pete Nochta (Louisville ‘10)...... 852-6325 David Horne (Centre Coll. ‘07)...... 852-7619 Senior Performance Coach Assistant Coach Director of On-Campus Recruiting Director of Operations Zach Farrell (Louisville ‘09)...... 852-3810 Sam Purcell (Auburn ‘03)...... 852-3840 Brent Thomas (Tennessee ‘01)...... 852-5602 Women’s Soccer Senior Performance Coach Assistant Coach Director of Football Technology Karen Ferguson-Dayes (UConn ’94)...... 852-0104 Molly Binetti (Marquette, ’12) Kate Tucker (Georgetown Coll. ‘07)...... 852-8355 Paul Gering (Louisville ’63)...... 852-6325 Head Coach Performance Coach Director of Basketball Operations Special Assistant to the Head Coach Andy Stoots (Milligan College ‘02)...... 852-1783 Kaiti Jones (Central Michigan ‘12) Adrienne Johnson (Ohio St. ‘97)...... 852-8872 Jonny Saterfield (LSU ‘16)...... 852-8761 Assistant Coach Performance Coach Executive Director of Player Relations Production Manager Hunter Norton (Georgia Southern ‘14)...... 852-2095 Paul Jones (Louisville ‘14)) LaMont Russell (SE Missouri St. ‘11)...... 852-7400 Denise Murphy (Louisville ’92)...... 852-7775 Assistant Coach Performance Analytics Coordinator Video Coordinator/Graphic Design Administrative Asst. to Bobby Petrino Jing Hughley (Louisville ‘01)...... 852-0101 Sean Smith (Louisville ‘17) Cross Country/Track Robyn Crume (Louisville ‘98)...... 852-6327 Director of Operations Performance Fellow Dale Cowper (Western Mich. ‘01)...... 852-0106 Recruiting Assistant Softball Chris Hays (Sacred Heart ‘16) Head Coach Vicki Nugent (Louisville ‘93)...... 852-8758 Sandy Pearsall (Oregon St. ‘83)...... 852-1782 Performance Fellow Joe Walker, Jr. (Mississippi College ‘69)...... 852-2279 Administrative Assistant Head Coach Jesse Green (Bond Univ. ‘16) Assistant Coach Ali Moore (Louisville ‘14)...... 852-6325 Amy ReCouper Servi (Colorado St. ‘96)...... 852-5344 Performance Fellow Justin Johnson (Cal St. Northridge ’08)...... 852-0111 Recruiting Assistant Assistant Coach Student Athlete Welfare and Development Assistant Coach Men’s Golf Kassie Stanfill (Louisville ‘09)...... 852-7695 Christine Simatacolas (Northwestern ‘93).....852-4149 Joe Walker (Ole Miss ‘94)...... 852-0194 Mark Crabtree (Colorado ‘78)...... 852-8452 Assistant Coach Associate AD for Student Life Assistant Coach Coach Head Coach Ashley Pauly (Georgia ‘12)...... 852-7854 Amy Calabrese (Louisville ‘07)...... 852-4939 Jenna Wrieden (Arizona State ‘06)...... 852-0011 Aaron O’Callaghan (SE Louisiana ‘09)...... 852-2519 Director of Operations Asst. AD/Student-Athlete Development Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Swimming and Diving Monica Negron (Louisville ‘14)...... 852-7255 Brooke Rasnick (Wichita St. ‘09)...... 852-0109 Erin Horn (Louisville ‘03)...... 852-4572 Arthur Albiero (Oakland ‘96)...... 852-8848 Campus/Community Relations Coordinator Assistant Coach Director of Golf Operations Head Coach Ticket Office...... 852-5151 Field Hockey Women’s Golf Kameron Chastain (Louisville ‘13)...... 852-3097 Brad Barber (Rio Grande ’86)...... 852-5863 Justine Sowry (South Australia ‘91)...... 852-0215 Courtney Trimble (Auburn ‘02)...... 852-1768 Assistant Coach/Men’s Recruiting Director Asst. AD/Operations & Ticketing Head Coach Head Coach Stephanie Juncker (Louisville ‘12)...... 852-0992 Kelly Conklin (Murray St. ‘04)...... 852-2104 Lucas Piccioli...... 852-7795 Whitney Wade Young (Georgia ‘07)...... 852-1768 Assistant Coach/Women’s Recruiting Director Ticket Office Business Manager Associate Coach Assistant Coach Chris Lindauer (Louisville ‘08)...... 852-4199 Erika Fitzgerald (Louisville’10)...... 852-2105 Olivia Netzler-Gray (Louisville ‘04)...... 852-8153 Erin Horn (Louisville ‘03)...... 852-4572 Assistant Coach Assistant Ticket Manager Assistant Coach Director of Golf Operations Vlad Polyakov (Alabama ‘07)...... 852-0984 Kyle Chettleburgh (WKU ‘12)...... 852-0861 Football...... 852-6325 Lacrosse Assistant Coach/Men’s Recruiting Director Ticket Office Assistant Recruiting...... 852-6327 Kellie Young (Mt. Holyoke ‘93)...... 852-4998 KZ Li (Beijing Inst. of Physical Education ‘84)...852-3581 Samantha Keeton (Kentucky ‘10)...... 852-3707 Bobby Petrino (Carroll College ‘83)...... 852-7775 Head Coach Diving Coach...... Ticket Office Assistant Head Coach Victoria Latino (Manhattan ‘08)...... 852-4997 Bonnie Roman (Eastern Kentucky ‘80)...... 852-7417 Neil Rohrer(Indiana ‘08)...... 852-4937 Peter Sirmon (Oregon ‘99)...... 852-8763 Assistant Coach Director of Operations Ticket Office Assistant Defensive Coordinator/Outside Linebackers Faye Brust (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-4995 Men’s Tennis Casey Evans (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-0122 Lonne Galloway (Western Carolina ‘94)...... 852-7234 Assistant Coach Rex Ecarma (Louisville ’88)...... 852-0217 Ticket Office Assistant Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers Patty Norton (Buffalo ‘92)...... 852-0100 Head Coach Baseball Mike Summers (Georgetown (Ky.) ‘78)...... 852-8772 Director of Operations Jakob Gustafsson (Louisville ‘06)...... 852-1664 Dan McDonnell (The Citadel ‘92)...... 852-0103 Co-Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line Women’s Rowing Assistant Coach Head Coach Cort Dennison (Washington ‘11)...... 852-0438 Derek Copeland (Dayton ‘00)...... 852-3325 Women’s Tennis Brian Mundorf (American Int’l ’92)...... 852-1217 Inside Linebackers/Recruiting Coordinator Head Coach Mark Beckham (Louisville ’94)...... 852-3357 Director of Baseball Operations Chris Klenakis (Carroll Coll. ‘86)...... 852-8773 Shelia Rinozzi (Iowa ‘10)...... 852-7933 Head Coach Eric Snider (Northern Iowa ‘87)...... 852-8145 Tight Ends Associate Head Coach Kevin Fulton (Louisville ‘02)...... 852-1689 Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coor. Nick Petrino (Western Kentucky ‘14)...... 852-8768 Ed Oxlade (U of Northumbria/Newcastle ‘99)....852-8121 Assistant Coach Roger Williams (E. Carolina ‘92)...... 852-3929 Quarterbacks Assistant Coach Women’s Volleyball Assistant Coach/Pitching L.D. Scott (Louisville ‘09) ...... 852-8770 Hannah Ritter (Louisville ‘15)...... 852-7813 Dani Busboom Kelly (Nebraska ‘07)...... 852-0218 Adam Vrable (Coastal Carolina ‘07)...... 852-5791 Defensive Line Assistant Coach Head Coach Assistant Coach Kolby Smith (Louisville ‘07)...... 852-8768 Men’s Soccer Dan Meske (Ohio State ‘07)...... 852-7248 Vicky Frank, Administrative Assistant...... 852-5791 Running Backs Ken Lolla (Duke ‘83)...... 852-0105 Associate Head Coach Women’s Basketball Lorenzo Ward (Alabama ‘91)...... 852-8774 Director of Soccer Kolby O’Donnell (Lees-McRae Coll. ‘06)...... 852-7137 Jeff Walz (Northern Ky. ‘95)...... 852-0221 Secondary Danny Cepero (Penn St. ‘07)...... 852-3936 Assistant Coach Head Coach Andy Wagner (Butler ‘99)...... 852-8762 Assistant Coach Sarah Petkovic (Louisville ‘03)...... 852-3327 Stephanie Norman (Arizona St. ‘89)...... 852-0219 Director of Football Operations John Michael Hayden (Indiana ‘06)...... 852-2487 Director of Operations Associate Head Coach Stephen Field (Miami ‘08)...... 852-2442 Assistant Coach Director of High School Relations Primary Media Outlets

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Cardinal Facts and Figures

 Louisville has an all-time 1,803-901 record in  Louisville is second 103 seasons of intercollegiate basketball. The Cardinals to North Carolina for the rank 11th among all NCAA schools in victories. The national lead with 67 all-time Cardinals played their first official men’s basketball 1,000 point scorers. Quentin game on Jan. 28, 1912 when it lost 35-3 to Louisville Snider is the next closest YMCA, but did not field teams in 1916-17, 1922-23 Cardinal to that milestone, or 1942-43. The Cardinals have produced winning entering his senior year with seasons in 69 of the last 72 years, including winning 784 career points. 20 or more games in the last 15 straight seasons and  Over the last six years, 30 or more in three of the last six years. Louisville has won 171  UofL is seventh nationally with 10 Final Four games, seventh-most in the appearances. No other school went to the Final Four nation. Louisville is one of just four times during the 1980s and Louisville won two three schools in the nation NCAA titles in that decade, winning the national entering this season to win championship in 1980 and 1986. Louisville’s 42 at least 30 games in three Quentin Snider is a three-time NCAA Tournament appearances is fifth best all-time of the last six years. honoree on the All-ACC Academic and its 118 NCAA Tournament games are the sixth team, which featured a league-high  Louisville is one of most played in the event (76-43 record). six Cardinals in 2017. four Division I schools in  Twenty Louisville players have earned All- the nation that has won 20 America status, the latest being consensus All-America or more games in each of pick Russ Smith in 2014. The Cardinals have had 72 thevpast 15 seasons. Kansas players drafted by the NBA, including 24 first-round  Only five times in the last 52 years have the tops the list with 28 consecutive years, followed by selections. Donovan Mitchell was UofL’s latest first Cardinals failed to reach either the NCAA or NIT post- Duke (21), Gonzaga (20) and Louisville (15). UofL round selection in the 2017 draft as the 13th overall season tournaments. UofL has reached the NCAA has won at least 20 games in 37 of the last 47 years. pick by the Denver Nuggets and was subsequently Tournament Elite Eight five of the last 10 years and The Cardinals won avschool-record 35 games during traded to the Utah Jazz. Seven Cardinals have been two of the last six Final Fours, winning the 2013 title. their 2012-13 NCAA Championship season, closing drafted over the last five years.  The Cardinals are one of the most televised the season on a 16-game winning streak. UofL has  Louisville has won its conference championship teams in college basketball. UofL games will be won at least 19 games in 43 of the last 46 years. or finished second in its league in 27 of the last 41 televised on national networks during the 2016-17  Louisville is consistently the highest-rated years, including six of the last 11 years (American regular season on at least 22 occasions. Every pos- television market for college basketball. Louisville has Athletic Conference champion in 2014, Big East sible UofL game over the past 34 years has been been the top market for ESPN each of the last 15 champion in 2009 and 2013, second place in the televised on either a live or delayed basis — a total years since tracking the data, averaging a 4.5 rating Big East in 2007, 2008, ACC second in 2017). The of over 980 games — including over 450 national or higher over the past eight seasons. Louisville’s 5.5 Cardinals were tied for second in the Atlantic Coast television appearances. rating during the 2016-17 season more than doubled Conference last season and finished fourth in the  The Cardinals have been ranked on 621 occa- the next closest market (Kansas City with a 2.3 rating). regular season title race in their initial two ACC years. sions in the AP poll, sixth most all-time. Louisville had  Louisville was the first university ever to win a  Louisville is the only school in the nation to have been ranked 60 consecutive weeks entering 2015-16, BCS Bowl game, place both its men’s and women’s claimed the championship of three major national when it started the year unranked but finished 16th basketball teams in the NCAA Final Four and reach post-season tournaments including the 1948 NAIB in the final poll. The Cards have been ranked No. 1 the College World Series in the same season in 2012- Championship, the 1956 NIT title and the 1980, in the nation on five occasions -- Jan. 14, 2013 in the 13. In addition to the Cardinals’ 2013 NCAA men’s 1986 and 2013 NCAA Championships. This season Associated Press poll; in the ESPN/USA Today poll basketball title, UofL’s women’s team was the national marks the 70th anniversary of the 1948 national title. on March 15, 2009; in the final AP poll that same runner-up to Connecticut. The Cardinals’ football team  UofL produced the second most consecutive 2008-09 season; in the final USA Today coaches poll beat then No. 3/4 Florida 33-23 in the 2013 Sugar winning seasons all-time in the NCAA with 46 (not of 2012-13, and when it opened the 1986-87 season Bowl on Jan. 2. UofL’s 2013 baseball team won a current). The Cards played winning basketball from as the top team in the UPI coaches poll. Louisville has record 51 games while reaching a visit to Omaha. 1944-45 through 1989-90, winning 20 or more been ranked as the No. 2 team in the AP poll on 18  Aside from basketball lettermen, some no- games on 31 occasions during that period. occasions all-time. The Cardinals have been ranked table UofL alumni include: the late Johnny Unitas  Louisville has three representatives in the among the nation’s top 15 in the preseason poll in (football), Mitch McConnell (U.S. Senator, Kentucky), Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Cardinal five of the last six years. Chris Dodd (former U.S. Senator for 30 yrs., Conn.), All-American and former Washington Bullets All-Star  Four former Cardinals were active on NBA rosters Bob Edwards (former National Public Radio host, Wes Unseld was inducted in 1988, former head coach during the 2016-17 season: Gorgui Dieng (Minnesota now weekends on Sirius/XM), Tom Jackson (former Denny Crum was inducted in 1994 and former head Timberwolves), Montrezl Harrell (Houston Rockets), ESPN commentator) and 18 players active in the NFL coach Rick Pitino was in the 2013 induction class. Chinanu Onuaku (Houston Rockets) and Terry Rozier during the 2016 season, including Miami Dolphins  Louisville has ranked among the top six nationally (Boston Celtics). At least 24 former Cardinals are receiver Devante Parker. in average home attendance each of the last 36 years. playing professionally now with other U.S. or foreign  UofL has a 203-46 record (.819) against In 17 home games last season, a total of 354,390 teams. Forty-two UofL players have reached the NBA non-conference opponents over the last 16 seasons fans attended games, a 20,846 average that trailed in the last 43 years. (includes post-season), including a 140-10 record only Syracuse and Kentucky. UofL played its seventh  UofL has retired the numbers of four of its in home regular season non-conference games. season in their new home in 2016-17, the 22,000- former hoop greats: 8 Charlie Tyra, 31 Wes Unseld, The Cardinals are 63-3 at home in regular season seat KFC Yum! Center in downtown Louisville. 35 Darrell Griffith and 42 Pervis Ellison. non-conference games over the last seven seasons.

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Cardinal Facts and Figures

 Louisville has received an NCAA Public Recogni- Cards in the NCAA Tournament  Louisville won its third NCAA Championship tion Award in each of the last five years for ranking in 2013 and its first in 27 years. UofL is one of 15 among the top ten percent in men’s basketball in the  Louisville made its 42nd NCAA Tournament schools that have won multiple NCAA Championships Academic Progress Rate, which measures academic appearance in 2017. The Cardinals have reached the and is one of eight universities with at least three titles. eligibility, retention and graduation for student-athletes. NCAA Tournament 33 of the last 41 years (10 of the  Louisville’s schedule has ranked among the top Louisville is one of only two schools in the nation to last 11, 13 of the last 15, 15 of the last 19 years, 21 16 toughest in the nation by the ratings percentage have perfect men’s basketball multi-year APR scores of last 26). The Cards have reached the Sweet 16 on index (RPI) in eight of the last 10 seasons, including each of the past four years. 21 occasions and have advanced to the Elite Eight five the third-toughest in 2016-17. All but one of the The Cardinals produced a collective 3.18 grade of the last 10 seasons. Louisville is sixth in tourna- Cardinals’ losses over the last four seasons came to point average for the 2016-17 academic year, just ment victories (76) and is fifth in NCAA Tournament teams that reached the NCAA Tournament. below its record 3.40 GPA from the 2013-14 team. appearances (42). UofL has a 76-43 overall NCAA  Louisville has a 53-11 record in NCAA Tourna- Prior to joining the ACC, UofL’s men’s basketball team Tournament record, reaching the Final Four 10 times. ment play when the Cardinals are the higher seed. earned four conference Team Academic Excellence  Only four teams -- Kentucky (57), North Carolina The Cardinals are 10-17 when playing as a lower seed Awards (one American, three Big East), which rec- (48), UCLA (47), and Kansas (46) -- have more and 0-1 when facing a team of the same seed (in ognized the highest collective grade-point averages NCAA Tournament appearances than Louisville’s 42. Final Four). The NCAA began seeding teams in 1979. in each of the conference sponsored sports. The  UofL Acting Head Coach David Padgett par-  The 2017-18 season will mark notable anniversa- men’s basketball team has been around a collective ticipated in three NCAA Tournaments as a player, ries for two great Louisville teams. This season also marks 3.0 GPA for 18 straight semesters. Twenty-nine of reaching the regional finals twice (7-3 NCAA Tourna- the 35th anniversary of the Cardinals’ 1982-83 NCAA Final the Cardinals’ 34 four-year seniors over the last 13 ment record as a player). As a freshman at Kansas, Four team, which posted a 32-4 record, won the Metro years have earned their degrees, including 19 of the the Jayhawks beat Illinois-Chicago, Pacific and UAB Conference title, and won 16 straight late season games last 20 from the last eight years. before falling to Georgia Tech in the St. Louis Region before falling to Houston in the NCAA national semifinals.  UofL is in its fourth season in the Atlantic Coast championship. As a junior at UofL, the Cardinals beat It is the 70th anniversary for UofL’s 1948 NAIB National Conference in 2017-18. Louisville was a member Stanford before losing to Texas A&M in the NCAA Championship, the forerunner to what is now the NAIA. of the American Athletic Second Round. UofL beat Boise State, Oklahoma Conference during the and No. 2 seed Tennessee his senior year in 2008 All-Time NCAA Final Four Appearances 2013-14 season and for before falling to North Carolina in the NCAA South North Carolina 20 Ohio State 11 the eight previous years Region Championship. UofL reached the NIT national UCLA 17 Louisville 10 competed in the Big East semifinals in 2006 when Padgett was on the sidelines Kentucky 17 Michigan State 9 Conference. Louisville accepted an invitation to join from knee surgery as a sophomore. Duke 16 Indiana 8 Kansas 14 Four teams tied 6 the ACC on Nov. 28, 2012 and moved to its current  Only four teams have been to more Sweet home in the 15-member ACC on July 1, 2014. 16 appearances than Louisville’s 21 since the NCAA  UofL is among 16 programs in the nation that began Sweet 16 records in 1975 (North Carolina 28, UofL in the NCAA Tournament have won at least 70 percent of their games over the Duke 25, Kentucky 25 and Kansas 22). NCAA Tournament Appearances 42 last 16 years. Louisville has a .748 winning percentage  The NCAA Champion has come from UofL’s (33 of the last 41 years; 21 of last 26) since UofL Coach Rick Pitino took over the reins of conference in five of the last seven years, more than All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 76-43 the Cardinal program, sixth best in the nation during any other team in that period (2011-17), including Sweet 16 Appearances 21 his tenure at Lousville. the most recent 2017 champion and Atlantic Coast Final Four Appearances 10  UofL’s large co-ed cheerleading squad has won Conference member North Carolina. The ACC is NCAA Championships 3 Pitino’s NCAA Tourn. Record 54-19 17 National Cheerleading Association Championships, Louisville’s third conference in the last five years (also Pitino’s NCAA Tourn. Appearances 21 including nine of the last 15 (1985, ‘86, ‘89, ‘92, ‘94, Big East 2005-2013, American Athletic 2013-14). ‘96, ‘98, ‘99, ‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ’11, ‘16).  ACC teams received a league record nine bids NCAA Sweet 16 Appearances The Cards’ all-girl squad has won 13 championships, to the 2017 NCAA Tournament, with North Carolina (since 1975) including seven of the last nine titles (2001-05, ‘07-’09, capturing the national title. An NCAA record six teams ‘11-12, ‘15, ‘16, ‘17). UofL also won the small coed from one league advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2016, North Carolina 28 Louisville 21 Duke 25 UCLA 19 national title 10 times(2005, ‘06, ‘08, ‘09, ‘11, ‘13, a year in which two ACC teams reached the Final Kentucky 25 Arizona 18 ‘14, ‘15, ‘16, ‘17). The Cardinals also won their fourth Four (Syracuse and NCAA runner-up North Carolina). Kansas 22 Syracuse 18 NCA Cheer stunt national championship in 2016. Three ACC teams participated in the postseason NIT. The Ladybirds, UofL’s dance team, has won 17 national titles, winning National Dance Association  21 Sweet 16s for Cards — Louisville advanced to  Elite Eights — The Cardinals have reached the Championships in Div 1A team performance (2016, its 21st NCAA Sweet 16 in 2014-15, its fourth straight. NCAA Elite Eight on 14 occasions, including five of the 2017), Div 1A Dance (2002, ‘03, ‘04, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, Only four teams have had more Sweet 16 appearances last 10 years (1959, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1983, ‘11, ‘15) and Div 1A Hip Hop Dance (2014, 2016 than Louisville’s 21 since the NCAA began Sweet 16 1986, 1997, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015). and 2017). UofL won the Universal Dance Association records in 1975 (North Carolina 28, Duke 25, Ken-  Cards As No. 1 Seed — Louisville’s 2012-13 title in 1995 and 1997. Lifetime television network tucky 25, Kansas 22). THe Cardinals have won seven team marked the third time the Cardinals entered followed the Cardinals and Coach Todd Sharp in a of their last eight regional semifinal games. Louisville the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed (also: 1983, reality-style program “So Sharp” in their run to their has been to at least the Sweet 16 in seven of the last 2009) and the second time as the overall top seed 2017 dual title. 13 years. Louisville’s NCAA Sweet 16 teams: 1975, (also 2009). Louisville reached the Final Four in 1983  Louisville is the only school in the nation to 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, before falling to Houston in the national semifinals, have players drafted in both the last four NBA drafts 1989, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2008, 2009, and reached the Elite Eight in 2009 before losing to and NFL drafts. 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. Michigan State. The seeding process began in 1979.

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Yum! Center

he Yum! Center, which opened in August of 2007 on the Universi- T ty of Louisville campus, houses training facilities and offices for the Cardinals' men's basketball, women's basketball and women's lacrosse teams. The facility includes (clockwise from top) the basketball practice court, a theatre, an extensive weight room, the training room, a well-lit front exterior of the building, and the main lobby entrance.

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Yum! Center

The Yum! Center also features (clockwise from below) a men's basketball conference room, a cardio workout room which overlooks the weight room and court, the player lounge and the circular locker room with a section of the 2013 NCAA Cham- pionship court in the center. The diagram at the bottom provides an overview of the player's facilities within the building.

An overview of a portion of the ground floor in the Yum! Center includes (clockwise) the tip of the weight room, coaches locker room and meeting space, the basketball court which can accomodate two side-by-side full courts and has limited seating on the side, a training room, equip- ment room, the player lounge, circular locker room, showers and rest room area, and a theatre for reviewing video footage and team meetings.

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KFC Yum! Center

he University of Louisville began a new era UofL’s men’s and women’s teams have perma- Lounge space is abundant within the arena. Four T in its tradition-rich basketball program with nent locker rooms, including expansive space for spacious donor rooms are available for Cardinal its move in 2010-11 to the sparkling KFC Yum! its coaching staffs, equipment, training room and a fans, including three that overlook the Ohio River. Center, located on the banks of the Ohio River in lounge area for each team. There are five additional The 7,000-square foot main concourse restaurant downtown Louisville. team locker rooms, two officials locker rooms, five overlooks the river and a main concourse sports The 22,000-seat multi-purpose arena is truly a star dressing rooms, a full-function media work bar has views directly into the arena bowl. Two state-of-the-art facility, which will rival any, includ- room and a full-sized basketball practice court on 4,000-square foot club lounges on the event level, ing those in which a professional franchise is the the event level. An interior truck staging area can as well as the terrace club and premium box loung- primary tenant. Built at a cost of $238 million, the accommodate three television production trucks es, provide amenities for their respective patrons. arena features the latest in technological advance- and a nearby area includes four loading docks. The arena quickly established itself on the enter- ments - including WiFi within the arena bowl for The seven levels of the arena (including the tainment scene, hosting such acts as the Eagles and patrons - and provides a superb experience for upper catwalk) include a collective 721,762 square Katy Perry while ranking among the top arenas in fans to enjoy. feet, or roughly the area of 13 football fields. The the nation by Rolling Stones and Pollstar magazines. The Cardinals had played basketball from 1956 22,000 seats - split about evenly between the It served as the site for the NCAA Women’s Volley- through 2010 in Freedom Hall, where they amassed upper and lower arena - include 71 luxury suites, 62 ball Championship in December 2012, early rounds a 682-141 record in 54 seasons and ranked among four- or six-seat premium boxes, over 2,000 side- of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in 2012 the top five nationally in attendance for the last 29 court club seats and four party suites with a seating and 2015 and hosted the South Regional in 2016 straight seasons there. Freedom Hall - which cur- capacity of 32 each. Centerplate is the concession- 2016-17 NCAA Home Game rently remains in operation - had been the site of aire for the facility, which has 27 permanent stands, Attendance Leaders six NCAA Final Fours, four additional NCAA men’s 32 portable locations, two fixed novelty stands and basketball tournament events and 10 conference 234 total points of sale. Rank/School G Attend. Avg. 1. Kentucky 17 398,850 23,461 tournaments in which UofL participated. After passing through the one and a half 2. Syracuse 21 444,809 21,181 In their first seven seasons in their terrific new acre landscaped entry plaza that features a bas- 3. Louisville 17 354,390 20,846 home, the Cardinals have posted a 115-15 record. ketball-themed fountain, entering fans can visit 4. North Carolina 16 289,075 18,067 5. Creighton 17 296,013 17,412 Owned by the Louisville Arena Authority and the 2,500-square foot UofL adidas store; the 6. Wisconsin 17 293,870 17,286 managed by Anshutz Entertainment Group (AEG), 3,000-square foot UofL Hall of Honor, which fea- 7. Maryland 18 299,306 16,628 the KFC Yum! Center is bordered by Main Street on tures former Cardinal greats; or head to their seats 8. Kansas 16 262,320 16,395 9. Indiana 18 294,549 16,363 the south, Third Street on the west, River Road on using one of the eight escalators or seven elevators 10. NC State 18 286,322 15,906 the north and Second Street to the east. within the building.

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KFC Yum! Center

KFC Yum! Center Facts

Location: Downtown Louisville, Kentucky Additional Features: bordered by Main Street on the south, Third  Two 4,000 square foot club lounges on Street on the west, River Road on the north, event floor level and Second Street to the east.  Loge lounge on mezzanine level Project Cost: $249 million.  Club lounge on mezzanine level

 2,500 square foot team store Opening Date: October 10, 2010  7,000 square foot main concourse Seating: 22,000 for basketball; seating ranges from 16,000 to 23,000  Restaurant overlooking the Ohio River for other events such as ice shows, arena  Main concourse sports bar with view to football, concerts, volleyball or wrestling. the Arena bowl

22,000 for NCAA swimming  32,000 square feet of meeting rooms (four total; three with river view)

Club Seating: 2,054 in the lower level,  Practice facility with full-size basketball 800 in the Club level. court on event level. It will be used as necessary for large event media work Suites: 71 suites on two levels with four space party suites, and an additional 62 loge  Media lounge, media work room and boxes media interview room on event level

 Seven elevators, including a freight Locker Rooms: separate home locker rooms for the UofL men’s and elevator women’s teams, a primary visiting team  Eight escalators locker room, four auxilary locker rooms,  Four loading docks and interior truck two officials locker rooms and five star staging area to accommodate three dressing rooms. television production trucks

 1 ½ acre landscaped entry plaza

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Inside the KFC Yum! Center

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Inside the KFC Yum! Center

Largest KFC Yum! Center Crowds

Crowd Opponent Result Date 1. 22,815 Notre Dame W 73-57 3/9/13 2. 22,814 Syracuse L 68-70 1/19/13 3. 22,812 Kentucky L 50-58 12/27/14 4. 22,810 Kentucky W 80-77 12/29/12 5. 22,803 Kentucky L 63-78 12/31/10

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UofL Hall of Honor

ituated in the middle of the massive lobby of from national championships, Final Fours and league kiosks to watch highlights from many memorable S the KFC Yum! Center, the University of Louis- titles; artifacts ranging from the early 1900’s to the games in UofL history. ville Hall of Honor is a legacy to the rich history of game ball from the last game in Freedom Hall; and Inductees to the UofL Athletics Hall of Fame are the Cardinals’ basketball program. a host of interesting memorabilia in a timeline from displayed and visitors can view photos and additional Designed by Workshop Design in Kansas City, nearly 100 years of Cardinal Basketball. information on each member on a pair of interactive the UofL Hall of Honor highlights the finest team A multimedia 14-foot wide projection screen kiosks. A scrolling LED board continually displays all and individual performances from the Cardinals’ and six additional digital monitors within the area of the 1,000 point scorers in the program’s history. past with displays and interactive features. capture a multimedia experience of Cardinal Bas- Fans can also have their photo taken next to life- Among the items on display are multiple trophies ketball history. Visitors can use two touch-screen size Cardinals from the past.

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Campus Living in Billy Minardi Hall

illy Minardi Hall was completed in August 2003 on the UofL campus. BThe newly-updated student quarters are equipped with modern kitchens and private bedrooms featuring individual computer and television connections. The complex also contains a computer work room, television room, game room, dining area and meeting room. The privately-funded facility is named to honor the memory of Billy Minardi, brother-in-law of UofL Coach Rick Pitino who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Campus life continues to build at UofL with multiple new and expanded athletic facilities, new student housing, and many on-campus student events.

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UofL Athletics Facilities

KFC Yum! Center

Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence

Marshall Center

Trager Stadium

Papa John's Cardinal Stadium Cardinal Park

Swain Student Activities Center

G. Garvin Brown III Rowing Center

Ulmer Stadium

Jim Patterson Stadium

Bass-Rudd Tennis Center

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UofL Athletics Facilities

he University of Louisville features impressive University of Louisville Golf Club T facilities that have enriched the campus and entire Louisville community. Every Cardinal sports team has a new facility since 1994, with most being built within the last 19 years. The state-of-the-art, 22,000-seat KFC Yum! Cen- ter has been the home of Cardinal Basketball since opening in 2010 (more info on preceding pages). The Cardinals kicked off their 1998 foot- ball season in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, a 55,000-seat on-campus facility that was expand- ed in 2010. Another expansion that will enclose the end zone is in progress. Cardinal Arena, expanded in 2017 as the home for UofL volleyball, and many athletic offices are housed in the Swain Student Activities Center on the northeast corner of campus. Built in 1994, the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center was honored as the 1995 USTA College Facility of the Year. It was the first component of Cardinal Park, an area which features multiple playing facilities for the Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium Cardinals: Ulmer Stadium (softball), Cardinal Track Stadium and Trager Stadium (field hockey). The University of Louisville Golf Club, located Trager Center Fieldhouse just east of Louisville in Simpsonville, Ky., is the home to the UofL men’s and women’s golf teams. Patterson Stadium, the recently expanded home to the Cards’ baseball team, opened in 2005, as did the Ralph Wright Natatorium and Trager Center field- house. The Yum! Center provides a stellar basketball practice facility and offices as well as a practice home for women’s basketball and women’s lacrosse. UofL opened in 2008 the Marshall Center, a multi-sport Cardinal Arena weight training facility, and the Field Hockey Complex, to house offices and locker rooms for field hockey. A riverside boat house for the Cardinals’ rowing team opened in 2011. A state-of-the-art soccer stadium, Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium, opened in 2014. The new Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence opened in 2016 at the south end of the football stadium structure.

Ralph Wright Natatorium

Lacrosse Stadium

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Cardinals By the Numbers

Louisville has been the highest-rated television NCAA Final Four appearances for the Cards closest Cardinal is Quentin Snider, who has 784 1market for college basketball on ESPN for each of 10 (seventh most all-time), including national points in his first three seasons at UofL. the last 15 years, averaging a 5.5 rating during the championships in 1980, 1986 and 2013. 2016-17 season, more than double the No. 2 mar- UofL players drafted by the NBA (23 first- ket (2.4). Louisville’s 2013 NCAA Championship Number of NIT appearances all-time for UofL, 72round picks), including seven in the last game against Michigan is the top-rated television 13 including winning the 1956 title. fiveyears. All-America Pervis Ellison was the No. 1 event all-time in the Louisville market. overall pick in the 1989 NBA draft and four other Times Louisville has ranked among the top 40 former Cardinals were taken in the top three. UofL acting head coach David Padgett is just the 14 nationally in field goal percentage defense over Donovan Mitchell (first round, No. 13 overall, 3 third men’s basketball coach for Louisville in the the last 15 years (.401 in 2016-17, 20th). Denver Nuggets) became Louisville’s latest selec- last 46 years, following Denny Crum (1971-2001) tion in 2017. and Rick Pitino (2001-2017). Consecutive semesters that the UofL men’s 18 basketball team has posted a collecive 3.0 Louisville will gain its 125th victory in the NCAA Championships for Louisville (1980, grade point average entering the 2017-18 school 125 KFC Yum! Center when the Cardinals earn 3 1986, 2013). Only eight schools have won as year. UofL placed a league-high six individuals on their next 10 wins there. UofL enters 2017-18 with many as three championships and only four schools the 27-member 2017 ACC All-Academic Team, and a 115-15 record in its first seven seasons in the have more than three titles. placed a conference-best seven on the team each of spectacular facility. the previous two seasons. Louisville is one of just three schools that have This season is Louisville’s 104th in inter- 3 been ranked in the final Associated Press poll in Games out of the Cardinals’ 31 regular 104 collegiate basketball. The Cardinals played each of the past seven years (also Kansas, 17 years; 21 season contests that will be played against their first official men’s basketball game on Jan. 28, Duke, 10 years). teams that participated in postseason competition 1912 when it lost 35-3 to Louisville YMCA, but UofL last season, including 14 from the 2017 NCAA did not field teams in 1916-17, 1922-23 or 1942- UofL’s national ranking in attendance last sea- Tournament. The Cardinals have played a schedule 43. Louisville has produced winning seasons in 69 3 son. The Cardinals have been among the top ranked among the top 16 toughest by the ratings of the last 72 seasons. five nationally in average home attendance for the percentage index in eight of the past 10 seasons, last 36 straight years, including a 20,846 average in including the nation’s third-toughest schedule byt Career blocked shots for Anas Mahmoud its seventh season in the KFC Yum! Center last year. the RPI last season. 114entering the 2017-18 season. He needs 33 swats to reach the top 10 in career blocked UofL acting head coach David Padgett’s uniform Games over the last seven seasons in which shots at Louisville. 4 number as a player at Louisville (2005-08). 25 the Cardinals recovered from nine or more points down to win. Two occurred in both games NCAA Tournament games for Louisville, Numbers retired by UofL including No. 8 Charlie of the 2013 Final Four as UofL trailed by 12 against 119 sixth most all-time. UofL is 76-43 in 42 4 Tyra (1953-57), No. 31 Wes Unseld (1965- both Wichita St. and Michigan before rallying to win. NCAA Tournament appearances. 68), No. 35 Darrell Griffith (1976-80) and No. 42 Pervis Ellison (1985-89). Each was a consensus Number of times Louisville has either won or Number of victories for Louisville over the All-America selection. 27 finished second in its conference champion- 171 last six years, the seventh-most wins in ship over the last 39 years. UofL tied for second in the nation in that stretch. Louisville is one of just Division I schools in the nation, including Lou- the ACC last season. three schools to win 30 games in three of the last 4 isville, which have won 20 or more games in six seasons. each of the past 15 seasons. Kansas tops the list This year marks the 35th anniversary of the with a current string of 28 consecutive years, fol- 35 Cardinals’ sixth Final Four appearance in Times the Cardinals have been ranked in lowed by Duke (21), Gonzaga (19), and UofL (15). 1983 (32-4) and the 70th anniversary of the Car- 621 the weekly Associated Press poll, ranking dinals’ NAIB National Championship team (29-6). UofL sixth most all-time. UofL has ranked among Consecutive NCAA Public Recognition Awards the nation’s top 15 in the preseason poll five of the 5 over the past five years for ranking among the Times in the last 52 years that the Cardinals last six years (13th in 2016-17, eighth in 2014- nation’s top 10 percent in the Academic Progress 47 have participated in post-season competition. 15, third in 2013-14, second in 2012-13, ninth in Rate. Louisville is one of only two schools in the 2011-12). nation to have perfect men’s basketball multi-year Consecutive NCAA Final Fours staffed by APR scores each of the past four years. 48 the UofL statistics crew. Number of all-time victories for Lou- 1803 isville entering the 2017-18 season, The eventual national champion has played in Number of victories in the Cardinals’ last 67 which ranks as the 10th-most in the nation. Only 6 Louisville’s home arena, the KFC Yum! Center, 49 post-season tournament games over the UCLA has had fewer seasons to attain its victories in six of the arena’s seven seasons in existence. last 13 years (including conference, NCAA and NIT among the top 10 teams. Louisville faced eventual champions Connecticut since 2005). Louisville is 26-6 in the postseason (2011, 2014) and Duke (2015) in home games, over the last seven years. Attendance milestone the Cardinals will Kentucky won a pair of games in the 2012 NCAA 3M likely pass for games in the KFC Yum! second and third rounds in the KFC Yum! Center, Number of UofL players to score 1,000 or Center this season. A total of 2,774,048 fans have 2016 Champion Villanova won the NCAA South 67 more career points, a figure that ranks sec- flocked to the arena to watch UofL play in the first Regional in Louisville, and UofL won the 2013 itself. ond in the nation to North Carolina (74). The next seven seasons entering 2017-18.

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Cards on the Air

Radio conference schedule include Dec. 3 vs. Seton Hall on ESPN2, Dec. 6 vs Siena on ESPN2, Dec. 11 vs. ll University of Louisville basketball games Bryant on ESPNU, Dec. 16 vs. Memphis on ESPN2 A will be broadcast live through the Louisville and Dec. 20 vs. Albany on ESPNU. Basketball Network developed by Learfield Sports. Louisville’s two appearances on CBS will be Dec. WHAS Radio (840 AM), a 50,000-watt, clear-chan- 29 at Kentucky and Feb. 24 at Virginia Tech. nel station in Louisville, will continue to serve as the UofL’s ACC opener against Pittsburgh will air on Cards’ flagship station. The broadcast of some UofL ESPNU. Ten more of the Cardinals’ 18 league games games will move to WKRD (790 AM) when there in the Atlantic Coast Conference will reach a national is conflicting programming. The Cardinals also have audience, including two games which will air on extensive UofL programming on WKRD Radio, an either ESPN or ESPN2 in Jan. 13 vs. Virginia Tech all-sports station with primary UofL coverage as well and March 3 at NC State. Three February games will as Fox Sports Radio programming. appear on ESPN including Feb. 5 vs. Syracuse, Feb. Paul Rogers is in his 23rd season as the play- 17 vs. North Carolina and Feb. 21 at Duke. Four ACC by-play voice of the Cardinals while Bob Valvano games will be televised on ESPN2 including Jan. 16 is in his 17th year providing analysis. A native of at Notre Dame, Jan. 24 at Miami, Jan. 31 at Virginia, Louisville, Rogers has been covering UofL sports Feb. 8 vs. Georgia Tech. for WHAS radio and television since 1973. In addi- network affiliates once a week during the season. ESPN’s family of networks and the ACC Net- tion to serving as the morning sports anchor for UofL fans beyond the station’s wide-ranging work will both televise the entire 65th Annual ACC WHAS radio, he has called Cardinal Football games signal can listen to live play-by-play broadcasts of post-season tournament at the Barclays Center in and thoroughbred racing from Churchill Downs -- UofL games through SIRIUS/XM satellite radio. The Brooklyn, N.Y. including the local radio broadcast of the Kentucky WHAS radio broadcasts of Cardinal games are also The Cardinals will appear on the ACC Network Derby and the Breeders Cup -- and has broadcast available over the internet with Sidearm online on six occasions this season, a network of nearly NCAA Tournament basketball for CBS Radio. He through UofL’s web site at www.GoCards.com, 120 local and regional affiliates, including 18 of was named the 1995, 1998, 2002, and 2013 which also offers an iPhone and Android application the nation’s top 20 television markets. UofL will Kentucky Sportscaster of the Year. He was inducted to listen for a fee. Fans can sign up for the CardsTV appear locally in Louisville on WAVE-TV or WHAS-TV into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014. service for a monthly or full-season fee. The broad- in those ACC Network games and the network will Valvano is in his 17th year as a television and casts are also available live on the TuneIn app. include games from around the league. radio analyst for the Cardinals. He is a weekend host UofL coaches, student-athletes and staff are also UofL will appear on three occasions on the for ESPN Radio and is a basketball analyst for the featured in radio programming on 93.9 the Ville, an ACC’s regional sports network (RSN), a group of sta- ESPN Television family of networks and ESPN Radio. ESPN Radio affiliate in Louisville that is a broadcast tions which covers much of the nation and includes He also has a weekday radio show on the local ESPN partner with the Cardinals. FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Southeast, FOX Sports radio affiliate in Louisville. He served as a collegiate Florida, FOX Sports Sun, FOX Sports Midwest, FOX basketball coach for 19 years, setting single season Television Sports Indiana, Comcast SportNet Mid-Atlantic, YES records for wins at three different schools (Kutztown Network and AT&T Sportnet Pittsburgh. University, Catholic University and St. Mary’s College). All University of Louisville basketball games Five games, including a pair of exhibitions, will He also served as head coach in the professional will be featured on television by some means this originate on ACC Network Extra, a digital production league in Sweden, where his team won two cup season. Over the last 34 years, all but 12 UofL bas- available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN on championships in international tournaments. ketball games have been televised on either a live the Watch ESPN app. When Valvano’s schedule brings him to other or delayed basis. A weekly UofL basketball program — Inside events, Jody Demling or Luke Hancock serve as an UofL will be featured on 19 national television the Cardinals with David Padgett — with game analyst with Rogers. A Louisville native, Demling was a exposures during the regular season (five ESPN, highlights, features, and comments will also appear sports writer for the Courier-Journal for 12 years before seven ESPN2, three ESPNU, two CBS and two throughout the season on WAVE-TV. The show is becoming Publisher in 2012 for Cardinal Authority, games which will be on either ESPN or ESPN2). hosted by WAVE-TV Sports Director Kent Taylor, the a Scout.com site. Demling also previously hosted a The Cardinals’ Nov. 28 Big Ten-ACC Challenge 2014 Kentucky Sportscaster of the Year. morning radio show for two years and is the host for game at Purdue will be featured on ESPN, as will Consult the basketball schedule on page two of Cardinal Insider, a weekday radio program on UofL UofL’s home game against Indiana on Dec. 9. Addi- this book for a complete listing of television expo- Athletics that airs on WKRD. He also provides play-by- tional national telecasts during the Cardinals’ non- sures and game times. play and analysis for ACC Network Extra telecasts of UofL Athletics. A native of Roanoke, Va., Hancock played two years for the Cardinals (2012-14) after two seasons at George Mason University. As a junior, he helped the Cardinals win the 2013 NCAA Championship, becoming the first non-starter to ever win the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four. The two- time team captain currently has regular afternoon radio appearances on 93.9 the Ville. UofL acting head coach David Padgett. is featured on a one hour call-in show on WHAS Radio and on Paul Rogers Bob Valvano Jody Demling Luke Hancock

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2017-18 Outlook

ptimism is high for the University of Louisville That talented core of players will be paired up helped Wheeler High School achieve a 21-10 O men’s basketball team in what many have with Louisville’s highly touted 2017 signing class, record and reach the final eight teams in the Class recognized as one of the Cardinals most talented which was ranked in the nation’s top ten. Guard 7A Georgia State Championship. Griffin averaged teams in many years. Coupled with a talented group Darius Perry and forwards Jordan Nwora, Lance 21.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists while of newcomers, the Cardinals return five of their top Thomas and Malik Williams will all compete for play- connecting on 42.3 percent of his three-point eight scorers from a year ago when UofL posted a ing time as freshmen. A pair of freshmen walk-on attempts (58-of-137) as a senior last season at 25-9 record, tied for second in the ACC and earned guards in Jo Griffin and Jacob Redding complete the South Oldham. Redding averaged 16.5 points, 2.9 a No. 10 ranking in the final Associated Press poll. Cardinals’ roster. rebounds and 2.6 assists as a senior at Carroll High And while there is a blend of returning players King, who scored a season-high 24 points at School. He connected on 45 percent of his three- and exciting new faces on the court, Louisville will Virginia last year, had a solid rookie season, averag- point attempts and 92.4 percent of his free throws. also have a new coach on the bench for just the ing 5.5 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. Spald- Once again, the Cardinals will be tested and third time in the last 46 years. David Padgett, a ing, a 6-10 junior, has improved in the off season tested often with a demanding schedule. A total of member of the UofL basketball staff for the last three after averaging 5.9 points and 5.5 rebounds in 21 of the Cardinals’ 31 games will be played against years and a former three-year starter at center for 19.2 minutes per game as a sophomore. Sutton teams that participated in post-season competition the Cardinals, was named as acting head men’s bas- averaged 12 points and 7.7 rebounds per game last season, including 14 from the 2017 NCAA ketball coach at UofL on Sept. 29. He replaced Rick as a freshman at UNC-Asheville and impressed the Tournament. The Cardinals will play 22 games Pitino, who had coached the Cardinals for 16 years. coaching staff during his redshirt year. McMahon against teams that won at least 18 games last “This is a special group,” said Padgett, who saw action in 25 games last season and averaged season, including 15 that won more than 20. The particpated in two NCAA regional finals as a player. 2.5 points per game. Cardinals have played a schedule ranked among “They are resilient and extremely close on and off The Cardinals’ freshman class is talented, eager the top 16 toughest by the ratings percentage index the court. We have a very, very talented basketball and have already made a positive impression with (RPI) in eight of the past 10 seasons. team.” their workouts over the summer months. In his final UofL is one of just four teams that have won 20 or A trio of captains will serve as the Cardinals’ prep season at Vermont Academy, Nwora averaged more games in each of the last 15 seasons. The Car- leaders on the court in guard Quentin Snider, wing 18.7 points and 5.3 rebounds while scoring over dinals have received an Academic Performance Rate Deng Adel and center Anas Mahmoud. 500 points in the 2016-17 season as Vermont Public Recognition Award each of the last five years, In his second year as a team captain, Snider is finished 19-11. Williams averaged 23.6 points, 11.8 including posting a perfect score the last four years. the Cardinals’ top returning scorer (12.4 ppg) for rebounds, 3.9 blocked shots and buried 44 three- Three starters departed in All-ACC selection the third consecutive season. He enters his senior pointers as a senior as Snider High School posted Donovan Mitchell, the 13th pick in the 2017 NBA year needing 216 points to become the Cardinals’ a 17-7 record and won the school’s first Summit draft who led the ACC in steals (70, 2.0 per game, 68th career 1,000-point scorer. An All-ACC Aca- Athletic Conference championship since 2009. 23rd in the nation) and paced the Cardinals in demic Men’s Basketball team selection for three Thomas averaged 9.7 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.6 scoring (15.6 points per game); center Mangok years, the 6-2 guard from Louisville was second in blocked shots as a senior, while helping Norcross Mathiang, who started 44 games in his four seasons the ACC in assists-to-turnovers ratio (2.74; 22nd in post a 26-6 record as the runner-up in the Georgia and averaged 7.8 points, a team-high 6.0 rebounds the NCAA). Snider was eighth in the ACC in assists Class 7A state championship. and blocked 37 shots as a senior; and forward (4.1) last season and hit 30-of-63 three-pointers in Perry averaged 20.2 points, 5.1 assists, 4.3 Jaylen Johnson, who averaged 8.0 points and 5.8 his 11 ACC games (.476). rebounds and 3.1 steals as a senior when he rebounds. Adel was the Cardinals’ primary starter at small forward as a sophomore when he averaged 12.1 points, 4.5 assists, and made 44 3-point goals. An All-ACC Academic Men’s Basketball team selection each of the last two years, Adel scored in double digits in 22 games. The 6-foot-7 forward from Mel- bourne, Australia, was the Cards’ scoring leader over the last six games of the season, averaging 16.3 points, shooting 54 percent from the field (35-of- 65), and scoring at least 16 points in five of the six. A 2017 All-ACC Academic Men’s Basketball team selection, Mahmoud started 15 games last season. A 7-0 center from Cairo, Egypt, he was sec- ond in the ACC and 38th in the nation in blocked shots (2.10 bpg) last year while leading the Car- dinals in field goal percentage (.623). Mahmoud averaged 5.7 points and 4.0 rebounds as a junior, blocking a shot in 29 of his 31 games. The tri-captains join three lettermen as return- ees, including wing V.J. King, forward Ray Spalding and sharpshooting guard Ryan McMahon. Former North Carolina-Asheville standout forward Dwayne Sutton, a Louisville native, is ready after redshirting Anas Mahmoud (from left), Deng Adel and Quentin Snider were chosen by their last season as a transfer. teammates and coaches as tri-captains for the 2017-18 Cardinals.

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