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This season, Hoops Insight is going to be a little bit different. I’ve consolidated my separate Louisville, Kentucky, and Hoops Hindsight newsletters into 1 newsletter with a section for each of these topics (and possibly more down the line). Also, I’m moving to a paid subscription model for
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Before he even takes the court for his first official game as a head coach, Kenny Payne has largely succeeded in one key area: washing off the stench of last season’s Cardinal basketball season. The vibes around the program are largely good and there’s little hangover from last
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A faint pounding begins in the distance, first as a daydream but then as an unmistakable and approaching reality. It’s rhythmic and quick, too quick to be a drummer but too rhythmic to be anything but on purpose. It feels like it’s approaching but never threatening, coming to
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I’ve expressed some concern over this summer about the lack of guards on Louisville’s roster for this upcoming season, and the new addition of Fabio Basili doesn’t do a ton to assuage my concerns in that area. However, the flipside to not having many ballhandlers is that
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Fans of the Kentucky men’s basketball team got a mid-summer treat last week with actual live basketball from their favorite team. As expected, the Wildcats went 4-0 and showed their fans why much is expected this season. After 2 months of practice notes and breathless eyewitnesss reports about pickup
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Kentucky will once again go on an exhibition tour to the Bahamas this August as they look to get a head start on the 2022-23 season. In 2018-19, this trip served as an appetizer of some things to come: * Tyler Herro served notice that he would be a bucket as
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Kentucky’s offense has almost always been very good under John Calipari, and it’s often been elite. According to KenPom.com, only the 2021 season ranked outside the top 40 in adjusted offensive efficiency. In 13 seasons, the Wildcats have been in the top 25 in this stat 11
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In the 21 seasons that KenPom has rankings for teams, Louisville has been a fixture near the top. They have been a top-10 team in the final rankings in 9 seasons and a top-25 team in 15. But in the 2022 season the Cards plummeted to 127th as the Chris
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There’s an old adage that college basketball is a guard’s game. National champions tends to have players who can excel while dominating ballhandling and decision making. Even on a Kentucky team returning national Player of the Year Oscar Tshiebwe in the frontcourt, their ceiling will likely have a
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Most of the chaos around the transfer portal has calmed down as far as Kentucky is concerned, which means we largely know what the Wildcat roster will look like for next season. With Keion Brooks transferring and no recruits or transfers bigger than 6’7”, it seems like the role
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It has been a relatively quite last month for the Louisville Cardinals in terms of roster moves, but that seems about to change. Despite several open spots and over 1,600 possible transfers out there, the Cards had landed just Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, high schooler Devin Ree, and had Kamari Lands
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As has been expected for the past few days, Antonio Reeves is now officially going to be a Kentucky Wildcat next season. I wrote quite a bit about Reeves in my last article, and I remain very high on him. In fact, I’m maybe even a bit more bullish