Wednesday afternoon Cardinal news and notes
Share this story Spread check: There’s no early line for Louisville-Kentucky yet, but Ken Pom currently has the Cardinals winning, 69-65. The CJ’s Shannon Russell tells the backstory of Louisville freshman Gabe Wiznitzer, which explains why the big man doesn’t take anything for granted. Cardiac Hill reacts to Louisville’s triumph over Pitt Tuesday night.
Pitt (5-2) could have played worse. They weren’t particularly effective on offense but most teams would not be while missing so much of their scoring. Another factor? The Panthers were beaten badly on the boards by Louisville (5-1), 45-26. Why so bad? Well, while we will talk a lot about the scoring of Champagnie and Toney, it’s important to remember that they are also the team’s top two rebounders, pulling in just over 17 boards per game. Missing them certainly hurt just as much on the glass as it did in terms of the team’s scoring.
Transcript: Chris Mack, Samuell Williamson preview Wisconsin
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You can find video of today’s press conference
(On what led to the pause and the circumstances surrounding the resumption of team activities)
Well, as you know, everything is unusual this college basketball season and offseason. So, when we learned that we had an individual that was a positive test on that Thursday night before we faced Greensboro, through contact tracing, we made the decision, and rightfully so, not to play the game. Over the next couple of days, both student-athletes and staff, there were a couple positives. I think there was a little bit of a misunderstanding out there. We’re trying to protect our players in terms of health to the public, but at the same time we’re also trying to be transparent with what’s going on in our program. We decided that we just simply couldn’t play the game against NC State. We didn’t have enough available players. So, I think when people see w