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NCAA TOURNAMENT REWIND

All my game stories from the University of Louisville run through the NCAA Tournament. (Ad above for the University of Louisville women’s team in the Final Four).

MEN:

— Depth, not destiny, carries Cards to NCAA title game. [Click to read]

— Final Fourtitude: Reconstructing U of L’s win over Duke [Click to read]
 (Duke sidebar: Cards heed Ware’s Wish: Just win the game [Click to read])

— Duck, Duck, Cough. Sick Cards roll into Elite Eight [Click to read]

— Uh oh. Defensive-minded Cards clicking on offense, beat Colorado State [Click to read]

— The Art of the Steal: Louisville rolls North Carolina A&T to open NCAA play [Click to read]

WOMEN

— U of L women crash the Final Four party [Click to read]

— U of L women own this season’s One Shining Moment [Click to read]

Gorgui. Dome.

The Twin Spires at Churchill Downs are shining red this morning in honor of the University of Louisville men’s and women’s basketball teams, both in the Final Four.

Marc Murphy’s editorial cartoon in this morning’s Courier-Journal, adapting a line from my Tuesday column playing on the old notion of the University of Louisville as a “commuter school.” Nicely done, and thanks to Marc for the little shout-out at the bottom.

Steve Andress and I will be making the commute to New Orleans Sunday for WDRB to cover the women’s FInal Four, after covering the U of L men against Wichita State in the Final Four in Atlanta Saturday night.

#UofL was ready to roll with this intro page for its GoCards.com website.

Coach Jeff Walz called them “ugly ducklings who ruined the party,” but the University of Louisville women are ready to join the fun in New Orleans after back-to-back upsets sent them to the second Final Four in school history. READ MORE at WDRB.com.