Louisville Game Thread

[BenningtonBluejay]

Time to go bird hunting.

Let’s Ride

[JayPharmAlum]

First game of the tourney. Here we go.

[Venturajay]

I like the matchup. Jays by double digits. Go Jays!!!

[drbluejay]

This will be our 3rd road game in a row as stated by coach Mac.
Creighton is 2-0 vs Louisville in the NCAA tournament winning in 1974 and 1999

[drbluejay]

Latest AP poll from last Monday has Louisville rated #13
Coach's poll #11
NET #24
Kenpom #23
Average of these 4 is #17.75, which seems to be a 5 seed.
I guess the committee gave them a home game because they got screwed on their seed.

Last edited by drbluejay on Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:20 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Jaybird]

I’m guessing you mean Huskies. We don’t want the huskers seed number. You know there’s a difference, right? Or, are you just trying to find out if anybody bothers to actually read what you write?

Just curious, do you write prescriptions?

[WBR Tom]

A quick/brief look at Louisville, with thoughts from Mac on the matchup:

https://whiteandbluereview.com/creighto ... -thursday/

[Chicagojayfan]

A few quick thoughts:

1. We will have the advantage in the paint with nobody on their side able to match up easily with Kalkbrenner
2. Like us, they take a pretty high number of 3 PT shots, and like us they sometimes don't shoot well enough to justify taking that many 3's, but they like/need the spacing and they've shown they can win games even when shooting under 30% from 3 PT as they seem to have guys who can play a bit of ISO and get to the paint as well with that spacing

Outside of us facing a 6/7 seed type team to start as the 9th seed, I like the matchup. We aren't playing back to back games, and Kalk will have a favorable matchup in the paint (and should for much of the tourney for that matter), and

Both teams got screwed by the committee, IMO, and this is a high risk game for Creighton, but this seeding is also a great opportunity for us to make a deep run. This isn't playing SJU in New York with a whistle that's friendly to their game

[Trifecta]

A few quick thoughts:

1. We will have the advantage in the paint with nobody on their side able to match up easily with Kalkbrenner
2. Like us, they take a pretty high number of 3 PT shots, and like us they sometimes don't shoot well enough to justify taking that many 3's, but they like/need the spacing and they've shown they can win games even when shooting under 30% from 3 PT as they seem to have guys who can play a bit of ISO and get to the paint as well with that spacing

Outside of us facing a 6/7 seed type team to start as the 9th seed, I like the matchup. We aren't playing back to back games, and Kalk will have a favorable matchup in the paint (and should for much of the tourney for that matter), and

Both teams got screwed by the committee, IMO, and this is a high risk game for Creighton, but this seeding is also a great opportunity for us to make a deep run. This isn't playing SJU in New York with a whistle that's friendly to their game

Are you sure about this? I admit, I haven't watched a ton of Louisville this year and when I did I was mainly watching Chucky. But the WBR link above literally talks about how they play two 6'11 guys. Their height doesn't equate to their quality, but that sounds like they can throw bodies at Kalk like UConn or St. John's.

[drbluejay]

I’m guessing you mean Huskies. We don’t want the huskers seed number. You know there’s a difference, right? Or, are you just trying to find out if anybody bothers to actually read what you write?

Just curious, do you write prescriptions?

My mistake, got confused with the women.