Ending Regular Season At #13
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That #13 in both polls should qualify for consideration as a #4 seed in NCAA tournament if it were based on today.
I hope that both of you are correct! However, Duke certainly has the easn't path to the finals...Unless there's an injury, etc. I just don't anyone upsetting them. Not 100% shoe-in, but pretty close. For the Cards, I do believe that we'll need R. Smith back to reach the finals. Most certainly by Friday evening. imo GO CARDS!
It's still ridiculous how much Louisville is being undervalued despite losing just one game in the calender year 2025. Even the guys on the radio at 93.9 The Ville are saying Louisville could get a #4 or 5 seed if they beat Clemson and Duke.
The Cards should be a #4 seed today! It's peculiar how the woeful ACC doesn't seem to hurt Duke or Clemson's projected seed. If the Cards win the ACC tournament, they should at least be a #3 seed.
Everything about this Louisville season has been one big mystery. Not only the 25 wins but the dominance in the majority of those wins. The wins despite two major players out for the season and injuries to key players missing multiple games.
The reluctance of voters to rank Louisville until they had no choice and now the talk of the Cards being a 6 or even a 7 seed in the big dance.
Who thinks that individual honors will also go against Louisville. Will Kelsey win national COY or the ACC COY? Will Hepburn be a ACC first teamer? Remember, Chucky isn't on the list of best PG for the Bob Cousey award.
It's been one mysterious season and if Louisville can at least get to the elite 8, it will be the most unlikely season in team history.
The Cards should be a #4 seed today! It's peculiar how the woeful ACC doesn't seem to hurt Duke or Clemson's projected seed. If the Cards win the ACC tournament, they should at least be a #3 seed.
Everything about this Louisville season has been one big mystery. Not only the 25 wins but the dominance in the majority of those wins. The wins despite two major players out for the season and injuries to key players missing multiple games.
The reluctance of voters to rank Louisville until they had no choice and now the talk of the Cards being a 6 or even a 7 seed in the big dance.
Who thinks that individual honors will also go against Louisville. Will Kelsey win national COY or the ACC COY? Will Hepburn be a ACC first teamer? Remember, Chucky isn't on the list of best PG for the Bob Cousey award.
It's been one mysterious season and if Louisville can at least get to the elite 8, it will be the most unlikely season in team history.
Hey, I'm so glad I was wrong. Kelsey COY was so obvious, they had to choose him. He should be the National COY as well.
Exactly, UL deserves the #4 seed if the Committee follows much of the same criteria they used in previous decades. The emphasis was not so much on wins and losses, but rather the combination of Strength of Schedule and momentum (late season wins).
Those early losses to Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Duke could in part be attributed and interpreted to the fact that UL had essentially an entirely new roster, the preseason injuries and the timing of Pryor’s injury.
The media and coaches can use whatever criteria they want to support whoever they rank, but I believe this Committee may very well put emphasis on the consecutive wins, which bring us to the ACC Tournament. Clemson and Duke are the two teams rated above us and both are legitimate, and if we get to those matchups, both contests should help us. We have already witnessed that close losses to inter conference rivals (Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida) does not necessarily adversely affect seeding.
Lunardi has us as a #7 seed and while I think we are more deserving as a 5 or 6 seed, I don't understand how Clemson is a #4 seed.
Clemson has wins over Duke and Kentucky that boosts them a bit higher.
I don’t think there’s much separation in the 3-7 seed lines. Big wins like that seem to be the separation.
I see the logic but I think with the ACC being down a 5 seed would still be fair at this point but a 7 seed? That’s ridiculous.
Then again, anyone remember in 2005 at this exact time of year we were 29-4 and ranked #6 in both polls and were given a 4 seed by the committee?
That team got a huge chip on their shoulder that fueled a Final Four run.
I think we’ll likely be a 5 or the top 6 seed as long as we win our first game.
I always had the hot take that many of our own fans got way too into the 2014 team hype, declaring they were better than 2013. We played really well and the analytics loved the team, but we didn’t have many good wins. Retroactively we talk about beating UCONN because of how they did in March, but they were only a 7 seed. I wasn’t as high on that team as many, mainly due to the AAC not being as strong.
Bias! Plain and simple. Louisville has one loss in 2025, beat Clemson by ten points and led most of the game against Duke.
They have dominated the ACC like a high seeded team does in a weak conference, yet unlike Duke and Clemson, that weak conference is a reason to doubt Louisville's results.
It's an absolute joke to have Louisville a #7 seed and Joe Lunardi needs to retire or be replaced by someone who obviously doesn't have a bias against certain teams.