Louisville Cardinals Tickets : 2010-11 Is The First Season For Louisville Playing In The Kfc Yums

Louisville Cardinals Tickets : 2010-11 Is The First Season For Louisville Playing In The Kfc Yums

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The Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team is the 18th winningest college basketball team in NCAA Division I history and has the 10th best winning percentage in college basketball history. Currently coached by Rick Pitino, the Cardinals of the University of Louisville have a tradition of continued success, having been to 36 NCAA tournaments (5th all time) with 60 tournament wins (6th all time).

Louisville has been to eight Final Fours (7th all time) and is one of only 13 programs in the nation to have won two NCAA championships. Under Denny Crum, Louisville was the premier program of the 1980s, going to four Final Fours, winning two NCAA championships, and posting the best NCAA tournament record of that era.

Louisville's rivalry with the University of Kentucky is considered one of the most intense in college sports, and the basketball game is commonly known as the Dream Game by locals and Battle for the Bluegrass by those outside the Commonwealth. Louisville also maintains basketball rivalries with West Virginia, Cincinnati and Marquette.
The Cardinals have won 18 or more games 37 of the past 40 years, including 15 years with 24 or more wins.

Louisville has ranked among the top 10 nationally in average home attendance each of the last 27 years, including the last 22 straight in the nation's top five (18,316 in '05-06, fourth in the nation). Two of the top 10 all-time crowds in Freedom Hall came during the 2005-06 season. A Freedom Hall record 20,091 fans attended the Cardinals Jan. 21 game against Connecticut.

In 2010, a new Freedom Hall attendance record was set when 20,135 fans witnessed the Cardinals defeat #1 ranked Syracuse Orange in the final University of Louisville game in the arena. With sellout crowds the norm and ranking third nationally in home attendance, the Cardinals have a waiting list of more than 4,000 wanting to purchase season tickets.

The Cardinals have been ranked on 429 occasions in the AP poll, seventh most all-time. UofL rose to as high as No. 4 during the 2005-06 season on Dec. 12, when the Cards had won their first six games. Louisville was No. 7 in the AP preseason poll and No.
8 in the ESPN/USA Today preseason poll last year. Surprisingly, with all of their success, they have never held the number one ranking in either of the two major polls until March 16, 2009.

UofL is second all-time in the NCAA with 46 consecutive winning seasons (not current). The Cards played winning basketball from 1944-45 through 1989-90, winning 20 or more games on 31 occasions during that period.

UofL has 59 players who have reached 1,000 points for their careers for the most players in NCAA Division I to reach that total.Louisville is 101/0 all-time when scoring 100 or more points.UofL has been the most profitable college basketball program in the nation for three straight years.Valued at $24.4 million, Louisville's basketball team is ranked third on Forbes. The Most Valuable College Basketball Teams list.

As of February 2008, Louisville has 59 1000-point career scorers, edging out North Carolina by one for most all time.Forwards Juan Palacios and Terrence Williams both reached the 1000 point mark in the 2007-08 season.

As of March 14, 2009, Louisville achieved its first ever Big East Conference Tournament Championship, defeating Syracuse 76/66. On March 22, 2009, Louisville beat Siena in a close game to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.

In the 2009-10 season, Louisville received a pre-season AP rank of #20, and reached as high as #16 before three early non-conference losses knocked them out of the top 25. On March 6, 2010, Louisville defeated #1 Syracuse in the team's final game at Freedom Hall.

Louisville finished the season 20/13, 11/7 in Big East play. They received an at-large bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, earning a 9 seed in the South Region where they lost to 8 seed California in the first round.

2010-11 is the first season for Louisville playing in the KFC Yum! Center. Louisville opened the season unranked but entered the top 25 after defeating #16 Butler and #20 UNLV.


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