Talk:Louisville Cardinals men's basketball

Basketball tradition section needs a rewrite
Best I can tell this section was ripped off from the UofL media guide a few years back. It needs a total overhaul for copyright reasons. Oren0 (talk) 06:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

NCAA Tournament record
This article states that Louisville's NCAA tournament record is 1-37. How is it possible for Louisville to have lost 21 games but only have appeared in 36 tournaments (two of which were without a loss)? I'm not necessarily saying the statistic is wrong, nor that I know the correct value, I'm just confused as to how this is possible. Thanks to anyone with insight to this. 128.36.159.66 (talk) 22:11, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

By getting 2 losses in 1 tournament there was a 3rd place game up until the last at the 1981 NCAA tournament. Theworm777 20:07, 30 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theworm777 (talk • contribs)

I am not really happy
about the caption for one of the pictures that reads:
 * "Francisco García is one of five former Cardinals currently playing in the NBA."

since the word "currently" means what, when? I am not sure what to make of the chart next to the picture in terms of determining if there are now only four and not five players in the NBA, etc. Perhaps someone can come up with a better caption? Or should I? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 15:56, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Basketball Record Comment
Yes, the NCAA did punish the University of Louisville for the actions that took place regarding recruits and players. However, since the University has to send a notice to the NCAA regarding the games that were impacted, and that will likely not happen until UofL's appeal is denied, can we please wait to change the record of the games? I'm sure that there are editors that are tired of having to revert the edits of those that are too eager to change the record. I'm sure that Shoy is exhausted. Will the banner come down? Maybe, even likely. It is not correct to change the record on this Wikipedia article until those wins have actually been vacated, though. The process is not final and we should all be looking to further the accuracy and encylopedic value of WP, rather than engaging in self-satisfying edits. In other words, I think it is counterproductive to modify the wins/loss records and the list of tourney appearances, etc. until the matter has been entirely resolved.

On another note, I think that there have been so many edits back and forth that the page might benefit from a 30/500 protection for a little while. I'm going to make the suggestion. Thank you all for your tireless dedication to making Wikipedia an accurate and useful collection of information. — HiB2Bornot2B talk Go Big Blue! 17:36, 31 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes the games did happen, and I am not saying to erase history. There should be other sources written about the games that are being vacated. This however is false information to continue to report vacated wins as wins. The team did not legally participate in the games therefore they forfeit their wins. The appeal has been denied by the NCAA already. The games are illegitimate and should be treated as such in the records.Zgrace17 (talk) 05:51, 21 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm a little unclear on what you mean by "reported vacated wins as wins". The wins that have been vacated have an asteriks next to it, as is protocol.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

The NCAA & The University do not claim the 2013 Championship. It needs to have asterisk next to the 2013 championship noting it is Vacated.

The NCAA: (Link) http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/louisville-mens-basketball-must-vacate-wins-and-pay-fine

University of Louisville: (Link) https://gocards.com/documents/2017/7/7//2017INF_LouisvillePublicInfractionsDecisionF_20170615.pdf

CBS sports: (Link) https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/louisville-to-vacate-2013-national-title-take-banner-down-after-ncaa-upholds-penalties/

Washington Post: (Link) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/02/20/louisville-basketball-will-vacate-2013-national-championship-as-ncaa-upholds-ruling/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e81bf814019e   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.111.9.178 (talk) 03:35, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

2013 Championship
Over the last months since the sanctions were levied, there have been repeated attempts to remove the 2013 championship from this program's article here. The championship is not vacated. Until such time as the NCAA's listing showing this championship no longer shows Louisville as the 2013 champions, it stays. Please stop removing it. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 00:47, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I completely agree with the above. Thanks to for the semi-protection. shoy (reactions) 18:06, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Time to remove the protection, title has been vacated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:301:77E3:8110:1C04:4828:DF90:B343 (talk) 17:29, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Even though they are taking it away, 2013 should still stay on the page just with an asteriks next to it, as it protocol. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Edward Weber links to wrong Edward Weber
Links to Ed Weber, who was an Ohio politician and born in 1931. Wrong Weber. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rpattillo (talk • contribs) 15:33, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

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Louisville page is a mess
The Louisville page is a mess. Errors every where. Who every keeps changing the records for UofL due to the NCAA vacating, is doing more harm than good to the page. I feel all records should be left and just make footnotes and * letting the reader know that games were vacated. For instance the page states UofL is 10th in all time wins but then next to that has them with only 1700 something wins, which doesn’t make sense. There are multiple places like this were the record does not match up to the statement. Also from viewing other pages most teams are not taking away vacated wins from the teams all time wins. They just note it below. Alex22406 (talk) 17:30, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The records should show how many official wins they have, not how many they unofficially have. I am reverting your change. From an official standpoint, those games simply don't exist. Under no circumstances should they be included in an overall record. It's invalid information. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:04, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * And, I do agree the information about being 10th is off. I don't know what the exact standings were for all NCAAB men's teams were after the 2015–16 season, but according to List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I men's college basketball, Louisville...even with vacated wins...would only be 14th. On that article, Louisville is correctly listed with 1,722 wins, good for 26th overall. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:16, 10 April 2020 (UTC)