Cardinals are going all the way!!!!!!!!!!!

Louisville named overall No. 1 in the NCAA Tournament

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If you watch this video, the best part is about 35 seconds in!!!! That's when we get announced as Number 1 overall!!!! Honestly I was and still am so excited. I did a little dance and screamed a little. I'm sure my neighbors now think I'm crazy!! As Josh pulled up from work, I was on the porch jumping up and down, screaming we are number 1!!! We haven't been a number 1 seed since 1983. Wow I was only 3 then!!!!!


I don't know if I have ever mentioned this before. Josh is a UofL fan, but a North Carolina fan first. If things work out the championship game could be our two teams against one another. The same thing happened in 2005. UofL made it to the final four, but lost, or they would have played UNC in the championship game. So hopefully we won't have to worry about that happening, hopefully UNC will go down before we get to that little dilemma!!

Well you know I will keep you updated as the tournament progresses!!!
Just thought I would throw in our local newspapers article that they had posted on line tonight!!!

Louisville named overall No. 1 in the NCAA Tournament
The Courier-Journal • March 15, 2009




The Cards will be playing in the Midwest Region in the Indianapolis bracket.


Pitt, UConn and North Carolina are the other No. 1 seeds.


The Cardinals will play their first game Friday in Dayton, Ohio against the winner of the play-in game between Morehead State and Alabama State.


"When you have a play-in game, you have a disadvantage in preparation because you don't know which team you'll play for two days of practice," Louisville coach Rick Pitino said this evening. "If we were to get by our first-round game, we'd be playing the Ohio State - Siena winner, and Ohio State is right in Dayton's back yard.


"Our fans will be close as well, and it's great they will only have to drive only two and a half hours."


If they win, they would play the winner of the Ohio State vs. Sienna game.


Also in the Midwest bracket are #2 Michigan State, #3 Kansas, #4 Wake Forest, #5 Utah and #6 West Virginia.


"I think the number one seed is a tremendous accomplishment for our basketball team," Pitino said. "I know our players are excited about it. We've sat here in other years when we were in Conference USA, thinking we deserved a number two or three seed when it didn't come to fruition, so this is very exciting for our team."