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Eric Crawford is a journalist for WDRB News in Louisville, Ky.

From the archive, March 2018: What Louisville basketball needs in its next coach

Posted on March 12, 2022November 30, 2022 by Eric Crawford

The following ran on the WDRB.com website on March 12, 2018 . . . I’ve been reluctant to discuss the future of the University of Louisville basketball program very much this season, particularly in terms of its coaching situation, out of respect to David Padgett, who didn’t ask to be thrust into the interim head-coaching…

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Bellarmine players appreciative for support, but “frustrated” at being excluded from NIT, NCAA

Posted on March 12, 2022March 12, 2022 by Eric Crawford

By now, the Bellarmine story has made it around the sports world and back. It has been a topic (No. 2, top of the show) on Pardon the Interruption. It has been Tweeted and talked to death. None of that, of course, will make much of a difference. The NCAA has rules, and it has…

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Louisville wants an ‘elite’ coach. Who are they? (March 2018)

Posted on March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 by Eric Crawford

This column originally appeared at WDRB.com on March 22, 2018. On Wednesday, Louisville interim athletic director Vince Tyra said on more than one occasion that the university needs an “elite coach.” With a search under way for the next coach of the University of Louisville basketball team, that begs the question – what is an…

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LOUISVILLE COACHING SEARCH: Candidate Hot Board, 2.0

Posted on March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 by Eric Crawford

When the clock hit 0:00 on the University of Louisville men’s basketball season in a 51-50 ACC Tournament loss to Virginia just before midnight on Wednesday, a chapter for the program closed. Mike Pegues, the interim coach who stepped in twice for Chris Mack, will soon be off the clock. And interim athletics director Josh…

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Why Bellarmine isn’t eligible for the NCAA Tournament, and why that rule might be changing

Posted on March 10, 2022March 12, 2022 by Eric Crawford

The rule is what it is, and if anything is drilled into the heads of Bellarmine men’s players from the day they get to campus, it’s this: You play by the rules. But the rule that a reclassifying program must wait four years to become eligible for the NCAA Tournament is a particularly tough one…

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Louisville’s worst (modern) season ends with ACC Tourney loss to Virginia

Posted on March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 by Eric Crawford

Let’s put it this way. We’ve seen a lot better Louisville teams play a lot worse against Virginia. Though, I should add, we probably haven’t seen many worse Virginia teams lately than the one that beat Louisville 51-50 on Wednesday night in the second round of the ACC Tournament in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn….

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The ASUN shines bright — Bellarmine brings home its first Division I championship

Posted on March 9, 2022March 12, 2022 by Eric Crawford

With Bellarmine, it’s not the pregame speech that’s fiery. It’s the postgame that gets you. The locker room was calm before Tuesday’s ASUN Tournament championship game against Jacksonville in Freedom Hall. Coach Scott Davenport just repeats the team goals. “We win the war rebounding, we win the game,” he tells them. “Attack with great purpose,”…

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VIDEO | ‘Bring the heat, Father.’ Bellarmine’s ASUN pregame locker room

Posted on March 9, 2022March 12, 2022 by Eric Crawford

Bellarmine Coach Scott Davenport speaks to his team before its ASUN Tournament championship game against Jacksonville, and Father Dale Cieslik delivers a pregame prayer.

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Churchill Downs lights Twin Spires maroon to honor Bellarmine men’s basketball

Posted on March 9, 2022March 12, 2022 by Eric Crawford
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One Shining Moment? Bellarmine looking for another one in ASUN championship

Posted on March 8, 2022March 12, 2022 by Eric Crawford

Someday, a group of Bellarmine players will gather after the NCAA Tournament championship game, settle in for the “One Shining Moment” video, and wait to see themselves. That won’t happen this year. The Knights’ aren’t eligible for NCAA Tournament play because of reclassification rules, even if the second-year NCAA Division I program does beat Jacksonville…

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