Derby Classic videos

by Mike Rutherford on Apr 13, 2009 12:08 PM EDT in Basketball Comment 12 comments

I didn't get to catch as much of the Derby Classic as I would have liked to (you can download the game here thanks to Jerb) but my take is that the four future Cardinals basically solidified the opinions most of the fan base held of them heading into the weekend.

Peyton Siva is going to be very good. Mike Marra is the lights-out shooter the program desperately needs, and he's also a pretty ridiculous leaper. Rakeem Buckles is a tremendous athlete with the potential to become a tremendous college player. And Stephen Van Treese probably has a ways to go before he can be relied upon to provide quality minutes in the post.

All in all, I'd say it was a positive weekend for the Louisville basketball program.

Here's Marra, the eventual Slam Dunk champ's second attempt.

And here's Buckles capturing the two-on-two championship with partner Eric Bledsoe.

And here's a complete highlight package.

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Enough basketball

Totally burned out on basketball. How about some football?

by Harmon on Apr 13, 2009 4:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ill never get burned out

on basketball..

Football is another question..

by twistedwedge on Apr 13, 2009 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Football is king, always will be.

by Harmon on Apr 14, 2009 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not in this city, my friend, not in this city

by Mike Rutherford on Apr 14, 2009 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

exactly Mike..

Im glad the focus is back to where it should be..on basketball. This is definitely a basketball city..

by twistedwedge on Apr 14, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Everywhere else....

Go Cards!

by Red Rage on Apr 14, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

That’ll help.

by anothermissed3byE5 on Apr 13, 2009 5:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

4 digit code

I tried 7 times to download it. Why in the world do they put the acknowledgment code in such bizarre script. I never did guess it right. I gave up. The people who are offering the download have downloaded too much shxx in their pants.

by cbcard on Apr 13, 2009 6:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

football ... football

You guys must have missed out on the Orange Bowl … Give Louisville a little more credit. Basketball towns become basketball towns because they can’t hack it in football. That’s the only reason. Must be the UK syndrome.

by Harmon on Apr 15, 2009 6:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

one "major" football accomplishment

doesnt turn a basketball town with a storied tradition into football..especially when the year following that Orange bowl victory the team posted a .500 record

by twistedwedge on Apr 15, 2009 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Harmon, R u from , like, Ohio, TX or FLA or something

you sure don’t sound like anyone born in KY

by frankpos on Apr 15, 2009 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Basketball towns do not equal towns that "can't hack it in football"

There are programs that focus on certain things long before the others or we blessed with an excellent coach in one sport that helped define that program. Paterno, Bear Byran, Knute Rockney, and Bowden made there schools football schools because they built programs that galvanized the fan base and won games. Denny Crum, Dean Smith, Coach K, and John Thomson did the same for their schools, just in basketball.

Plus, like frankpos alluded to, kids in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Indiana grow up with a hoop either in their own driveway or in their neighborhood. one of the first toys i remember playing with was a little mini nerf hoop and ball attached to the wall. Yeah, i also played football and soccer growing up, and loved all three, but basketball was always #1 for me to watch.

One good stretch of football (without a national championship) after decades of being average (no knock on the program, have been and always will be a UL football fan) doesnt make us a football school. The final fours and national championships stretched over a prolongued period on consistant winning make us a basketball school

by Ben Go CARDS on Apr 16, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs