Listen my children and you shall here, the legendary show of...well we can’t find a decent rhyme, but kids, trust us: the Houston-Louisville game in the 1983 semis was spectacular.
Louisville was a damn good team. Denny Crum had taken over in 1971, leaving John Wooden’s bench, and built a tremendous program in the Commonwealth.
The Cards won the national championship in 1979-80 and made back-to-back trips to the Final Four in 1981-82 and 1982-83. In 1986, of course, Louisville would meet Duke in the national championship game.
In 1982-83, Louisville started Scooter and Rodney McCray, Milt Wagner, Lancaster Gordon and Charles Jones.