For many Louisville residents, particularly in the Highlands area, a night spent watching Bellarmine basketball at Knights Hall is a quintessential community activity—on par with seeing a movie at the Baxter Avenue Theatres or waiting in line for a milkshake at Dairy Kastle. It’s also a place where UK and UofL fans can watch hoops together in peace, just far enough away from the echoing red chicken hut downtown.
I saw my first Bellarmine basketball game in 2017, at the age of 19. I was a freshman who hadn’t yet learned about the program’s local fervor, nor the crucial lesson not to park anywhere on the north side of campus during game nights (the line of cars tends to go all the way down the hill).