Let’s jump right in.
1. Losing to Virginia and not getting to play Virginia Tech in the final week of the regular season left Louisville in the worst spot imaginable in Greensboro — a 7-seed tasked with handling a desperate Duke team (playing in an arena where they are always king) in the second round, and then a Florida State team that has dominated the program over the last few years in the quarterfinals. If you listened to either podcast from the beginning of the week, you know that I wasn’t particularly confident about Wednesday night, but the manner in which the evening played out was .