Now that the smoke from downtown Indianapolis and inside the Banker's Life Fieldhouse has almost certainly cleared and the hot take flames have slowly begun dying down, I've decided to take a swift look back at the 2016-17 Louisville Cardinals basketball season - a season with more ups and downs than a Kings Island roller coaster. But in between the exhilarating and intoxicating (insert win over Kentucky) as well as the painful and depressing (insert loss to Michigan) lies what I believe to be the one primary reason that Louisville will now watch the rest of this year's NCAA tournament from the heavily guarded confines of Minardi Hall and not from the sidelines of the Kansas City Sprint Center: Louisville's head scratching inability to put its opponent away but its innate ability to become as tight as a pair of Kim Kardashian yoga pants in the clutch.
Looking back at the 2016-17 Louisville basketball season
