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Louisville basketball's era of good feelings is here to stay

Perhaps the most glaring issue with the 2014-15 Louisville basketball team, from the start of the season up until the waning moments of the Cards' NCAA Tournament win over UC Irvine, was that the guys donning the red and black didn't seem to particularly enjoy playing with one another.

Individually, the players were all as easy to cheer for, but collectively there was a noticeable disconnect that hadn't been around in years past.

There was Wayne Blackshear, the senior captain who had already done it all and seen it all, including every other member of his original recruiting class move on to somewhere (or something) else.