Perhaps the strangest thing about this moment in time as a Louisville basketball fan is that we’re smack in the middle of a Russ Smith number retirement, a Big Monday road loss to Virginia, and a Saturday home game against a top 10 Duke team in Mike Krzyzewski’s final season ... and no one is talking about any of these things.
The mutual parting of ways with Chris Mack and the ensuing coaching search madness talk was always going to dominate this week, but the second part of that equation is also likely to dominate the local conversation for the next several weeks.