After a hellacious stretch in which the North Carolina Tar Heels somehow managed to reel off three wins in five days, the subsequent four-day break comes to an end Saturday in Louisville.
Speaking of things coming to an end, the Rick Pitino era on the banks of the Ohio River reached an ugly (and, well, very much still ongoing) conclusion. In is David Padgett, whom many on this site will best remember for spurning Matt Doherty and the Tar Heels’ best recruiting efforts for Roy Williams’ Kansas team. At that time, the failure to secure quality post men to compliment Sean May was known as “the curse of the big man”.