Louisville Basketball: 2019-20 season preview for Cardinals

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - MARCH 19: The Cardinal Bird, mascot for Louisville Cardinals performs before the game against the Michigan Wolverines in the first half during the second round of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 19, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JANUARY 19: Head coach Chris Mack of the Louisville Cardinals looks at the scoreboard against Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Hank McCamish Pavilion on January 19, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images) /

Louisville has a chance to cut down the nets

The Cardinals were slated in the top-5 of the recent AP preseason top-25 poll, as well as No. 2 in Busting Brackets’ own ACC rankings. It’s for a good reason, as this is a team with national title aspirations. They begin the year with a road game at Miami, but then don’t leave the comforts of the KFC Yum! Center until Nov. 29 when they travel to Nashville to take on Western Kentucky in a neutral-site contest.

December is a much tougher month for Mack’s squad, it starts with a home game against Michigan and ends with a trip to Lexington to take on heated-rival Kentucky. In between, they face the national runner-up Texas Tech in New York at the Jimmy V Classic and then host Eastern Kentucky and Miami (OH).

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As I have said Louisville is a legitimate contender to be cutting down the nets down in Atlanta and April. They have all the ingredients to be a championship team, a great coach, veteran leadership, a star in Nwora, size in the paint, and extremely talented youngsters to augment a returning foundation that was already good. The ACC is very good at the top with Duke, North Carolina and the champs from Virginia, but Louisville certainly has a chance to be in that conversation as the year goes on.

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