Former Louisville basketball head coach Rick Pitino used to stress the fact that a good shooting night could cover a multitude of weaknesses.
For the Cardinals and current head coach Chris Mack, Pitino’s assertion could perhaps never have been truer than of the trajectory of their 2019-20 season.
Louisville entered the season one of the favorites to win it all, and for the first eight weeks they were everything experts and fans alike thought they could be. The Cards spent the first two months ranked in the top five, and after climbing to the No.1 spot in the AP Poll they dominated then-No.