ESPN.com · Dec 14, 2022
What's behind Louisville's poor start to 2022-23?
It took just seven games for the wheels to completely fall off Louisville's first season under new coach Kenny Payne.
That was when Payne took to the postgame podium to openly -- and, one could say, justifiably -- question his team's desire.
"We did not compete. We did not fight. We didn't meet their intensity. At times, it looked like we gave up," Payne said after the Cardinals' home loss to Maryland on November 29, which dropped them to 0-7.
Seven games into Payne's tenure, and Louisville was already at rock bottom. Or so we thought.
Then came a 27-point home loss to Miami -- and Payne saying he wasn't sure his team had truly hit its low point.
