Louisville Resumes The Climb!

After losing to Kentucky, Louisville dropped for the first time in the polls. Now, the Cardinals have restarted their rise up the polls after their win over Wake Forest.

It felt like forever between the Kentucky loss and the Wake Forest win. However, it paid to give our guys rest because we are right back to where we were before the Kentucky loss. I wish I could say it’s like the Kentucky game didn’t matter (but sadly, we know that’s just not true).

After falling back to 18th in both the AP Top 25 and Coaches’ polls, the Cardinals are back to being ranked 16th in both. It always feels good to go up in the polls even when it was a slower week.

There were some notable changes in the polls this week as Michigan State dropped to 5th after their loss to Iowa which makes Kansas number 1 with Oklahoma right behind at number 2.

All of the ACC teams that were in the Top 25 are still there and we even added another: Pittsburgh at 23. That makes 6 ACC teams in the AP Top 25 (Virginia, North Carolina, Miami, and Duke are the other four).

Nonetheless, the number 16 spot will be hard to hold as we come into a week where we play against both North Carolina State and Clemson. While I don’t think too much of either team this season, we are playing both of them on the road; a part of our game that we’ve had some issues with. The only road games we’ve had this season were against Michigan State and Kentucky, and we lost both of them. Hopefully that is a trend we will not carry into this week.

What do you think about this weeks rankings? Are the Cardinals right where you want them to be or do you wish that we were higher? Are there any other changes that you find interesting? Let us know in the comment section or on social media!

You can see this week’s rankings on ESPN here.