Rick Pitino is a really good college basketball coach. If you didn’t already know that before last year, the success of the 2010-11 Louisville Cardinals should have made that clear.

Louisville wasn’t in the preseason top 25 last year. In fact, they didn’t even receive a single vote in the preseason polls. Most publications had Louisville pegged somewhere between the 50th and 60th spot in the preseason rankings.

How did they fare? Louisville tied for third in a ridiculously tough Big East Conference. The Cardinals finished 25-10 and ranked No. 22 in the final USA Today...

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