< Previous38 University of Louisville n gocards.com UofL Athletics Facilities 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALL Bass-Rudd Tennis Center Jim Patterson Stadium Cardinal Stadium KFC Yum! Center Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence Trager Stadium Cardinal Park Ulmer Stadium Swain Student Activities Center G. Garvin Brown III Rowing Center Marshall CenterUofL Athletics Facilities gocards.com n University of Louisville 39 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALL The University of Louisville features impressive facilities that have enriched the campus and entire Louisville community. Every Cardinal sports team has a new facility since 1994, with most being built within the last 20 years. The state-of-the-art, 22,000-seat KFC Yum! Cen- ter has been the home of Cardinal Basketball since opening in 2010 (more info on preceding pages). The Cardinals kicked off their 1998 football season in Cardinal Stadium, a 60,000-seat on-campus facility that was expanded in 2010. Another expansion that enclosed the end zone was completed in 2018. Cardinal Arena, expanded in 2017 as the home for UofL volleyball, and many athletic offices are housed in the Swain Student Activities Center on the northeast corner of campus. Built in 1994, the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center was honored as the 1995 USTA College Facility of the Year. It was the first component of Cardinal Park, an area which features multiple playing facilities for the Cardinals: Ulmer Stadium (softball), Cardinal Track Stadium and Trager Stadium (field hockey). The University of Louisville Golf Club, located just east of Louisville in Simpsonville, Ky., is the home to the UofL men’s and women’s golf teams. Patterson Stadium, the recently expanded home to the Cards’ baseball team, opened in 2005, as did the Ralph Wright Natatorium and Trager Center fieldhouse. Planet Fitness Kueber Center provides a stellar basketball practice facility and offices as well as a practice home for women’s basketball and women’s lacrosse. UofL opened in 2008 the Marshall Center, a multi-sport weight training facility, and the Field Hockey Complex, to house offices and locker rooms for field hockey. The G. Garvin Brown II Rowing Center riverside boat house for the Cardi- nals’ rowing team opened in 2011. A state-of-the-art soccer stadium, Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium, opened in 2014. The sparkling Thorn- tons Academic Center of Excellence opened in 2016 at the south end of the football stadium structure. Ralph Wright Natatorium Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium University of Louisville Golf Club Lacrosse Stadium Trager Center Fieldhouse Cardinal Arena UofL Athletics Broadcast Center40 University of Louisville n gocards.com Cardinals By the Numbers 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALL 1 Louisville has been the highest-rated television market for college basketball on ESPN for each of the last 17 years, averaging a 4.2 rating during the 2018-19 season, well ahead of the No. 2 market (2.9, Knoxville). Louisville’s 2013 final game against Michigan is the top-rated television event all-time in the Louisville market. 4 UofL Coach Chris Mack is just the fourth men’s basketball coach for Louisville in the last 49 years, following Denny Crum (1971-2001), Rick Pitino (2001-2017) and David Padgett (2017-18), who served as interim head coach for one season. 4 Numbers retired by UofL including No. 8 Charlie Tyra (1953-57), No. 31 Wes Unseld (1965-68), No. 35 Darrell Griffith (1976-80) and No. 42 Pervis Ellison (1985-89). Each was a con- sensus All-America selection. 4 Division I schools in the nation, including Louisville, which have won 20 or more games in each of the past 17 seasons. Kansas tops the list with a current string of 30 consecutive years, fol- lowed by Duke (23), Gonzaga (21), and Louisvilel (17). However, the NCAA Committee on Infractions’ vacation of 123 victories in four of those years (2011-15) negates the official results. 6 NCAA Public Recognition Awards over the past seven years for UofL for ranking among the nation’s top 10 percent in the Academic Progress Rate. Louisville is one of only nine Division I schools in the nation to have perfect men’s basketball multi- year APR scores in at least four of the past six years. 7 The eventual national champion has played in Louisville’s home arena, the KFC Yum! Center, in seven of the arena’s nine seasons in existence. Louisville faced eventual champions Connecticut (2011, 2014), Duke (2015) and Virginia (2019) in home games, Kentucky won a pair of games in the 2012 NCAA second and third rounds in the KFC Yum! Center, 2016 Champion Villanova won the NCAA South Regional in Louisville, and UofL won the 2013 itself (later vacated). 9NCAA Tournament appearances for UofL Coach Chris Mack in his 10 seasons as a head coach, including guiding Xavier to a No. 1 seed in 2017-18. 12 All-time ranking in wins for a coach in his first 10 seasons by UofL Coach Chris Mack, who has 235 coaching victories entering the 2019-20season. 15 Number of NIT appearances all-time for UofL, including winning the 1956 title when that national championshp was considered above the NCAA title. 16 Times Louisville has ranked among the top 50 nationally in field goal percentage defense over the last 17 years (.408 in 2018-19, 30th). 20 Number of Louisville players who have earned All-America status, the latest being consensus All-America pick Russ Smith in 2014. Six individuals have been consensus selections (Charlie Tyra, Wes Unseld, Darrell Griffith, Pervis Ellison, Clif- ford Rozier and Smith). 21 UofL Coach Chris Mack’s uniform number as a player at Xavier. 15 Games out of the Cardinals’ 31 regular season contests that will be played against teams that participated in postseason competition last season, including a dozen from the 2019 NCAA Tournament field The Cardinals have played a schedule ranked among the top 16 toughest by the ratings percentage index in 10 of the past 12 seasons, including the nation’s fourth-toughest schedule by the NCAA’s NET ranking last season. 31 League-high total individuals that the Cardi- nals have placed on the All-ACC Academic Team over the last five years, including a league-best six selections in 2018-19. The Cardinals have posted a collective 3.0 or better grade point average as a team in 21 of the last 22 semesters. 27 Number of times Louisville has either won or finished second in its conference championship over the last 40 years. UofL tied for second in the ACC in 2016-17 (sixth in 2018-19). 31 Games over the last nine seasons in which the Cardinals recovered from nine or more points down to win, including nine occasions during the last three years. Two occurred in both games of the 2013 Final Four as UofL trailed by 12 against both Wichita St. and Michigan before rallying to win. 38 Consecutive seasons that Louisville has ranked among the top six nationally in average home attendance (since 1982). The Cardinals averaged a school record 21,832 fans in 2010-11, UofL’s first season in the KFC Yum! Center. 40 This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Cardinals’ first NCAA Championship in 1980, a team guided by Hall of Fame Coach Denny Crum and led by Player of the Year Darrell Griffith. 49 Times in the last 54 years that the Car- dinals have participated in post-season competition. 50 Consecutive NCAA Final Fours staffed by the UofL statistics crew. 68 Number of UofL players to score 1,000 or more career points, a figure that ranks second in the nation to North Carolina (77). The next closest Cardinal is Jordan Nwora, who has 736 points in his first two seasons at UofL, needing 264 to reach the milestone. 75 UofL players drafted by the NBA (25 first-round picks), including eight in the last seven years. All-America Pervis Ellison was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1989 NBA draft and five other former Cardinals were taken in the top three. Ray Spalding became Louisville’s latest selection in 2018 (56th overall pick, Philadelphia 76ers). Former UofL and current Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell was the 2018 NBA Dunk Contest winner and was runner-up for the NBA Rookie of the Year. A total of 17 former Cardinals have played in the NBA over the last seven years. 106 This season is Louisville’s 106th in intercollegiate basketball. The Cardi- nals played their first official men’s basketball game on Jan. 28, 1912 when it lost 35-3 to Louisville YMCA, but UofL did not field teams in 1916-17, 1922-23 or 1942-43. Louisville has produced win- ning seasons in 71 of the last 74 seasons. 145 Victories for Louisville in the KFC Yum! Center, where the Cardinals enter 2018-19 with a 145-25 record in its first eight seasons in the spectacular facility. UofL enters the season with a 81-6 record against non-conference opponents in the KFC Yum! Center. 632 Times the Cardinals have been ranked in the weekly Associated Press poll, ranking UofL sixth most all-time. UofL has ranked among the nation’s top 15 in the preseason poll five of the last eight years (13th in 2016-17, eighth in 2014-15, third in 2013-14, sec- ond in 2012-13, ninth in 2011-12). Louisville has finished among the nation’s Top 25 teams in seven of the last nine years. Louisville is one of only five schools to be ranked in the AP Top 25 poll at least once during each of hte past 17 seasons, excluding preseason polls (others: Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas and North Carolina). 1722 Number of all-time victories for Louisville with a .650 winning percentage entering the 2019-20 season, which ranks as the 11th-best in the nation. The figure does not include 123 wins vacated by the NCAA. 3M Attendance milestone the Cardinals passed for games in the KFC Yum! Center in 2018. A total of 3,433,583 fans have flocked to the arena to watch UofL play in the first nine seasons entering 2019-20.All University of Louisville basketball games will be broadcast live through the Louisville Basketball Network developed by Learfield Sports. WHAS Radio (840 AM), a 50,000-watt, clear-chan- nel station in Louisville, will continue to serve as the Cards’ flagship station. The broadcast of some UofL games will move to WKRD (790 AM) when there is conflicting programming. The Cardinals also have extensive UofL programming on WKRD Radio, an all-sports station with primary UofL coverage as well as Fox Sports Radio programming. Paul Rogers is in his 25th season as the play- by-play voice of the Cardinals (since 1995-96) while Bob Valvano is in his 19th year providing analysis (since 2001-02). A native of Louisville, Rogers has been covering UofL sports for WHAS radio and television since 1973. In addition to serv- ing as the morning sports anchor for WHAS radio, he has called Cardinal Football games since 1992 and thoroughbred racing from Churchill Downs -- including several local radio broadcasts of the Ken- tucky Derby and Breeders Cup -- and has broadcast NCAA Tournament basketball for CBS Radio. He was named the 1995, 1998, 2002, and 2013 Kentucky Sportscaster of the Year. He was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014. Valvano is in his 19th year as a television and radio analyst for the Cardinals, as well as the ESPN Television family of networks and ESPN Radio. He also has a weekday radio show on the local ESPN radio affiliate in Louisville (WHBE/680 AM). He served as a collegiate basketball coach for 19 years, setting single season records for wins at three differ- ent schools (Kutztown University, Catholic Univer- sity and St. Mary’s College). He also served as head coach in the professional league in Sweden, where his team won two cup championships in interna- tional tournaments. When Valvano’s schedule brings him to other events, Jody Demling serves as an analyst with Rogers. A Louisville native, Demling was a sports writer for the Courier-Journal for 12 years before becoming Publisher in 2012 for Cardinal Authority, a 247Sports.com site. Demling also previously hosted a morning radio show for two years and is the host for Cardinal Insider, a weekday radio program on UofL Athletics that airs on WKRD. He also provides play-by-play and analysis for ACC Network Extra telecasts of UofL Athletics. UofL head coach Chris Mack is featured on a one hour call-in show on WHAS Radio and on network affiliates once a week during the season. UofL fans beyond the station’s wide-ranging signal can listen to live play-by-play broadcasts of UofL games through SIRIUS/XM satellite radio. The WHAS radio broadcasts of Cardinal games are also available over the internet with Sidearm online through UofL’s web site at www.GoCards.com, which also offers an iPhone and Android application to listen for free. The broadcasts are also available live on the TuneIn app. UofL coaches, student-athletes and staff are also featured in radio programming on 93.9 the Ville, an ESPN Radio affiliate in Louisville that is a broadcast partner with the Cardinals. All University of Louisville basketball games will be featured on television by some means this season. Over the last 36 years, all but 12 UofL bas- ketball games have been televised on either a live or delayed basis. Every UofL game this season will be televised to a national audience on one of the ESPN family of networks including the new ACC Network, CBS, a group of regional sports networks and one neutral site game on an online platform. Five of the Cardinals’ first six games will appear on the ACC Network, including UofL’s opener at Miami. It is the earliest opening game ever for the Cardinals and the first time since 1981 they have played a conference opponent to open the season. Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC Network (ACCN) is a new 24/7 national network dedi- cated to ACC sports which launched on August 22, 2019. Approximately 450 live contests including 40 regular-season football games, 150 men’s and women’s basketball games, and 200 other regular- season competitions and tournament games from across the conference’s 27 sponsored sports will be televised annually, plus a complement of news and information shows and original programming. Four of the Cardinals’ next five home games in the KFC Yum! Center will appear on ACCN, including Nov. 13 vs. Indiana State, Nov. 17 vs. North Carolina Central, Nov. 20 vs. USC Upstate and Nov. 24 vs. Akron. A total of at least 11 games this season will air on the ACC Network. At least four UofL games will be televised on ESPN: Jan. 11 at Notre Dame, Jan. 18 at Duke, Feb. 19 vs. Syracuse and Feb. 24 at Florida State. Another 11 games will be shown by either ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ACC Network, with the decision made on which network will televise those events set as those games approach. The first two of those are special events of Dec. 3 against Michi- gan in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in the KFC Yum! Center and Dec. 10 against Texas Tech in the Jimmy V Classic played in New York’s Madison Square Gar- den (ESPN or ESPN2 for each). The remaining games that will air on one of those ESPN platforms include Jan. 4 vs. Florida State, Jan. 7 vs. Miami, Jan. 14 at Pittsburgh, Feb. 1 at NC State, Feb. 5 vs. Wake Forest, Feb. 8 vs. Virginia, Feb. 15 at Clemson, Feb. 22 vs. North Carolina, and March 7 at Virginia. UofL will appear on three occasions on the ACC’s regional sports network (RSN), a group of stations which covers many areas of the nation and includes selected telecasts on FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Florida, FOX Sports Sun, Fox Sports Midwest, FOX Sports Indiana, NESN, YES Network, AT&T SPORTSNET Pittsburgh, and NBC Sports Washington. Those games include the Cardinals’ Nov. 10 home opener against Youngstown State in the Global Sports Shootout, Jan. 22 against Georgia Tech and Jan. 25 against Clemson. The Cardinals’ neutral site game against Western Kentucky in Nashville will be televised on the online platform of CBS on Facebook. An exhibition game against Bellarmine, will originate on ACC Network Extra, a digital production available to authenticated subscribers of the ACC Network on the Watch ESPN app. ESPN’s family of networks and the ACC Network will televise the entire 67th Annual ACC post-season tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greens- boro, N.C. A weekly UofL basketball program — Inside the Cardinals with Chris Mack — with game highlights, features, and comments will also appear throughout the season in the Louisville local market. Consult the basketball schedule on page two of this book for a complete listing of television expo- sures and game times. Radio Television Paul RogersBob ValvanoJody Demling Cards on the Air gocards.com n University of Louisville 41 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALLUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE42 In his first season guiding the University of Lou- isville men’s basketball team, head coach Chris Mack inherited a team that returned one starter and about a third of its scoring and rebounding from the previous year. The Cardinals were picked in the preseason to finish 11th in the ACC. Those within the program didn’t buy that assess- ment. UofL attained a 10-8 conference record and earned a tie for sixth in the final ACC regular sea- son standings. Facing the nation’s fourth-toughest schedule, the Cardinals achieved a 20-14 record, beat four Associated Press Top 25 teams and par- ticipated in their 39th NCAA Tournament. Louisville is one of four Division I schools in the nation which has won 20 or more games in each of the past 17 seasons. This season, the Cardinals look to take another step forward. Mack returns six of his top seven scorers from a year ago and welcomes a top 10 recruiting class. Expectations have risen. UofL has been ranked widely among the top ten in multiple preseason national rankings, including as high as second. Leading the group of impressive returnees that will compete against another demanding schedule is 6-8 forward Jordan Nwora, an All-America can- didate who was honored as the 2019 ACC Most Improved Player. A preseason first-team All-America selection by Blue Ribbon Basketball Yearbook, Nwora was the third-most improved scorer in the nation last season with his 17.0 scoring average (sixth in the ACC), up 11.3 points per game from his 5.7 average as a freshman. The All-ACC third team selection was one of five players in the ACC who scored 20 or more points on at least 13 occasions last season. Named to the All-ACC Academic men’s basketball team, Nwora scored in double figures in 31 of 34 games and produced nine double-doubles last season. He was UofL’s leader in scoring and rebounding (7.7 rpg, ninth in the ACC) last season and made at least three three-pointers on 16 occasions. A trio of captains are also among the returning leaders for the Cardinals in redshirt senior guard Ryan McMahon, redshirt senior forward Dwayne Sutton and junior forward/center Malik Williams. McMahon, who earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing in the spring, hit a three-pointer in 24 of 34 games last season. Fifty-three of McMahon’s 68 field goals last year came from three-point range. The 6-0 sharpshooter from Sarasota, Fla., has 15 career double-figure scoring efforts, including when he scored a career-high 24 points against Michigan State last season. He led the Cardinals in free throw percentage last year (.950, 57-of-60) and was third on the team with 60 assists. Sutton, who graduated in the spring with a bach- elor’s degree in sport administration, started all 34 games for the Cardinals last season while averaging 10.0 points (third on the team) and 6.9 rebounds (second on the team, 16th in the ACC). He was noted as one of the nation’s top ten “Glue Guys” last season by College Insider Jon Rothstein. The 6-5 wing from Louisville who played his freshman year at UNC Asheville enters his final season with 901 collegiate points (493 at UofL) and 639 rebounds (377 at UofL). Williams started the last 20 games of the season while producing four double-doubles. He was third on the team in rebounding and 19th in the ACC, averaging 6.1 rebounds and 7.7 points for the sea- son. The 6-11 junior from Fort Wayne, Ind., blocked a shot in 26 of 34 games as a sophomore and ranked 11th in the ACC in blocked shots (41 total, 1.2 average). He grabbed a career-best 13 boards against both North Carolina and Notre Dame. In the Cardinals’ 18 ACC games last year, Wil- liams and 6-10 redshirt senior Steven Enoch com- bined to average 18.1 points and 11.9 rebounds while splitting the time at center. Enoch was a double-figure scorer in 17 games, including a career-high 22 points against Boston College and had his first double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds at North Carolina. A powerful player with a soft shooting touch, Enoch was third on the team in free throw percentage (58- of-72, .806). The communication major was one of a league-high six Cardinals named to the 2019 All-ACC Academic men’s basketball team. Louisville has additional experienced backcourt strength in 6-2 junior Darius Perry and 6-0 graduate transfer Lamarr “Fresh” Kimble. Kimble was a three-time captain and two-year starter at Saint Joseph’s University, where he totaled 958 career points, 265 assists, and 111 three-point goals in his career with the Hawks. He has scored in double figures in 52 career games, averaging 15.6 points last season as the Hawks second-leading scorer and an All-Big 5 second team selection. Twice honored on the All-ACC Academic team, Perry scored in double figures in five games last season, including a career-tying 17 points against Vermont. Perry, who played at least 15 minutes in 23 games last season, produced a career-high eight assists and career-best matching three steals against Tennessee, adding eight points. Louisville welcomes a top-10 signing class that will challenge for playing time at multiple positions. The “super six” class includes 6-10 Aidan Igiehon, a 6-10 forward from Dublin, Ireland and Lawrence Woodmere (N.Y.) Academy; David Johnson, a 6-5 guard from Trinity High School in Louisville; Josh Nickelberry, a 6-4 guard from Northwood Temple Academy in Fayetteville, N.C.; Quinn Slazinski, a 6-8 forward from Houston and Huntington (W. Va.) Prep; Samuell Williamson, a 6-7 guard from Rock- wall (Texas) High School; and Jae’Lyn Withers, a 6-8 forward from Charlotte, N.C. who played his final season at Cleveland (Ohio) Heights High School. Nicknamed the “Irish Hulk,” Igiehon averaged 23.4 points, 10.4 rebounds and 5.8 blocked shots as a senior for Woodmere (22-5), which won the NYSAIS Class B Championship, marking his third consecutive state title. He was a first team all-state selection. A four-year starter at Trinity, Johnson averaged 16.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and four assists as a senior last season while leading the Shamrocks to a 30-8 record and the Kentucky state championship. He was the MVP of the Kentucky Sweet 16 state championship. A first-team all-state honoree, Nickelberry aver- aged 26.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game as a senior in leading Northwood Temple Academy to a 20-14 record and a runner- up position in the 1A North Carolina state cham- pionship. Slazinski averaged 14.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists on a balanced team in his final sea- son in 2018-19 at Huntington Prep, which posted a 20-5 record and No. 16 national ranking among prep schools. He was selected to the All-USA West Virginia Boys Basketball second team. A McDonald’s All-American and first-team all- state pick, Williamson averaged 25 points, 11.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists a game as a senior in helping Rockwall (30-6) reach the regional semifi- nals and achieve a No. 8 final ranking in the regular- season Class 6A state poll. After earning 2018 Charlotte Observer 4A Metro Player of the Year and I-MECK conference player of the year honors as a junior, Withers averaged 19.8 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.2 blocked shots in his lone season at Cleveland Heights, which reached the district semifinals. A trio of walk-on guards provide the Cardinals with depth in 6-1 graduate transfer guard Keith Oddo, 6-8 freshman forward Hogan Orbaugh and 5-11 senior guard Grant Williams. Louisville will play one of the nation’s most difficult schedules this season, including 2019 NCAA Champion Virginia and runner-up Texas Tech. Louisville has faced a schedule among the top 16 toughest by the ratings percentage index in 10 of the past 12 seasons. Fifteen of the Cardinals’ 31 games this season will be played against teams that participated in post-season competition in 2019, including a dozen from the 2019 NCAA Tourna- ment field. Louisville has received an NCAA Public Recogni- tion Award six of the last seven years for ranking among the top 10 percent in men’s basketball in the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures academic eligibility, retention and graduation for student-athletes. Louisville is one of just nine Divi- sion I schools in the nation, including only two from Power Five conferences (Louisville and Stanford), which have earned the APR recognition in at least six of the last seven years. 42 University of Louisville n gocards.com 2019-20 Outlook 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALLLouisville Coaching StaffSuperb tactician. Teacher. Moti- vator. Accomplished. Aggressive competitior. Passionate. Likes to have fun. Slam dunk hire. All apt words that have been used to describe Chris Mack, the second-year leader for the University of Louisville’s tradition-rich men’s basketball program. Mack, whose teams have partici- pated in the NCAA Tournament in nine of his 10 seasons as a head coach, was named as the head coach at UofL on March 28, 2018 to much acclaim, a testament to his proven success throughout his career. In his first season at Louisville, Mack guided the Cardinals to a 20-14 record and earned a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament while facing the nation’s fourth-toughest schedule. Picked to finish 11th in the ACC, UofL achieved a 10-8 conference record and earned a tie for sixth in the final regular season standings. The Cardinals beat four Associated Press Top 25 teams and were No. 22 in the nation in the NCAA’s NET rankings. Louisville ranked among the nation’s top 30 teams in both offensive (27th) and defensive efficiency (24th). Entering the season, UofL had returned one starter and about a third of its scoring and rebounding from the previous year. Mack has built for the future as well, with Louisville’s 2019 signing class ranked ninth in the nation by ESPN.com, 10th by Rivals.com and 11th by 247sports.com. Among active coaches, Mack’s .679 winning percentage as a head coach ranks him 21st in the nation among active coaches and his 235 victories are the 12th most amassed by a coach in their first 10 seasons. Before joining UofL in nine seasons as the head coach at Xavier, Mack guided the Musketeers to a 215-97 record and eight NCAA Tournament appearances (the last five straight years), including reaching the Sweet 16 on four occasions and the Elite Eight in 2017. His teams won or shared three conference regular season championships while compiling a 105-49 league record over nine sea- sons in the Big East and Atlantic 10. His 2017-18 squad achieved a 29-6 record, won Xavier’s first Big East Confer- ence regular season championship and earned the school’s first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Mack was honored as the 2018 Big East Coach of the Year, NABC District 5 Coach of the Year, and he became the all-time coaching wins leader with the Musketeers. Xavier finished third in the final Associated Press poll – its highest ever ranking -- and last year’s team was one short of the school record for victories. Mack signed a contract with the Cardi- nals for seven years, extending through the 2024-25 season. He is just the fourth head coach to guide the Car- dinals in the last 48 years, follow- ing Denny Crum (1971-2001), Rick Pitino (2001-17) and David Padgett (2017-18). Mack is the 21st head coach in Louisville’s 104-year history and the seventh in the past 73 years. Mack quickly embraced the Cards’ tradition by reaching out and continuing a dialogue with former UofL players and staff. On a broader scale, he has endeared himself to Cardinal fans with his engag- ing social media presence, direct approach, and his desire to instill toughness and cohesion in his team. Mack, 49, received the 2016 Henry Iba Award as the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) National Coach of the Year while also earning the CBS Sports and Basketball Times magazine National Coach of the Year awards that season. He led Xavier to a 28-6 record in 2015-16 and achieved a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and a No. 5 ranking in the final AP poll, which at the time was the school’s highest seed and ranking in school history. His 2016-17 Xavier team made an NCAA Tournament run to the Elite Eight after entering the event as a No. 11 seed. His teams have reached the NCAA Sweet 16 on four occasions, in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017. As a player, assistant and head coach, Mack has been a part of 19 NCAA Tournament appear- ances. 44 University of Louisville n gocards.com Head Coach Chris Mack 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALLChris Mack Head Coaching Record Born Dec. 30, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio, Mack was the 2010-11 Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year in his second year as a head coach. In addition, he was the recipi- ent of the 2011 Skip Prosser Man of the Year award, which was established in 2008 to honor those who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who display moral integrity off the court as well. He was the 2009-10 Basketball Times Rookie Coach of the Year when, in his initial year, he guided Xavier to a 26-9 record, shared the Atlantic 10 Cham- pionship and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16. Mack served as a court coach for the 2016 USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team training camp in the summer of 2016 at the United States Olym- pic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Before rising to a head coaching position, Mack was a part of successful staffs throughout his career. He spent five seasons as an assistant on Sean Miller’s Xavier staff (2004-09) after serving on the staff of the late Skip Prosser at Xavier as director of basketball operations (1999-01) and as an assis- tant coach at Wake Forest (2001-04). In 10 seasons as an assistant or operations director, he helped his teams produce a 229-96 record (.705), win four regular season titles and one conference tournament championship, and secure eight NCAA Tournament appearances, advancing to three Sweet 16s and one Elite Eight. Those teams won at least 20 games in nine of the 10 seasons. Mack began his coaching career in 1993 as the junior varsity girls basketball coach at McAuley High School in Cincinnati. He was the varsity girls basketball coach at Mount Notre Dame High School in Reading, Ohio, for four years (1995-99), directing the team to four straight sectional titles and earning Cincinnati Post Coach of the Year honors in 1996. A 1992 Xavier graduate with a degree in com- munication arts, Mack was a two-time team captain as a player at Xavier under then head coach Pete Gillen. He won the 1993 Midwestern City Confer- ence (MCC) regular season championship (12-2 record) and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Mack was the 1987-88 Cincinnati Post Metro Player of the Year at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati before going on to start for two seasons at Evansville under Jim Crews, winning an MCC Regular Season Championship and a trip to the second round of the 1989 NCAA Tourna- ment as a freshman at Evansville. He transferred to Xavier after his sophomore season. Mack and his wife, Christi, have two daughters, Lainee (14) and Hailee (13), and a son, Brayden (4). A native of Louisville, the former Christi Hester was the runner- up for Kentucky Miss Basketball as a senior at Holy Cross High School. She played basketball at Dayton, where she scored 1,268 career points and was later inducted into the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014. She served as the Director of Basketball Operations for the Xavier women’s basketball team (2001-03) and more recently as the head girls basketball coach at Cincinnati’s Colerain High School Cardinals. Mack and his wife created the Mack Family Foundation in 2016, a family-centered foundation whose mission is to serve, inspire and aid less for- tunate children. The Mack family: Lainee, Christi, Brayden, Chris and Hailee. n Among active coaches, Mack’s 235 victories are tied for the 12th-most amassed by a coach in their first 10 seasons. n Among active coaches, Mack’s .679 winning per- centage ranks him 21st in the nation. Head Coach Chris Mack gocards.com n University of Louisville 45 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALL Season School Overall Conference Postseason 2009-10 Xavier 26- 9 14-2 Atlantic 10** NCAA Sweet 16 2010-11 Xavier 24- 8 15-1 Atlantic 10* NCAA 2nd Round 2011-12 Xavier 23-13 10-6 Atlantic 10 NCAA Sweet 16 2012-13 Xavier 17-14 9-7 Atlantic 10 2013-14 Xavier 21-13 10-8 Big East NCAA 1st Round 2014-15 Xavier 23-14 9-9 Big East NCAA Sweet 16 2015-16 Xavier 28-6 14-4 Big East NCAA 2nd Round 2016-17 Xavier 24-14 9-9 Big East NCAA Elite Eight 2017-18 Xavier 29- 6 15-3 Big East* NCAA 2nd Round 2018-19 Louisville 20-14 10-8 ACC NCAA 1st Round Totals 235-111 115-57 (3 titles) 9 NCAA (11-9) 10 Seasons .679 .669 *regular season champion ** regular season co-championBorn: Dec. 30, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio Age: 49 Alma Mater: Xavier (1992) Married: Aug. 23, 2003 to the former Christi Hester, a member of the Dayton Athletic Hall of Fame and a runner-up as Kentucky’s 1996 Miss Basketball as a senior at Holy Cross High School in Louisville. Children: 3 — Lainee (14; born June 2, 2005), Hailee (13; born Sept. 9, 2006), Brayden (4; born Dec. 8, 2014). Personal 1993-94 Head Coach, McAuley High School (JV), Cincinnati, Ohio 1995-99 Head Coach, Mount Notre Dame High School, Reading, Ohio 1999-2001 Director of Basketball Operations, Xavier University (42-20, two years) 2001-04 Assistant Coach, Wake Forest University (67-29, three years) 2004-09 Assistant Coach, Xavier University (120-47, five years) 2009-18 Head Coach, Xavier University (215-97, nine years) 2018-current Head Coach, University of Louisville (20-14, one year) Basketball Coaching Experience Record Pct. Overall (10 yrs.) 225-97 .679 At Louisville (1 year) 20-14 .588 NCAA Tournament (9) 11-9 .550 (9 NCAA appearances, 4 Sweet 16s, one Elite Eight) Conference Games 115-57 .669 (1 Big East, 2 Atlantic 10 Conference Championships) Conference Tournaments 11-10 .524 Last Five Years 124-54 .697 Collegiate Coaching Record 2010 Basketball Times Rookie Coach of Year 2011 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year 2011 Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award 2016 Henry Iba Award/USBWA Coach of Year 2016 CBS Sports Coach of the Year 2016 Basketball Times Coach of the Year 2018 Big East Coach of the Year Collegiate Coaching Honors 1984-88 St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati) 1988-90 University of Evansville 1991-93 Xavier University Played three varsity seasons at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, averaging 22 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and three steals as a senior when he was named the 1988 Cincinnati Post Metro Player of the Year. He finished his career with the second-highest single season and career scoring records. He was inducted into the St. Xavier Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988. Started two seasons at the University of Evansville under coach Jim Crews, winning a Mid- western City Conference (MCC) title and a trip to the second round of the 1989 NCAA Tournament as a freshman at Evansville. After his sophomore season, he transferred to Xavier, where he was a two-time team captain under coach Pete Gillen. Xavier won the 1993 MCC regular season cham- pionship (12-2 record) and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He played briefly with Athletes in Action and professionally in Europe following his collegiate career. Basketball Playing Career Chris Mack at St. Xavier High School Coach, School Seasons W L 1. Roy Williams, Kansas 1989-98 282 62 2. Everett Case, NC State 1947-56 265 60 3. Mark Few, Gonzaga 2000-09 264 66 4. Jamie Dixon, Pittsburgh 2004-13 262 86 5. Thad Matta, Butler/Xavier/Ohio St. 2001-10 258 85 6. Dave Rose, BYU 2006-15 257 88 7. Sean Miller, Xavier / Arizona 2005-14 249 95 8. Larry Brown, UCLA / Kansas / SMU 1980-81, 1984-88, 2013-15 241 94 9. Denny Crum, Louisville 1972-81 240 64 10. Jerry Tarkanian, Long Beach St. / UNLV 1969-78 238 41 11. John Calipari, UMass / Memphis 1989-96, 2001-02 237 94 12. Chris Mack, Xavier / Louisville 2009-19 235 111 13. Tubby Smith, Tulsa / Georgia/ Kentucky 1992-2002 234 95 Best Career Coaching Starts in 10 Seasons by Wins (Minimum five years as a Division I head coach; includes record at four-year colleges only) Coach, Current School Yrs. Won Lost Pct. 1. Mark Few, Gonzaga 20 568 122 .823 2. Roy Williams, North Carolina 31 871 234 .788 3. John Calipari, Kentucky 27 709 208 .773 4. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 44 1132 344 .767 5. Bill Self, Kansas 26 680 211 .763 6. Ray Harper, Jacksonville State 20 498 167 .749 7. Sean Miller, Arizona 15 384 136 .738 8. Tony Bennett, Virginia 13 323 122 .726 9. Tom Izzo, Michigan State 24 606 232 .723 10. Bruce Pearl, Auburn 24 562 217 .721 11. Gregg Marshall, Wichita State 21 502 195 .720 12. Jim Boeheim, Syracuse 43 946 385 .711 13. Jamie Dixon, TCU 16 396 164 .707 14. Randy Bennett, St. Mary’s 18 414 174 .704 15. Bob Huggins, West Virginia 37 859 363 .703 16. Steve Prohm, Iowa State 8 187 82 .695 17. Tim Cluess, Iona 13 294 131 .692 18. Brad Underwood, Illinois 6 133 60 .689 19. Jay Wright, Villanova 25 570 260 .688 20. Mick Cronin, UCLA 16 365 170 .682 21. Chris Mack, Louisville 10 235 111 .679 22. Matt Painter, Purdue 15 346 164 .678 23. Mike Dunlap, Loyoyal Marymount 20 398 192 .675 24. Michael White, Florida 8 190 93 .671 25. Rick Byrd, Belmont 38 805 402 .667 26. Steve Alford, Nevada 28 587 298 .663 27. Jim Hayford, Seattle U 20 398 204 .661 28. Tubby Smith, High Point 28 613 317 .659 29. Shaka Smart, Texas 10 234 122 .657 30. Mike Brey, Notre Dame 24 516 273 .654 Above records through the 2018-19 season Winningest Active Division I Men’s Coaches by Percentage 46 University of Louisville n gocards.com Chris Mack Facts and Figures 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALL n Jay Bilas, College Basketball Analyst “Chris Mack is one of the best young coaches in the game, and perhaps its most underrated, given just how accomplished he is. In an age of self promotion, Chris just keeps his head down, and quietly works, competes, and wins. Chris Mack is rock solid in every conceivable area.” n Bill Raftery, College Basketball Analyst “Chris is a superb tactician who reads game situ- ations in a cerebral fashion. His ability to evaluate talent is extraordinary. Team and individual growth prosper at the highest level under his tutelage. Louisville is blessed to have Chris as its head coach.” n Dick Vitale, College Basketball Analyst “Chris Mack was the perfect hire to continue the great tradition of UofL Basketball. He brings a wealth of winning experience after doing a brilliant job at Xavier. He is a teacher, motivator and com- municator, and the fans at Louisville are fortunate to have found someone with his talents.” n Pete Gillen, College Basketball Analyst, Mack’s Collegiate Coach at Xavier “Chris Mack was one of the smartest players that I ever coached as a Division 1 Basketball Coach for 30 years. He was very talented, but he also had a tremendous Basketball IQ. He has a little bit of “Huckleberry Finn” in him and he likes to have fun, but in a good way. Chris is a great family man, a fabulous basketball coach, and he is a terrific addi- tion to the Louisville Basketball Family.” n Chris Paul, Nine-Time NBA All-Star “Coach Mack made me a better player and a better person. Players love to play for him because he is passionate about their development and the suc- cess of the team. He is also very personable.” n Edmond Sumner, Indiana Pacers guard “Coach Mack is the same guy every day with the same high energy. I like that he gives you the good with the bad. Some coaches just give you the bad, thinking it’s going to benefit you. When you do something good, he’ll tell you if it’s good, but if you do something bad, he’ll give you the bad too.” n David West, Two-time NBA All-Star “Coach Mack is an aggressive competitor who hates to lose. We have a lot in common in that way.” n Jeff Goodman, ESPN “Biggest no-brainer (hire): Chris Mack to Louisville. From the day that Rick Pitino was jettisoned, Mack was the clear-cut leader. Let’s forget about the fact that his wife, Christi, is from Louisville. He fits be- cause he has already had success recruiting in the Midwest. He took the Musketeers to the Elite Eight in 2017. Plus, he had Xavier as a No. 1 seed this year. In his nine seasons as head coach, he’s gone to the NCAA tournament eight times.” n Matt Norlander, CBSSports.com “2018 Slam Dunks (hires): Simple eval here. Mack was Louisville’s top target; the school landed said target. Given Mack’s profile on the market in the past three years (he was viewed as an A-level candidate), Louisville did the best it possibly could have done. That’s a slam dunk. Mack, 48, brings not just a big name and buzz to the hire, but a track record to back up the noise. He went to the NCAA Tournament in eight of his nine seasons at Xavier, plus took X to the Elite Eight and got the school to its first 1 seed in history. He’s outgoing, good with the media and built to handle all that comes with the Louisville job.” n Chris Johnson, Sports Illustrated “Chris Mack’s choice to leave Xavier for Louisville is a testament to the Cardinals’ enduring appeal as a coaching destination. … Mack smoothed Xavier’s jump from the Atlantic 10 to the high-major ranks, took the Musketeers to the tourney in eight of his nine seasons and this spring beat out the eventual national champions for the regular-season Big East title. That Louisville was able to persuade Mack to leave his alma mater in spite of that sustained success reflects well on the Cardinals’ stature. Louisville can move forward confident it has an accomplished steward to navigate the program through this turbulent period.” Opponent W L Abilene Christian 1 0 Alabama 3 0 Albany 1 0 Arizona 2 0 Arizona St. 0 1 Auburn 1 1 Baylor 1 3 Bowling Green 2 0 Boston College 1 1 Buffalo 1 0 Butler 12 5 Central Arkansas 1 0 Charlotte 5 2 Cincinnati 6 3 Clemson 2 0 Colorado 1 1 Creighton 7 6 Dayton 8 4 DePaul 10 1 Drake 1 0 Drexel 1 0 Duke 0 1 Duquesne 4 0 East Tennessee St. 1 0 Eastern Washington 1 0 Evansville 1 0 Fairleigh Dickinson 1 0 Florida 1 0 Florida Gulf Coast 1 0 Florida State 1 2 Fordham 5 0 Gardner-Webb 1 0 George Washington 5 0 Georgetown 9 2 Georgia 2 0 Georgia State 1 0 Georgia Tech 1 0 Gonzaga 0 3 Hampton 1 0 Hawaii 0 1 Indiana 0 1 Iowa 1 1 IPFW 2 0 IUPUI 1 0 Kansas State 0 2 Kentucky 0 1 Kent State 4 0 LaSalle 3 1 Lehigh 2 0 Lipscomb 1 0 Long Beach State 1 2 LSU 1 0 Marquette 9 6 Marshall 1 0 Maryland 1 0 Massachusetts 2 2 Memphis 1 1 Miami (Fla.) 1 0 Opponent W L Miami (Ohio) 4 1 Michigan 1 0 Michigan State 1 0 Minnesota 1 1 Missouri 3 0 Morehead St. 2 0 Morgan St. 1 0 Murray State 1 0 NIcholls 1 0 North Carolina 1 2 NC State 1 1 North Dakota State 1 0 Northern Arizona 1 0 Northern Iowa 3 0 Northern Kentucky 1 0 Notre Dame 3 0 Old Domonion 0 1 Ole Miss 1 0 Oral Roberts 0 1 Pacific 0 1 Pittsburgh 2 1 Providence 6 5 Purdue 2 0 Rhode Island 4 0 Richmond 4 1 Rider 1 0 Robert Morris 2 0 Sacred Heart 1 0 St. Bonaventure 5 0 St. John’s 9 2 Saint Joseph’s 3 2 Saint Louis 5 1 San Diego 1 0 Seton Hall 7 6 Southern 1 0 Southern Illinois 1 0 Stephen F. Austin 1 0 Syracuse 0 1 Temple 2 2 Tennessee 1 3 Texas Southern 1 0 USC 1 1 Utah 1 0 UTEP 0 1 Vanderbilt 1 1 Vermont 1 0 Virginia 1 1 Virginia Tech 1 0 VCU 0 1 Villanova 1 10 Wake Forest 5 2 Weber State 1 0 Western Kentucky 1 0 Western Michigan 1 0 Wisconsin 1 1 Wofford 1 1 Wright State 1 0 Youngstown State 1 0 Mack Record vs. All Opponents UofL Coach Chris Mack and his wife Christi launched the Mack Family Foundation in August 2016 in Cincinnati and have continued the be- nevolent organization in Louisville. The Mack Family Foundation has two core objec- tives. First, to identify smaller charities, foundations and causes to help support that are centered on children. While larger charities do great work, the aim is to be in the trenches, see change up close and give financial support that will help underfunded organizations. Secondly, the Mack Family Foundation wants their children and the children of its supporter to help volunteer at their own events, learn about the charities and causes they serve, and to understand truly what it means to give back to those in need. The funds raised previously while Mack was at Xavier University will be expended in the Cincin- nati area. Mack Family Foundation What They’re Saying About Chris Mack Chris Mack Facts and Figures gocards.com n University of Louisville 47 201 9-20 B A SKETB ALLNext >