D2 Kentucky Wesleyan SHOCKS Louisville in college basketball exhibition game

[@pschighlights]

The fall of Louisville basketball has been shocking to see. I’m starting to think Kenny Payne may not be the answer. And for those that don’t know, I do post college basketball but it doesn’t become the focus of the channel until after college football season is over 👍

[@davidtolman1266]

Do the montana state idaho game. It was a really close game

[@jefft2546]

Forget NIL deals, time to bring back strippers and booster bribes

[@seanholley7284]

I am a Louisville fan, but most of our city tuned out our team last year and after the downturn in the 2021-2022 season. Maybe the team will still turn out to be better than last year as 4 wins is not that high of a bar to hurdle (I hope). I felt that we would be able to win 10-12 games this season and be able to avoid the bad non-conference losses to teams like Appalachian State or Wright State. We may be fortunate to win 6. To be fair, we had opportunities last year. We took UVA to the wire and almost took that one, lost only by 8 at Miami (Final Four team), and nearly beat Wake. Syracuse was a 1 point loss. After losing last year to Lenoir Rhyne, we should have only won maybe 1 game last year if we played that same way the rest of the year. I still think we will be better than last year, but not by much. Maybe 6-8 wins. Hopeful for more though. I expected 1-2 embarrassing losses to weak non-conference teams before this, but now it could be 4-5 of those type losses. Losing to any D2 team is usually a major red flag. I am sure there are exceptions though. I seem to remember a Final Four Syracuse team having a bad exhibition loss like this. I don't think that this team has that type of maturity to respond. I hope I am wrong.

[@unorthodox4871]

We a football and volleyball school now, I’m completely okay with that tho.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I had been a U of L fanatic for decades. Stopped caring a few years back. So this doesn’t hurt.

[@danielhettesheimer606]

if I had a nickel for every time Louisville lost to a d2 team in an exhibition game in the last year, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice

[@darthsilversith667]

Hey.. at least you have two nickels to rub together!

[@pearson8143]

HAHA! Hilarious comment!

[@dakotastewart435]

Same thing if I had a nickel for every time NAIA school Tennessee-Southern beat a D1 school. They beat Samford last year and then Tennessee Tech last week.

[@davidvinson4613]

Yeah but that is a really tough Div 2 team

[@mg1699]

Is this a JaguarGator9 reference lol?

[@fr4590]

Anybody who’s watched Louisville these past 3 years isn’t all that surprised that this happened

[@unorthodox4871]

As a Louisville fan, we haven’t had a GREAT team since Donovan Mitchell was there and that’s crazy.

[@kingadalou]

​@@unorthodox48712019 was a really good team, just cut short due to covid

[@skoop651]

they wanted to put diversity over good coaching, this is what they get

[@skoop651]

"Kenny Payne: Louisville 'will be a better basketball team' next season" - kenny payne

[@anonymouswombat9709]

Wrong. No matter how bad you get you should never lose to a division 2 school. The differences to have that even a possibility is absurd

[@jhTheMan99]

Louisville has really dropped an exhibition to a D2 team two years in a row?

[@pschighlights]

Yep, Lenoir Rhyne beat them last year

[@db9885]

That was a sneaky Lenoir Rhyne team to be fair 🙃

[@trentl4395]

@@db9885best 11-14 D2 team in the country

[@davidpanda1232]

Two years, on the same date as well!

[@bbbready685]

They actually lost to 2 D2 teams last year lmao

[@logandombroski1179]

When I click on it I thought it was the game from last year 😂 No way it happened again 🤦‍♂️

[@SomeKanyeFan]

Can’t wait for college basketball to return!

[@College-Bball-Gambler]

I can’t wait to gamble on every game lol

[@samkustes6183]

Well this year we only lost by 3 instead of by double digits, I see that as an absolute win!

[@Speedster___]

Lmao

[@RevAlSharptonz]

What happened to Louisville basketball? How did it fall off from winning a national title in the 2010s to being possibly the worst P5 basketball program over the past couple years? I apparently missed something that happened.

[@Darthplaguiesthewise]

The best part is at the end of the game it sounded like a K Wesleyan home game whenever they made a shot (not that there was more fans for them, they were just much louder)

[@unorthodox4871]

As a Louisville fan, we have taken our talent to other sports. We’re a football and volleyball school now. 💯

[@jchase5468]

Football school? Hahaha tell me a good joke…if y’all played in the SEC y’all would be Vanderbilt but with worse GPAs

[@unorthodox4871]

@@jchase5468 you can say that for any non SEC team with that logic. not everyone gotta play in the SEC conference to have entertaining football games, delusional statement. Also, you might as well be a Harvard fan since you care bout GPAs so much. 😂

[@bwilson21345]

@@jchase5468that’s the dumbest shit I ever heard, SEC does this every year. Bowl season is in December look at the SECs record

[@demcanes01]

Boy stop it ! You ain’t done shit in football

[@Blackfedoraowner]

@@unorthodox4871I mean…yeah most teams really couldn’t compete in the SEC

[@zaiquannewsome4860]

First Lenoir-Rhyne and now Kentucky Wesleyan.

[@UKFonYT]

Sounds like Fred from Scooby-Doo calling the game 😂

[@jj947]

Take notes everyone, this is the Cardinals at the top of their game

[@benhoskins4719]

As a KY fan, its nice to see that we didn't miss out Clark when he picked louisville instead of UK. Turns out, the poor kid can't guard a pair of shoes. Doesn't really matter who is wearing them.

[@AEMoreira81]

Bellarmine is the new premier school in Kentuckiana (once the transition period is over).

[@clay12321]

Saw the description and was REALLY hoping that it said "1 year ago" and that this was just last year's exhibition loss, but alas, it happened again 😭

[@B3FMandCProductions]

As a UVA fan, I'm grateful that Louisville remains one of our "protected rivals". I think we're like 16-2 against the Cardinals since they joined the league and, if this is any indication, we should expect another win or two this season as well

[@douglusco5439]

Tony Bennett was destroying Pitino long before this shit storm.

[@V1ruzProd.]

I’m a VT fan lol born and raised in Blacksburg

[@mitchtherevolution]

As a long term ACC Basketball fan, I was excited about Louisville as a quality basketball program. Now they have literally been dragging down the NET Ratings for the entire ACC Conference, which results in less ACC teams in the tournament. Then we have all the other conference bullshit, and things are just looking rough for the ACC

[@keehud333]

😂😂😂😂you hope

[@WillThomas-hs3oj]

It's just a matter of time until lville is back on top, even in the sht storm that has happ recently I still know we'll be back on top

[@JJ-vk2iw]

Going to be a loooongggg season for Cards.

[@rjtavares1480]

Huh, Louisville is a football school

[@saintbrownthetrojan]

I’m going to be honest. I’m not surprised at all.

[@TnD_BigJax]

Meanwhile you guys are putting up nearly 150 points on your D2 opponent

[@nathanhelm361]

At this point, its not really a shock is it? 😂💀

[@deputay]

You beat me to it!

[@trentl4395]

I’m a Louisville fan and calling it SHOCKING is a bit of an overstatement

[@sanpablos39]

I’m tired of Louisville losing bro! We can’t get a good coach or good players for shit! What happened to 2013?

[@ChrisHaynes-ds6rp]

@@sanpablos39 Dang if this clip is any indication Sky Clarke couldn't guard a mannequin. Dude couldn't stay in front of a D2 guard? DJ Wagner and Rob Dillingham will make him look stupid. UK dodged a bullet when he decommited

[@Solo-Road]

I'm a lifelong Louisville fan and I was not shocked at all.

[@indigomarine91]

A few years ago when a seen that they had players just get up and leave the program and that never happens to d1 basketball I knew they were going to be bad in the coming up years but never would have thought losing to two d2 teams two years in a row bad.

[@indigomarine91]

It's going to be really hard to convince any top player to come to their school after them seeing their records from the year before sadly. Dark times for louisville, and I'm sad to think this will be like this for the next 4 or 5 seasons at least probably..

[@murgatroidsp]

Louisville won 4 games last year. If this shocks you, you haven’t been paying attention

[@pschighlights]

Well the shocking part is that they’re still terrible. I’d assume a program like Louisville, or any P6 program really, wouldn’t lose to D2 teams in back to back years. And yes, I’m well aware they won 4 games last year bud 👍

[@IRllyDoThis]

@@pschighlights Their roster only got worse and Kenny Payne is still the coach. Not sure what improvement you were expecting. Still disgraceful, yes. But not surprising in the slightest

[@pschighlights]

@@IRllyDoThisalright well dislike the video then idk what to say 😭😭

[@sturttv]

Then don’t put “SHOCKS” in your video title because it screams out that the person putting this video out is clueless as to how bad Louisville is.

[@alexjohnson6192]

@@sturttv Any ACC program losing to a D2 team is shocking, regardless of their record in the previous season.

[@TheLordNovo]

The moment I read the title and saw 3 white dudes in Wesleyan’s starting lineup, I knew this was gonna be crazy

[@strangestringsnyc]

4:18 spotted the great Danny Manning in the handshake line. Didn't know he was coaching at Louisville.

[@stegura83]

Didn't Louisville have a historically bad season last year?

[@pschighlights]

Yep, they only won four games. Kinda assumed they'd at least be good enough to win this game in year 2 of Kenny Payne but I guess not.

[@ChaseRiver2]

worst power 6 team of all time according to kenpom rankings

[@crispinfornoff206]

Oh how the mighty have fallen

[@jerryscott568]

We need to see THIS Kentucky team in March 😂

[@gauravagochiya4218]

Imagine them upsetting Kansas in the first round 😂

[@coleymoke6709]

There is a difference between being a great recruiter and being a great coach.

[@WillThomas-hs3oj]

Yea Calipari also fits in that description, your acting like Payne has a whole group of 5 stars like cal, cal with talent he's had had 100% underperformed when it matters esp

[@Clay_3507]

As a Kentucky fan I love seeing Louisville lose again to a D2 team😂

[@Cantpasslevelcandycrush]

Maybe Louisville can play a d3 team next year for an exhibition.

[@racebannon8569]

Glad to see it.

[@davidmcquaid7862]

People sleep on division 2 basketball, it’s a lot better than people realize especially the top teams which no D1 teams dare play (especially the mid to low level D1 teams).

[@joeym5243]

Better than losing to a d2 team in the regular season. My wildcats did that a few years ago, but they also beat a top 10 ranked team in the same season, so I guess you can say it ain't over till it's over

[@tyleremmetts5937]

This also happened last year to Louisville in an exhibition game… not surprised

[@RicNasty90]

You know it’s gone be a long night when the point guard got his jersey untucked

[@stegura83]

Should count as a regular season loss for Louisville.

[@quincymadreyuofl4543]

Win or lose I'm behind this team 💯 CARDS fans wants to jump off the band wagon they can because we don't need you if you a cardinal fan like I am you will stick with this team thick or thin this team will be fine they just have a lot of learning to do. I'm a proud fan!!! And always will be.❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤 Go CARDS!!!!!!

[@quincymadreyuofl4543]

Please tell Kenny Payne that I'm behind this team and please get our Louisville basketball team back on the top dog list. QUINCY Madrey

[@mitchtherevolution]

Trash ass team, dragging down the entire ACC.

[@adrianschroeder2798]

0:31 shots like these are quintessential college ball. Buzzer beater hail mary prayer bank shot 3 over a taller defender and it's good.

[@suneater98]

Forshadowing The worst is yet to come

[@WillThomas-hs3oj]

Nah, I think lville is gonna be better then last year, even with this loss,

[@TM-ew4kn]

Well, expect Skyy to hit the portal once again at the end of the season.

[@ericschugemporium973]

Why is this a shock that they beat Louisville? They have been playing like a D3 team the past while

[@irvingboy1122]

At least Louisville has a good football program

[@unorthodox4871]

And volleyball

[@joemother1098]

Pittsburgh

[@nascaracers4031]

Something like this happened last year too

[@austinleach5382]

Thank god they have good football team😫

[@flavortown4141]

NO NOT AGAIN

[@lonzoballcandoitall4132]

The mascot towards the end says it all. He doesn't even want to watch

[@Odseus]

That announcer sounds like a cartoon character.

[@Cheese10151]

The skyy Clarke effect

[@vincechan455]

It's not a surprise to me anymore because basketball is such a popular sport. Most players I know practice and play hard. Many guys aren't good enough to play in D1, but they may have played in AAU or high school when they were younger. When I was an undergraduate student, I used to play pickup games at the student recreational centers at UNLV and at the University of Arizona. I saw regular students hold their own against guys who played on national TV. No joke.

[@pat22nasty]

Lol I think you’re blurring lines here….

[@michaelinhouston9086]

Sounds like the old Houston Fonde recreational center summer league

[@chriskeesee7508]

Play Dennis Evans wtf???

[@jedward5155]

There's Skyy Clark out there guarding ghosts.

[@DonnieWathen]

I LOVE IT!

[@samsiebert_1219]

not a college basketball fan but trying to get into it: do these exhibitions like not count? im confused lol

[@pschighlights]

Nah it’s kinda just like a scrimmage or preseason game. Doesn’t go against their record. But it’s still embarrassing.

[@Trump20-24years]

I like the announcer getting more and more depressed as the game goes on 🤣🤣🤣

[@39bboy]

They were not ready

[@whatlol_e]

NOT AGAIN 💀💀💀

[@scottmcshannon6821]

this is great!!

[@Anomic-mo9ji]

For the first time in history the entire student body of a college celebrated a sports victory in person. The Fire Marshall authorized that all 211 students were allowed into the theater that officially seats 200 for the celebration.

[@DB-gr7ch]

Realx...no one even knew this game was happening. If there was no prepartion value in playing games that don't count...they'd count.

[@pseudohippie55]

This season is going to be wild. We've already had 2 DIi upsets in the last week or so. Pace University just beat St John's and now Kentucky Wesleyan beat Louisville.

[@unorthodox4871]

As a Louisville fan, a win over us is not even an upset. Anyone that plays us this season basically gets a free win, we’re like the bonus round when you play an arcade game. You can get all the points you want, we won’t stop you.

[@joemother1098]

the curse of Louisville BB got St. John's too😭😭should've taken that into account when they hired Pitino

[@GoatedAtNFS]

it’s exhibition games though,

[@mitchtherevolution]

​@@joemother1098 I don't think St John is going to be ranked 285 out of 286 in NET Rankings like Louisville was last year.

[@notarealperson9709]

We thought Billy Gillispie was bad...

[@BobbyD520]

If you’re keeping Louisville under 30 at the half. You got a shot for sure

[@60zeller]

So, Uof L is a football school now?

[@TimothyC.84]

They almost got SLU the other day 😅

[@hillsboroughservice2116]

Why does Louisville keep recording these exhibition games? This happened last year too.

[@johnathanpatrick6118]

Good job Kentucky Wesleyan. 😂👍🏾 Louisville...back to the drawing board. (Wait...I think they haven't left the drawing board...)

[@Jason-ty4nt]

Some people in the comments are in denial of the fact that D2 basketball players, are as good as D1 players. Those who haven't really played competitive basketball will naturally look down on the D2 basketball team. The difference between them is not the skills, the only difference I see is the size of the players

[@uglynaija]

They haven’t been the same ever since that Zion and duke historic comeback win😂

[@Kddoggx2002]

Actually we were #1 in the nation the following year and were beating Duke on their court. Projected a 3 seed till covid de railed chris macks progress

[@ogrewlayers]

as a student I can say that the best 5 man roster at our rec center beats this team with 1 week of proper coaching

[@rashoff]

Wow, it's happened again

[@robertsessoms]

Dang..

[@50Deuce502]

Damn!! Kenny Payne I'm starting to loose hope in you. I knew the kid leaving last minute to play Pro in Australia would hurt but sheesh!

[@kingadalou]

This is a effort issue, it's simple, rebound the fucking ball and stop jacking up 3s like your golden state.

[@mitchtherevolution]

Louisville has been dragging down the entire ACC's Net Rankings when it comes to selection sunday.

[@kylewaters231]

They acting like they just beat them to advance to the next round of the tournament

[@randallmadison9910]

Really big win for Division II school. They should celebrate. Bellarmine was excited last year as they should have been. Old man trying to take some kids' fun away. Head of the Congregation of the Miserable! Lmfao.

[@chris2fur401]

As a Kentucky fan, I love this 😂. I came on here just to watch them lose.

[@mitchtherevolution]

Yeah, because it's great for Kentucky if their historic rival becomes trash. That's why everyone still cares about the Georgia vs Georgia Tech rivalry... Oh wait, no, that's stupid.

[@forrestunderwood3174]

Nice.

[@ronniedozierreacts]

Can someone answer this: Do these games somehow help a D2 team move up to a D1 team? I’ve actually never heard of a D1 vs D2 game before. Very interesting.

[@bostonbragg9810]

They're similar to the FBS vs FCS games in college football. The D1 team pays the D2/D3/NAIA/NCCAA team to come to their arena and be an easy win. Hilarity ensues when the D1 team gets beat at home like in this video.

[@bnegs521]

It did for a school like High Point located in North Carolina

[@ChaseRiver2]

it doesnt, its more complicated than that, and the process of moving up a division is actually a multi-season process, I'm not exactly sure why they make it so annoying. These games happen all the time though, every school usually invites at least one D2/D3, probably two, for exhibition games before the season. Not all are televised/open for fans though.

[@scott1564]

Most D2 schools have been D2 for decades and aren't looking to move. There are exceptions, of course. Abilene Christian, for example, made the transition from D2 to D1 about a decade ago. However, ACU was at one point in the Southland Conference (D1) and returned there. They were FCS in football and then moved to the WAC a couple of years ago. A more recent example is Texas A&M - Commerce (formerly East Texas State) who was also in the Lone Star, but other long time Lone Star schools like Midwestern State in Wichita Falls or A&M Kingsville (formerly Texas A&I), or Angelo State have been in D2 and the Lone Star forever. The Lone Star, at least in football, used to be an "outlaw" league where misfits who got kicked off D1 teams found a home. But D2 has changed a lot since those days. I went to college (a D1 school) with a lot of guys who either got D2 offers or played a year or two of one sport or another at a D2 school. Those that didn't go -- mostly football guys -- usually had an injury and decided against taking a risk on making it worse. Those that gave it up and transferred realized they were working out 40+ hours a week and it wasn't that much fun anymore. They often played in front of more people in high school and travel really sucked.

[@bnegs521]

@@scott1564 High Point North Carolina did.

[@josephhowell8158]

Wildcats fans are happy

[@Calebbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb]

Louisville men’s basketball has become so bad, that if you google “Louisville Basketball” the women’s teams Wikipedia page shows up instead of the men’s team 😂

[@WillThomas-hs3oj]

As a huge lville fan, this isnt suprising, but im not overreacting either, i still have faith we can turn things around 100%, with kenny payne or without him, well be back on top eventually some of you all have to have pateience its not gonna change over night

[@PrimeToons4675]

The worst part about this is that Louisville is stuck in D1 because their football and volleyball teams are relevant at least. Louisville basketball should just ask to cancel their season or something

[@conormcgregor7505]

Bigots

[@mitchtherevolution]

Could just kick their basketball team out of the ACC.

[@jacob_coleman25]

KWC baby 🎉

[@carterwainwright1244]

Sky Clark really wishing he stayed with Illinois rn

[@Mathtron5000]

"Louisville LOSES to D2 SCHOOL!!" "Sheen, this is the second year in a row you've been upset by a D2 school."

[@rogerfleury2162]

KY Wesleyan used to be a basketball powerhouse from back in the day but now it’s been a mix bag of results in recent seasons. Unfortunately for Louisville, it looks like this will be the same story as last year.

[@Seminooos]

Did Florida State win or lose their exhibition game?

[@TheChipmunkMan]

Very happy to see this as a Kentucky fan

[@mitchtherevolution]

Louisville being terrible is not good for Kentucky's basketball program, so that's pretty stupid of you. But hey, Kentucky is going to stupid.

[@TheChipmunkMan]

@@mitchtherevolution Louisville doing bad is good for my program since I live in Louisville, not very stupid

[@dhoward011987ify]

Kenny Payne is 2-2 in Exhibitions. Not a shocker.

[@davidcota4978]

Jones Jr #12 played good

[@bryannixon4297]

Louisville fans have got to be pretty much done with Kenny Payne.

[@roberthudson1959]

D2 and D3 players may not be as athletic as their D1 counterparts, but that doesn't mean they can't play at all.

[@familydork]

why not make louisville a D2 team?

[@RedHeadedDude87]

Looks like another long season for the Cards. They'll win more games than last year, but not many

[@sdwhitesox8039]

A lot of D2 players are just as good as D1 players, they just weren't offered D1 scholarships for whatever reason.

[@Jason-ty4nt]

Right, some D1 players transfer to D2, and some D2 transfer to D1. The skill level are pretty much on par, but the difference between them is really the size of the players

[@settingsun3470]

Deja vu

[@dentonyoung4314]

You have to wonder how seriously Louisville was taking this game, knowing it doesn't count in the standings.

[@joemother1098]

I mean, they don't really take the games seriously even when they do count in the standings...

[@paulkowald4057]

This is why it’s better to do this in college basketball. If it were football Louisville wwouldve kick their ass.

[@StevensonSixkiller-dq2iv]

Well goddamn, I’d hope so…

[@paulkowald4057]

My point being if this were a football game, this little school would be paid to come in to Louisville and the big FBS school would use them as tackling dummies and run up the score just like all FBS schools do in football

[@davidcota4978]

Danny Manning in the house

[@kevinmahlendorf4955]

Kenny Mayne should never have left Sportscenter

[@mitchtherevolution]

They should just fire him now and make Nolan Smith the head coach.

[@nextgen309]

ルイビルはここ数年本当に低迷してる。正直今回負けたのも驚きはするけど納得がいく