The week long road trip with the Demon basketball team continued as we loaded up a Continental Express plane and flew from Oklahoma City to Houston, then Houston to Louisville Thursday afternoon.
The three days we're spending in Louisville began with a night practice on the UL campus in the volleyball gym. Freedom Hall, the home of the Cardinals, is not available due to a cattle show being held until Friday.
On Friday morning, the team loaded up into three vans and headed for nearby Seneca High School where the team practiced from 7:30 a.m. to 9. What was interesting about this practice, nearly 200 of the school's students filled the bleachers to watch the Demons go through their preparations for Saturday's contest.
Demetrius Bell joined the team later Friday morning after playing in the Demons' final football game of the season Thursday night at Stephen F. Austin.
On Friday afternoon, Patrick Netherton and myself headed to Churchill Downs to catch some live horse racing. After that, the team loaded up and headed off into different directions.
One group when with Coach Mike to Bowling Green and to the Corvette assembly plant while the other crew jumped in the vans with Coach Slessinger and Coach Moore to visit the Muhammad Ali Museum.
The team gathered for a meal at a local buffet restaurant for dinner before studying films for Saturday's game.
A local television station ran an interview with UL head coach Rick Pitino during its six o'clock sports segment, and this is what Pitino said about the Demons...
"This is definitely the toughest team I've played in a season opener in my 32 years of coaching."
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