Hoopaholic’s Gazette: The Waiting Game

From the moment of my fist keystroke here, there are 10 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes until the NBA Draft withdrawal deadline for college underclassman, those wishing to continue their undergraduate eduction at an institution of higher learning.

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Flory Bidunga, you are on the clock.

And now the Louisville Cardinal fanbase, after enduring a week of quiet burgeoning anxiety, which followed a furious couple months of anticipation and good news, sits and waits.

Tick Tock. Tick Tock. Tick Tock.

Like the opening of “60 Minutes,” only a whole lot longer.

And we wonder, what if the “#1 Player in the Portal,” opts to stay and roll the dice. As The Professor, may he Rest in Peace, would opine, “Perhaps the kid simply doesn’t want to endure the ‘Theoretical Thereminology 368’ class he’d need for graduation.”

If rational thinking doesn’t prevail and he leaves his talent in the 2d round pool, what are the Cardinals to do?

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It would leave them with enough largesse to make a necessarily absurd offer to Milan Momcilovic. Which would certainly help the Cards’ chance for real marksmanship. But leave them for the second season in a row bereft of depth underneath.

Oh the pluses and minuses of this obsession.

When word from whatever spot of gestation started to circulate last week that Bidunga was ” perhaps leaning” toward staying in the Draft, I began to cull the nooks and crannies of the www. for other unsigned possibilities.

The name David Fuchs popped up. A 6-9, 245 lb. bruiser who is not leaving his heart in San Francisco.

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Apparently ACC mate Clemson is making the biggest push. But . . . that was several days ago, and a quick check does not reveal any commitment on the kid’s part.

Understand, I have not the foggiest idea whether this baller’s even on the U of L staff’s radar. Just me trolling for some nugget that will sate my craving for the day.

Or, is there some fire breathing, vodka guzzling firebrand from Hackcomputevenia we’ve never heard of that might add to the global nature of the team?

Flory, the Cardinal Nation awaits.

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I finally remembered the name…

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Publish date : 2026-05-17 18:13:00

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