LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Another college basketball season tips off tonight. It’s the 16th at the KFC Yum! Center. My 26th covering the University of Louisville, 34th overall, and the first in a long time without Rick Bozich.

That’s weird to type. Even weirder to feel.

I’ll be at the Yum Center for a 9 p.m. tip against South Carolina State. He’ll be at home watching replays of Class A White Sox prospects chasing fly balls in front of 37 people and a raccoon.

If you need me this afternoon, I’ll be unconscious.

This is supposed to be a coffee column, so I figured I’d sit down, pour a cup, and try to remember a few opening nights.

I sat. I sipped. I stared.

If I had to rely on memory, this column would be four lines and a weather forecast.

Thankfully, there are archives, yellowed pages

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