In many ways, that was the day that Rick Pitino started down the path that would lead to his disgrace and the ruination of Louisville basketball for the indefinite future.
He understood the days of facing off against whatever journeyman team Tubby or BCG could assemble were over. He was up against the likes of Wall and Cousins, and after that Jones and Knight and Davis and MKG... He'd have to use whatever means necessary to try to compete, and still found himself increasingly dominated by Calipari head-to-head, in games where his ego was exposed and raw. The nonsense with Katina, stripper-gate, buying recruits and the rest became his only chance and it destroyed him.