I like shot charts. It's one of the best things about the analytics site CBBanalytics.com. You can get all kinds of shot charts, and that's where these come from. Above, you can see Louisville's shot chart from the current season. The vast majority of shots are three-pointers, or happen near the rim. That's the hallmark of a modern offense. And a disciplined offense. It's what Louisville coach Pat Kelsey wants.

Now let's take a look at last season's Louisville shot chart.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- At this point, anyone who follows college basketball can read a schedule. You can see that Pat Kelsey's Louisville basketball team does not have a team in the national Top 25 in its path. Maybe even you can see that the Cardinals are projected to lose only one more game in the estimation of Ken Pomeroy's advanced metrics.

Kelsey sees the same things. There's a lot of back-patting going on when you win seven games in a row — especially in a program that hasn't done it in a while, even more in a program that won just 12 games the past two seasons.

Among the possible stumbling blocks ahead for the Cardinals is injury, just bad shooting nights, exemplary performances by opponents. But the biggest one, perhaps, is complacency, or overconfidence.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Louisville men's basketball program was "broken." It was easy to think that. Even easier, I suppose, to say it.

With the departure of Rick Pitino, the threat of NCAA sanction, the general dysfunction of the university for a time, you can see where the "broken" narrative took hold. Certainly, winning only 12 games over two seasons felt like it broke something, if only the bond many fans felt with the program.

But here is the fact of the matter regarding Louisville basketball, with the benefit of hindsight that now includes the nation's eighth-longest active winning streak, which extended to seven games when the Cardinals blew out Syracuse 85-61 on Tuesday night.

The program wasn't broken. It was just the victim of poor management. The car was running. It just needed somebody to hit the gas, somebody who knew how to handle the horsepower.