Four Virginia players scored in a win over Louisville. It was 1:44.
The future of Louisville men's basketball coach Chris Mack is in danger, as sources told ESPN the school is engaged in discussions to separate with the fourth-year head coach.
Mack will not be on the sideline for Louisville's game against Duke on Saturday, which could be his final game there.
A joint meeting between the Board of Trustees and the University of Louisville Athletic Association was called for Wednesday afternoon to discuss litigation and personnel matters.
According to sources, Mack's buyout is around $12 million, but a lower number could be negotiated as part of a separation agreement.
At a time when Louisville athletics is being run by an interim athletic director, Josh Heird, and is without a full-time school president after the recent departure of Neeli Bendapudi to Penn State, there is a looming decision on Mack.
Louisville has lost five of its past six games, the most recent of which was at Virginia on Monday. Mack was not paid for the first six games of the season because he did not follow university guidelines and procedures.
Following Saturday's home loss to Notre Dame, senior forward Malik Williams was asked if the players are still responding to the coaching staff.
After a long pause, Williams said "I don't have a comment for that."
Mack was the head coach of the Musketeers for nine seasons before taking over at Louisville. The NCAA tournament was canceled due to the coronaviruses in 2020 after Mack led the Cards to a second-place finish. The Cards missed out on the NCAA tournament last season.
The NCAA amended a previous notice of allegations against Louisville to include three alleged violations by the men's basketball program. The firing of Gaudio resulted in Gaudio attempting to extort Mack. Gaudio told Mack he would expose violations if he didn't pay the rest of his salary.
The NCAA alleged that Mack either participated in, condoned, or negligently disregarded violations involving graduate assistants and others participation in practice as well as the creation and use of personalized recruiting videos and aids.
Mack did not demonstrate that he promoted an atmosphere for compliance.
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