Rick Pitino basketball teams always try to play the same way, but on Tuesday night in St. Louis, the coach of the Louisville Cardinals traveled 13 years into the past.

In the spring of 1996, Pitino won his only collegiate national championship at the University of Kentucky. The Wildcats used a combination of depth, athleticism, pressure defense, and 3-point shooting to dominate the college basketball world. When Kentucky clipped Syracuse in the 1996 national championship game, one of the leading lights for Pitino was a man named Tony Delk, an agile defender and long-distance marksman who provided several clutch baskets whenever the Orangemen (as they were then called; now they're just the Orange) made a move.

Over a decade later, Pitino - now coaching at the commonwealth of Kentucky's other big-name program - might have found a new gem from the same basketball family.

The Arkansas Razorbacks had just ripped off 14 consecutive points at the start of the second half, cutting a 48-31 halftime deficit to 48-45. The Hogs were on the loose at the Scottrade Center, and the sagging Cardinals were in need of an answer, someone who could put a stop to the Razorbacks' rampage.

That's when Pitino found a solution to his team's problems: Reginald Delk.