Tony Woods is headed to Louisville

Last week, news broke that Tony Woods, who left the Wake Forest program after assaulting his girlfriend and the mother of his one year old child, was visiting Louisville this weekend.

Apparently he liked the trip.

Multiple outlets (we saw it at Zagsblog first) are reporting that Woods has committed to Louisville and will be transferring to the school at the end of this semester. Woods can't sign a letter of intent and he is certainly free to visit anywhere else he pleases, but as of now it appears that Rick Pitino has landed the 6'11" center.

Since Woods cannot transfer until the end of this semester, he will have to sit out a full year starting in December of 2010, meaning that he will be eligible to play for the Cardinals after the first semester of the 2011-2012 season and will have a full season of eligibility in 2012-2013.

There was quite a bit of interest in Woods once he decided to leave Wake, which Mike DeCourcey believes is a result of the lack of quality big men in the class of 2011.

It will be interesting to see the reaction that this decision draws from the media around the country. Woods is far from the only player that has had the slate essentially wiped clean this offseason after being accused of a serious crime. Tre'Von Willis, LaceDarius Dunn, the two players from Michigan State. The list goes on.

Eventually, someone is going to rail on these schools for letting these kids off without much in the way of repercussions. (It won't be me, at least not while I'm trying to roll out these previews.)