2012–13 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team

2012–2013 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball
NCAA tournament National Champions (vacated)
Big East tournament champions (Vacated)
Big East regular season co-champions (Vacated)
National Championship Game,
W 82–76 vs. Michigan (vacated)
ConferenceBig East
Ranking
CoachesNo. 1
APNo. 2
Record0–5 (35 wins vacated) (0–4 Big East)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
Home arenaKFC Yum! Center
2012–13 Big East men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 2 Louisville†** 14 4   .778 35 5   .875
No. 8 Georgetown 14 4   .778 25 7   .781
No. 15 Marquette 14 4   .778 26 9   .743
No. 20 Pittsburgh 12 6   .667 24 9   .727
No. 16 Syracuse 11 7   .611 30 10   .750
No. 23 Notre Dame 11 7   .611 25 10   .714
Villanova 10 8   .556 20 14   .588
Connecticut* 10 8   .556 20 10   .667
Cincinnati 9 9   .500 22 12   .647
Providence 9 9   .500 19 15   .559
St. John's 8 10   .444 17 16   .515
Rutgers 5 13   .278 15 16   .484
Seton Hall 3 15   .167 15 18   .455
South Florida 3 15   .167 12 19   .387
DePaul 2 16   .111 11 21   .344
2013 Big East tournament winner
As of March 30, 2013
Rankings from AP Poll
*Ineligible for postseason play due to APR penalties.

The 2012–13 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team represented the University of Louisville during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Louisville's 99th season of intercollegiate competition. The Cardinals competed in the Big East Conference and were coached by Rick Pitino in his 12th season as head coach at Louisville. The team played its home games on Denny Crum Court at the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals finished the season 35–5, 14–4 in Big East play to earn a share of the Big East regular season championship.

They won the Big East tournament for the third time in school history and received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Cardinals earned a trip to the school's tenth Final Four and defeated Michigan to win the NCAA Championship.

All wins and championships from this season were later vacated as a part of NCAA sanctions levied against the University of Louisville in response to the 2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal and the team's championship banner was removed, it was replaced by a new banner in 2023 that instead honors the teams #1 rank in the final coaches poll.