Overview
- The KFC Yum! Center was sold out for the first time since Rick Pitino’s last home game, with Donovan Mitchell sitting courtside.
- Mikel Brown Jr. poured in 20 first-half points and later converted a key three-point play, finishing three shy of the program’s freshman single-game record.
- Transfer guard Ryan Conwell supplied 24 points to complement Brown’s scoring in the Louisville backcourt.
- Louisville moved to 3-0 after withstanding a surge that cut a 78-58 lead to 88-84 with 4:02 left, closing the night with only six turnovers.
- Pat Kelsey labeled Brown “special,” and the freshman proclaimed “Louisville is back, 100 percent,” as the Cardinals look next to Saturday’s home game against Ohio.