The cruelest thing about March is not that it ends your season. It's that it ends your team.
The hamburgers worked. And more importantly, Louisville basketball is working again.
Louisville coach Pat Kelsey praised Pryor's attitude after the game.
Monday, they were flatter than a soda left out overnight. Saturday, they brought the fizz.
There were some basketball pundits (and by “some,” I mean me) who said before this season that Louisville was likely to go as far as freshman Mikel Brown and sophomore Khani Rooths would take them.
Back for his sophomore season, Khani Rooths is listed at 6-foot-10 on the roster.
If you believe in good starts, then the way the University of Louisville began its season Monday night against South Carolina State portends good things.
In ACC action, Louisville is 97 for 260 from distance, a formidable 37.3%.
If this were mid-March, instead of the second day of December, Pat Kelsey's team would be safely in the NCAA Tournament field
After 13-19 followed by 4-28, followed by 8-24 that will take some work to win and fill the KFC Yum! Center again. This is a completely new team.