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Louisville Basketball: 5 Encouraging Takeaways After The Notre Dame Loss

By Derek Snyder

Jan 4, 2017; South Bend, IN, USA; Louisville Cardinals forward Anas Mahmoud (14) and guard Donovan Mitchell (45) look toward their bench in the first half against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 4, 2017; South Bend, IN, USA; Louisville Cardinals forward Anas Mahmoud (14) and guard Donovan Mitchell (45) look toward their bench in the first half against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports /
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We take a look at five encouraging takeaways from Louisville basketball’s loss to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Wednesday night.

Well, the Louisville basketball team wasn’t able to get a win against Notre Dame in South Bend, again, and will be looking to get their first conference win against Georgia Tech on Saturday. While it won’t be easy, I expect that the Cards will find a way to bring home the victory.

Anyways, back to Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish played their tails off on Wednesday night and came away with the win.

Even though the Cardinals didn’t win, there were five things that we identified at extremely encouraging takeaways that can be seen below:

Jan 4, 2017; South Bend, IN, USA; Louisville Cardinals guard Donovan Mitchell (45) goes up for a shot as Notre Dame Fighting Irish guard T.J. Gibbs (2) and guard Rex Pflueger (0) defend in the first half at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 4, 2017; South Bend, IN, USA; Louisville Cardinals guard Donovan Mitchell (45) goes up for a shot as Notre Dame Fighting Irish guard T.J. Gibbs (2) and guard Rex Pflueger (0) defend in the first half at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports /

5. Donovan Mitchell Is Showing Great Signs Of Improvement

Even though the Cardinals weren’t able to get a win, Donovan Mitchell played another great game on Wednesday night. He followed up his 25 point game against Indiana, with a 20 point game against the Fighting Irish.

It was crucial to see how Mitchell was going to perform because the verdict was still out on if his game against the Hoosiers was a one-time fluke.

I don’t know what it was about being benched before the IU game that helped him, but I’m sure glad that Rick Pitino made that decision.

Mitchell is looking like he could become of one the best guards in the ACC by the end of this season, if not way before then.

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