Louisville Basketball: 3 Cardinals that will dominate Evansville
By Derek Snyder
We take a look at three Louisville basketball players that will dominate the Evansville Purple Aces on Friday night.
The Louisville basketball team is ready to take on the Evansville Purple Aces on Friday night in the Yum Center at 7:00pm. It will be the Cardinals first game of the 2016 season as they look to start their brutal 2016 schedule.
This has a lot of young players, but that doesn’t mean they come with inexperience. The Cards only have three Seniors are their roster in Mangkok Mathiang, Tony Hicks, and David Levitch.
At the same time, Louisville will be depending a lot on their Juniors to keep the train on course throughout this season. Quentin Snider, Matz Stockman, Jaylen Johnson, and Anas Mahmoud need to take their game’s to another level this year
Here is a short snapshot of the Evansville Purple Aces, courtesy of Louisville’s official athletic website:
"“The Purple Aces have six seniors on their roster, led by guard Jaylon Brown, who averaged 10.8 points and was named to the MVC Most Improved Team last season as UE’s starting point guard. An Evansville graduate whose 25.9 points per game as a senior in 1987-88 was sixth in the nation, UE Coach Marty Simmons is in his 10th season at his alma mater and his next victory will be the 250th of his head coaching career. Evansville has a 13-12 advantage over Louisville in a series which dates back to 1924. It has been 59 years since the teams last met, with Evansville prevailing 92-82 on Dec. 2, 1957. Evansville won nine of the first 10 meetings.”"
It’s pretty surprising that Evansville has the series lead over the Cardinals, but expect that number to even itself out at 13-13 at the end of Friday night.
Here are three Cardinals that will dominate the Purple Aces: