5 glaring reasons Louisville basketball struck gold with their ACC schedule

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2. Every 5-star Louisville basketball will face

The ACC is going to take a massive jump next season. After a down year, the 18 ACC programs sought to improve their programs in every way possible. What is the best way to improve your roster? You go get 5-star athletes.

The conference will have an additional 10 5-stars in it next season and over 65 4-stars as well. Louisville will be battle-tested by these 5-star athletes, but wow, is it going to be fun to watch this stacked Cardinals squad going up against the best of the best. They will go up against eight five-stars and will see some of the best players in college basketball.

Here is every 5-star the Louisville Cardinals are going to face in the 2025-26 season.

Duke

UNC

Miami

Notre Dame

NC State

Cameron Boozer

Caleb Wilson

Shelton Henderson

Jalen Haralson

Darrion Williams

Nikolas Khamenia

Matt Able

Dame Sarr

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