Sorry if this has been posted, I didn't see it here, but it is on the front page article on the Cardinal Rival Site...
Pitino said he still plans to add one or two players. He said he is looking at high school and junior college players, along with fifth-year players who have graduated from other schools and are looking to transfer and play one more season in another program.
In the latter category, two players who have been rumored as possibly being interested in Louisville are Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell and Cleveland State guard Trey Lewis, who scored 24 points in the Vikings' 45-33 loss to UofL in December and shot 42.3 percent from three-point range this season. Ferrell was IU's leading scorer at 16.3 ppg and hit 41.6 percent of his shots from beyond the arc.
PLANNING TO RELOAD
UofL will be without its four top scorers and four of its top six rebounders next season. Besides Rozier and Harrell, Wayne Blackshear has graduated and Chris Jones was kicked off the team on Feb. 22. Guard Quentin Snider and centers Chinanu Onuaku and Mangok Mathiang, who shared the position, will return as starters. But Pitino doesn't like to use the term rebuilding.
"The guys coming back are all going to be good basketball players," Pitino says. "We don't want to rebuild, we want to reload. It's really important to stay at this level. We don't want to slip and we don't want to make any excuse about losing a lot of our points. We're going to have the type of season next year that we had this year -- we're going to have some losses. But as long as we, come March, become a great basketball team, we'll be fine."
Pitino said he still plans to add one or two players. He said he is looking at high school and junior college players, along with fifth-year players who have graduated from other schools and are looking to transfer and play one more season in another program.
In the latter category, two players who have been rumored as possibly being interested in Louisville are Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell and Cleveland State guard Trey Lewis, who scored 24 points in the Vikings' 45-33 loss to UofL in December and shot 42.3 percent from three-point range this season. Ferrell was IU's leading scorer at 16.3 ppg and hit 41.6 percent of his shots from beyond the arc.
PLANNING TO RELOAD
UofL will be without its four top scorers and four of its top six rebounders next season. Besides Rozier and Harrell, Wayne Blackshear has graduated and Chris Jones was kicked off the team on Feb. 22. Guard Quentin Snider and centers Chinanu Onuaku and Mangok Mathiang, who shared the position, will return as starters. But Pitino doesn't like to use the term rebuilding.
"The guys coming back are all going to be good basketball players," Pitino says. "We don't want to rebuild, we want to reload. It's really important to stay at this level. We don't want to slip and we don't want to make any excuse about losing a lot of our points. We're going to have the type of season next year that we had this year -- we're going to have some losses. But as long as we, come March, become a great basketball team, we'll be fine."
