Louisville vs Tennessee score: Updates, highlights from today’s game at KFC Yum! Center

Can Pat Kelsey score his first signature win as Louisville basketball’s head coach in Week 1 of the 2024-25 season?

We’ll find out today, when the Cardinals (1-0) host No. 12 Tennessee (1-0) for the first installment of a home-and-home series at what should be a raucous KFC Yum! Center. Tipoff is scheduled for noon.

“Coach (Skip) Prosser used to say, ‘You find out what’s inside the orange when you squeeze it,'” Kelsey told reporters Friday. “Both teams are going to get squeezed tomorrow.”

U of L kicked off Kelsey’s tenure with a 93-45 win over Morehead State on Monday. It was the program’s largest margin of victory since Nov. 13, 2018, 104-54 over Southern, and its most lopsided season-opening win since Hall of Famer Rick Pitino’s debut as Hall of Famer Denny Crum’s successor on Nov. 18, 2001, 92-38 over South Alabama.

The Volunteers, who are coming off a 27-9 season and a trip to the Elite Eight this past spring, began Year 10 under coach Rick Barnes with an 80-64 win over Gardner-Webb on Monday. They are led by senior point guard Zakai Zeigler, who was an All-SEC selection and the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2023-24.

Follow along below with live updates from the Yum! Center:

Louisville basketball score halfway through first half

With 8:08 minutes remaining in the first half, Louisville trails Tennessee 27-13. The Vols opened on a 10-0 run, while the Cardinals made their first bucket (a three by Reyne Smith) at the 14:35 mark.

Louisville vs. Tennessee basketball starting lineups

Here are the Cards’ starters:

Here are the Vols’ starters:

Louisville vs. Tennessee basketball betting odds: Cards swing to favorite before tipoff

The Cards opened as a 1½-point underdog against the Vols, but the line shifted during the countdown to tipoff.

Now, they’re 2½-point favorites (-110) on BetMGM, which set the over-under at 156½ points (-110).

It’s the first time U of L has been favored against a ranked opponent since it beat No. 19 Virginia Tech at the Yum! Center on Jan. 6,…

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Author : The Courier Journal

Publish date : 2024-11-09 15:00:00

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