Louisville vs. Morehead State preview

Louisville Cardinals (1-0) vs. Morehead State Eagles (1-1)

Game Time: Noon

Location: KFC Yum Center: Louisville, Ky.

Television: ACC Network Extra

Announcers: Kent Taylor (play-by-play) and Larry O’Bannon (analyst)

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Favorite: Louisville by 26.5

Series: Louisville leads, 32-12

Last Meeting: Louisville won 93-45 on Nov. 4, 2024 in Louisville

Series History:

Projected Starting Lineups:

Louisville

G Jackson Shelstad (6-1, 185, Sr.)

G Adrian Wooley (6-4, 205, Jr.)

G Seth Trimble (6-3, 200, 5th)

F Alvaro Folgueiras (6-10, 230, Sr.)

F Flory Bidunga (6-9, 235, Jr.)

Morehead State

G Chase Dawson (6-0, 170, Jr.)

G Izaiah Day (6-3, 185, Sr.)

G Vince Dawson III (6-6, 215, So.)

F Clayton Parker (6-8, 230, So.)

F Dalman Alexander (6-8, 215, Jr.)

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About Morehead State:

Morehead State took a dramatic step forward in year two under head coach Jonathan Maddox, winning 20 games and a share of the Ohio Valley Conference’s regular season title. The Eagles wound up one game shy of the NCAA Tournament, losing in blowout fashion (93-67) to Nolan Smith’s Tennessee State squad in the OVC tournament championship game.

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MSU returns six players from last year’s squad, including one starter in guard Chase Dawson (8.8 ppg/2.8 apg in 2025-26). Dawson has shot the ball well in each of the team’s first two games this season, but turned it over five times in the season-opening loss to Western Kentucky.

“I tell Chase a Kelvin Sampson-ism: ‘There’s three people in our program that cannot have a bad day: the head coach, the point guard, and the best player,'” Mattox said before the season. “I don’t know how this thing will shake out, but right now Chase Dawson is two of the three. I’m the head coach. He’s our point guard, and he’s our best player, so Chase and I, we can’t have bad days. That’s not in terms of making shots. That’s in terms of our leadership, our energy, our intangibles. We cannot have bad days.”

Dawson’s primary supporter so far this…

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