LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Louisville males’s basketball program might need wrapped up their roster building efforts amongst scholarship gamers, however they’re nonetheless welcoming newcomers within the type of walk-ons.
Patrick Antonelli, a guard who spent the final 4 years of his profession within the Division II ranks with Emory & Henry School earlier than getting into the switch portal, announced Monday that he has dedicated to the Cardinals.
Antonelli is now the second walk-on at present on the roster for the 2024-25 season, becoming a member of Aidan McCool, who’s the Cardinals’ lone returner from the Kenny Payne period. Each Antonelli and McCool are graduates of Bishop England Excessive Faculty in Charleston, S.C., and Antonelli can be the son on ESPN basketball analyst Debbi Antonelli.
The 5-foot-11, 170-pound guard solely noticed the ground in 4 video games this previous season for the Wasps resulting from harm. In that point, he averaged 3.5 factors, 4.0 assists and three.0 rebounds over 23.5 minutes, and shot 4-of-15.
The Charleston, S.C. native has been a starter all all through his collegiate profession at Emory & Henry. In 63 complete video games and 56 begins, he has averaged 6.5 factors, 4.7 assists and 4.4 rebounds, whereas capturing 44.6/33.1/74.0.
Louisville is getting into a model new period of males’s basketball beginning with the upcoming 2024-25 season. Kenny Payne was fired following a disastrous two-year stint as the pinnacle coach, with the Cardinals bringing in Charleston’s Pat Kelsey to interchange him.
Since Kelsey’s hiring on Mar. 28, roster building has been full velocity forward. All 12 scholarship gamers from Louisville’s 2023-24 roster entered the portal after Payne was fired, however Kelsey is bringing in 12 D1 transfers and one highschool prospect for 12 months one on the helm. His portal class ranks No. 1 nationally, based on On3.
(Picture of Patrick Antonelli by way of The Bristol Herald Courier)
