Transparency: I have the Yum! leave. at halftime. Partly because of exhaustion. I had minor surgery last week and was unable to exercise for a few days and had trouble sleeping. When I finally got back to the gym on Sunday and Monday, I overdid it. Partially because it's really hard to say a whole lot because the Young Harris Mountain Lions were so outmatched tonight.

So I'm writing this at home on my desktop while I watch the second half on a laptop.

One thing is clearer than all other findings.

We know this from the walkers in the Bahamas.

Louisville will shoot threes.

Lots of threesomes.

A whole lot of threesomes.

At this moment there is a timeout on the keyboard, there are 15:11 minutes left. The Cards are 72-37. After a 63:27 lead at the break.

The cards are 28/53. (52%) 17/39. (44%)

With 21 assists on those 28 FGs.

The Cards played with a lot of energy in the first half, although honestly it didn't seem to have quite as much energy as their summer stay in the islands.

In the second half, every edge the Cardinals played with stayed in the locker room.

Reyne Smith can really shoot the ball. I didn't see him miss during warmups. He is 5/6 4/5 with a card advantage of 81-37.

Louisville's defense needs work.

For obvious reasons, the Cardinals really didn't play many sets. Mostly just moving the ball, cutting, passing and looking for the open man beyond the arc.

Terrence Edwards had 22 in the opening stanza. Didn't score a goal in the 2nd game. (He finished the race in 24th place.)

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Some news off the pitch.

One of the student managers holds up a whiteboard during timeouts and the game that says, “3 kills/0 stops.”

Update: Smith just hit another triple. Except for James Scott, Kader Traore, Frank Anselem-Ibe and the Walkons, all of the Cardinals connected from afar.

During the pregame warmup, the assistants were actually out with the team, working with the team and pushing them.

Before the game, Pat Kelsey walked out with all the assistants and immediately greeted the YH coaches and referees.

Just behind the railing next to the television cameras sits a fan who puts up a 3 after every Cardinal trey is made.

Fortunately, the introductory video was short.

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It all winds around this and that to say this.

It's a new dawn.

Cardinal Hoops will be fun again.

We won't get a real sense of how successful PK's first team will be until Morehead State, and more specifically Tennessee. Maybe later.

Given the gauntlet the Cardinals face, we'll certainly have a feel for it come New Year's Eve. At this point, U of L will have played Vols, IU, Ole Miss, Duke, North Carolina and UK.

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Final: Louisville 106, Young Harris 59.

Louisville took 56 threes. They scored 24 goals.

In the first season they were allowed to play between 1986 and 1987, Denny Crum's Cards only got 127.

The most U of L has ever launched in an entire campaign was 906 in 2004 and 2005.

The safest bet in the entire BetZoneDraftWager universe is that the number will be exceeded.

If you expected more than this rambling piece, I'm sorry.

I'll do better.

I expect the Louisville Cardinals will do the same.

—CD Kaplan