Terrence Edwards Jr., Louisville cruise past Bellarmine

Terrence Edwards Jr., scored 26 points to lead host Louisville to a 100-68 victory over Bellarmine on Tuesday.The win marked just the second time since November 2018 that the Cardinals scored 100 or more points in a game.Edwards, a transfer from James Madison and last season’s Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, made 10 of 14 from the floor. He was among five Cardinals who scored in double figures. Kasean Pryor finished with 21 and seven rebounds.Chucky Hepburn scored 11 of his 16 points in the second half and added five assists. J’Vonne Hadley added 10 points, and James Scott made 5 of 6 from the floor as part of a 10-point, eight-rebound performance for Louisville (2-1).Ben Johnson scored a game-high 29 points to lead the Knights (0-5), who played without leading scorer Jack Karasinski (back issues). Billy Smith pitched in with 15.Playing for the first time in 10 days, the Cardinals came out firing. They shot 60 percent in the first half (18 of 30) and connected on 7-of-17 3-point attempts. That was a marked improvement from the starts in their first two games. In the first halves of those games, they shot a combined 32.3 percent and sank just 11-of-43 shots from beyond the arc.

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