Louisville basketball fifth-year forward Kasean Pryor will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season due to a torn ACL in his left leg he suffered in the Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis.
On the defensive end of the court against Oklahoma, Pryor was clipped by one of his teammates, senior point guard Chucky Hepburn, who fell to the ground while trying to guard a driving Jeremiah Fears. Pryor went down, too, and pounded the court in pain.
With the assistance of a couple of U of L staff members, the 6-foot-10, 225-pound Chicago native limped back to the team’s locker room at Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas with 19:02 to play in regulation. Sometime around the seven-minute mark, his father pushed him in a wheelchair back out to the end of the bench, radio play-by-play announcer Jody Demling noted on the Cardinal Sports Network broadcast.
Before going down, Pryor tallied six points on 2-for-9 shooting (1 for 5 from 3-point range), two rebounds, four assists and a steal in 13 minutes against the Sooners. Through seven appearances (three starts) this season, the South Florida transfer was third on the team in scoring with 12 points on 36.8% shooting (5 for 33 from 3) and second in rebounding with 6.1 across 24.7 minutes per contest.
As of Friday night, Pryor ranked among the top 200 Division I players on KenPom.com in defensive rebound percentage (22.3%, 155th), block percentage (5.9%, 168th) and steal percentage (3.8, 164th). He was also averaging 6.6 fouls drawn per 40 minutes, which had him at 87th in the country.
This story will be updated.
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