LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The crowd was gone. The music was off. The lights still hummed. And on the floor, with a few managers rebounding for him, was Mikel Brown Jr.

The freshman everyone came to see was still shooting. Floaters, threes, pull-ups. The same shots that clanged, rolled and rimmed out a couple hours earlier now whispered through the net like they remembered who they were supposed to be.

Arena workers stood around. Some were already folding up seats. Everyone was waiting to tear the place down for the next event. The scoreboard still read Kansas 90, Louisville 82 . It might as well have been blinking Lesson Learned . But Brown wasn’t checking the score. He was checking himself.

That’s where the story of this Louisville team begins: in the quiet, not the crowd. On a f

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