A familiar name may soon play for the Cats’ biggest rival. Louisville is trending for Memphis transfer Emoni Bates, formerly a top-five recruit in the 2021 class.
Bates entered the transfer portal last month and on Monday, announced his top six: Louisville, Seton Hall, Michigan, DePaul, Arkansas, and Eastern Michigan. Since then, the Cards have picked up five predictions in Bates’ 247 Sports Crystal Ball, including one from the outlet’s main basketball analyst Travis Branham. On3’s Jamie Shaw also logged a pick for Louisville in On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM), which pushed the Cards’ chances of landing Bates to 99.