When it comes to the struggles that Chris Mack and the Louisville basketball program faced last summer and fall during the primary recruiting window, make of it what you will. After identifying their top targets in the class of 2020, the Cardinals staff spent months and even years building relationships in hopes of putting together another extremely special class.
Those efforts proved to be futile, as Louisville fans got their hopes up time and time again only to be let down when players like Caleb Love, DJ Steward, Hunter Dickinson, Jaemyn Brakefield, Jalen Terry, and others committed elsewhere.