ACC Star Tears ACL, Done for Season

One of the best players in the ACC is out for the rest of the season.

Kasean Pryor, who led Louisville to a resurgent 5-2 start to the season, will miss the year with a torn ACL.

ACC star Kasean Pryor in a game for Louisville. Photo credit: Sports Illustrated.

Pryor is a 6-foot-10 forward who transferred in to Louisville to join Pat Kelsey in his first year as head coach of the Cardinals program. Louisville has already earned five wins this season, after winning just eight games total last year under Kenny Payne. The Cardinals got off to the hot start this season with a large chunk of the team’s production coming from Pryor.

He had already scored in double figures four times this season. He posted 13 points against West Virginia, 14 against Indiana, 21 against Bellarmine, and 18 against Morehead State. Pryor was averaging 12 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game at the time of his injury.

Pryor spent the first two years of his career at Boise State, but didn’t play much. He played in a total of 13 games in Boise, averaging less than five minutes per game in both seasons there. He then transferred to South Florida, where he found instant success. Pryor started 21 games for the Bulls a season ago, averaging 13 points and 7.9 boards per contest.

He then transferred to Louisville this offseason, joining Kelsey’s loaded transfer class that also included Chucky Hepburn, Terrence Edwards Jr., Koren Johnson, J’Vonne Hadley, Aboubacar Traore, Reyne Smith, Kobe Rodgers, James Scott, Aly Khalifa, Frank Anselem-Ibe, and Noah Waterman.

Hepburn, Smith, and Edwards are all averaging double-digit scoring early on for the Cardinals.