Louisville registered assists on 17 of their first 21 baskets in their Saturday win against Syracuse. The Cardinals finished with 20 assists on just 10 turnovers.

Unlike past seasons, Louisville doesn't possess an NBA prospect. There were 11 NBA executive in attendance, but they were all scouting players from Syracuse.

Louisville doesn't have a top-10 scorer in the Big East, or in the top-20 in rebounding.

“It just shouts out at you that they're playing for Louisville,” Pitino said. “They don't care about themselves.”

Louisville is tied for third place in the Big East.

No. 16 Louisville defeated No. 12 Syracuse 73-69 to keep the Orange reeling.

"We don't get down," Cardinals coach Rick Pitino said. "(Director of basketball operations) Ralph (Willard) told me this was going to be a tough year (but) we've had some surprises along the way. We really haven't had a bad game in the Big East."

Syracuse has lost six of their last eight games.

"It's tough when you're (20) down on the road to come all the way back," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "We made a great effort and got our offense going and did some good things on the defensive end, but you can’t get that far behind."

The rosters for the 2011 McDonald's All-American High School teams were announced on Thursday.

East Team
Brad Beal, Florida
Chane Behanan, Louisville
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Georgia
Michael Carter-Williams, Syracuse
Rakeem Christmas, Syracuse
Quinn Cook, Duke
Michael Gilchrist, Kentucky
P.J. Hairston, North Carolina
James McAdoo, North Carolina
Johnny O’Bryant III, LSU
Marshall Plumlee, Duke
Shannon Scott, Ohio State

West Team
Khem Birch, Pittsburgh
Wayne Blackshear, Louisville
Anthony Davis, Kentucky
Branden Dawson, Michigan State
Myck Kabongo, Texas
LeBryan Nash, Oklahoma State
Austin Rivers, Duke
Marquis Teague, Kentucky
Adonis Thomas, Memphis
Amir Williams, Ohio State
Kyle Wiltjer, Kentucky
Cody Zeller, Indiana

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No. 14 Georgetown defeated No. 13 Louisville 62-59 on Monday night despite blowing an 11-point lead in the second half.

Chris Wright, who went scoreless against Villanova recently, scored 24 points against the Cardinals.

"I have to see how the game is going to determine my role," said Wright, who attempted only three shots but had six assists in the 69-66 win over then-No. 8 Villanova on Saturday.

"In the last game, Austin [Freeman] was hitting shots all over the place, early and often, so why force something? Why force the issue? I've got to be the playmaker. Whatever that entails is what I've got to do."