Louisville basketball’s Mikel Brown Jr. has chance to be viewed among Cards greats

This episode of The C.L. Brown Show features Michael DeCourcy, columnist with The Sporting News and college basketball analyst for Fox Sports.

DeCourcy dives into what has made this freshman class in college basketball so special. He explains the qualities that could make Louisville’s Mikel Brown Jr. one of the first names called in the 2026 NBA Draft and what that means for the Cardinals. And he discusses why Kentucky’s Otega Oweh faces a difficult road going from leading scorer to the player teams are forming scouting plans to stop.

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