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LOUISVILLE — Monday marked the Louisville Cardinals’ third game in as many days.

It certainly looked like it.

On the surface, it would be easy to look at Louisville’s 78-56 pasting of Lamar and say, “Oh, looky here: The ninth-ranked Cardinals rolled to another good victory.”

And then you realize this:

It. Was. Lamar.

-- A school which not many people could name what state it is located in (Texas) or what conference it plays in (Southland Conference, specifically the West Division).

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