'Made for it': Louisville basketball commitment Bobby Pettiford embraces chance with Cardinals

Posted Jun 14, 2020
When the message popped up in his Twitter DMs in April, Bobby Pettiford Jr. didn’t believe it. It was from the owner of a popular North Carolina high school hoops scouting service, Michael Talbott, who informed Pettiford that Louisville was interested in recruiting him. Pettiford, a junior PG in Creedmoor, NC, at that point had only two offers from Power Six programs. (Louisville Courier-Journal)

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