A two-time recipient of the Big West Conference's Best Hustle Player award is joining Pat Kelsey's inaugural Louisville men's basketball roster.

Aboubacar Traore, who has spent the past three seasons at Long Beach State, committed Thursday via an Instagram post to spending his final year of eligibility with the Cardinals.

He captioned the post, "I'll bet on MYSELF."

A 6-foot-5, 195-pound Ivory Coast native, Traore is Kelsey's seventh addition through the NCAA transfer portal this offseason.

Traore has appeared in 101 games (88 starts) during his college career. He was also selected to his country's provisional roster for the 2023 FIBA World Cup.

As a junior at Long Beach State, Traore averaged 12 points on 51.7% shooting (2 for 23 from 3) to go along with 8.4 rebounds across 30.8 minutes per contest. He also led the team in assists (161 against 95 turnovers) and blocks (51) while finishing second in steals (55).

Long Beach State ended the 2023-24 season with a 21-15 (10-10 Big West) record. It snapped a March Madness drought dating back to 2012 by capturing the Big West Tournament title — after the school announced head coach Dan Monson would not return to the position — but fell to Arizona in the first round.

Traore, for the second year in a row, was named the Big West's Best Hustle Player. He was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the conference tournament and received first-team all-conference honors.

His best game as a scorer to date was when he dropped a career-high 30 points during a Jan. 4 win over Cal Poly. As a rebounder, his high-water mark is 23 (a Long Beach State record); which he set as a freshman in a Jan. 27, 2022, victory against UC Riverside.

He posted 12 double-doubles, and a triple-double in the Big West Tournament quarterfinal round, during his junior campaign.

For his career, Traore is averaging 10.2 points on 55.4% shooting (5 for 34 from 3), 8.4 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.2 turnovers, 1.2 steals and 1.1 blocks across 28.8 minutes per game.

His 853 career boards and 114 career blocks rank third all time at Long Beach State.

"Traore is a wiry and lengthy wing/forward with a high motor who possesses elite speed and is extremely fluid on/off the ball," Mid-Major Madness' Maceo Baller wrote in an analysis of his game earlier this month. "Being a freak athlete, Aboubacar shined in the open court; but his production in almost every department is simply astonishing and exceeds the usual glue-guy projection."

Joining Traore on Louisville's 2024-25 roster are Koren Johnson, a sophomore guard from Washington; J'Vonne Hadley, a senior guard from Colorado; Terrence Edwards Jr., a redshirt junior wing from James Madison; and two players who were members of Kelsey's final team at Charleston, junior guard Reyne Smith and freshman forward James Scott.

Kelsey has also secured a commitment from Aly Khalifa, a junior center from BYU; but the 6-11, 270-pound Egyptian plans to redshirt during the 2024-25 season while rehabbing a knee injury.

As of Thursday, all of Louisville's scholarship players from the 2023-24 season had entered the portal, which is open through May 1.

At the time of publication, seven had found new homes:

• Skyy Clark (UCLA)

• Kaleb Glenn (Florida Atlantic)

• Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (N.C. State)

• Mike James (N.C. State)

• JJ Traynor (DePaul)

• Tre White (Illinois)

• Curtis Williams (Georgetown)

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Reach Louisville men's basketball reporter Brooks Holton at bholton@gannett.com and follow him on X at @brooksHolton.

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