The Louisville men's basketball team added more names to its injury report ahead of Wednesday night's lopsided loss at Virginia.

U of L (5-8, 0-2 ACC) announced in a statement 29 minutes before tipoff that Kenny Payne's team would be without freshman Dennis Evans (shoulder) and sophomores Emmanuel Okorafor (ankle) and Tre White (groin) as it tried, and failed, to snap a 21-game road losing streak against the Cavaliers (11-3, 2-1) in Charlottesville, Virginia, where it hasn't won since 1990.

JJ Traynor, a senior 6-foot-8 forward who hasn't played since being scratched from a Dec. 9 game at DePaul due to a shoulder injury, was listed as questionable but did not take the court during the 77-53 loss. Payne on Tuesday said Traynor is "getting closer" to a return.

"We need him back, (and) he's been working hard to get back," the head coach said. "He's pretty close, I think."

White's absence from the starting lineup was his first of the season. The 6-7 Southern California transfer entered Wednesday second on the team in scoring with 12.7 points per game on 40.3% shooting. He also adds 6.1 rebounds per contest.

Okorafor, a 6-9 forward, has played in only five games thus far. He's averaging 2.7 points and 2.3 boards across 6.8 minutes per appearance. The NBA Academy Africa product played in a handful of games upon joining the program last January only to suffer an ankle injury that sidelined him for the remainder of the 2022-23 season.

Evans, a 7-1 center, hasn't played since Nov. 29, when the Cardinals beat Bellarmine at the KFC Yum! Center. He started five of the team's first seven games but saw his minutes dwindling before his injury.

Louisville started Ty-Laur Johnson, Skyy Clark, Mike James, Danilo Jovanovich and Brandon Huntley-Hatfield.

Only one of those players, James, broke double digits. The redshirt sophomore scored 11 points on 4-for-10 shooting; while the rest of the starters combined for 27 points on 10-for-24 shooting (2 for 11 from 3).

Freshman Curtis Williams led the Cards with 14 points in 26 minutes off the bench.

Wednesday marked Jovanovich's first collegiate start. The sophomore logged only two minutes off the bench as a freshman at Miami during the 2022-23 campaign. Against the Cavaliers, he scored four points, tallied four rebounds, collected two assists and a steal, finishing -17 across 25 minutes.

Payne did not use his short bench as an excuse after Louisville's 22nd consecutive loss on the road and its 10th by 20 points or more of his tenure. The best-case scenario, as he told Bob Valvano during a postgame interview on the Cardinal Sports Network, is that Jovanovich and others who played more than usual use the moment as a learning experience heading into the meat of ACC play.

"If we're going to beat good teams," he said, "we're all going to have to play A+ games."

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