Jeff Greer

Louisville Courier Journal

Louisville walk-on Dillon Avare will graduate from U of L and transfer to Eastern Kentucky as a scholarship player, coach Rick Pitino announced on his personal website Wednesday.

Avare, a redshirt sophomore from Lexington, graduated in three years with a 3.99 grade-point average, Pitino said. The 6-foot guard has played in 14 games with the Cards, including six this season.

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He'll be honored at U of L's senior day along with graduate students Damion Lee and Trey Lewis, Pitino said in his blog post.

He is joining an EKU staff headed by Dan McHale, a former student manager at UK in the late 1990s and a staff assistant under Pitino at U of L from 2001-03. McHale worked under Richard Pitino at Minnesota for two years before taking the EKU job, and he hired former U of L star Reece Gaines and former U of L video coordinator Doug Davenport to be two of his assistants.

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