LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Jaylen Johnson and Donovan Mitchell had seen enough. Louisville trailed Evansville midway through the first half of their season opener Friday night and the 13th-ranked Cardinals needed a kick start.Mitchell and Johnson got the Cardinals going with a 23-1 run to end the first half and the Cardinals rolled to an easy 78-47 victory.We showed tonight were not backing down, said Mitchell who had 15 points, five rebounds and four steals. We dont care who you are or who you have on your team. We were playing soft and they got some loose balls. We are not that type of team (soft).Johnson had 17 points and 14 rebounds.We had a little bit of a problem with the communications on our switches (defensively), said Johnson, who had his first double-double. Coach (Rick Pitino) told us to buckle down. `Wake up.The Cardinals had little trouble after the first 11 minutes of the game.Mangok Mathiang added 11 points and eight rebounds as the Cardinals played 14 players with 10 scoring. The Cardinals stared slow but got rolling late in the first half, holding the Purple Aces without a field goal over the last 9:05 of the half to take a 43-27 halftime lead.Senior Jaylon Brown led the Aces with 19 points but made only 5 of 13 shots from the field against the Cardinals mostly man-to-man defense. Evansville made just 16 of 57 field goals attempts.Louisville coach Rick Pitino wanted the Cardinals to play fast and they did, especially late in the first half. The Cardinals trailed 26-20 with 9:05 but went on a 23-1 run.Louisville outrebounded the smaller Purple Aces 52-29 and had 10 blocked shots. The Cardinals shot 48 percent from the field but made just three of 15 3-point attempts.The Cardinals forced Evansville into 13 turnovers and 28 percent shooting (16 of 57) for the game.Well, I think we had the jitters a little bit early in the game, which is normal for an opening game with an inexperienced team, Pitino said. Really, we played great defense, but we didnt get the loose balls on the ground after playing great defense. So this was a great beginning.The Purple Aces finished the first half missing their final 14 field goal attempts with six turnovers. Evansville was giving the Cardinals fits leading 26-20 with 9:05 after Brown hit two 3-pointers.Johnson, who made just two of 10 3-point attempts last season, pulled up from the right side and swished his first attempt of 2016.The first part of the game we were able to do some decent things, Purple Aces coach Marty Simmons said. Were pretty disappointed to be outscored 58-21 in the last 30 minutes.The win was the Cardinals 100th (100-14) at the KFC Yum! Center in just their sixth season there.BIG PICTUREEvansville: The Purple Aces had to replace several key players from a team that went 25-9 last season.Louisville: Pitino hyped this opener as the first of several big non-conference tests for his team. The Cardinals host Long Beach State next Thursday and face LSU or Wichita State in the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas before hosting Purdue in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Nov. 30.CLOSE FRIENDSLouisville and Evansville are separated by only about 120 miles and hadnt played since 1957. The win by the Cardinals ties the series 13-13.PRESIDENTIAL THOUGHTSPitino was asked about this week election of Donald Trump as president and he had plenty to say.I said it the other night. Hes our elected president and you can protest all you want, but he is not resigning, Pitino said. Look, Ive got problems with him just like everybody does. Everyone in this room has problems with him and I think the only way to remedy a problem is to find a solution.UP NEXTEvansville: The Purple Aces host Alcorn State on Monday night.Louisville: Hosts William & Mary on Monday night in the third meeting between the schools and first since 1952. The Cardinals lead 2-0 but face a team that went 20-11 last season. 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Yorkshire have signed Jake Lehmann, son of the Australian coach Darren, for the remainder of the 2016 Specsavers County Championship season.Lehmann junior, one of Australias most up-and-coming batsmen, now has the chance to tread in the footsteps of his father, the most popular overseas player to wear the White Rose, as Yorkshire chase a hat-trick of Championship titles.He joins Yorkshire ahead of a key period of Championship action, the first of six remaining games getting underway at Old Trafford on Saturday when the White Rose take on rivals Lancashire.He also has the added appeal of a British passport.After the completion of Australia As match against South Africa in Townsville, he is due to leave Australia on Wednesday and should arrive in time to play in that four-day match.Yorkshire moved swiftly to secure the services of the South Australia and Adelaide Strikers man after the departure of Travis Head on Sunday. Head, 22, was called up earlier than expected after winning selection for Australias ODI series in Sri Lanka and has left the Club with immediate effect.Heads departure to Sri Lanka in time for the final Test, where he will train and assimilate into the dressing room, but play no active part, has left Yorkshire in the lurch for their NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final against Glamorgan in Cardiff on Thursday.Even if Lehmann could have arrived in time, ECB regulations prevent the signing of overseas players in the later stages of both one-day competitions to seek to prevent counties strengthening with gun players for the final stages.Arguably, however, the policy shows scant understanding of realities in which overseas players come and go in country cricket with alarming regularity. Injuries occur, contracts are won, promises are broken, honest intentions fail to come to fruition and by limiting a countys ability to respond to events, the ECB is essentially creating a lottery.As well as Yorkshire facing Glamorgan without Head - as well as four absent Englansd stars - Middlesex must cope without a replacement for Brendon McCullum against Northamptomshire because he needs a back operation.ddddddddddddYorkshires head coach Jason Gillespie nevertheless has used his friendship with Lehmann senior and involvement with South Australia to broker a quick deal which will sustain Yorkshire in the Championship.Getting a player of quality is always difficult at this stage of the season, but were delighted to secure the services of Jake, he said.Things happened pretty quickly, triggered by Travis being called into the Australia squad and hopefully he goes on to get a game. Cricket Australia were fantastic to deal with and coordinating with South Australia went fantastically well and we were able to arrange for Jake to come over.Hes a great kid, gives the ball a whack and has shown good nous and awareness. Having worked with him at the Strikers hell fit in to the changing room too, as all our players do. I just hope that he has a good time with us, enjoys himself and contributes to some good wins for Yorkshire.Darren Lehmann represented Yorkshire as an overseas player for a decade from 1997, his weight of runs and laconic, easy-going nature making him comfortably the most successful overseas player to represent the club since the members first voted to allow overseas players in 1992.In all, he scored 8871 runs at an average of 68.76. In 2001 he helped Yorkshire to their first County Championship title since 1968. His top score of 339 against Durham in 2006 during his final game for the club enabled Yorkshire to avoid relegation by a point. It was also the highest individual first-class innings at Headingley and the second highest for Yorkshire behind George Hirsts 341 against Leicestershire in 1905. ' ' '