A long-time rivalry between Ohio River rivals renews Friday night when No. 6 Louisville visits Cincinnati.The Cardinals (4-0) are among the fastest risers in the polls since the start of the season, jumping six spots to No. 6 after rolling past another rival — Kentucky 96-88 — behind star freshman Mikel Brown Jr., who tallied a team-high 29 points.While Friday’s game is in Cincinnati, the annual Hoops Classic at Heritage Bank Center will be played at the neutral downtown site, not the UC campus.The two schools were once bitter rivals in various conferences, including the Missouri Valley Conference, Metro Conference, Conference USA and Big East before Louisville left for the ACC and Cincinnati wound up in the Big 12.Louisville followed up its emotional victory over Kentucky with a 106-81 win over Ohio on Saturday, and has scored 100 points in three games in a single season for the first time since the 2010-2011 season.”I am proud of our guys,” said Louisville head coach Pat Kelsey, who is a Cincinnati native. “Coming off a game that was the magnitude of the one the other night in terms of hype, I worried a little bit about human nature, whether there would be some kind of let down. But that goes against everything we believe in. … I thought our guys were phenomenal in preparation and were on the details.”Cincinnati (4-0) is also perfect in its first four games, including a win over in-state rival Dayton. The Bearcats, however, are coming off a somewhat sluggish game in which they trailed 36-30 at halftime before pulling away for a 72-55 win over Mount. St. Mary’s on Sunday.Cincinnati pulled away with a 19-2 run during a seven-minute stretch to take a 61-50 lead with 6:22 remaining.