Louisville 76 Syracuse 71

[Cdirty107]

Surprised there is no thread yet.

 

Cards made a heck of a comeback in this one. They were down 14 with about 8 minutes to go, but got a great contribution from Juan Palacios, who went scoreless in the first half, but scored 9 points in the final six minutes. UL improves to 5-2 in the Big East, which is extremely impressive to me after how they started out this year

[CatchMeIfYouCan]

Congrats.

[Booge]

Awful conference.

[CoachBuckett]

Great effort tonight. Could have laid down, faught back. Big WIN!

[TheDeuce]

WOOOOOOOO!!!! :ylsuper: :dancingpa

 

Freedom Hall was ROCKIN' the last 10 minutes of the game....The Cards showed a ton of courage tonight to come back from 14 down in the second half...Edgar Sosa stepped up and had a very solid ballgame, T-Will stepped it up at the end when it mattered, and Tello came in and gave some quality minutes...

 

GT, see ya Wednesday. :fire:

[LRCW]

Louisville is on a roll. :thumb:

[CatchMeIfYouCan]

T-Will had 11 (4-12)

Padgett had 12 (5-12)

Sosa had 19 (6-13)

Clark had 10 off the bench (2-5)

 

Devendorf had 18 for 'Cuse (5-11)

 

Both teams are 15-6

Louisville is 5-2 in the Big East Conference (6th place)

Syracuse is 4-3 in the Big East Conference (7th place)

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=270270097

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Terrence Williams scored 11 points -- including back-to-back 3-pointers with just over two minutes to play -- to lift Louisville to a 76-71 win over Syracuse Saturday.

 

Louisville guard Edgar Sosa led all scorers with 19 points and the Cardinals held Syracuse to one field goal in the game's final nine minutes to spoil Orange coach Jim Boeheim's 1,000th game.

 

Eric Devendorf had 18 points and nine rebounds for Syracuse (15-6, 4-3 Big East), but the Orange turned the ball over 17 times and allowed a 14-point lead to slip away.

 

Syracuse led 65-51 following a dunk by Terrence Roberts with 9:40 to play, but Louisville (15-6, 5-2) rallied behind Juan Palacios and Williams.

 

Palacios scored all nine points in the final nine minutes, including a jumper from the right elbow that pulled Louisville within 68-66.

 

The teams each made a free thrown, then Williams took over. He missed seven of his first eight 3-pointers, but then knocked down a 3-pointer from the wing to give Louisville a 70-69 lead. Syracuse's Demetris Nichols then missed a jumper from the foul line, and Williams followed with another 3-pointer, this one from the top of the key, to cap the comeback.

Roberts finished with 16 points and nine rebounds and Nichols added 15 points and six boards, but the Orange turned the ball over eight times in the second half.

 

Boeheim became the 22nd coach in Division I history to coach 1,000 games, and the seventh to coach at least 1,000 games at the same school. The defeat dropped his career record to 741-259 and he remains tied with former Temple coach John Cheney for 14th on the all-time Division I career wins list.

[1owlzfan]

The last 10 minutes of the game was awesome to watch!!!I love the atmosphere in Freedom Hall and wish I could have been there. Go Cards!!!!

[cshs81]

If you're a Cat fan, look at UL's success as the glass half full. UK's RPI will benefit.

[gametime]

Awful conference.

:laugh:

 

If you say so.

 

Down from what was the deepest and most talented conference in history last year? Yup. Awful? You clearly don't watch many Big East games...

[gametime]

Nice W for the Cards. You can tell Cuse is missing G Mac big time late in games. Much like UC in a close loss, UL turned up the ball pressure and Cuse went in the tank. See you Wednesday boys...

[Jim Schue]

I didn't get to hear Coach Boeheim's comments after the game, but I walked by him when he was on the way to the interview room, and he looked like he was in dire need of some Maalox.

[newarkcatholicfan]

Nice win for the Cards.

[DragonFire]

Great comeback by the Cards who get a step closer to playing into the NCAA with each game. They've really turned it on as of late.

[letabrotherspeak]

:laugh:

 

If you say so.

 

Down from what was the deepest and most talented conference in history last year? Yup. Awful? You clearly don't watch many Big East games...

It's not an awful league but it is down from where it was last year.

You say deepest and most talented conference last year. However, how many grade one's season by making it to the Final Four on this board, the BE was a disappointment last year.

The BE is about the 6th or 7th best conference in the land this year.

With that being said, the parity in college hoops is widening.

 

Good win for the Cards, they are winning the games they should, particularly at home. Right now, I think it would be logical to project them to be 20-10 at season's end which probably will get them in the tourney, unless the loss to Dayton and the home loss to UMass drags them down. I dont see it happening, but at 20-10 they should feel pretty good, but would cinch it with a first round BE victory.

 

Which brings us to Wednesday at UC. Huge game for UL. If they lose, that would be considered a bad loss in the minds of the NCAA Selection Committee.