Louisville Gets Hot, Stays Hot. Wins 77-118

Game Summary:

The Saturday / Monday schedule showed in the first half. NC State looked slow and were already down 10 at the first official timeout. The Wolfpack was 2-8 and Louisville was 6-7. By the second timeout (11:55), the Wolfpack had cut the lead to 7 but Louisville was dominating rebounds 10-4 and neither Williams nor McNeil had scored. Louisville pushed the lead to 15 with 5 minutes left and Coach Wade called a timeout to stop the run. It didn’t help; halftime score 36-56. The Pack was out rebounded 24-11, the Cardinals shot 73% (8-11) from 3PT.

The second half didn’t improve at all. NC State scored a little more, 41 points in the second, but Louisville scored an unbelievable 62. This one could not end soon enough. ESPN agreed and cut away early. Final 77-118.

Teams

eFG%

TO%

OR%

FTR

Wolfpack

44.1%

12.6%

15.0%

27.9%

Louisville

73.8%

12.9%

26.7%

41.5%

Overall Takeaways:

• Second most points ever scored against NC State (Maryland had 124)

• 18 3PT – most ever made 3PT shots against NC State

• NC State played terrible transition defense, Louisville seldom had to run their offense at all

• The Wolfpack shot 18% (4-22) from 3PT. The lowest percentage and fewest made all season.

Coach Wade Post Game Comments

Individual Highlights

• Ven Lubin led scoring with 20

• Matt Able led rebounding with 7

• Quadir Copeland led assists with 3

• Darrion Williams unable to crack the 10 point ceiling for the second consecutive game

• Tre Holloman with his third consecutive 30 minute game.

Player Stats and Box Score

Player

PTS

REB

ASST

TO

BLK

STL

MIN

Ven-Allen Lubin

20

6

0

0

1

0

26

Tre Holloman

19

3

0

1

0

0

30

Quadir Copeland

10

4

3

4

0

0

21

Darrion Williams

8

5

2

0

0

3

28

Matthew Able

8

7

1

1

0

2

28

Musa Sagnia

4

1

0

2

0

0

14

Alyn Breed

4

1

2

0

0

0

6

Terrance Arceneaux

2

1

1

0

1

1

17

Scottie Ebube

2

0

0

0

0

0

3

Paul McNeil

0

0

1

2

0

0

26

Box Score