Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center
| Final - 2.9.2011 | 1 | 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Cardinals | 44 | 30 | 79 |
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 40 | 34 | 89 |
Rick Pitino announced at his Friday press conference that both forward sophomore forward Rakeem Buckles and freshman center Gorgui Dieng returned to practice and will be available to play in...
Also known as: "JTT News and Notes." The big news of Thursday (I actually wrote out the nickname and then went back and deleted it) was that both Rakeem Buckles and Gorgui Dieng returned to...
You can almost always accurately qualify the austerity of a loss by the time the morning after rolls around. This one still stings. Common thought says this shouldn't be as bad as it's been this...
I highly recommend watching the first video with the sound turned down and the second with the sound turned up.
(Editor's Note: I'd like to add to all of this that Digger was wearing a Notre Dame sweater and referred to the Fighting Irish as "we" on multiple occasions. Truly a low point for ESPN's fling with...
No solid video has hit the Internet yet, surprisingly, but Eric Crawford has what's available. The Fighting Irish cheerleaders were impressed. Not ready to say anything else about the game just...
Destined to be a forgotten classic from the present era.
Chris from Rakes of Mallow and I hate each other. HATE. So in order to have as little communication as possible, we elected to shelve the usual Q&A and simply send each other five things to know...
How these people have managed to create one of the biggest home court advantages in college basketball is something I'll never understand.
Audio available here. Rick Pitino --Stephan Van Treese has missed the last two days of practice with a stomach virus, but should be back today (Tuesday). --Rakeem Buckles will see the doctor on...
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | OT | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 44 | 30 | 5 | 79 |
| Notre Dame | 40 | 34 | 15 | 89 |
| Louisville | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrence Jennings | 35 | 7-11 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5-0 | 14 |
| Preston Knowles | 34 | 5-17 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4-0 | 13 |
| Peyton Siva | 38 | 4-9 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 2-0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3-0 | 9 |
| Chris Smith | 42 | 3-8 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 3-0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1-0 | 8 |
| Kyle Kuric | 43 | 9-14 | 4-7 | 6-6 | 6-2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4-1 | 28 |
| George Goode | 8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-0 | 2 |
| Elisha Justice | 7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 2 |
| Mike Marra | 16 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 3 |
| Stephan Van Treese | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Jared Swopshire | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Gorgui Dieng | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Rakeem Buckles | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Mark Jackson, Jr. | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Tim Henderson | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Russ Smith | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 31-64 | 9-21 | 8-11 | 30-8 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 19-1 | 79 | |
| .484 | .429 | .727 | Team Reb: 1 | Total TO: 1 (0 pts) | |||||||
| Notre Dame | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrone Nash | 28 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 6-3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2-0 | 7 |
| Tim Abromaitis | 44 | 6-13 | 2-4 | 9-9 | 8-3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1-0 | 23 |
| Carleton Scott | 34 | 5-11 | 1-2 | 5-7 | 8-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2-0 | 16 |
| Scott Martin | 39 | 2-8 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 6-0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1-0 | 6 |
| Ben Hansbrough | 41 | 9-17 | 5-10 | 2-4 | 6-0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4-0 | 25 |
| Eric Atkins | 26 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 2 |
| Jack Cooley | 13 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-0 | 10 |
| Alex Dragicevich | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Jerian Grant | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Tom Kopko | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Mike Broghammer | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Joey Brooks | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Thomas Knight | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 30-63 | 9-20 | 20-28 | 42-15 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 12-0 | 89 | |
| .476 | .450 | .714 | Team Reb: 4 | Total TO: 0 (0 pts) | |||||||
