Highlights: Louisville 64, Notre Dame 50
This is really happening, in case you were wondering.
Friday, Mar 9, 2012, 9:37 PM EST
Madison Square Garden - New York, NY
| Final - 3.9.2012 | 1 | 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Cardinals | 35 | 29 | 64 |
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 19 | 31 | 50 |
This is really happening, in case you were wondering.
Going to have to agree on both accounts.
As you watch this, I'm sculpting a Gorgui Dieng statue out of Play-Doh, cement and old Laffy Taffy wrappers. Look for it at the top of the Aegon Center on Sunday morning.
There's no longer any question about it: something special is happening. Louisville put together its second complete effort in as many nights to roll past Notre Dame and into the finals of the Big...
Louisville will head into the evening as a 3- point favorite.
1) Infra-Russ: 2) Infra-Rick: You are now more educated and better prepared to head into the evening than you were two minutes ago.
So that was fantastic. Louisville fans got what they've been wanting since, well, the start of the season, as the Cardinals pasted ninth-ranked Marquette 84-71 in the Big East Tournament...
Notre Dame outlasted South Florida 57-53 in overtime and will now face the mighty Cardinals of Louisville Friday night in the second Big East Tournament semifinal. As much as I wanted revenge on...
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 35 | 29 | 64 |
| Notre Dame | 19 | 31 | 50 |
| Louisville | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Kuric | 37 | 5-10 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 12 |
| Chane Behanan | 14 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-0 | 6 |
| Gorgui Dieng | 37 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6-1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3-0 | 16 |
| Peyton Siva | 33 | 6-10 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3-0 | 13 |
| Chris Smith | 27 | 4-10 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 9 |
| Russ Smith | 21 | 1-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3-0 | 3 |
| Zach Price | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 1 |
| Jared Swopshire | 23 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1-0 | 2 |
| Elisha Justice | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Wayne Blackshear | 4 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 2-1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0-0 | 2 |
| Kevin Ware | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Stephan Van Treese | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Angel Nunez | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Rakeem Buckles | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Mike Marra | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Luke Hancock | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Mark Jackson Jr. | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Tim Henderson | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 28-50 | 5-15 | 3-4 | 28-8 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 14-0 | 64 | |
| .560 | .333 | .750 | Team Reb: 2 | Total TO: 1 (0 pts) | |||||||
| Notre Dame | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Martin | 34 | 4-14 | 0-2 | 1-5 | 3-0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2-0 | 9 |
| Pat Connaughton | 27 | 2-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 4 |
| Jack Cooley | 32 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 11-9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3-0 | 11 |
| Eric Atkins | 37 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 5-6 | 5-1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2-0 | 12 |
| Jerian Grant | 39 | 2-9 | 1-7 | 3-4 | 2-0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2-0 | 8 |
| Alex Dragicevich | 14 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Tom Knight | 11 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 6 |
| Joey Brooks | 5 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Mike Broghammer | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Tim Abromaitis | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Garrick Sherman | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Patrick Crowley | DNP - | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 19-53 | 2-17 | 10-19 | 33-19 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 9-0 | 50 | |
| .358 | .118 | .526 | Team Reb: 6 | Total TO: 0 (0 pts) | |||||||