With 4:30 left in the opening half, Louisville had overcome. Overcome a weekend of travel uncertainty because of weather. Overcome having to fly to Tobacco Road on game day. Overcome a torrid start by the Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor. Overcome a scoring drought of seven minutes or so, when the Cards missed nine field […]
With 4:30 left in the opening half, Louisville had overcome.
Overcome a weekend of travel uncertainty because of weather.
Overcome having to fly to Tobacco Road on game day.
Overcome a torrid start by the Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor.
Overcome a scoring drought of seven minutes or so, when the Cards missed nine field goals in a row.
Then, a triple, followed by an old fashioned three point play, followed by another trey and . . .
. . . lo and behold, the scoreboard read Visitors 25, Home 24.
At which point, Cinderella’s evening at the Ball ran into Midnight.
Duke outpointed the Cardinals 14-3 to the half. Including 9-0 to end the stanza. During which lull, the Cardinals had another ofer run from the field, this time missing 8.
28-38 at the break.
Then the bottom really fell out.
Patrick Ngongba scored on each of Duke’s first five possessions of the 2d.
From then it was academic.
A lesson most severe.
The Louisville Cardinals fell apart like a cheap shirt from Goodwill.
The victors battered U of L on the boards, 47-26 .
Duke dominated U of L in the paint, 42-10.
The embarrassing final: Duke 83, Louisville 52.
— c d kaplan
Category: General Sports
