No. 23 Ole Miss drops Louisville 86-63

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LOUISVILLE — University of Louisville men’s basketball suffered an 86-63 loss to No. 23/20 Ole Miss on Tuesday night at the KFC Yum! Center in SEC/ACC Men’s Basketball Challenge.

“Ole Miss was really good tonight, they’re a very good team,” said Louisville head coach Pat Kelsey. “They’re well-coached, they’re tough, they’re deep, they’re physical and scored the ball way too easy. But you’ve got to give them a lot of credit, they took it to us.

“I thought our defense was really good down in the Bahamas and it wasn’t to our standard tonight. Early on in the game, I felt like we had quite a few open looks that didn’t go down and I felt like we allowed our offense to affect our defense a little bit. In the Bahamas, we were a little sluggish early on in several of those games and we just kept guarding and I didn’t think we did that as well tonight. Give them credit, tip your cap, they kicked our butt. We dust ourself off, we show up tomorrow, we get back to work against obviously a really good opponent on Sunday.”

Louisville went 2-1 in the Battle 4 Atlantis during Thanksgiving week, including wins over Indiana and West Virginia. Louisville is 5-3.

The Cardinals will open ACC play on Sunday with a matchup against No. 9 Duke at 5 p.m. CT in the KFC Yum! Center. The game will be broadcast on ACC Network.

Ole Miss opened the contest with the hot hand, making seven of its first nine attempts. Louisville went through a field goal drought of four minutes in that time — the drought was resolved by a James Scott dunk just before the 13-minute mark.

The Revels used a 6-0 run to extend their lead to 23-11 with just over nine minutes remaining in the first half. The Cards scored four straight quick between 5:52 and 5:16 to cut the Ole Miss lead to just eight points.

At halftime, Ole Miss led 40-31.

Two minutes into the second half, the Cardinals were able to cut the Rebel lead to just five points, but Ole Miss quickly responded with a 7-0 run in just 36…

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Author : Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.

Publish date : 2024-12-04 10:17:00

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