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 62.

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
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 game
Tre Holloman with his third consecutive 30 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