After swept away the month of January, the Louisville male basketball team is still looking for its first February victory.
The cards saw their first sequence of 10 -game victories in five years end in the same way as the previous one: with a breathtaking loss of road against Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets erased an 11 point deficit at halftime to make an upheaval of 77-70 and Main Louisville just his second loss of the season.
The defeat put an end to a sequence of 134 consecutive games that U of L had won when he led by more than 10 points at halftime. This sequence was reassembled to 2004.
Make no mistake, the defeat was deserved.
Some hot early outside masked the fact that Louisville was not as clear on the defensive level as they had been in the previous four weeks. The cardinals were still late on their rotations, allowing the opening of three after opening three to the handful of solid external shooters of Georgia Tech. Finally, this lack of intensity – associated with unusual negligence with the ball, a bad frank shooting and an effort 1 for 8 beyond the arc in the second period – sealed U of the S Fate during its first defeat Since then Christmas.
Terrence Edwards, originally from Atlanta, led Louisville with 22 points, while Chucky Hepburn added 17 points and I.Vonne Hadley raised 16 years. The only production of the team of the team came from Aboubacar Traore, which scored 10 points and caught eight rebounds, but went only 4-for-the-own, -8 of the Launchers Frank.
I did not expect Louisville to realize the sequence of 20 consecutive victories and finish season 19-1 of the AC, but I must admit that I am very surprised that the sequence ended like that.
For the first time since the Kentucky oriental match at the end of December, U of L did not go out by watching the most prepared and highlighted team. Georgia Tech seemed to win every 50 to 50 balls, they seemed more prepared for what we were going to do than Vice Versa, and they took advantage of each silly error that we made in the most crucial moments of the game.
Fortunately, Louisville being perfect in the last month, allowed him to build a little safety net for his curriculum vitae. He can absorb a blow like this from a bad team. Another, however, and then legitimate concern can start to settle.
It’s time to go back to work.
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