BERKELEY, Calif. \u2014 No. 16 Louisville beat California 90-70 Tuesday night in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams as sophomore guard Adrian Wooley led the way with a season-high 21 points.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
No. 16 Louisville beat California 90-70 in its ACC opener
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Sophomore guard Adrian Wooley had a season-high 21 points
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The Cardinals broke California’s nine-game win streak
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Up next for UofL is a Jan. 2 meeting against Stanford<\/p>\n
Senior guard Ryan Conwell made six 3-pointers and had 26 points, and all five Louisville starters scored in double figures. Junior forward\/center Sananda Fru added 13 points and 14 rebounds while senior guard Isaac McNeely and sixth-year guard J\u2019Vonne Hadley each scored 11.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of respect for Mark [Madsen],\u201d UofL head coach Pat Kelsey said postgame. \u201cHe\u2019s doing great things with his team, [12-1] coming into this game and they\u2019re dangerous. They obviously have some injuries, like we have some injuries. They really challenge you with how dynamic, quick and fast their guards are; it’s hard to keep them out of the paint, both in transition and the half-court. That was a huge emphasis of ours in this game, and I thought for the most part, our guys did a pretty good job of it.”<\/p>\n
The Cardinals, who entered Tuesday averaging more than 90 points per game and limiting opponents to approximately 68 per game, notched another lopsided victory in their first trip to Berkeley.<\/p>\n
Louisville (11-2, 1-0 ACC) scored the first 10 points of the game and never trailed while winning for the fourth time in five games.<\/p>\n
Wooley led the way by shooting 9 for 14 from the field with three 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals won handily despite being without second-leading scorer Mikel Brown Jr. The freshman guard was held out because of a lower back injury.<\/p>\n
Senior forward Chris Bell scored 20 points for California (12-2, 0-1 ACC), which had won nine straight and was going for its second win over a ranked team this season. The Bears knocked off then-No. 18 UCLA Nov. 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They [California] play very hard and their team takes on the mentality of their coach, and nobody was nastier when they played than Mark [Madsen],” Kelsey added. “A very good rebounding team that crashed the glass and we talked about meeting that challenge, and I thought our guys did a good job. Fortunate to come out and win because last year you look at the ACC teams that came out here, there wasn\u2019t a great winning percentage. So we turn our attention to another really tough one in a couple of days and looking forward to the challenge.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Cardinals led by 21 points in the second half and cruised to the finish. Louisville had a mild scare briefly in the second half when Conwell appeared to suffer a minor head injury. But he returned three minutes later and finished the game with his seventh 20-point game of the season.<\/p>\n
Conwell got the Cardinals going early, making five of his first seven shots, including three 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Louisville visits Stanford Friday, Jan. 2. Tipoff is 8 p.m. EST.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, Calif. \u2014 No. 16 Louisville beat California 90-70 Tuesday night in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19375,6632,6631,5167,61464,7,9,8,544,61461,29680,100,61463,2998,127,136,61462],"class_list":{"0":"post-114956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-app-college-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-bowling-green","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-california-headlines","15":"tag-california-news","16":"tag-kentucky","17":"tag-lexington","18":"tag-louisville","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-northern-kentucky","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topic-latest-local-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}