Five days after shooting the lights out and taking great care of the basketball in a 92-89 road win over Miami, Louisville failed to replicate either of those efforts in a 78-73 loss to the Hurricanes that ended U of L\u2019s run in the ACC Tournament.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals, who shot 12-for-24 from three in the first game against Miami, connected on just 6-of-24 from deep in round two. They also committed 13 turnovers which led directly to 21 Hurricane points.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a recipe for disaster against one of the biggest and most physical teams in the country.<\/p>\n
Still, Louisville found itself down by just a point with just over a minute to play. That\u2019s when a disastrous sequence featuring a surrendered layup and an inexplicable inbounding turnover by Isaac McKneely essentially put the game on ice.<\/p>\n
Ryan Conwell led the Cardinals with 22 points and nine rebounds, but he made just 1-of-10 shots from beyond the arc. J\u2019Vonne Hadley added 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting, and Khani Rooths came off the bench to score 11 in just nine minutes of court time.<\/p>\n
U of L once again struggled to contain Reneau on the other end of the floor. The First Team All-ACC selection finished with a game-high 24 points and three steals.<\/p>\n
The story is pretty straightforward here: Against a team that has that much of a size and physicality advantage on you, you can\u2019t have seven more turnovers than made three-pointers. Louisville battled like hell, and I\u2019m actually fairly shocked that we played as well as we did inside the arc, but at some point, a team whose super power is supposed to be its outside shooting needs to make some outside shots to beat a worthy opponent.<\/p>\n
The wait for Sunday, unfortunately, begins now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five days after shooting the lights out and taking great care of the basketball in a 92-89 road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3108,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-189665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}