Louisville 88 def DePaul 68

I asked for Drealon Burns of the DePaul Blue Devils to have an average night against Louisville in today's US College game in Illinois, guess what? He did. Or was it that the Cardinals had a supreme night.

Louisville started the game in style with an 8-0 run and never looked back for an 88-68 win. For the second game in a row David Padgett came up big for the Cards. On 9-12 shooting he scored 20 points, 4 rebounds and 2 blocks. Terrance Williams though was the standout for the now 9-3 Louisville side. He too managed 9-12 shooting for his 22 points which included 2 three's. He also had 8 rebounds and 5 assists to give him a nice stat line to finish the game.

Dar Tucker was DePaul's best with 22 points off the bench but it was their terrible shooting that probably cost them the match. Drealon was terrible from the arc with all of his 5 shots missing, and shooting a miserable 3-14 for the game to end up with 11 points. The entire team only had 36.5% compared with Louisville's 58.1% from the field.

In the end the scoreline of flattered the Blue Devils. The Cards were up by as much as 31 in the 2nd half and were cruising. The pedal was taken off near the end but it was too late for DePaul to claw back such a deficit.

Louisville now head to the struggling Providence's (4-8) home to hopefully decrease the gap between themselves and the Georgetown Hoya's on top of the Big East. Both Louisville and Notre Dame are 1 game behind the Hoya's and can sniff the top of the table.

Coach Onski