John Clay's Sidelines

For those who don’t want to follow along on the Liveblog chat, I’ll be posting old-school updates of Kentucky-Louisville throughout the game at Freedom Hall:

• Sosa hits deep three with 2.8 to give Louisville win 74-71.

• U of L up 71-67 with 32.4 left.

• Louisville up 69-64 with ball with 58.5 seconds remaining. Two bad turnover son last two Cat possessions.

• Cats call time at 1:59, with ball, down 66-64. Porter 3 cut it to 1.
  

• Ville up 66-61 at 3:49 mark. Williams just called for palming. Louisville has 12 turnovers to 19 for Cats. Ville now down to 45.7. It missed four shots in one possession. UK up 29-20 on boards. Cats shooting 50 percent.

• There’s Meeks for a 3. It’s 64-59 Ville as Cards call time at 6:43. Samuels back in.

• Louisville leads 64-53 with 7:48 remaining. Cards have hit 10 of 17 threes. Who says Pitino has lost it? Smith is 3-of-3. Williams is 3-of-4. Louisville shot 29.6 percent from floor on Wednesday. Cards are shooing 51.3 now.

• It’s 57-48 Louisville with 11:57 left. Wild half as neither bench is happy with officials. U of L had a 12-0 run after the Gillispie T. UK  is shooting 48.6 percent for game. Meeks (18) and Patterson (17) have 35 of UK’s 48 points.

• Louisville back in front 49-43 at 15:35. Cards have scored 7 straight since Gillispie technical at 17:14. Will Scott off the bench for four of those points, including a big 3. UK had gone ahead 43-42 before Billy G. was hit with T.

• Patterson had nine rebounds the first half.

• Louisville shot 44.4 percent on 12 of 27 shots the first half. Cards made five of 10 threes, and 9 of 10 from foul line. Cards were outrebounded 19-9. U of L turned it over six times, and had eight steals to two for Cats. Clark and Sosa each have nine points.

• Kentucky shot an even 50 percent the first half, making 12 of 24. UK was 3-of-7 on 3s, and 8-of-9 from foul line. Meeks leads way with 14. Patterson is next with 8. UK committed 14 turnovers in the first half.

• Halftime: Louisville 38, Kentucky 35.

• Louisville 36-29 with 3:16 left. Cards are 12-of-24 from floor. UK is 11-of-21. Meek has 14, but no other Cat has more than five. UK up to 12 turnovers.
  

• It’s 28-24 Louisville at 7:13 TV time. UK is shooting 62.5 percent and down four. Meek is 5-of-8 from floor, 2-of-3 from 3. Remember, he scored 46 on this floor against Appy State. Louisville has six points from Jerry Smith, who just hit two threes. Meeks has 14 points to lead all scorers.

• It’s 20-16 Louisville at the 11:17 TV time. Cats are 6-of-8 from floor, but have turned it over nine times. The Cats are 2-of-2 from three, both by Meeks. Louisville has made 6-of-13 shots. Clark and Meeks each have 8 points.

• It’s 13-6 Louisville at the 15:52 TV timeout. The Cats have already turned it over six times, including Liggins committing a turnover in backcourt. UK has made three of four shots — so it has two more turnovers than shots at this point. Sosa has five points to lead all scorers. Clark has four for the Cards, as well.

• UK’s starters are Galloway, Porter, Meeks, Stevenson and Patterson.

• Louisville’s starters are Williamson, Clark, Sosa, Samuels and Smith.

• Francisco Garcia is courtside.

• Tony Greene, Tim Higgs and John Cahill are the officials today.

• Ramon Harris is dressed and warming up with the Cats.

• Father Bradley is here. He’s standing at midcourt watching Louisville warm up.

• Kevin Harlan and Clark Kellogg are doing the game for CBS.

• It’s 2:30 p.m. at Freedom Hall and Lousville’s Earl Clark has been out on the floor taking shots for at least the last 15 minutes. He has U of L managers shagging rebounds.