I meant to get to this topic yesterday, but the fact that Louisville struggled with Happy Osborne’s Georgetown Tigers again in Wednesday night’s exhibition game raised my interest.
Georgetown played the Cards neck-and-neck and even led in the second half before Louisville pulled away for an 80-68 win.
Asked Mike Rutherford of the Card Chronicle to give me his thoughts.
Here’s his reply:
Outside of the spotty outside shooting, it was just about everything I expected. Samardo Samuels dominated in the paint against an undersized NAIA team, the Cards made careless decisions with the ball, they committed a lot of reach fouls becasue they were out of position defensively, but ultimately they found the run they needed in the second half to secure a double-digit victory.
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John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at jclay@herald-leader.com.
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