Cardinals keep Scarlet Knights winless in Big East play
Louisville won for the seventh time in eight games, defeating Rutgers 64-49 on Sunday afternoon. Jerry Smith led the attack for Louisville (12-4, 2-1) with 14 points. Edgar Sosa added 10 points off the bench for the Cardinals. Louisville’s benched outscored Rutgers 25-3, as the starters for Rutgers (8-9, 0-4) scored 46 of their 49 points.
David Padgett added nine points for the Cardinals and Juan Palacios and Derrick Caracter each finished with eight points. Rutgers controlled most of the play in the first half, but Louisville decided to quit sleep walking and went on a 12-0 run to go up 28-20, and led 28-23 at the break.
The Scarlet Knights shot just 28.6 percent in the first half, while committing nine turnovers. Rutgers shot just 31.4 percent for the game, while Louisville shot 41.5 percent, 52 percent from the field in the second half. Louisville controlled the glass 40-33 and forced Rutgers into 16 turnovers.
Jaron Griffin scored a career-best 23 points for Rutgers and J.R. Inman added 11 points. Rutgers dropped their fourth straight game, all in the Big East. Rutgers will attempt to put an end to their four-game slide and notch their first win in 2008 when they visit Syracuse on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Louisville will host No.15 Marquette on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
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