2021/01/24 07:53 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Carlik Jones scored 19 of his 24 points in the second half and Louisville beat Duke 70-65, sending the Blue Devils to their third straight loss on Saturday. Both teams plummeted out of the Top 25 rankings this week Duke for the first time since Feb. 8, 2016 but the Cardinals, who fell just outside the rankings, could find themselves back in after snapping a two-game losing streak. The game wasn t put away until Jones, the grad transfer from Radford, hit two free throws with 5.4 seconds remaining. Those came after the Cardinals got possession following a scramble for a loose ball and two missed Blue Devils 3-point attempts.
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Rookie phenom Jalen Johnson scored the Blue Devils’ first five points of the afternoon, all in the paint including a +1.
Knowing he’d come off the bench in Duke’s last outing at Pitt, and put up 24 and 15, I jotted this knee jerk musing in my game notes. “Hold it to just Johnson, Win Game.”
Kind of like, “I don’t need no head of Alfredo Garcia, just bring me the rest of his stinkin’ gang.”
Will I never learn?
So, of course, he only tallies four the rest of the game, gives it away six times, only grabs 4 rebounds, and spends as much time on the pine as between the lines.
Fun facts (according to the media guides)
Wisconsin is 10-11 all-time in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, trailing only Minnesota, Penn State and Purdue for most wins in the event among Big Ten teams. The Badgers are 44-45 all-time against teams from the ACC.
Wisconsin enters Saturday’s game with a 13-game home winning streak, the longest active streak in the Big Ten.
The Badgers lead the country averaging just 7.8 turnovers per game.
UW is tied with MSU atop the Big Ten, and ranked 10th in the NCAA, averaging 6.0 blocks per game.
Wisconsin and Louisville will meet for just the second time in history on Saturday. The only other meeting came in 1978 when the Cardinals claimed a 70-53 win in Louisville.