Pitino earns victory No. 500
After watching his team struggle with reckless play in consecutive losses that kept Rick Pitino stuck on 499 career college wins, the Louisville coach saw that the player introductions were a modest arm-wave from the starters as their name was announced.
After watching his team struggle with reckless play in consecutive losses that kept Rick Pitino stuck on 499 career college wins, the Louisville coach saw that the player introductions were a modest arm-wave from the starters as their name was announced.
The Cardinals responded with an 85-75 win over visiting Marshall last night. Pitino is the 17th active coach with at least 500 wins.
"We tried to suffocate them with our defense," Pitino said.
The Cardinals (6-3) forced 17 turnovers and shared the ball at the other end. Louisville finished with 19 assists, the Cardinals' highest total since a season-opening rout of Hartford. Louisville also had a season-high 13 blocks.
Earl Clark scored 23 points and Derrick Caracter had 18 points and eight rebounds in his return from a one-game suspension.
In other games:
* At Georgia Tech, Russell Robinson scored 17 points as No. 3 Kansas (11-0) beat the Yellow Jackets, 71-66.
* At UCLA, Kevin Love had 16 points to lead the No. 8 Bruins (10-1) over Western Illinois, 77-52.
* At Texas, D.J. Augustin scored 24 points, including 10 of the final 17 points for the Longhorns (11-0), in a 66-56 victory over Oral Roberts. *