Bob Huggins' squad was on the upper end of a 12 point half time lead and after a made 2 pointer by Kevin Jones with 15:10 in the 2nd half it was 42-31. Then, rather they forgot the point was to put the ball in the hoop, or they simply fell victim to 'stellar defense', it would be another 14 minutes until UWV would find the bottom of the basket again. When they did, it was with 1:29 to play, yet they were down just 4 points and a made three by Dalton Pepper cut the lead to 53-52 in favor of Louisville.
The Cards followed the Pepper 3 with a half court pick and roll set that made Karl Malone run his semi-truck off the side of a road as Terrence Jennings set the pick, rolled to the basket and found himself wide open. Siva promptly passed the ball to Jennings, who caught it mid air and put it up with one motion, instead of coming down with it and putting it away easily. The shot missed and UWV had the ball and a chance to take the lead.
West Virginia took the miss and went back down the court and took the lead with 35 seconds remaining. Louisville then brought the circus out from all the clowns on their bench and gave the ball to Siva who did his best Edgar Sosa impersonation and made the winning shot.
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