Top-ranked Player in the U.S. Choose Louisville Cardinals football Men’s Basketball Over Alabama and Georgia Bulldogs More..
Top-ranked Player in the U.S. Choose Louisville Cardinals football Men’s Basketball Over Alabama and Georgia Bulldogs More..
Sunday might have been the first game day in Terrence Edwards Jr.’s 22 years of existence where he wanted to be somewhere other than a basketball court.
For good reason: The Atlanta native and his girlfriend of three years welcomed a baby boy, Terrence Edwards III, into the world Saturday night in Louisville. It was, in his words, “the best thing that’s ever happened in my life.
“I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world,” he sa
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Louisville led Notre Dame for nearly 30 minutes and by as many as 18 points, but its first road win in the series since Jan. 11, 2020, was not that lopsided.
The Cards fell behind by six at the 13:27 mark of the first half, 18-12, after allowing the Irish to start the game 7 for 11 from the field. Then, they ripped off a 13-0 run — with baskets from Edwards, Noah Waterman, Chucky Hepburn and Khani Rooths — to seize control for good despite scoring only 10 points on 3-for-11 shooting across the final eight minutes and change of the period. That’s because Notre Dame cooled down considerably, too, making only five of its last 20 shot attempts before the break.
The knockout punch came with 8:11 on the clock; when Aboubacar Traore darted down the court, banked in a layup through contact and crashed into a group of Notre Dame students with front-row seats. As the Ivory Coast native stepped to the charity stripe and converted a free throw, pushing the Cards’ lead to 58-46, some supporters of the home team started heading for the exits.
They left at the right time; because it was all Louisville after that — starting with J’Vonne Hadley draining 3s on back-to-back possessions
