Terry Rozier Paced No. 4 Louisville Past Western Kentucky: Box Score 1
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (Sporting Alert, Box Score) — Terry Rozier poured in a career-high 32 points — with 26 coming in the second half — in leading No. 4 Louisville to a 76-67 victory over Western Kentucky at E. A. Diddle Arena on Saturday.
Rozier shot 9 of 16 from the floor, including 3 of 6 from three-point range, went 11 of 13 from the free throw line, while pulling down five rebounds and three steals on a balanced day for the Cardinals.
Montrezl Harrell scored half of his tallied points in the opening three-minutes of the game and then ended with figures of 14 points and six rebounds before getting ejected for committing a flagrant-2 technical foul with 00:38 remaining in the first half.
Chris Jones added 10 points for Louisville (10-0), which shot 41.5 percent as a team from the field.
T.J. Price scored a game high 24 points on 7 of 19 attempts from the floor and grabbed seven rebounds in a losing effort for Western Kentucky, which dropped to 5-5 on the season with the defeat.
D.J. Clayton knocked down all four of his three-point attempts in collecting 14 points for the Hilltoppers, who was 10 of 23 from behind the arc.
Western Kentucky trailed by 13 points with 4:09 left in the first half, but then outscored the travelers 9-2 in the closing minutes to cut the deficit to just five points at halftime.
The Cardinals took a 29-24 lead into the interval.
Hilltoppers, which had a two game winning streak snapped, will next face Brescia on Dec. 27, also at E. A. Diddle Arena.
The fourth-ranked Cardinals will next host Cal State Northridge on Tuesday.
Official Basketball Box Score
#4 Louisville vs Western Kentucky
12/20/14 11:00 AM at Bowling Green, Ky. (E.A. Diddle Arena)
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VISITORS: #4 Louisville 10-0
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
24 HARRELL, Montrezl... f 5-10 1-4 3-3 3 3 6 1 14 2 0 1 0 17
25 BLACKSHEAR, Wayne... f 1-7 0-4 3-4 1 4 5 2 5 3 0 1 0 34
32 ONUAKU, Chinanu..... c 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 6 6 3 4 0 2 3 0 17
00 ROZIER, Terry....... g 9-16 3-6 11-13 1 4 5 0 32 0 4 0 3 38
03 JONES, Chris........ g 2-7 1-4 5-6 1 1 2 4 10 2 3 0 1 27
01 GILL, Anton......... 1-3 1-3 2-2 0 2 2 1 5 2 0 1 0 14
02 SNIDER, Quentin..... 0-3 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 15
12 MATHIANG, Mangok.... 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 15
14 MAHMOUD, Anas....... 2-3 0-0 2-2 1 4 5 3 6 1 2 3 0 23
TEAM................ 3 3 1
Totals.............. 22-53 6-22 26-30 8 29 37 19 76 11 12 9 4 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 11-31 35.5% 2nd Half: 11-22 50.0% Game: 41.5% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 1-12 8.3% 2nd Half: 5-10 50.0% Game: 27.3% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 6-8 75.0% 2nd Half: 20-22 90.9% Game: 86.7% 1
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HOME TEAM: WKU 5-5
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
20 Rostov, Aleksej..... f 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 20
44 Fant, George........ f 2-10 0-0 3-6 4 3 7 4 7 2 1 0 1 27
03 Jackson, Trency..... g 2-4 0-0 2-4 0 5 5 3 6 5 3 0 3 29
51 HARRISON-DOCKS, C... g 3-9 3-6 0-0 0 3 3 4 9 2 3 0 0 32
52 Price, T.J.......... g 7-19 3-11 7-10 0 7 7 3 24 1 3 0 1 35
02 Clayton, DJ......... 4-5 4-4 2-2 2 2 4 2 14 0 3 0 0 22
05 Price, Brandon...... 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 6
14 Lawson, Ben......... 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 6
15 Patterson, Avery.... 0-2 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 4
23 Johnson, Justin..... 2-5 0-0 0-2 3 3 6 2 4 2 0 1 0 18
33 Marberry, Rob....... 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TEAM................ 1
Totals.............. 21-56 10-23 15-25 9 26 35 24 67 15 15 1 5 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 8-30 26.7% 2nd Half: 13-26 50.0% Game: 37.5% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 4-13 30.8% 2nd Half: 6-10 60.0% Game: 43.5% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 4-6 66.7% 2nd Half: 11-19 57.9% Game: 60.0% 7
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Officials: Patrick Adams, Raymond Styons, Tim Nestor
Technical fouls: #4 Louisville-MATHIANG, Mangok; HARRELL, Montrezl; TEAM.
WKU-PRICE, T.J.; Clayton, DJ; TEAM.
Attendance: 7598
Score by Periods 1st 2nd Total
#4 Louisville................. 29 47 - 76
WKU........................ 24 43 - 67
#24 Harrell for Louisville has been ejected from the game at 00:38 1st half.
Points in the paint-LOU 26,WKU 16. Points off turnovers-LOU 13,WKU 16.
2nd chance points-LOU 15,WKU 5. Fast break points-LOU 4,WKU 8.
Bench points-LOU 11,WKU 18. Score tied-3 times. Lead changed-3 times.
Last FG-LOU 2nd-01:10, WKU 2nd-00:39.
Largest lead-LOU by 13 1st-04:09, WKU by 3 1st-17:35.
LOU led for 35:34. WKU led for 02:12. Game was tied for 02:14.
