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University of Louisville
DE PAUL
Men's Basketball Downs DePaul
January 27, 2001 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 27, 2001
By CHRIS DUNCAN
Associated Press Writer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Erik Brown scored a career-high 20 points as Louisville (8-12, 4-3 Conference USA) beat the Blue Demons for the ninth straight time.
Bobby Simmons scored 17 and Joe Tulley added 15 for DePaul (9-10, 1-6), which has lost six of the last seven.
DePaul led throughout the first half and pushed a two-point halftime lead to 10 in the first four minutes of the second half.
Maybin, who missed 13 of his first 18 shots, scored eight points during an ensuing 17-5 Louisville run. His 3-pointer from the corner with 7:16 remaining gave Louisville its first lead of the second half at 54-52.
As Maybin caught fire, DePaul went cold. The Blue Demons didn't score for more than four minutes after Imari Sawyer's jumper in the lane gave them a 57-56 lead with 6:09 left.
Maybin scored 12 straight points and gave the Cardinals their biggest lead at 63-57 with a jumper from the wing with 3:55 remaining.
Lance Williams hit a free throw with 2:23 left to pull DePaul within five, but Brown scored on a drive with 1:48 left. Williams scored inside with 1:33 left to trim the deficit to five again. DePaul had a chance to creep closer a minute later, but Joseph N'Sima blocked Simmons' drive with 40 seconds left.
Louisville went 8-for-8 from the free-throw line in the final 38.2 seconds to put the game away.
The Cardinals, coming off a 63-54 win at Cincinnati on Wednesday, have won back-to-back games for just the second time this season.
Louisville outrebounded DePaul 31-30 and tied a season-low nine turnovers.
The Blue Demons sank 8 of their first 11 shots and built an early 18-10 lead. The Cardinals mounted a 14-5 run and led 24-23 after an Ellis Myles layup with 9:11 left in the opening half.
DePaul rebuilt their 8-point lead over the next six minutes. But Maybin, who went 3-for-12 in the opening half, capped a game-tying 8-0 Louisville run on a 3-pointer from the corner with 22 seconds left. Sawyer hit a wing jumper as time expired in the first half to give DePaul a two-point halftime lead.
