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NCAA Men's Basketball Championship First Round Game Notes
March 22, 2008 | Men's Basketball
March 22, 2008
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- Louisville has now won both contests against Boise State - the other meeting came in the NCAA Tournament almost exactly 14 years ago to the date, a 67-58 Cardinals victory on March 18, 1994. It was the last time Boise State appeared in the Big Dance before tonight.
- Louisville is making its 34th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and is now 55-35 overall (four losses in consolation games) with two national championship to its credit - 1980 and 1986. Only five schools have played in the NCAA Tournament more times than Louisville.
- The Broncos are now 0-5 all-time in five appearances in the NCAA Tournament. But this was the first time they did not play in the West Regional.
- The Cardinals are now 10-5 all-time in the city of Birmingham, 4-2 in NCAA Tournament games.
- Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino is 33-11 in the NCAA Tournament in this his 13th appearance and 28-4 when coaching a team with a higher seed. He also has an 8-2 mark in the BJCC Arena, 5-2 in NCAA Tournament contests.
- Greg Graham made his first appearance as a head coach in the NCAA Tournament and is now 108-82 at Boise State, 126-87 overall as a collegiate head coach.
- This is the fourth time Louisville has been seeded third in the NCAAs and is 7-3 as that seed. The Cardinals are also 34-6 in the tournament as the higher seed.
- The victory for the Cardinals ended their second two-game losing streak of the season.
- This was the 34th game of the season for Boise State, equaling the school record set in 2004-05.
- The Broncos were held 21 points under the season scoring average of 82.0 points per game, and their 61 points were a season low.
- Juan Palacios jumped three spots on Louisville's all-time scoring list with his 13 points tonight. He is now 44th with 1,116 points.
- Palacios and Derrick Caracter combined to hit all nine of their shots from the floor, with the former connecting on 5-of-5 and the latter 4-of-4.
- With 14 points, Reggie Larry finishes his two-year career at Boise State with 1,098 points to move into 13th place all-time at the school. He also set a school single-season record with 661 points, but his string of five consecutive 20-point games came to an end (14 tonight). He scored in double figures in 32 of the Broncos' 34 contests this year.
- Boise State's Matt Nelson scored 17 to reach double figures in points for the 30th time in 33 games played, plus had seven field goals to make him the seventh Bronco to register 200 in a season (202).
- Tyler Tiedeman had 12 points for Boise State to give him 25 games with 10 or more points out of 34. Tiedeman also hit two long balls to move him into second on the BSU school single-season list with 84, behind Abe Jackson's 92 in 2001-02.
- Boise State shot 48.1 percent from the floor in the game, the third best shooting accuracy by a Cardinal opponent this year, but below its season average of 50.9 percent. Both Seton Hall and Georgetown hit exactly 50 percent of their shots versus Louisville.
- The only game in which the Broncos hit fewer than four three-pointers, as they did tonight, came vs. Utah State (2) on March 6.
- The 12 three-pointers were the most for Louisville this calendar year. The Cardinals had 13 treys against Morehead State on Dec. 26, 2007. It was the seventh time this season Louisville had at least 10 drop through from downtown.
- Louisville has shot less than 64 percent from the line in each of its last nine games (50.0 tonight).
- The Cardinals shot 55.8 percent in the game, their third best shooting performance of the season (58.1 percent, DePaul; 57.7 percent, Pittsburgh). They are 78-6 when shooting 50 percent or better over the past nine seasons, including 9-0 this year.
- This was just the fifth time all season Louisville committed more than 15 turnovers (16), but they have gone 4-1 in those contests.
- Boise State shot less than 50 percent from the charity stripe (41.7) for just the second time all season. Its only performance worse came in a 78-63 win over San Jose State in which BSU hit just 5-of-14 (35.7 percent).
- The 27 rebounds by the Cardinals was their third lowest total of the season.
- Louisville is now 13-1 when Andre McGee hits at least two trifectas in a game.
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