Wake Forest trailed the ranked Louisville Cardinals by as much as 15 points at home today at the Joel. They battled back to tie up the score with five minutes to go, but they ultimately came up short. Let’s go through how it happened.
1st Half Highlights
Louisville started the game going up 5-0, which forced Steve Forbes to burn a timeout less than a minute into action. After that, the Deacs settled in a bit and got it to 6-7 by the first media timeout.
Isaac McKneely went on a mini run, 8-0 for the Cardinals to give them an advantage. Wake countered with some nice two-man action between Sebastian Akins and Tre’Von Spillers, and Isaac Carr provided some good minutes off the bench.
The first half mostly boiled down to Wake’s inability to get a stop on defense. The Demon Deacons showed some ability to score consistently, but Louisville had 20 first-half points in the paint, which made them tough to stop…