Big East Tournament Champs
Louisville won the Big East championship last night in Madison Square Garden. They beat Syracuse 76-66 to win it all. This means Louisville won the regular season championship and the tournament championship in the hardest conference in the country, the Big East. This is the first of both titles for the Cards who joined the Big East four years ago. The Cards were losing by 8 at halftime and used a run early in the second half to take over the game. They never gave up the lead after that and shut down Syracuse’s offense. The orangemen looked tired in the second half from Louisville’s relentless pressure and also from playing their past two games into overtime (6 OT’s against UConn and 1 OT with West Virginia). The Cards celebrated cutting down the nets and chanting “NUMBER ONE SEED.”
