Straight Points - 12 Georgetown Hands No - 4 Louisville 1st Loss

Markel Starks scored 20 things and also No. twelve Georgetown live through a delayed Louisville run to acquire your 71-68 win and also hand your No. 4 Cardinals their own first decrease of the growing season Wednesday.

Louisville (12-1, 0-1 Big East), that is wanting that will coordinate the very best start out around program history, used an 11-0 run hard to tie the sport by using a couple of a matter of minutes left, nonetheless Georgetown cleared with six instantly tips to protected your win.

Otto Porter possessed 14 points in addition to age 14 rebounds, whilst Hollis Thompson put in 10 tips for your Hoyas (11-1, 1-0), who may have won nine in a very row.

"It has been an exceptionally fine massive earn towards a good team in a complicated location for you to play," claimed Georgetown train John Thompson I. "We are certainly not worrisome concerning validation appropriate now. We just simply want to attempt to collect wins."

Kyle Kuric scored a team-high 17 items for that Cardinals, while Peyton Siva have 15 in addition to Russ Smith done with 14. Louisville started the adventure united of only six unbeaten Division I teams.

Georgetown procured control involving some sort of back-and-forth contest past due from the minute half, getting a 63-52 guide about Starks' layup with simply above four mins left. But Louisville rallied with an 11-0 manage in order to wrap the game. Siva scored a number of points throughout this burst open and placed in place Gorgui Dieng for your game-tying layup together with 2:02 left.

The Hoyas replied using six right points, which includes a pair of free includes from equally Henry Sims in addition to Porter, in advance of Smith knocked straight down your trey for making the idea 69-66 along with twenty two moments remaining. Porter sealed this win using a pair of much more on the line ahead of Rakeem Buckles capped the scoring with a layup along at the buzzer.

"That was a new disappointing loss," reported Louisville coach Rick Pitino. "Our individuals continuing for you to battle hard. But I thought we all genuinely rushed, jacked upward game when it had been nevertheless a game."

Earlier, the Cardinals obtained 18 factors within the color en route to a slim 35-32 lead along at the break. With a new win, they would have matched up that 1974-75 team for the best start out inside university history. The limit defeat also halted some sort of 20-game house succeed streak.

Game Notes

The Cardinals 20-game house earn streak seemed to be their particular best considering that winning 20 straight from January 29, 1966 through December 1, 1967, with Freedom Hall.Georgetown leads this all-time series, 8-4.Starks journeyed 7-of-8 through the field, such as 4-of-4 out of outside of the particular arc.