Louisville’s dangerous week bought even worse — like, rather a lot worse — on Tuesday night time because it fell in gut-wrenching style in a 61-60 loss at house to Appalachian State in one of the vital painful methods possible.
The Cardinals fell 61-60 to the Mountaineers and by no means led within the recreation. Nonetheless, they gave themselves a preventing likelihood by chopping the result in one level within the last minute. Louisville then had an awesome have a look at a go-ahead bucket on the buzzer, which dropped however got here simply after the ultimate horn.
The loss continued what has been every week stuffed with ache in Louisville after dropping a head-to-head recruiting battle to rival Kentucky for No. 2 total prospect DJ Wagner.
Louisville, underneath first-year coach Kenny Payne, falls to 0-3 on the season with the loss, marking the primary time it has misplaced every of its first three house video games in a season since 1940, a yr it opened with losses to Kentucky Wesleyan, Evansville and Transylvania, and the primary time it has opened a season 0-3 since 1986. The loss follows two different shocking defeats to Bellarmine and Wright State to open the season after Louisville was favored by a minimum of 5 factors in every.
