Citizen Staff Writer
NCAA EXTRA
Key to game may come with 8 minutes left
Pay extra attention when there are about eight minutes left in the game.
That is when Louisville’s pressure defense starts taking its toll, said Cardinals guard Edgar Sosa.
“That’s when you can see the other teams’ point guards don’t want to break the press any more. They don’t want the ball and they’re telling someone else to bring it up,” said Sosa a 6-foot-1 guard.
“Once they do that, we know we have the game because we got the ball out of the main ball-handlers’ hands.”
Cardinals forward has memory lapse
Louisville junior forward Earl Clark was asked how much he watched Arizona during the regular season. He turned to a teammate and asked: “What conference do they play in?”
“I don’t think the Pac-10 is on TV too much,” Clark added. “I didn’t get to see a lot. I saw a couple of games. I like their style of play.”
A teammate, helping out a video crew, put a microphone in front of Clark and asked what he thought of the state of Arizona.
“I don’t think I have ever been there,” he said.
He was then reminded that the Cardinals played in Glendale in December, losing to Minnesota 70-64 in University of Phoenix Stadium.
“Oh, yeah,” Clark said. “We lost, that’s why I don’t remember.”
ANTHONY GIMINO
agimino@tucsoncitizen.com