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  January 15, 2019 1:49 PM EET

  导出博客文章PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- Louisville added a late-night wrinkle to its defense, ran out to a big lead and hung on to earn a trip to the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game. Adidas Pas Cher Soldes .Donovan Mitchell made two 3-pointers in the final 4 1/2 minutes and scored 14 points to help No. 10 Louisville beat Wichita State 62-52 on Thursday.Quentin Snider also scored 14 points for the Cardinals (5-0). They locked down defensively in the first half, then turned away the Shockers second-half comeback.Playing on a short turnaround after Wednesdays overtime victory over Old Dominion, Louisville showed some match-up zone in the first half for a different look against an offense that had was averaging 91 points. Coach Rick Pitino said his staff had about 55 minutes to teach it to this seasons group.The thing I like about our team right now is they are flexible, Pitino said.Wichita State shot just 27 percent (7 of 26) and managed 17 first-half points, allowing Louisville to take charge and play from in front all afternoon.We just wanted to confuse them as much as possible, Mitchell said, and we did that very well.Trailing 33-17 at the half and by 16 with about 14 minutes left, Wichita State (5-1) hit three straight 3-pointers to get back in it and twice got within six. But the Cardinals repeatedly came up with timely offensive rebounds or baskets to keep control.Wichita State shot just 32 percent for the game, while Louisville -- which shot 37 percent -- helped itself by making 17 of 23 free throws and taking a 46-33 rebounding advantage.We saw a different defense than what weve been seeing, a very good matchup zone, Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall said. And we didnt attack it very well. We didnt get the ball inside enough.Markis McDuffie and Shaquille Morris each scored 10 points for the Shockers.BIG PICTURELouisville: Pitino was concerned about the roughly 14-hour turnaround between the Cardinals opener in Atlantis and Thursdays second-round game. But the Cardinals handled it just fine, frustrating the high-scoring Shockers defensively and controlling the glass as Wichita State tried to rally.Wichita State: The high-scoring offense went cold for the first time this year. The Shockers had shot 51 percent through the first five games but struggled to knock down their looks against Louisvilles defense.They certainly took it to us in the first half, Marshall said. We faced our first adversity of the year in a regular-season game and it didnt go so well.POLL IMPLICATIONSLouisvilles win against a team with five straight NCAA Tournament trips certainly wont hurt its standing in the AP Top 25 , and the Cardinals could rise by completing an Atlantis title run.As for Wichita State, the Shockers are among teams receiving votes and could make a case to sneak in if they can bounce back with a win in the third-place game against a ranked foe.MITCHELLS SHOOTINGMitchell scored all 15 of his points Wednesday after halftime against Old Dominion, then came up with the two big 3s Thursday to keep Louisville in control: one from the right corner at the 4:10 mark and one from the left at 3:17.Still, Pitino keeps playfully needling the sophomore about his shot selection. After the ODU game, he said Mitchell treated the first half like a game of H-O-R-S-E by trying to take the toughest shot possible. And Thursday?Hes not showing his shooting yet but hes a great shooter, Pitino said after Mitchell made 5 of 13 shots. Id like him to just back off a few of the Kobe moves and stepbacks and just play.STAT STUFFERSLouisville had six players pull down at least seven rebounds, including Mitchell (eight) and Snider (four) from the backcourt. In addition, 7-foot reserve Anas Mahmoud had season-highs of five points and five rebounds to go with a career-best six blocks.UP NEXTLouisville: The Cardinals advanced to Fridays championship game to face No. 20 Baylor, which beat No. 24 Michigan State in Thursdays first game.Wichita State: The Shockers will face No. 24 Michigan State in Fridays third-place game.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap---More AP college basketball at http://collegebasketball.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-Top25 Adidas Pas Cher Chine . 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Can you believe this?It was Thursday night around midnight, barely eight hours after Coastal Carolina had won the College World Series, and head coach Gary Gilmore was being summoned to look out the window of the team airplane.Sure, I figured a few folks would show up to greet us when we got home, he recalled thinking. But Im not sure the Myrtle Beach airport has ever had that many people there all at one time. This was bigger than spring break.Way bigger. There were a few thousand fans, dressed in teal, waving homemade signs and chanting C-C-U! and Gar-eee Gil-more! The coach, eyes already puffy from a day of happy cries, instinctively climbed the fence to lead the cheers. He was so oblivious to what he was doing that he dang near grabbed the razor wire to pull himself up and over.There was a time when it would take us months to draw this many fans to our games, said Gilmore, who played at Coastal in 1979 and 80 and just completed his 21st season at the helm of his old team. I worked out of a pop-up trailer next to the ballpark that first year. Its a long ways from that to this. People have no idea how long.Well, most might not. But there are plenty who do.For students, alumni and fans of Coastal Carolina, Thursdays victory felt like the liberation of a small nation. This is a school that didnt even exist until 1954, founded as a community college and holding its classes at Conway High School. By the 1960s, it was under contract as an extension campus of the University of South Carolina and didnt become a four-year school until 1974. On July 1, the school marked just its 23rd year as an independent university. Gilmore was hired two years later.Thats a lot of years and a lot of history to foster an inferiority complex, living life as a so-called directional school in the very long shadows of Clemson and South Carolina. Their mascot is an extension of those feelings. When the school -- then Coastal Carolina College of the University of South Carolina -- decided to get into sports, they wanted a mascot that would honor their parent school, the Gamecocks, but was decidedly fancier. An English professor suggested the Chanticleer, a character from Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales described as such: For crowing there was not his equal in all the land ... his nails were whiter than the lily and his feathers were like burnished gold. Thats certainly no mere fighting rooster.So one can only imagine the pride Coastal Carolina fans felt when their Twitter timelines were filled with clips of Clemson football players cheering Coastals win on Thursday or well-wishes from the likes of Steve Spurrier.I can tell you this, Coastal athletic director Matt Hogue, a South Carolina alumnus, said earlier in the week. There werent many South Carolina fans rooting for Clemson to beat Alabama [in Januarys College Football Playoff title game], and when South Carolina was winning back-to-back College World Series, there might not have been any Clemson fans rooting for the Gamecocks. But I cant tell you how much support weve received from both schools during our time in Omaha.Yeah, outside of Conway and Myrtle Beach, it can be hard to find a lot of Coastal fans, explained pitcher Mike Morrison. Then he shrugged, recognizing that he needed to raise his voice to be heard over the crowd. Now it feels like they are everywhere!They were certainly all over Omaha. Many made a last-minute migration to see their beloved Chanticleers play Arizona for the championship, deciding to make the trip out for the third and deciding game. A huge percentage of those fans had to return home without having seen a single inning of baseball, unable to afford the airline change fees or to find a hotel room when Game 3 was pushed from Wednesday night to Thursday afternoon because of inclement weather.Jim McIntosh of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, was one of those people. A former CCU student, he blew up a credit card to get out there but by Thursday morning was on a plane packed with teal-wearing fans, rightfully pouting and just hoping to make it home in time to watch the game on television. Chaussure Adidas Pas Cher Chine. Scott Chadwick of Charlotte was one of those people ... almost. The father of CCU infielder Tyler Chadwick was one of a huge group of families who worked into the wee hours of Wednesday night, scrambling for a way to stay in town for the delayed game. Already out of money because of continually extending their trip, the potential of thousands of dollars in flight changes meant that most of the families from both Coastal and Arizona would have to go on home and miss the title game. Some still did, but well past midnight, their bags packed, Chadwick and his family found a sympathetic Delta agent who helped out by finding minimal fees.Michael Pruitt of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, was one those who was going to stay no matter what and was fortunate enough to have the means to make it happen. The CEO and president of an investment firm titled Chanticleer Holdings, he is one of the past heroes of Coastal Carolina baseball. He slugged a home run that clinched one of the teams four trips to the NAIA College World Series in the late 70s and early 80s. He and a group of his former teammates made the trip out and declared, Well stay here until damn July 4 if we have to!On Wednesday night, they were at their hotel bar ready to talk to anyone but at a bit of a loss for words when asked what a national championship would mean: Its the biggest thing to ever happen to our school, they said.Just how big might not be known for a while. Coastal is a school already experiencing rapid growth. There were a little over 7,500 CCU students a decade ago. Now that number is around 10,000, with a plan in place to reach 12,500. History suggests that the admissions office is about to become very busy. After reaching the Final Four in 2013, Wichita State saw an 81 percent jump in applications. In 2010, Butlers near-national title created a 41 percent increase. After Fresno State won the College World Series in 2008, it experienced a double-digit leap in out-of-state interest.According to Joyce Julius & Associates, which monitors sports media exposure, Coastal Carolina had already received nearly 12,000 national media mentions even prior to winning the championship. In Omaha, there was little doubt as to who was also the two-week champion of merchandise sales. It was the same team that ended up becoming the actual champion. There was a lot of teal seen around eastern Nebraska in late June.On Friday, as thousands of fans lined the streets of Conway and thousands more packed still-new Springs Brooks Stadium to celebrate with their team, they all wore that same teal. No matter how hard it was to come by.You cant find it anywhere. Everywhere is sold out, said Jimmy Shepard, a longtime Myrtle Beach resident who went to the celebration. I saw a lot of people out here today that I know I saw last week wearing South Carolina and Clemson stuff. Their Chants shirts and hats all look pretty damn new. I wore the oldest shirt I had just so theyd know Im no Johnny-Come-Lately. Now I hope these Johnnys that were here today will be back here next spring.Almost as if he was taking his cue from Shepard, Gilmore stepped to the microphone to address the crowd estimated at more than 8,000. He thought about that pop-up trailer office. He thought about the old aluminum bleacher stadium that was on this site just three years ago, the one he used to have to power wash the seagull droppings off of before homestands. He looked at the sparkling national championship trophy, displayed in, of all places, Conway. And then he allowed himself, just for a moment, to try and look into the future.I want to see all of you back here in 2017, the coach challenged, once again on the verge of bursting into tears. Lets get another one of these. 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