No. 6 Louisville continued its high-scoring ways via a 3-point deluge and a Louisville-best 32 points from transfer guard Ryan Conwell in a 104-47 home win over NJIT.
Louisville made a season-best 20 3-pointers and Conwell, who was averaging 18.2 points per game coming in, knocked down eight of the trifectas en route to his high-scoring night.
The Cardinals (7-0) never trailed and were tied for just 14 seconds before Conwell drilled a game-opening 3-pointer. The Cardinal lead swelled to 13-2 five minutes in and reached 52-20 on a half-ending trey from Conwell.
Louisville pushed its lead to 85-35 on another Conwell 3-pointer with 6:50 to play. The margin reached 57 points four times as the Cardinals topped 100 points for the fourth time in the young season.
Louisville came up just shy of the program record of 22 3-pointers set in a 104-69 win over Hartford on November 17, 2007. Louisville connected on 41.7% of its long-range tries (20-for-48) for the game.
Conwell approached a triple-double by adding nine rebounds and six assists to his 32 points, mostly grabbed on 8-for-15 3-point shooting.
Transfer Isaac McKneely added 17 points, including 5-for-10 3-point accuracy. Reserve guard Adrian Wooley added 15 points, including 2-for-3 long-range shooting. J’vonne Hadley chipped in 12 points.
Standout freshman guard Mikel Brown Jr. had just nine points on 3-for-11 shooting, but dished seven assists as part of a team total of 24 assists, which ties the team’s season best.
NJIT (3-5) struggled to score in all areas. The Highlanders shot just 18-for-58 overall (31.0%), 7-for-27 from 3-point range (25.9%) and 4-for-7 at the foul line (57.1%). NJIT had just six assists as a team.
Reserve Quentin Duncan paced the Highlanders with nine points including a half-court shot as the shot clock was running out with just over three minutes remaining. NJIT was outrebounded 59-21, with no Highlander grabbing more than four boards.
