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 PITTSBURGH (AP) - No Big East player has consistently controlled Pitt star Aaron Gray, at least until now. Louisville's solution: Make two players do it. With 6-foot-11 David Padgett and 6-8 freshman Derrick Caracter teaming to neutralize the Big East's dominant inside player, the unranked Cardinals scored the signature victory they've lacked for two seasons. Louisville roughed up the No. 7 Panthers 66-53 Monday night.
The Panthers had not been pushed around like this since moving into the Petersen Events Center in 2002. They had lost only seven times there in 85 games, and only once by as many as nine points — 73-64 to Connecticut on Feb. 26, 2005. Their last previous double-digit loss at home was 81-67 to Georgetown on Feb. 5, 2001, at Fitzgerald Field House.
"We were just trying to prove everybody wrong," Terrence Williams said of those who doubted Louisville could pull off a victory like this. "We wanted to come out and play our best."
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