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Message: [QUOTE="undersized, post: 4169336, member: 11260"] I thought Walz made a coaching error trying to take the air out of the ball too soon in the 4Q. He called a timeout with 8:02 left in the 4Q after an Olivia Cochran mid-range jumpshot put an end to the 7-0 NCSt run that opened the quarter. On Louisville's next few possessions, once they broke NCSt's 3/4-court pressure, they refrained from attacking the basket, even though they had numbers at times. Instead they started working the shot clock, hoping to pass up decent looks for even better looks, but instead ending up with forced shots late in the shot clock and/or turnovers that simply fed into NCSt's transition game. All this to say that Louisville should have stayed a bit more aggressive on offense early in the 4Q. Their halfcourt offense wasn't good enough to keep up. Hailey Van Lith's 4Q heroics have managed to cover up quite a few blemishes in other games, but it didn't work tonight. For the record, I had NC State at #3 in my BY Poll and Louisville at #6. :) [/QUOTE]