LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The William & Mary men's basketball fell at No. 12 Louisville, 91-58, on Monday night at the KFC Yum! Center. The Tribe (1-1) rallied from an early deficit to close to within 34-31 with two minutes remaining in the opening half. The Cardinals (2-0) answered with a 16-0 run, spanning the end of the first and beginning second half, to put the game out of reach.
 
Senior Omar Prewitt and freshman Nathan Knight topped the Tribe with 14 points apiece. Knight was 6-of-12 from the floor and added a team-high seven rebounds against UofL. Junior guard David Cohn finished with eight points, four rebounds and four assists, while senior Daniel Dixon chipped in seven points and six rebounds.
 
Prewitt announced the Tribe's presence early, driving the lane and throwing down a two-handed dunk, while absorbing contact from Louisville's 6-10 senior forward Mangok Mathiang. He completed the old-fashion 3-point play, before sophomore Paul Rowley canned a 3-pointer from the left side to give W&M a 6-5 lead just over two minutes into the contest.
 
Louisville answered with a 14-2 run to open up a double-digit lead. VJ King scored five straight points, and Tony Hicks capped the spurt with a jumper to expand the Cardinals' lead to 19-8 at the 12:34 mark.
 
W&M cut into the Louisville lead with five straight points off Cohn assists. The junior point guard found Prewitt on the break for a dunk, before finding Dixon on the wing for a 3-pointer, cutting the margin to 28-23 with 7:46 left.
 
A Prewitt 3-pointer from the top of the key followed a Knight slam closed the gap to 34-31 with 2:13 remaining. Louisville responded with a 10-0 run to close the half. Deng Adel knocked down five-straight free throws and hit a 3-pointer to end the half and send the Cardinals to the half with a 44-31 lead.
 
Louisville continued the run by scoring the first six points of the second half to extend its cushion to 19, three minutes into the frame. The Cardinals put the game away in the second 20 minutes, limiting W&M to just 23.3 percent (7-of-30) from the floor and just 1-of-13 beyond the 3-point arc. 

For the game, W&M shot 31.1 percent (19-of-61), including 6-of-29 from 3-point range. The Tribe connected on only 14-of-27 at the charity stripe. On the other side, Louisville finished the game at 45.8 percent (33-of-72) from the floor and hit 10 3-pointers. The Cardinals added 21 assists, 11 blocked shots, 10 steals, and outrebounded the Tribe, 49-42.
 
King paced five Cardinals in double figures with 17 points on 7-of-11 from the field and 3-of-3 from 3-point range. Adel added 16 points, five rebounds, five assists and four steals, while Jaylen Johnson, who added nine rebounds, and Quentin Snider, who was 4-of-9 from 3-point range, chipped in 13 apiece.
 
The Tribe returns home to face Presbyterian on Saturday, Nov. 19. The contest will be part of a full day of W&M Athletics in Williamsburg. Tribe football hosts Richmond at noon at Zable Stadium before the men's basketball contest at 7 p.m. The W&M-Presbyterian contest will be broadcast for FREE in HD on Tribe Athletics TV.
 
Tribe fans can also listen to men's basketball action over the Tribe Radio Network with Jay Colley and Charlie Woollum on the call. The Tide 92.3 FM and 107.9 Bach FM are the flagship stations of the Tribe Radio Network and the audio is also available over the Web at TribeAthletics.com.