Harangody has 14 in 2nd half, Irish win
November 29, 2009
CHICAGO (AP)—Luke Harangody scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half, andNo. 23 Notre Dame bounced back from a poor outing to beat Saint Louis 64-52Saturday for third place in the Chicago Invitational Challenge.
The Irish (6-1), 14-point losers to Northwestern on Friday night, also got14 points from Ben Hansbrough, who’d managed only four on 1-for-10 shooting anight earlier.
Harangody is now two points shy of becoming the seventh 2,000-point scorerin Irish history.
Willie Reed led Saint Louis (4-2) with 20 points and 15 rebounds.
Harandogy connected on his first 3-point attempt of the game to start thesecond half—he’d been 0-for-6 from long range Friday night. He then took apass on the break and made a nice spin in the lane before hitting a layup as theIrish quickly expanded a three-point halftime lead to eight just over a minuteinto the half.
Saint Louis got to within one when Kwamain Mitchell hit three straightbaskets, but Harangody hit two of his own and Tim Abromaitis dropped in fourfree throws—two after a technical on Mitchell—to put Notre Dame up nine.
Harandogy picked up his fourth foul with 5:43 left and the Irish up byseven. Mitchell then hit a 3-pointer to pull the Billikens within four.
Notre Dame stretched the lead as Hansbrough hit a driving basket, Abromaitisa 3-pointer and Harandogy a jumper that put the Irish up 10 with just under twominutes remaining.
Harangody, who struggled with his shooting Friday night while scoring 21 inthe loss to Northwestern, was off again in the first half, missing 5 of 7attempts. He was scoreless before hitting a jumper with five minutes left thatended a six-minute Irish scoring drought.
The teams traded first-half runs. The Irish scored nine straight when theBillikens didn’t score for five minutes. St. Louis then ran off 10 in a rowcapped by Reed’s dunk.
Notre Dame took a three-point halftime lead on Carleton Scott’s dunk justbefore the buzzer after he took a pass from a driving Tory Jackson.