LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Louisvilles frontcourt led the way over an outmatched opponent.Mangok Mathiang scored 15 points to help No. 11 Louisville to a 74-51 victory over Southern Illinois on Wednesday night.The 6-foot-10 senior got the Cardinals (8-1) off to a hot start as he scored the teams first seven points, and Louisville settled in from there, extending the lead 21-4 in the games first 8 minutes.Sophomore Deng Adel, who finished with his first career double-double, said the team came out focused at the start.I think it was just our ball movement, said the 6-7 forward, who finished with 12 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, besting the seven he grabbed against Boston College last February. Guys were looking to run. A lot of it was easy points. We threw it into the bigs a lot. Mangok ignited that run got a couple day post-ups.In making six of nine shots, Mathiang finished two points shy of his career high in just 22 minutes.As Southern Illinois (5-4) came to the Yum! Center with no one taller than 6-9, Louisville used its size to its advantage. The Cardinals blocked nine shots and outrebounded the Salukis 43-31.Southern Illinois coach Barry Hinson said he knew there would be a bit of a shock factor in play, and he thought his team got over that as they cut the Louisville lead to 37-26 at halftime, thanks to an 8-0 run over the final 1:32. However, in the first 4 minutes of the second half, Louisville built the lead back to 18 points.Their length, obviously, their size bothered us, specifically in the first half, Hinson said. Youve got to give credit to coach (Rick) Pitino. They went down at us. We knew they were going to.Jaylen Johnson, a 6-9 junior, finished with nine points, 10 rebounds and six blocks. Mathiang, Johnson, 7-footer Matz Stockman and 6-10 Ray Spalding combined to shoot 15 of 20, with all the baskets coming inside the paint.We have size, Pitino said. We throw to the low post. If theyre not doubling, then were going to get easy shots.Sean OBrien led the Salukis with 15 points and 11 rebounds while Mike Rodriguez added 15 points.BIG PICTURESouthern Illinois: For the third time this season, the Salukis fell to a Power Five foe on the road and all of the losses have been by double digits. Not only could the Salukis not deal with Louisvilles size, they also failed to stretch out the Cardinals defense as they made just 5 of 24 3-point shots.Louisville: For a team that has struggled at times on offense, the Cardinals looked strong in the first half. Even without Anas Mahmoud, their main big man who missed his second game because of a concussion, Louisvilles frontcourt more than held its own against the smaller Salukis. Four Cardinals who stand 6-9 or taller combined to go 8 of 10 from the field in the first half, helping the team shoot 55.2 percent in the first 20 minutes.HE SAID ITI dont think were great at anything. I think were good at a lot of things. I dont think were great at anything, but we hope to get there, though . in a hurry. Pitino, assessing his team in the post-game news conference. Two weeks from tonight, the Cardinals will host No. 6 Kentucky, starting a three-game, 10-day stretch against teams currently ranked 14th or higher.POLL IMPLICATIONSLouisville got out to a hot start, and while the shooting cooled to just 36.7 percent in the second half, the Cardinals still built the lead to as many as 25 points in the second half. The Cardinals did as most expected, enabling them to stay on the fringe of the Top 10, ready to re-enter should a higher ranked team fall this weekend.UP NEXTSouthern Illinois returns home to play Sam Houston State on Saturday.On Saturday afternoon, Louisville hosts Texas Southern, which lost 74-70 to the Salukis on Saturday.---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25. Air Max 270 NZ Cheap . 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Esa Lindell and Rasmus Ristolainen replied for Finland (1-1-0) Lindell opened the scoring for Finland just 41 seconds into the game, but the hosts quickly regained their composure and tied the score less than four minutes later on Wennbergs first of the game. LOS ANGELES -- As an 8-year-old in the Bronx, Vin Scully would grab a pillow, put it under his familys four-legged radio and lay his head directly under the speaker to hear whatever college football game was on the air in 1936.With a snack of saltine crackers and a glass of milk nearby, the red-haired boy was transfixed by the crowds roar that raised goosebumps. He thought about how much hed like to be at the game. As time went on, he thought hed like to call the action himself.His youthful aspirations came true at 22 when he was hired by a CBS radio affiliate in Washington, D.C. The following year, he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers radio and television booths. In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that still stands.Now 88, Scully is heading into his final week behind the mic at Dodger Stadium before concluding his career on Oct. 2 in San Francisco, where the Dodgers end the regular season against the rival Giants. His 67 years with the Dodgers make Scully the longest-tenured broadcaster with a single team in professional sports.I will miss it, he said Monday. I know that dramatically.Scully discovered his lifelong love of baseball walking home from grade school. He passed a Chinese laundromat and saw the score from Game 2 of the 1936 World Series: Yankees 18, Giants 4.My first reaction was, `Poor Giants, he recalled, noting he lived near the teams home at the Polo Grounds and attended many games for free after school. Thats when I fell in love with baseball and became a true fan.Fittingly, his last game will be 80 years to the day he saw that score in the window.It seems like the plan was laid out for me and all I had to do was follow the instructions, Scully said.Has he ever.Though the years, Scully has entranced generations of baseball fans with his dulcet tones as he spins stories about the game and its players while working alone on the air. He still relishes the crowds cheers, a sound he says is like water out of a showerhead.Scully credits the birth of the transistor radio as the greatest single break of his career. In 1958, he accompanied the Dodgers when the franchise relocated to Los Angeles. Fans had trouble recognizing the lesser players during the teams first four years in the vast Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.They were 70 or so odd rows away from the action, he said. They brought the radio to find out about all the other players and to see what they were trying to see down on the field.That habit carried over when the team moved to Dodger Stadium. Fans at the games held radios to their ears and those not present listened from home or the car, allowing Scully to connect generations of families with his words.God has been so good to me to allow me to do what Im doing, said Scully, a devout Catholic who attends Mass on Sundays before heading to the ballpark.dddddddddddd A childhood dream that came to pass and then giving me 67 years to enjoy every minute of it. Thats a pretty large thanksgiving day for me.The Dodgers plan to honor their second-longest tenured employee (behind former manager Tom Lasorda) starting Tuesday night with a Scully bobblehead giveaway.Friday is an appreciation day for Scully with a pregame ceremony featuring speakers from his career and a postgame fireworks show set to the top calls of his career.The first 50,000 fans at Saturdays game against Colorado will receive a limited edition solid bronze coin. On the front is an image of Scully with his signature greeting of Its time for Dodger baseball.In San Francisco, the Giants will honor Scully at his final game. Two Bay Area TV stations will carry an inning of his broadcast as stations in other cities have done this season.All the hoopla is a little embarrassing to Scully, who reluctantly allowed the Dodgers to rename the street leading to the stadiums main gate in his honor in April.Ive never wanted to get out in front of the game, he said.Scully was adamant about not having an extended farewell. To his surprise and delight, players and managers have come to him. Throughout the season, theyve made the long trek from the visiting clubhouse in right field to his fifth-floor broadcast booth in the press box named for him, bringing gifts.He is just a different human being, Cubs manager Joe Maddon recently said. Thats like the window to the world up there, just sitting in his booth. He is really kind and gracious. You have to be all of that to survive that many years and you have to be good.At the start of each series, the umpires turn to face Scullys booth and tip their caps to him.Im deeply touched and overwhelmed with gratitude, he said.For the last time at home on Sunday, Scully will open his broadcast with the same reassuring greeting: Hi everybody, and a very pleasant good afternoon to you wherever you may be.I dont think Im going to stress anything about me, he said. I will concentrate on Denver as if theyre challenging the Dodgers for first place. I think Ill be OK.When he walks away next month, Scully will go home to his wife, Sandi, and delight in the company of his 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Hell still watch some baseball because a couple of his grandsons play.Ill try very hard to just stay back and be the very normal guy that I am, he said. I just want to be remembered as a good man, an honest man, and one who lived up to his own beliefs. ' ' '