Louisville-George Mason Postgame Notes

SERIES
•   Louisville holds a 4-0 advantage in the all-time series against George Mason, including a 3-0 margin at home.
•   The Cardinals have a 120-60 record against current members of the Atlantic-10 Conference, having previously faced all 14 of its members.

TEAM
•   Louisville extended its winning streak in season-openers to 14 straight and has won 23 of its last 25 opening games.
•   The average score in Louisville's last 14 season-openers is 84.5-to-60.2 in favor of the Cardinals.
•   The Cardinals have won 17 consecutive home-openers.
•   Louisville has a 71-33 record all-time in season-openers, including a 48-13 mark at home.
•   The Cardinals have won 55 of their last 56 non-conference games at the KFC Yum! Center.
•   Louisville is 116-15 all-time at the KFC Yum! Center, which is in its eighth season as the home for the Cardinals.
•   Sunday's game marked the second time in the last two seasons the Cardinals have used a starting lineup featuring Quentin Snider, Deng Adel, V.J. King, Ray Spalding and Anas Mahmoud as that group also earned the starting nod in last year's 77-62 victory against Indiana on Dec. 31, 2016 in Indianapolis.
•   The Cardinals closed the game with a 36-31 rebound advantage. Last season, Louisville had a 22-5 record when outrebounding an opponent.
•   Louisville had a 29-0 edge in bench scoring in Sunday's victory, the largest margin since finishing with a 40-11 advantage against Florida State on Jan. 21, 2017.

PLAYER
•   Junior Deng Adel led the Cardinals with a team-high 20 points, his third career scoring performance of 20 or more points. The total was just two points shy of matching his career-best 22 points (March 1, 2017 vs. Wake Forest).
•   Sunday's performance was Adel's 26th career double-figure scoring performance.
•   The nine made field goals by Adel equaled his career high matching the total against Wake Forest on March 1, 2017.
•   The 17 field goals attempts by Adel were a career best total surpassing the 16 field goals attempts against Grand Canyon (12/3/16) and Wake Forest (3/1/17).
•   Darius Perry delivered the fifth highest scoring performance in a freshman debut in school history with his 17 points in Sunday's victory.
•   The 17 points by Perry were the most in a freshman debut for the Cardinals since Samardo Samuels had 18 points against Morehead State on Nov. 22, 2009.

University of Louisville Individual Scoring / Freshman Debut
    1.   24, Jerry Smith (11/18/06 vs. Northwestern State)
    2.   22, Marques Maybin (11/27/97 vs. Hofstra)
    3.   18, Samardo Samuels (11/22/09 vs. Morehead State)
    4.   18, Derek Smith (11/24/78 vs. Penn State)
    5.   17, Darius Perry (11/12/17 vs. George Mason)

•   The 17 points from Perry rank as the sixth highest total by a Louisville player in any eligibility class in a career debut matching the output from Cardinals interim head coach David Padgett, who scored 17 points against Prairie View A&M in his debut as a player at Louisville on Dec. 3, 2005.
•   Perry connected on all 11 shots he attempted making a trio of three-pointers and each of his eight free throws.
•   Freshman Jordan Nwora also registered a double-figure scoring outing in his collegiate debut finishing with 10 points while making all three of his three-point attempts.
•   Senior Quentin Snider finished with 10 points for his 39th career double-figure scoring performance.
•   Snider equaled a career high with six rebounds on Sunday matching the total previously achieved against Texas Southern (12/10/16) and Kentucky (12/21/16).

University of Louisville Athletics

Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

V.J. King

Anas Mahmoud

Jordan Nwora

Darius Perry

Quentin Snider

Ray Spalding

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