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Louisville-Gardner-Webb Postgame Notes
December 18, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 18, 2010
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TEAM
- The Cardinals played their 10th straight home game to begin the season, tying for the most consecutive home contests in school history. Louisville will go on the road for the first time this Wednesday when they travel to Bowling Green to take on the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky.
Most consecutive home games, Louisville history
1. 10 - 11.16.10-12.18.10
1. 10 - 12.8.06-12.30.06
3. 8 - 12.2.09-12.30.09
3. 8 - 12.1.01-12.26.01
3. 8 - 12.6.75-1.3.76
3. 8 - 12.3.66-12.23.66
3. 8 - 2.22.61-12.6.61
8. 7 - 12.14.04-1.2.05
8. 7 - 12.16.78-1.8.79
8. 7 - 12.10.59-12.29.59
8. 7 - 2.16.46-12.7.46
- Gardner-Webb, on the other hand, was playing its 10th straight game away from home. The Bulldogs have not hosted a Division I team since Feb. 20 of last season (Elon), a span of 17 games.
- Gardner-Webb (13 turnovers) became the first Louisville opponent this season to turn the ball over fewer than 16 times. Louisville and Missouri had been the only two schools in the nation to force 16 or more turnovers in every game this season.
Consecutive games with 16+ opponent turnovers, Division I (active)
1. 10 - Missouri (16-34-19-19-26-18-16-17-19-19)
2. 9 - Western Kentucky (19-19-19-17-16-23-21-20-23)
* - WKU has forced 16 or more turnovers in every game but the opener (14 for St. Joseph's) this season. UNC Asheville and Belmont had nine- and eight-game streaks, respectively, snapped in the last game for each club.
- The nine-game streak of 16+ opponent turnovers was the longest for a Louisville squad since the 2003-04 season (13-game stretch) and the longest to begin a season since 1998-99 (12 games).
Most consecutive games with 16+ opponent turnovers, since 1980-81
1. 13 - 12.13.03-1.28.04 (18-17-23-16-20-23-22-23-16-23-19-23-22)
2. 12 - 11.22.98-1.13.99 (20-17-25-21-21-19-18-29-24-16-23-21)
2. 12 - 12.7.96-1.15.97 (23-19-20-16-20-21-18-18-21-19-25-23)
4. 10 - 12.4.99-1.12.00 (29-31-27-16-30-21-20-17-21-24)
4. 10 - 3.17.95-12.16.95 (16-16-22-19-16-24-21-24-23-24)
4. 10 - 12.10.91-1.16.92 (21-21-18-21-18-26-20-16-22-23)
7. 9 - 11.16.10-12.14.10 (17-17-25-19-22-16-16-18-22)
7. 9 - 12.3.88-1.7.89 (18-20-20-20-25-25-17-17-16)
9. 8 - 2.4.99-2.25.99 (29-20-20-22-27-16-20-20)
9. 8 - 3.15.90-12.22.90 (17-20-18-24-23-21-16-17)
9. 8 - 3.13.82-12.1.82 (26-16-17-18-20-25-17-23)
- Every Louisville opponent this season has had at least two more turnovers than assists. The Bulldogs had 13 turnovers and just seven assists on Saturday afternoon.
- Louisville improved to 4-0 all-time against current members of the Big South, having also beaten VMI (107-56 on Dec. 23, 2003), UNC Asheville (66-51 on Dec. 30, 2006), and Radford (79-53 on Dec. 27, 2009).
- U of L finished with 14 blocks in the game, its highest total since setting the school record with 18 on Dec. 7, 2003.
- Up 9-7 with 15:13 to play in the first half, the Cards went on a 20-0 run covering 9:12 to increase their lead to 22 points.
- Immediately off a game in which they were outrebounded by 20 (46-26), the Cards outrebounded Gardner-Webb 14-1 over the first 8:49 of Saturday's game. U of L finished with a 45-26 rebounding advantage in the game.
- The Bulldogs made just a third (10-of-30) of their shots in the first half, lowering the shooting percentage for Louisville's opponents in the first half this season to .347 (94-for-271).
PLAYER
- Senior Preston Knowles nailed six threes against Gardner-Webb on Saturday, the 13th straight game in which he has made at least one three-pointer. The streak is the third longest in the BIG EAST, trailing only those of Villanova's Corey Stokes (19 games) and Notre Dame's Ben Hansbrough (14).
Consecutive games making a three-pointer, BIG EAST players (active, through Sat. afternoon games)
1. 19 - Corey Stokes, Villanova (1-1-1-2-1-3-3-6-1-3-3-2-1-5-2-3-3-5-4)
2. 14 - Ben Hansbrough, Notre Dame (1-1-4-3-4-5-6-1-1-1-1-4-5-1)
3. 13 - Preston Knowles, Louisville (1-1-1-1-2-3-2-4-1-2-2-2-6)
4. 12 - Ashton Gibbs, Pittsburgh (4-2-5-4-2-3-4-2-4-4-3-3)
5. 11- Jamel Jackson, Seton Hall (1-2-2-2-1-1-2-3-3-2-1)
6. 9 - Jae Crowder, Marquette (1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-1)
6. 9 - Kemba Walker, Connecticut (1-1-4-1-4-3-2-2-3)
8. 8 - Rashad Bishop, Cincinnati (1-2-2-2-1-1-3-2)
8. 8 - Duke Mondy, Providence (1-4-3-1-1-2-2-2)
- Knowles, Stokes, Hansbrough, Gibbs, Jackson, and Walker are the six BIG EAST players who have connected on a three in every game this season.
- Knowles finished with career highs in points (24), field goals made (nine), field goal attempts (15), three-pointers made (six), rebounds (nine), and blocks (two).
- The six threes for Knowles were the most by a Cardinal this season and the most since Taquan Dean had seven on March 17, 2006, against Delaware State.
- Freshman Elisha Justice extended his turnover-free stretch to 67 minutes after playing 11 more minutes without a miscue on Saturday. His last turnover came on Dec. 1 against FIU. He still has never committed more than one turnover in a college game.
- Freshman Gorgui Dieng made his first career start against the Runnin' Bulldogs. Dieng responded with two blocks and seven rebounds in the game's first 5:57 (his seventh board gave him a new career high). He had 10 rebounds in the first half alone and finished with 11.
- Dieng registered his second consecutive four-block game (totaling seven) against Gardner-Webb, becoming the first Louisville player to do that since Earl Clark in 2007-08 (five against Miami, Ohio, on Dec. 1 and four versus Dayton on Dec. 8). Should he swat four or more shots against Western Kentucky, he would be the first Louisville player with three straight four-block games since Felton Spencer from Dec. 16-30, 1989 (six against New Mexico, five against Austin Peay, and four against Kentucky).
- Dieng is the first Cardinal to have two games with 7+ blocks in the same season (he also had seven against FIU on Dec. 1) since Beau Zach Smith in 1995-96. Smith had seven each against Morehead State (Dec. 6) and Southern Miss (Jan. 21).
- The seven blocks tie for the seventh most in a game in Louisville history and the most since Kendall Dartez had nine on Dec. 7, 2003.
Blocks in a game, Louisville history
1. 11 - Samaki Walker - 1.1.95
2. 10 - Charles Jones - 2.22.83
3. 9 - Kendall Dartez - 12.7.03
3. 9 - Pervis Ellison - 2.28.87
5. 8 - Pervis Ellison - 12.8.88
5. 8 - Billy Thompson - 2.10.86
7. 7 - Gorgui Dieng - 12.18.10
7. 7 - Gorgui Dieng - 12.1.10
7. 7 - Beau Zach Smith - 1.21.96
7. 7 - Beau Zach Smith - 12.6.95
7. 7 - Samaki Walker - 1.19.95
7. 7 - Samaki Walker - 1.7.95
7. 7 - Pervis Ellison - 3.5.88
7. 7 - Pervis Ellison - 11.30.86
7. 7 - Charles Jones - 12.17.83
- Dieng becomes the fifth player in Louisville history to notch two career seven-block games, joining Pervis Ellison (four), Samaki Walker (three), Charles Jones (two), and Smith (two).
- Junior Chris Smith also collected his first career starting nod as a Cardinal, his first start since the 2008-09 finale (while playing for Manhattan).
- Sophomore Peyton Siva notched six assists in the first half alone, the most by a Cardinal in a half since Knowles had seven in a span of just over eight minutes against Oral Roberts last season (Dec. 16). Siva finished with seven, tying his career high and giving him three five-assist games in his last four outings.
- Sophomore Mike Marra connected on his first three-point attempt on Saturday to snap a streak of 14 consecutive misses from long range. He finished the contest 2-for-6 from behind the arc.
- Marra tied his career high with three steals in the game and set a new career mark with a pair of blocks.
- Junior Terrence Jennings' two-block game was the 36th multi-block effort of his career.
- Louisville had four players (Dieng, Jennings, Knowles, Marra) with multiple blocks in a single game for the first time since Dec. 6, 2009, when current senior George Goode had three and Jennings, Earl Clark, and Samardo Samuels all collected two.
- Sophomore Stephan Van Treese tied a career mark with six rebounds.
