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Louisville-Marquette Postgame Notes
January 15, 2011 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 15, 2011
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TEAM
- With the remarkable comeback victory, Louisville has now won five of its past six games against Marquette and eight of the last 10.
- Louisville now leads the all-time series 39-25.
- The Cardinals trailed by 18 (65-47) with 5:44 to play before going on a game-winning, game-ending 24-5 run. The 18-point deficit was the largest overcome by Louisville since erasing a 20-point first-half deficit (38-18 with 2:49 left in the half) in a 93-85 win over West Virginia in the Elite Eight of the 2005 NCAA Tournament (Mar. 26).
- Sixteen of the last 27 meetings have now been decided by five points or less or in overtime. The loss for MU was its fifth (out of six) by five or fewer points this season.
- U of L has three or more wins in its first four BIG EAST games for the fourth straight season. Louisville began 3-1 in 2007-08, 2009-10, and 2010-11 and 4-0 in 2008-09.
- The Cardinals did not commit their first turnover of the game until the 12:13 mark of the first half, a span of 7:47 (five assists during that stretch). Adding on the end of the Villanova contest, U of L went a stretch of 12:44 without a miscue before Tim Henderson's turnover in the eighth minute of Saturday's contest.
- Marquette finished the first stanza shooting 36.0 percent (9-for-25) from the floor, MU's second-lowest shooting mark in any half this season (shot 34.5 percent in the first half against Gonzaga on Nov. 23).
- MU finished the game shooting 33.9 percent (19-for-56) from the field, the lowest mark for the Golden Eagles since they shot 33.3 percent (16-for-48) against Villanova on March 12, 2009, in the BIG EAST Tournament. Marquette entered the week seventh in the nation in field goal percentage (.499).
- U of L notched at least six steals (finished with six) for the 22nd straight game, the longest streak for Louisville since the 1994-95 team collected 6+ thefts in the first 23 games.
- Marquette's 38 free throw attempts were the most by a Cardinal foe since Villanova shot 49 on Jan. 11, 2010.
- Louisville improves to 12-0 this season when outrebounding its opponent and 13-0 when shooting a higher percentage from the field.
PLAYER
- Senior Preston Knowles hit five threes in the game--all in the second half--for his fifth game with five or more threes this season (all of which have come in the past eight games). Knowles' has 34 threes in 67 attempts over his last eight contests for a .507 percentage. The 34 threes tie for the second-most over an eight-game span in school history, bested only by Taquan Dean's 35 from March 20-Dec. 5, 2005.
Made three-pointers in an eight-game span, Louisville history
1. 35 - Taquan Dean - 3.20.05-12.5.05 (4-5-7-2-3-1-6-7)
2. 34 - Preston Knowles - 12.18.10-1.15.11 (6-3-6-6-0-2-6-5)
2. 34 - Taquan Dean - 2.25.06-3.28.06 (5-3-3-3-7-3-5-5)
- The five games with 5+ threes in an eight-game span is a first in Louisville history--Dean had four such games in both of the above eight-game stretches and DeJuan Wheat had four in eight contests from Dec. 14, 1996-Jan. 6, 1997, but no player had ever registered five until Saturday.
- Knowles nearly broke the school record despite going an entire game without a three during the stretch, an 0-for-4 day on Jan. 5 against Seton Hall.
- The five threes for Knowles all came in the game's last 13:50, including four in a span of 3:48 in the last 5+ minutes of the contest.
- Knowles is averaging 19.1 points per game over those eight contests.
- Knowles also now has five straight multi-steal games (two on the day), the first Cardinal to do that since Terrence Williams had two or more in nine consecutive games from Feb. 18-March 14, 2009.
- Junior Kyle Kuric's first-half block on Jae Crowder was his third in the past three games (Kuric had just five career blocks in 59 games prior to that).
- Freshman Gorgui Dieng registered one block in 12 minutes of action on Saturday. The center ranks third in the nation in blocks per 40 minutes of playing time (as of end of Louisville-Marquette game).
Most blocks per 40 minutes, Division I
Must play in 75% of team's games and average 10.0 minutes per game
1. 7.53 - William Mosley, Northwestern State (80 in 425 min.)
2. 6.62 - David Foster, Utah (48 in 290 min.)
3. 6.58 - Gorgui Dieng, Louisville (40 in 243 min.)
4. 6.58 - Tom Herzog, UCF (37 in 225 min.)
5. 6.23 - Ty Walker, Wake Forest (55 in 353 min.)
- Sophomore Peyton Siva notched a steal for the 16th time in 17 games this season, collecting two in the contest. He now has multiple steals in six of the past seven games. Siva's current steal average of 2.12 (36 in 17 games) would be the ninth-best in Louisville single-season history.
Highest single-season steal average, Louisville history
1. 2.61 - Tick Rogers - 1994-95 (86 in 33 G)
2. 2.44 - Alvin Sims - 1995-96 (83 in 34 G)
3. 2.43 - Alvin Sims - 1996-97 (85 in 35 G)
4. 2.39 - Darrell Griffith - 1979-80 (86 in 36 G)
5. 2.32 - Terrence Williams - 2008-09 (86 in 37 G)
6. 2.22 - Tick Rogers - 1995-96 (71 in 32 G)
7. 2.18 - Jason Osborne - 1994-95 (72 in 33 G)
8. 2.18 - Rick Wilson - 1975-76 (61 in 28 G)
9. 2.12 - Peyton Siva - 2010-11 (36 in 17 G)
10. 2.11 - Labradford Smith - 1989-90 (74 in 35 G)
- Siva tied a career high with 10 free throw attempts in the game (making five), a mark he has now reached three times this season.
- Sophomore Stephan Van Treese scored 10 points and added three rebounds in the game and is now averaging 7.0 points and 7.5 boards over the last four contests.
- Junior Chris Smith collected a season-high seven rebounds in the contest.
- Freshman Elisha Justice's turnover with 5:52 to go in the contest snapped a streak of 83 consecutive minutes played without a turnover for the guard (his last turnover had come on Dec. 1 against FIU). He finished with one and still has never committed more than one turnover in a game.
- Junior Terrence Jennings tied career bests with five free throws made and six attempts in the contest. He made four critical throws in the last 49 seconds of the game and has now made seven of his last eight from the stripe.
