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Louisville-Marshall Postgame Notes
November 21, 2014 | Men's Basketball
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LOUISVILLE TEAM NOTES
• Friday's contest was the Cardinals' second in the Global Sports Showcase, a five-team round robin event played at various campus sites.
• Friday's game was also the second of six straight for Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center, where they improved to 68-9 all-time.
• Louisville extended its home winning streak against non-conference foes to 28 games dating back to December 2011.
• With Friday's victory, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino moved within two wins of reaching 700 collegiate wins during his Hall of Fame career (overall record of 698-245 in 30 seasons).
• The Cardinals have won seven straight games against Marshall and are 11-5 all-time against the Thundering Herd, including an 8-0 mark at home.
• Through its first three games this season, Louisville has produced six runs of 8-0 or better, including one on Friday night when they outscored Marshall 11-0 over a span of 2:34 midway through the first half.
• The Cardinals have led by 13 or more points at halftime in each of their first three games, including the 14-point margin (41-27) on Friday night. It marks the first time since the 2010-11 season they have held double-digit halftime leads in each of their first three games.
• Louisville was 0-for-10 on three-pointers in the first half on Friday marking the first time they have not connected for a three-pointer in a half since March 31, 2013 when they were 0-for-5 in the first half against Duke in the NCAA Championship regional final at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
• The Cardinals finished the game 3-for-22 (13.6 percent) from behind the three-point line, their lowest percentage from behind the arc since making just 2-of-23 (8.7 percent) at Syracuse on March 3, 2012.
• Louisville's 44 free throw attempts were a season-high and the most since going 41-of-46 from behind the free throw line at Rutgers on Jan. 4, 2014.
• The Cardinals had a season-low seven turnovers, their fewest since finishing with just six against Houston on March 14, 2014 at the American Conference Tournament.
• Louisville finished with a season-high 13 steals, one better than what they had against Jacksonville State on Nov. 17.
• The Cardinals had a season-high six blocked shots on Friday.
• Louisville improved to 151-9 in the last 14 seasons under the guidance of Pitino when scoring 80 or more points.
• The Cardinals improved to 275-42 when holding an opponent to less than 70 points during the last 14 seasons.
LOUISVILLE PLAYER NOTES
• Senior Chris Jones led five Cardinals scoring in double-figures on Friday night with a season-high 18 points. It was his highest scoring performance since finishing with 18 against Rutgers on March 13, 2014 in the American Conference Tournament.
• Jones also matched a season-high with five assists on Friday.
• Sophomore Terry Rozier added 17 points, his third straight game of 13 or more points to open the season.
• Freshman Chinanu Onuaku earned his second straight double-double for the Cardinals scoring 10 points with 11 rebounds. On Monday, he had 12 points and 10 rebounds against Jacksonville State.
• In his last two games, Onuaku is 10-for-10 from the field with 21 rebounds in 40 minutes of action.
• Junior Montrezl Harrell finished with 12 points on Friday night marking his 15th straight game with 10 or more points.
• Sophomore Mangok Mathiang pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds marking the second straight game he has finished with 10 or more rebounds. Last season, he had just one game with double-digit rebounds (10 vs. College of Charleston on Nov. 9, 2013).
• Mathiang added a season-high three blocked shots, one shy of his career-high total set twice last season.
• Senior Wayne Blackshear scored a season-high 16 points, his highest total since finishing with 16 points at USF on Jan. 22, 2014.
• Blackshear also matched a career-high with four steals on Friday after finishing with zero steals in each of the first two games of the season.
• Sophomore David Levitch scored a career-best six points making his first three-pointer of the season and connecting on a career-best three free throws.
