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Louisville-FIU Postgame Notes
December 05, 2014 | Men's Basketball
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LOUISVILLE TEAM NOTES
• Louisville extended its home winning streak against non-conference foes to 33 games dating back to December 2010. The Cardinals are 6-0 this season and were 9-0 in 2013-14, 7-0 in 2012-13 and 11-0 in 2011-12 in non-conference home games.
• Friday's game was the last of six straight for Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center, where they moved to 72-9 all-time.
• The Cardinals improved to 27-5 in the month of December over the last four years, including a 15-1 mark the last three seasons.
• Louisville improved to 4-0 all-time against FIU, including 3-0 at home.
• The 7-0 start for the Cardinals in 2014-15 continues their best opening stretch to a season since starting the 2011-12 season with an 11-0 mark.
• FIU scored the first basket of the night on Friday ending a stretch of 148 minutes, 42 seconds of game action without trailing for the Cardinals going back to the 8:08 mark of the first half against Marshall (20-19) on Nov. 21.
• Louisville has led at halftime in each of its first seven games this season with six of those leads at least 13 points, including the 36-23 advantage on Friday night.
• Holding FIU to a season-low 23 points during the first 20 minutes, Friday's game marked the 15th straight and the 27th in the last 28 games Louisville has held its opponent to 32 or fewer points in the first half.
• Louisville produced three runs of 8-0 or better on Friday -- 18-0 run over a span of 5:54 in the first half to flip a 10-6 deficit to a 24-10 lead, an 11-0 run over a span of 2:31 from the end of the first half to the start of the second half to increase a 31-23 advantage to 42-23 and an 8-0 run over a span of 1:38 in the second half to push a 45-27 lead to 53-27. Overall, the Cardinals have created 19 runs of 8-0 or better this season.
• Louisville shot a season-high 57.1 percent (32-of-56) from the field on Friday, the highest percentage since making 61.3 percent (38-of-62) against Louisiana-Lafayette on Dec. 7, 2013.
• The Cardinals matched a season-high making 40-percent (8-of-20) of its three-point attempts on Friday night (also made 40-percent vs. Savannah State).
• Louisville dished out a season-high 21 assists on Friday, the highest total since finishing with 22 assists against Houston on March 14, 2014.
• Louisville finished with a 34-33 edge on the glass to improve to 6-0 this season when outrebounding its opponent.
• The Cardinals finished with 14 steals on Friday marking the sixth time in seven games this season they have finished with 11 or more.
• The 25 turnovers by FIU was one shy of the season-high for a Louisville opponent (26 by Savannah State).
• The five double-figures scorers for Louisville on Friday night equals a season-high (also accomplished against Jacksonville State and Marshall).
• Louisville improved to 153-9 over the last 14 seasons under head coach Rick Pitino when scoring 80 or more points, including 5-0 this season.
• The Cardinals are 279-42 over the last 14 seasons under Pitino when holding its opponent below 70 points, including all seven games this season.
LOUISVILLE PLAYER NOTES
• Sophomore Anton Gill led Louisville's five double-figure scorers with a career-best and game-high 15 points on Friday.
• Gill, whose previous career-high for points was nine earlier this season against Savannah State, was 6-of-10 from the field and 3-for-5 from behind the three-point setting new career highs in all four categories.
• Junior Montrezl Harrell scored 13 points and pulled down 12 rebounds for his third straight double-double and the 15th of his collegiate career.
• With four dunks on Friday, Harrell moved into second place in career dunks at Louisville with 157 surpassing Darrell Griffith's 156 dunks from 1976-80. Harrell needs just six dunks to become the Cardinals' career dunks leader, currently paced by Pervis Ellison with 162 from 1985-89.
• Harrell has scored in double figures in an ACC-leading 19 straight games dating back to last season.
• Harrell also dished out a season-high three assists, one shy of his career best total of four set last season.
• Senior Wayne Blackshear reached double-figures in the scoring column for the fifth time in seven games this season scoring 12 points overall.
• Blackshear also matched a career-high with four steals in Friday night's win.
• Dishing out three total assists in the first six games of the season, freshman Chinanu Onuaku had a career-best and team-high five assists against FIU.
• Having played in 23 games during his first two collegiate seasons prior to Friday night, sophomore David Levitch made his first career start in the win over FIU.
