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Louisville-North Carolina Postgame Notes
January 31, 2015 | Men's Basketball
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LOUISVILLE TEAM NOTES
• Louisville halted a three-game losing skid to North Carolina while earning its first home win against the Tar Heels since a 97-80 victory on Dec. 23, 1999 at Freedom Hall.
• The home team won each of the two matchups this season as the Cardinals and Tar Heels played twice in a single season for the first time in the history of the series.
• Trailing by as many as 18 points early in the second half on Saturday, Louisville overcame its largest deficit for a win since trailing by 18 in the second half of its 71-70 victory against Marquette on Jan. 15, 2011 at the KFC Yum! Center.
• Louisville earned its first overtime victory since Feb. 18, 2012 when they won 90-82 in overtime at DePaul. In that game, the Cardinals overcame a 17-point first half deficit to defeat the Blue Demons.
• Saturday marked Louisville's first overtime game since Feb. 9, 2013 when they dropped 104-101 heartbreaker in five overtimes at Notre Dame.
• Saturday's game was the Cardinals' first overtime contest at home since Jan. 7, 2012 when they fell 67-65 in double overtime to Notre Dame at the KFC Yum! Center.
• Louisville produced two runs of 8-0 or better on Saturday -- a 9-0 run during a span of 1:20 in the second half to flip a 53-44 deficit to a 53-53 tie and a 10-0 during a span of 1:32 in overtime to increase a 66-64 lead to 76-64. Overall, Louisville has created 40 runs of 8-0 or better in 21 games this season.
• Louisville outrebounded North Carolina 30-17 in the second half and overtime while finishing with a 17-0 advantage in second chance points during the final 25 minutes of the game.
• The Cardinals improved to 11-1 this season when outrebounding an opponent after finishing with 46-44 edge overall.
• For the second time this season, Louisville had two players (Harrell with 22pts/15reb & Terry Rozier with 22 pts/10reb) finish with double-doubles on Saturday. It also occurred at Wake Forest on Jan. 4, 2015 (Harrell with 25 pts/13reb & Chris Jones with 22 pts/10asts).
• Louisville had 10 steals on Saturday marking the 14th time this season they have finished with 10 or more steals in a game. Saturday's game ended a stretch of four straight games with five or less steals for the Cardinals.
• The Cardinals finished with five blocked shots on Saturday - the 14th time this season they have blocked at least five shots in a game.
• Louisville forced the Tar Heels into 19 turnovers on Saturday, one shy of their season-high of 20 against Syracuse.
• Saturday marked the most turnovers for a Louisville opponent since Long Beach State had 19 turnovers on Dec. 30.
• The Cardinals' 44 free throw attempts on Saturday equaled a season-high first set on Nov. 21 against Marshall.
• The 27 made free throws for Louisville Saturday were two shy of the season-high of 29 against Minnesota on Nov. 14.
LOUISVILLE PLAYER NOTES
• Junior Montrezl Harrell earned his 20th career double-double and the eighth this season on Saturday scoring 22 points and pulling down a game-high 15 rebounds.
• It was the most points in a game for Harrell since scoring 25 in the win at Wake Forest on Jan. 4, 2015.
• The 15 rebounds for Harrell were the most for him since finishing with 17 against UNC Wilmington on Dec. 12, 2014.
• Sophomore Terry Rozier earned his first career double-double scoring 22 points to go along with 10 rebounds.
• Rozier has scored 20 or more points seven times this season, including three straight games overall.
• The 10 rebounds were one shy of Rozier's career-high of 11 against Cleveland State on Nov. 26, 2014.
• In his last 14 games, Rozier has averaged 20.9 points while scoring 20 or more points in seven of those.
• Twice in his career has Rozier attempted at least 20 shots in a game with both of those coming this season against North Carolina. He attempted 20 shots on Saturday after attempting a career-high 21 in Chapel Hill on Jan. 10 .
• Senior Chris Jones reached double-figures in scoring for the 16th time this season on Saturday finishing with 17 points.
• Jones matched a season-high for three-pointers made connecting on three for the sixth time this season.
• Saturday marked the third straight game and the fifth time in the last seven games Jones has made a trio of three-point baskets.
• Sophomore Mangok Mathiang blocked three shots on Saturday, the second highest total of the season and the most since blocking four shots against Cal State Northridge on Dec. 23, 2014.
