Men's Basketball Host Purdue in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge
November 29, 2016 | Men's Basketball
Cardinals face the Boilermakers on Wednesday night in the KFC Yum! Center
GAME 7
Date: Nov. 30, 2016
Time: 7:16 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (102-14 in 7th year)
Television: ESPN - Dan Shulman, play-by-play; Jay Bilas analyst; Molly McGrath, reporter.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 134, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: UofL trails 5-11 (3-4 in Louisville, 1-5 at Purdue, 1-2 neutral)
Last Meeting: Purdue 67, UofL 59 (Dec. 15, 2007 at Indianapolis, John Wooden Tradition)
UofL National Ranking: 14th USA Today, 14th Associated Press
Officials: James Luckie, Pat Driscoll, Ron Groover
Next UofL Game: Dec. 3 at Grand Canyon, Phoenix, Ariz., 9 p.m. ET (WAVE-TV in Louisville)
After falling in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis last week, Louisville returns to the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Purdue Boilermakers on Wednesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Louisville suffered its first defeat of the year in falling 66-63 to No. 20 Baylor last Friday after building a 22-point lead in the first half. UofL guards Donovan Mitchell and Quentin Snider were named to the all-tournament team.
Three Cardinals are averaging double figures after the first three games of the season. Sophomore Donovan Mitchell leads Louisville in scoring with 13.0 points per game. Quentin Snider is second with 11.0 points and Jaylen Johnson rounds out the top scorers with 10.5 points. Johnson leads the team on the boards with 9.7 rebounds per game. Snider leads the team with 22 assists on the year.
As a team the Cardinals are shooting 40.9 percent from the field and 32.0 percent from behind the arc. UofL is averaging 47.0 rebounds per game while holding opponents to just 37.2 rebounds a game.
Purdue (5-1, 15th AP, 16th USA Today), which features five players averaging double figures in scoring, has won its last four games, including a 79-68 victory over NJIT on Nov. 26 in its last outing. Its lone loss was to No. 3 Villanova 79-76 on Nov. 14.
Seventh nationally in assists (19.7 per game), Purdue is one of 29 teams in the nation shooting over 50 percent from the field. Caleb Swanigan, a 6-9 sophomore forward, has a nation-leading five double-doubles this season and averages 18.0 points and 12.0 rebounds, ranking sixth nationally in rebounding. He is one of five players averaging double figures in scoring. Over its last four games, Purdue is shooting 43.2 percent (42-of-97) from the three-point line.
The Boilermakers have an 11-5 series advantage over the Cardinals, winning the last three matchups and five of the last six. Louisville's last win against the Boilermakers was an 88-72 victory on December 14, 1996 at the Boilermaker Blockbuster in Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. DeJuan Wheat led the No. 22 ranked Cardinals with 25 points and eight assists in the game.
CARD FILE:
Date: Nov. 30, 2016
Time: 7:16 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (102-14 in 7th year)
Television: ESPN - Dan Shulman, play-by-play; Jay Bilas analyst; Molly McGrath, reporter.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 134, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: UofL trails 5-11 (3-4 in Louisville, 1-5 at Purdue, 1-2 neutral)
Last Meeting: Purdue 67, UofL 59 (Dec. 15, 2007 at Indianapolis, John Wooden Tradition)
UofL National Ranking: 14th USA Today, 14th Associated Press
Officials: James Luckie, Pat Driscoll, Ron Groover
Next UofL Game: Dec. 3 at Grand Canyon, Phoenix, Ariz., 9 p.m. ET (WAVE-TV in Louisville)
After falling in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis last week, Louisville returns to the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Purdue Boilermakers on Wednesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Louisville suffered its first defeat of the year in falling 66-63 to No. 20 Baylor last Friday after building a 22-point lead in the first half. UofL guards Donovan Mitchell and Quentin Snider were named to the all-tournament team.
Three Cardinals are averaging double figures after the first three games of the season. Sophomore Donovan Mitchell leads Louisville in scoring with 13.0 points per game. Quentin Snider is second with 11.0 points and Jaylen Johnson rounds out the top scorers with 10.5 points. Johnson leads the team on the boards with 9.7 rebounds per game. Snider leads the team with 22 assists on the year.
As a team the Cardinals are shooting 40.9 percent from the field and 32.0 percent from behind the arc. UofL is averaging 47.0 rebounds per game while holding opponents to just 37.2 rebounds a game.
Purdue (5-1, 15th AP, 16th USA Today), which features five players averaging double figures in scoring, has won its last four games, including a 79-68 victory over NJIT on Nov. 26 in its last outing. Its lone loss was to No. 3 Villanova 79-76 on Nov. 14.
Seventh nationally in assists (19.7 per game), Purdue is one of 29 teams in the nation shooting over 50 percent from the field. Caleb Swanigan, a 6-9 sophomore forward, has a nation-leading five double-doubles this season and averages 18.0 points and 12.0 rebounds, ranking sixth nationally in rebounding. He is one of five players averaging double figures in scoring. Over its last four games, Purdue is shooting 43.2 percent (42-of-97) from the three-point line.
The Boilermakers have an 11-5 series advantage over the Cardinals, winning the last three matchups and five of the last six. Louisville's last win against the Boilermakers was an 88-72 victory on December 14, 1996 at the Boilermaker Blockbuster in Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. DeJuan Wheat led the No. 22 ranked Cardinals with 25 points and eight assists in the game.
CARD FILE:
- Louisville has won its last 41 consecutive home games in November spanning the last 25 years, including a perfect 28-0 record in the KFC Yum! Center in the season-opening month. UofL has won 49 of its last 50 non-conference home games.
- UofL Coach Rick Pitino won his 750th career collegiate victory when the Cardinals beat Wichita State on Nov. 24. He needs four wins for his 400th victory at Louisville. He is one of five active coaches with at least 750 victories.
- Donovan Mitchell leads the ACC and is fifth in the nation in steals (3.0 per game). His seven steals against Old Dominion matched the fourth-most ever at UofL. His 18 steals in six games is just seven less than he had his entire freshman year.
- Louisville has a 40-4 record during the month of November over the last eight years, winning 16 of its last 17 games in that month.
- Louisville's 150 victories over the last six years are the fifth-most wins in the nation in that stretch. The Cards are one of just three teams to win at least 30 games in three of the last five seasons (30-10 in 2011-12, 35-5 in '12-13, 31-6 in '13-14).
- Louisville is one of just four schools which have won 20 or more games in each of the last 14 seasons (also Kansas, Duke and Gonzaga).
- UofL is eighth in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.347) and seventh in scoring defense (56.8 ppg).
- Anas Mahmoud's six blocked shots vs. Wichita St. tied for the 20th most by an individual at UofL and the most by a UofL player in 67 games. As a team, UofL's 43 rejections ranks eighth in the nation in blocked shots.
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