Men's Basketball Hosts Bellarmine on Monday Night

Exhibition Game
Date: Nov. 7, 2016
Time: 7:02 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (99-14 in 7th year)
Television: ACC Network Extra (available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN on the Watch ESPN app) Kent Taylor, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst.
Radio: Radio: WKRD (790 AM; joined in progress on WHAS, 840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (game not available on Sirius XM)
Series History: UofL leads 12-0 (regular season games; UofL leads 6-0 in exhibitions)
Last Meeting: UofL 71, Bellarmine 55 (exhibition/Nov. 1, 2015 at KFC Yum! Center)
UofL National Ranking: 14th USA Today,13th Associated Press
Officials: Tony Greene, Terry Wymer, William Humes
Next UofL Game: Nov. 11 vs. Evansville, KFC Yum! Center, 7:02 p.m. ET (ACC Network Extra)

Louisville will play its second exhibition game as the Cardinals prepare for the 2016-17 season while facing the Bellarmine Knights on Monday. UofL matched up against its first outside competition and surpassed the century mark with a 109-71 exhibition victory over Kentucky Wesleyan on Nov. 3 as nine players scored seven or more points for the Cardinals.

Coached by UofL graduate and former Cardinal assistant coach Scott Davenport, the Knights reached the NCAA Division II tournament for the eighth straight year last season, finishing with a 23-7 record while winning the Great Lakes Valley Conference East Division regular season title.

Louisville is the third exhibition opponent for Bellarmine, with the Knights falling 64-55 at Cincinnati on Nov. 2 and facing Indiana on Nov. 5 prior to playing the Cardinals. Bellarmine is the top-ranked team in the Division II Bulletin preseason top 25, is ranked third in the NABC/DII rankings, 14th by Basketball Times and the Knights are the preseason choice to win the East Division of the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

The Cardinals enter the game ranked No. 13 in the AP poll and 14^th in the USA Today poll. Louisville was picked to finish fourth ACC Preseason poll. The Cardinals return 10 lettermen, including starters Quentin Snider and Jaylen Johnson, from last season's squad that finished with a 23-8 record.

Louisville has won all 12 regular season meetings against Bellarmine University. That figure is not inclusive of six exhibition games the teams played in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 — all UofL victories. Louisville won the first meeting 79-52 at Bellarmine on Dec. 6, 1960, a year in which John Turner lead the Cardinals to a 21-8 record and UofL's third NCAA Tournament appearance.

Jaylen Johnson scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds off the bench as Louisville posted a 71-55 exhibition victory over Bellarmine in the last meeting between the teams (11-1-15). After building a 32-26 halftime lead, the Cardinals led by as much as 22 points in the second half. The Cardinals limited Bellarmine -- a team that would go on to rank third in NCAA Division II in field goal percentage last season (.535) to 32 percent accuracy from the field. Josh Derksen, who transferred to Kentucky Wesleyan after the season, led BU with 20 points.

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Louisville has won its last 32 straight in-season exhibition games, a span stretching the last 16 years (since 2001). The Cardinals last dropped an exhibition game on Dec. 2, 2000 when falling 87-86 in double overtime to a Global Sports team in Freedom Hall
Louisville's 146 victories over the last five 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).
Co-captain Quentin Snider is the Cardinals' leading returning scorer for the second straight year, averaging 9.4 points and 3.5 assists (4^th in the ACC. His 2.73 assist-turnovers ratio was 43rd in the nation.
UofL Coach Rick Pitino enters the season needing five victories to reach 750 in his collegiate career and nine wins for his 400^th victory at Louisville. He is one of five active coaches with at least 740 victories.
Louisville will gain its 100th victory in the KFC Yum! Center when the Cardinals earn their next win there. UofL enters 2016-17 with a 99-14 record in its first six seasons in the spectacular facility.
UofL's academic performance has been impressive, as the team posted a collective 3.38 grade point average for the most recent 2016 spring semester, with 14 of 15 student athletes achieving a 3.0 or better GPA. A league-high seven Cardinals were named to the 2016 All-ACC Academic Team.

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Jaylen Johnson

Quentin Snider

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