Louisville-Pittsburgh Postgame Notes

SERIES
•   Louisville has won nine straight games against Pittsburgh and holds a 13-5 lead in the all-time series, which began in 1947.
•   The Cardinals are 8-1 all-time at home against the Panthers.
•   Louisville head coach Rick Pitino has a 13-9 career record against Pittsburgh, including a 12-5 mark with the Cardinals.

TEAM
•   Louisville moved to 9-1 at home this season and improved to 108-15 all-time at the KFC Yum! Center, now in its seventh season as the home of the Cardinals.
•   The Cardinals were 16-of-32 from the field in the first half on Wednesday marking the third time this season they have finished at 50 percent or better from the field in the opening half of a game.
•   UofL produced one run of 8-0 or better on Wednesday and the Cardinals have a total of 31 runs of 8-0 or better this season.
•   The 23 made free throws by Louisville equaled a season-high matching the total against Texas Southern on Dec. 10.
•   The 34 free throw attempts for the Cardinals on Wednesday ranked as the second highest single game total of the season behind only the 35 free throws against Old Dominion in the overtime win on Nov. 23.
•   The 32 three-point attempts by Pittsburgh were the most by a Louisville opponent since Notre Dame's 34 three-point attempts on Feb. 4, 2006 at Freedom Hall.
•   The 12 made three-pointers by the Panthers were the most for a Louisville opponent since Hofstra connected on 14 three-pointers on Nov. 12, 2013 at the KFC Yum! Center.
•   The Cardinals had a 45-30 advantage on the glass and moved to 12-1 this season when outrebounding their opponent.
•   The +15 margin on the glass for Louisville was the third highest of the season behind only the +23 margin (52-29) against Evansville on Nov. 11, 2016 and the +16 margin (47-31) against Eastern Kentucky on Dec. 17, 2016.
•   Wednesday's game marked the eighth time in 17 games this season the Cardinals have finished with 45 rebounds or more.
•   Louisville blocked six shots marking the 10th time this season they have swatted six or more shots in a game.
•   The Cardinals moved to 11-1 this season in games where they have led at halftime.
•   Louisville improved to 174-9 over the last 16 seasons under Pitino when scoring 80 or more points, including 5-0 this year.

PLAYER
•   Pittsburgh's Jamel Artis set a KFC Yum! Center scoring record with a career-high 43 points on Wednesday night, the second highest scoring performance in school history.
•   The 43 points for Artis were the most in the ACC since Boston College's Tyrese Rice had 46 points against North Carolina on March 1, 2008.
•   The 43 points for Artis were the most against the Cardinals since Joel Curbelo of American University (Puerto Rico) had 47 points on Nov. 24, 1995.
•   Louisville junior Quentin Snider equaled a career-high with 22 points – his 30th career double-figure scoring performance and the 10th this season.
•   Snider had five assists on Wednesday marking the fifth time this season he has finished with five or more assists in a game.
•   Louisville sophomore Deng Adel came off the bench for the first time this season and scored 15 points, his 10th double-figure scoring performance of the season and the 14th of his career.
•   Adel equaled a season-high with seven free throw attempts.
•   Louisville sophomore Ray Spalding reached double figures in scoring for the fifth time this season and the ninth time in his career with Wednesday's 11-point performance.
•   Louisville sophomore Donovan Mitchell finished with 15 points for his fourth straight double-figure scoring performance, his seventh in the last eight games, the 11th this season and the 24th of his career.
•   In his last eight games, Mitchell is averaging 15.8 points.
•   Mitchell matched a career-high with eight rebounds – the third time this season and the fourth time in his career he's pulled down eight rebounds in a game.
•   With two blocked shots on Wednesday, Louisville junior Anas Mahmoud has registered at least one blocked shot in each of his 14 games this season and in 18 straight games overall dating back to last season.
•   Mahmoud has blocked two or more shots in seven straight games and 10 total games this season.

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Anas Mahmoud

Donovan Mitchell

Quentin Snider

Ray Spalding

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