Men's Basketball Travels To Florida State

GAME 20
Date: Jan. 21, 2017
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Site: Donald L. Tucker Center, Tallahassee, Fla. (11,500)
Television: ESPN - Dave O'Brien, play-by-play; Dick Vitale, analyst; Allison Williams, reporter.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst. (Sirius channel 84, XM 84, Internet 84)
Series History: UofL leads 32-9 (19-2 in Louisville, 10-6 in Tallahassee, 3-1 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 84, Florida State 65 (Jan. 20, 2016 at KFC Yum! Center)
UofL National Ranking: 11th USA Today,12th Associated Press
Officials: Ted Valentine, Lamar Simpson,Bill Covington, Jr.
Next UofL Game: Jan. 24 at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 7 p.m. ET (ESPNU)

Louisville will play on the road for the first time in four games as the Cardinals visit the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday, the eighth Top 25 foe the Cardinals have faced this season. Louisville won its fourth straight and its 11th time in its last 13 games in defeating Clemson 92-60 on Thursday. Playing without starting guard Quentin Snider who is out with a strained hip flexor, the Cardinals shot a season-high 56.3 percent from the field and held a decisive 45-25 rebounding advantage. The Cardinals will be playing about 39 hours after completion of Thursday's game.

Sophomore Donovan Mitchell leads three Cardinals who are averaging double figures. Mitchell is averaging 13.8 points per game and 5.1 rebounds. Quentin Snider, who is out with an injury for two to three weeks, ranks second on the team in scoring with 12.1 points per game along with a team leading 72 assists. Deng Adel rounds out the top scorers with 10.8 points per game. Jaylen Johnson leads the Cardinals on the boards with 6.7 rebounds per game.

As a team, the Cardinals are shooting 44.4 percent from the field and 34.6 percent from behind the arc. UofL is averaging 41.4 rebounds per game while holding opponents to 34.6 rebounds a game.

Florida State (17-2, 5-1 ACC), ranked 10th by AP and 12th by USA Today, beat No. 15 Notre Dame 83-80 on Wednesday. The Seminoles had won 12 straight before falling 96-83 at North Carolina on Jan. 14 in their lone ACC
loss.

The Seminoles are seventh in the nation in field goal percentage (.505), 12th in scoring offense (86.3 ppg), 16th in
scoring margin (+15.4), 32nd in field goal percentage defense (.397) and 37th in steals per game (8.0). Florida State has a perfect 13-0 record at home this season.

Louisville has a 32-9 series advantage over Florida State and has won seven of the last nine matchups. The Cardinals prevailed 84-65 in last year's meeting in the KFC Yum! Center as Quentin Snider led UofL with 20 points, connecting on 8-of-12 shots from the field (1-20-16). Louisville has a 10-6 edge in games played in Tallahassee. The teams were fellow members of the Metro Conference from 1976-91, when the teams met in the league postseason tournament on five occasions.

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Louisville posted a collective 3.18 grade point average for the recently completed 2016 fall semester, with 11 men's basketball student-athletes achieving a 3.0 or better GPA.
Louisville is sixth in the nation in blocked shots (6.4 bpg) and ninth in field goal defense (.381), 10th in three-point field goal percentage defense (.292) and 10th in offensive rebounds per game (14.4). UofL has held 10 opponents below 36 percent shooting from the field.
Louisville has started with a 16-3 record for the fifth straight season.
In his last six games, Donovan Mitchell has averaged 18.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.7 assists and made 18-of-44 three-pointers (.409). Mitchell is second in the ACC and is 24th in the nation in steals (2.2 per game).
Louisville has a 37-16 record during the month of January over the last seven years, including a 21-7 record in the last four years.
Louisville has a 25-13 record in its conference road games over the last five years (.658).
UofL Coach Rick Pitino, who has a 407-137 record in his 16th season at Louisville, won his 400th victory with the Cardinals on Dec. 10. He won his 750th career collegiate victory when the Cards beat Wichita State on Nov. 24. He is one of five active coaches with at least 750 victories.
Louisville's 162 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).

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Jaylen Johnson

Donovan Mitchell

Quentin Snider

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