Men's Basketball Returns Home to Host NC State Sunday Afternoon

GAME 22
Date: Jan. 29, 2017
Time: 1:07 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (110-15 in 7th year)
Television: ACC Network/WAVE-TV in Louisville - Tom Werme, play-by-play; Dan Bonner, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst. (Sirius channel 81, XM 81, Internet 81)
Series History: UofL leads 10-9 (5-2 in Louisville, 4-4 at Raleigh, 1-3 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 77, NC State 72 (Jan. 7, 2016 at Raleigh, N.C.)
UofL National Ranking: 14th USA Today, 13th Associated Press
Officials: Brian Dorsey, Tony Chiazza, Lee Cassell
Next UofL Game: Feb. 4 at Boston College, Boston, Mass., 3 p.m. ET (ACC Network/WHAS-TV in Louisville)

Louisville will close the month of January in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the NC State Wolfpack on Sunday. The game has been promoted as a "White Out," with fans encouraged to wear white attire to the game. Playing its third game without injured starting guard Quentin Snider (strained hip flexor), the Cardinals posted the largest margin of victory for a road team in ACC history in their 106-51 victory at Pittsburgh on Jan. 24.

Sophomore Donovan Mitchell leads three Cardinals who are averaging double figures. Mitchell is averaging 14.1 points per game and 4.8 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 6.6 rebounds per game.

As a team, the Cardinals are shooting 44.9 percent from the field and 35.1 percent from behind the arc. UofL is averaging 41.8 rebounds per game while holding opponents to 34.5 rebounds a game.

NC State (14-7, 3-5 ACC) has won two of its last three games, including winning for the first time since 1995 at Duke with an 84-82 victory on Jan. 23. Freshman Dennis Smith, Jr. scored a career-high 32 points and added six assists, four rebounds and two steals in the game.

NC State is 27th in the nation in scoring offense (81.6 ppg) and 33rd in field goal percentage (.480). Smith leads the ACC in assists (6.6, 10th in the nation) and steals (2.2, 23rd in the nation) and is fifth in scoring (18.9 ppg). NC State is No. 59 in the RPI, No. 68 in the Sagarin Ratings and No. 74 by Ken Pomeroy through Jan. 25.

UofL has a 10-9 series edge over NC State, including a 5-2 record in games played in Louisville. The Cardinals have won the last two matchups, including a 77-72 victory in Raleigh, N.C. last season (1-7-16) when Quentin Snider led the Cardinals with 21 points, hitting a career-best 4-of-6 three-pointers.

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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 field goal defense (.375), seventh in blocked shots (6.2 bpg) fifth in three-point field goal percentage defense (.282) and 10th in offensive rebounds per game (14.4).
Louisville has faced the nation's toughest schedule according to the RPI through games of Jan. 25.
Louisville has won at least 17 of its first 21 games in six of the last seven seasons.
In his last eight games, Donovan Mitchell has averaged 18.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists and made 24-of-55 three-pointers (.436). He scored a career-high 29 points at Pittsburgh (6-of-8 three-pointers). Mitchell is second in the ACC and is 26th in the nation in steals (2.1 per game).
Louisville has a 32-8 record in its conference home games over the last five years (.800), including an 8-1 record last season in ACC games in the KFC Yum! Center.
Louisville has a 38-17 record during the month of January over the last seven years, including a 22-8 record in the last four years.
Louisville's 163 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).

Men's Basketball Returns Home to Host NC State Sunday Afternoon

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Jaylen Johnson

Donovan Mitchell

Quentin Snider

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