Men's Basketball Hosts Seton Hall on Sunday

GAME 6
Date: Dec. 3, 2017
Time: 4:05 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (119-15 in 8th year)
Television: ESPN2 - Mike Crispino, play-by-play; Seth Greenberg, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 108, XM 108, Internet 108)
Series History: UofL leads 13-5 (6-1 in Louisville, 6-4 in New Jersey, 1-0 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 79, Seton Hall 61 (Feb. 23, 2013 at KFC Yum! Center)
UofL National Ranking: 17th USA Today, 17th Associated Press
Officials: Roger Ayers, Doug Shows, Joe Lindsay
Next UofL Game: Dec. 6 vs. Siena, KFC Yum! Center, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Gotham Classic

Louisville returns home for the first of four straight in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Seton Hall Pirates on Sunday. In its first road game of the year, Louisville (4-1) lost for the first time this season 57-66 at Purdue in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Tuesday as the Cardinals limited Purdue to 33.3 percent shooting from the field. V.J. King scored a season-high 17 points to lead UofL.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 16.6 points per game. Spalding ranks second on the team with 11.2 points per game. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.2 rebounds per game. Quentin Snider leads the team with 22 assists. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 53.8 percent on the year.

Seton Hall (24th USA Today, receiving votes in the AP poll) has won five of its first six games this season, including a 72-59 victory over Vanderbilt in the NIT Season Tipoff in its last game on Nov. 24 in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The Pirates will play Texas Tech on Nov. 30 in the Under Armour Reunion at Madison Square Garden prior to playing the Cardinals.

Coached by former UofL assistant coach Kevin Willard, Seton Hall is No. 25 in the Sagarin Ratings and No. 24 by Ken Pomeroy through Nov. 28. Seton Hall features three career 1,000 point scorers in Khadeen Carrington, Angel Delgado and Desi Rodriguez. Delgado, who led the nation in rebounding last season (13.1 rpg), has four double-doubles this season and is averaging 14.0 points and 9.3 rebounds.

Louisville has a 13-5 series advantage over Seton Hall, winning the last five straight and 10 of the last 12 meetings. Louisville won the last matchup 79-61 over the Pirates in the KFC Yum! Center (2-23-13) as Gorgui Dieng led the Cardinals with 23 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots. Louisville was a fellow member of the Big East Conference for eight seasons (2005-13). The Cardinals won their last two Big East Tournaments in 2012 and 2013 and were the regular co-champion in its last Big East season in 2013 before advancing to win the NCAA Championship.

In two games against Seton Hall while he was a player at Louisville, David Padgett produced 12 points (4-of-5 FG), five rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots as the Cardinals fell 92-82 (1-19-08); and 15 points (6-of-7 FG), seven rebounds, three assists and two blocks in an 86-71 UofL victory (3-4-07).

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville has won 58 of its last 59 non-conference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals have won their last 22 home games against non-conference opponents.
Louisville has a 31-5 record during the month of December over the last five years, winning 19 of its last 23 in that month.
Louisville is fourth in the nation in blocked shots (7.4 bpg) and ranks ninth in field goal percentage defense (.357). UofL limited Purdue to 33.3 percent shooting from the field on Nov. 28.
Louisville is one of just four schools which have won 20 or more games in each of the last 15 seasons (also Kansas, Duke and Gonzaga).
Scoring leader Deng Adel (16.6 ppg) has four 20-point scoring efforts in his last 10 games stretching back to the end of last season, including two of five games this season.
Quentin Snider needs 180 points to become the Cardinals' 68th career 1,000-point scorer. In two exhibition games, a pair of intrasquad scrimmages this season and five regular season games, Snider has combined to produce 51 assists with 14 turnovers.
Tri-captain Anas Mahmoud blocked a career-high eight shots against Omaha, approaching a triple-double with 10 points and eight rebounds. He has 130 career blocked shots and needs 17 swats to reach the top 10 in UofL career blocks. Mahmoud is 13th in the nation in blocks (3.2).
UofL's academic performance has been impressive, as Louisville is one of only two schools in the nation to have perfect men's basketball multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores each of the past four years. A league-high six Cardinals were named to the 2017 All-ACC Academic Team.

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

V.J. King

Anas Mahmoud

Jordan Nwora

Quentin Snider

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