Men's Basketball Hosts Bryant on Monday Night

Monday, December 11

LOUISVILLE, KY

7 p.m.

University of Louisville

BRYANT

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December 10, 2017 | Men's Basketball

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Cardinals host the Bulldogs on Monday night at the KFC Yum! Center

By: Kim Pemberton

GAME 9
Date: Dec. 11, 2017
Time: 7:05 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (121-16 in 8th year)
Television: ESPNU - Kevin Fitzgerald, play-by-play; Dino Gaudio, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM; joined in progress on WHAS, 840 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 145, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: First Meeting
UofL National Ranking: unranked (receiving votes in the USA Today & AP polls)
Officials: James Luckie, Don Daily, Patrick Adams
Next UofL Game: Dec. 16 vs. Memphis, Madison Square Garden, N.Y., Noon ET (ESPN2) - Gotham Classic

Louisville plays its fourth straight in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Bryant Bulldogs in their second game of the Houzz Gotham Classic presented by TicketIQ on Monday, the third game in six days for the Cardinals. Louisville beat Indiana 71-62 on Saturday as Ray Spalding produced his fourth double-double of the season with 10 points and a career-best 14 rebounds and five blocked shots.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 16.0 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 10 points per game while dishing out a team best 31 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.8 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 9.8 points per game. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 50 percent on the year.

Bryant (1-9) has lost its last five, including falling 90-72 at Memphis on Dec. 9 in the Gotham Classic. Sophomore guard Ikenna Ndugba, who averages 13.5 points and 5.4 assists per game on the season, led the Bulldogs with a double-double performance of 17 points and 11 assists against Memphis.

Bryant is No. 333 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 333 by Ken Pomeroy and No. 265 in the RPI through Dec. 9. Ndugba is 48th in the nation in steals (2.38 per game), collecting two against Memphis in his last game. He also ranks 48th in the nation in assists (5.4).

This will be the first time Louisville has played a Bryant team. Bryant is the second of two NEC teams that the Cardinals face this year, as UofL defeated Saint Francis 84-72 on Nov. 24. Louisville has a collective 8-2 record against current members of the NEC (St. Francis 3-0, St. Francis Brooklyn 1-1, Fairleigh Dickinson 3-0, LIU Brooklyn 1-0).

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (8.0 bpg) and ranks 12th in field goal percentage defense (.369) and 21st in FT% (.779).
Tri-captain Anas Mahmoud has 144 career blocked shots and needs three swats to reach the top 10 in UofL career blocks. Mahmoud is fourth in the nation in blocks (3.8). He blocked a career-high nine shots vs. Siena, approaching a triple-double with 17 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocked shots.
Louisville has won 60 of its last 62 non-conference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals have won 24 of their last 25 home games against non-conference opponents.
Louisville has a 33-6 record during the month of December over the last six years, winning 21 of its last 26 in that month.
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 (16.0 ppg) has five 20-point scoring efforts in his last 13 games stretching back to the end of last season, including three of eight games this season.
Quentin Snider needs 136 points to become the Cardinals' 68th career 1,000-point scorer. In two exhibition games, a pair of intrasquad scrimmages this season and eight regular season games, Snider has combined to produce 60 assists with 17 turnovers.
UofL's academic performance has been jhiuokimpressive, 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.