Men's Basketball Faces Memphis at Madison Square Garden on Saturday Afternoon

GAME 10
Date: Dec. 16, 2017
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Site: Madison Square Garden (19,812), New York, N.Y. - UofL has a 31-26 record at MSG, winning its last nine there
Television: ESPN2 - Ted Emrich, play-by-play; John Thompson, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 81, XM 81, Internet 81)
Series History: Louisville leads 53-36 (31-12 in Louisville, 16-23 in Memphis, 6-1 neutral)
Last Meeting: Memphis 72, UofL 66 (March 1, 2014 in Memphis, Tenn.)
UofL National Ranking: unranked (receiving votes in the USA Today & AP polls)
Officials: Wally Rutecki, Dwayne Gladden, Jerry Heater
Next UofL Game: Dec. 20 vs. Albany,
KFC Yum! Center, 9 p.m. ET (ESPNU) Gotham Classic

Louisville plays its first neutral site game of the season as the Cardinals face the Memphis Tigers in the showcase game of the Houzz Gotham Classic presented by TicketIQ at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday. Louisville reached the century mark with a 102-59 victory over Bryant on Monday as the Cardinals shot a season-high 55.7 percent from the field.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 16.1 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 10.8 points per game while dishing out a team best 33 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.7 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 9.9 points per game. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 45.5 percent on the year.

The Tigers (7-2) have won four straight games, including a 67-58 victory over Albany on Dec. 12 as Kareem Brewton Jr. led the scoring with 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field (3-3 threes) in 17 minutes off the bench.

Memphis is No. 147 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 151 by Ken Pomeroy and No. 123 in the RPI through Dec. 12. Memphis ranks 54th nationally in offensive rebounds per game (12.7). Memphis returns only two lettermen (both starters) from last season's squad which posted a 19-13 record and finished fifth in the AAC.

Louisville had a 4-6 record in games against Memphis Coach Tubby Smith while he was at Kentucky, including a 65-56 Cardinal victory over the Wildcats in Lexington on Dec. 27, 2003 when UK was the top-ranked team in the ESPN/USA Today poll and No. 2 by AP.

Louisville holds a 53-36 advantage over Memphis in the series, which began in 1949. UofL has won four of the last six games. The Cardinals have a 6-1 edge in games at neutral sites. This 90th meeting makes
Memphis the Cardinals' second-most played rivalry behind Cincinnati (99 meetings).

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (7.9 bpg) and ranks ninth in field goal percentage defense (.367) and 23rd in FT% (.774).
Quentin Snider has averaged a team-high 15.3 points and made 6-of-12 three-pointers over the last three games, with nine assists and two turnovers. He needs 119 points to become the Cardinals' 68th career 1,000-point scorer.
UofL committed a season-low six turnovers vs. Bryant, the third time the Cardinals have had single-digit turnovers this season and the 48^th occasion in the last five years.
Tri-captain Anas Mahmoud moved into 10^th in career blocked shots at UofL (147) with three vs. Bryant. He is sixth in the nation in blocks (3.7). He blocked a career-high nine shots vs. Siena with 17 points and 13 rebounds.
UofL has shot a combined 49.6 percent over the last four games
Louisville has a 34-6 record during the month of December over the last six years, winning 22 of its last 27 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 (16.1 ppg) has five 20-point scoring efforts in his last 14 games stretching back to the end of last season, including three this season. He has been UofL's scoring leader on five occasions this year.

Men's Basketball Faces Memphis at Madison Square Garden on Saturday Afternoon

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Anas Mahmoud

Jordan Nwora

Quentin Snider

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