Men's Basketball Hosts Siena on Wednesday Night
December 05, 2017 | Men's Basketball
Cardinals host the Saints in a midweek game
GAME 7
Date: Dec. 6, 2017
Time: 7:01 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (119-16 in 8th year)
Television: ESPN2 - Mike Couzens, play-by-play; Debbie Antonelli, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 137, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: Tied 1-1 (0-1 in Albany, N.Y., 1-0 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 79, Siena 72 (March 22, 2009 at Dayton, Ohio; NCAA Midwest Region Second Round)
UofL National Ranking: unranked (receiving votes in the USA Today & AP polls)
Officials: Brian Dorsey, Raymond Styons Jr., Mark Schnur
Next UofL Game: Dec. 9 vs. Indiana, KFC Yum! Center, 2 p.m. ET (ESPN)
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Louisville plays its second of four straight in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Siena College Saints in the Houzz Gotham Classic presented by TicketIQ on Wednesday, the first day of final exams at UofL and the first of three games in six days for the Cardinals. Louisville fell 79-77 to Seton Hall on Sunday as 16 turnovers spelled doom for the Cardinals. Deng Adel scored 20 points to lead UofL, which held a statistical advantage in nearly every other category aside from turnovers.
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Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 17.2 points per game. Spalding ranks second on the team with 9.7 points per game. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.0 rebounds per game. Quentin Snider leads the team with 24 assists. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 53.3 percent on the year.Â
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Siena (2-5) has won two of its last three, including a 76-74 victory over Robert Morris on Dec. 2 in its last game as Nico Clareth led the Saints with 20 points in 24 minutes.
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A preseason All-MAAC second team pick, junior 6-5 guard Clareth leads the Saints, averaging 16.9 points per game. Clareth is a product of Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore, the same school that produced former UofL guard Damion Lee.
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Louisville has split its two previous meetings with Siena. Siena handed Louisville its first loss of the 1953 season when it won 78-71 on Dec. 10, 1953 at the Albany (N.Y.) Armory as Siena made an incredible 44-of-68 free throws in the game. Louisville would go on to a 22-7 record that season. The Cardinals won the last matchup 79-72 in the NCAA Midwest Region Second Round in Dayton, Ohio (3-22-09) as Terrence Williams led UofL with 24 points, 15 rebounds and four assists. Louisville went on to reach the Elite Eight that season.
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CARDINAL NOTES
Date: Dec. 6, 2017
Time: 7:01 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (119-16 in 8th year)
Television: ESPN2 - Mike Couzens, play-by-play; Debbie Antonelli, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 137, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: Tied 1-1 (0-1 in Albany, N.Y., 1-0 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 79, Siena 72 (March 22, 2009 at Dayton, Ohio; NCAA Midwest Region Second Round)
UofL National Ranking: unranked (receiving votes in the USA Today & AP polls)
Officials: Brian Dorsey, Raymond Styons Jr., Mark Schnur
Next UofL Game: Dec. 9 vs. Indiana, KFC Yum! Center, 2 p.m. ET (ESPN)
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Louisville plays its second of four straight in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Siena College Saints in the Houzz Gotham Classic presented by TicketIQ on Wednesday, the first day of final exams at UofL and the first of three games in six days for the Cardinals. Louisville fell 79-77 to Seton Hall on Sunday as 16 turnovers spelled doom for the Cardinals. Deng Adel scored 20 points to lead UofL, which held a statistical advantage in nearly every other category aside from turnovers.
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Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 17.2 points per game. Spalding ranks second on the team with 9.7 points per game. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.0 rebounds per game. Quentin Snider leads the team with 24 assists. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 53.3 percent on the year.Â
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Siena (2-5) has won two of its last three, including a 76-74 victory over Robert Morris on Dec. 2 in its last game as Nico Clareth led the Saints with 20 points in 24 minutes.
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A preseason All-MAAC second team pick, junior 6-5 guard Clareth leads the Saints, averaging 16.9 points per game. Clareth is a product of Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore, the same school that produced former UofL guard Damion Lee.
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Louisville has split its two previous meetings with Siena. Siena handed Louisville its first loss of the 1953 season when it won 78-71 on Dec. 10, 1953 at the Albany (N.Y.) Armory as Siena made an incredible 44-of-68 free throws in the game. Louisville would go on to a 22-7 record that season. The Cardinals won the last matchup 79-72 in the NCAA Midwest Region Second Round in Dayton, Ohio (3-22-09) as Terrence Williams led UofL with 24 points, 15 rebounds and four assists. Louisville went on to reach the Elite Eight that season.
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CARDINAL NOTES
- Louisville has won 58 of its last 60 non-conference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals have won 22 of their last 23 home games against non-conference opponents, breaking a 22-game streak with a loss to Seton Hall.
- Louisville has a 31-6 record during the month of December over the last six years, winning 19 of its last 24 in that month.
- Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (7.3 bpg) and ranks 20th in field goal percentage defense (.374) and 16th in FT% (.784).
- 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 (17.2 ppg) has five 20-point scoring efforts in his last 11 games stretching back to the end of last season, including three of six games this season.
- Quentin Snider needs 165 points to become the Cardinals' 68th career 1,000-point scorer. In two exhibition games, a pair of intrasquad scrimmages this season and six regular season games, Snider has combined to produce 53 assists with 15 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 135 career blocked shots and needs 12 swats to reach the top 10 in UofL career blocks. Mahmoud is fifth in the nation in blocks (3.5).
- 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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