Men's Basketball Hosts Miami on Saturday Afternoon

Saturday, February 11

LOUISVILLE, KY

2:00 p.m.

University of Louisville

MIAMI

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February 10, 2017 | Men's Basketball

Louisville Notes Miami Notes Live Stats Mangok Mathiang and Deng Adel

Cardinals return home to host Miami at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday

By: Kim Pemberton

GAME 25
Date: Feb. 11, 2017
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (111-15 in 7th year)
Television: ESPN2 - Mike Couzens, play-by-play; Corey Alexander, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst. (Sirius channel 84, XM 84, Internet 84)
Also: Compass Media Networks - Kevin Ray, play-by-play; Mike Wozniak, analyst.
Series History: UofL leads 9-3 (3-0 in Louisville, 5-3 at Miami, 1-0 neutral)
Last Meeting: Miami 73, UofL 65 (Feb. 27, 2016 at Coral Gables, Fla.)
UofL National Ranking: fourth USA Today, fourth Associated Press
Officials: Brian Dorsey, Jeffrey Anderson, Brian O'Connell
Next UofL Game: Feb. 13 at Syracuse, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 p.m. ET (ESPN)

Louisville returns home to the KFC Yum! Center -- where UofL will play four of its last seven regular season games -- as the Cardinals face the Miami Hurricanes on Saturday. Louisville lost for just the second time in its last nine games in falling 71-55 at Virginia on Monday as the Cardinals were outrebounded 38-19 and shot just 25 percent from the field in the second half. V.J. King led UofL with a career-best 24 points and Donovan Mitchell added 16 points, three assists and four steals.

Mitchell leads three Cardinals who are averaging double figures. He is averaging 15.0 points per game and 4.8 rebounds. Quentin Snider, who has been out with an injury the last 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 11.1 points per game. Jaylen Johnson and Mangok Mathiang lead the Cardinals on the boards with 6.2 rebounds per game each.

As a team, the Cardinals are shooting 45.3 percent from the field and 35.8 percent from behind the arc. UofL is averaging 40.2 rebounds per game while holding opponents to 34.2 rebounds a game.

Miami (16-7, 6-5 ACC) has won four of its last five games, including winning 74-68 over Virginia Tech on Feb. 8 in its last outing as Davon Reed scored 18 points and handed out six assists to lead four Hurricanes players in double figures.

Miami is No. 51 in the RPI, No. 32 in the Sagarin Ratings and No. 40 by Ken Pomeroy through Feb. 8. The Hurricanes, which have nine scholarship players eligible for competition, are 34th in the nation in scoring defense (64.2), 55th in field goal percentage defense (.410) and 25th in rebound margin (+6.4). Among Miami's five ACC victories is a 77-62 win over No. 9 North Carolina on Jan. 28.

Louisville has a 9-3 series advantage over Miami and the Cardinals have won five of the last six matchups. Miami won 73-65 in last year's meeting in Coral Gables (2-27-16) as Quentin Snider led UofL with 14 points.

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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 eighth in the nation in field goal defense (.384), eighth in blocked shots (5.9 bpg), fifth in three-point field goal percentage defense (.285), 13th in scoring margin (+14.8) and 17th in offensive rebounds per game (13.5).
Louisville has faced the nation's seventh toughest schedule according to the RPI through games of Feb. 8.
Louisville has won at least 19 of its first 24 games for the sixth straight season.
In his last 11 games, Donovan Mitchell has averaged 19.2 points 4.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 2.3 steals and made 32-of-74 three-pointers (.432). Mitchell is second in the ACC and is 15th in the nation in steals (2.2 per game). He is eighth in the Kenpom.com national player of the year ratings through Feb. 8.
Louisville has a 33-8 record in its conference home games over the last five years (.805), including an 8-1 record last season in ACC games in the KFC Yum! Center.
Louisville has a 53-17 record (.757) in February over the last nine years (since 2007-08), winning 19 of its last 26 in the month.
Louisville's 165 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).