Men's Basketball Hosts Virginia Tech on Saturday Afternoon

GAME 27
Date: Feb. 17, 2017
Time: 1:05 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (112-15 in 7th year)
Television: ACC Network/WAVE-TV in Louisville - Tim Brando, play-by-play; Mike Gminski, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) - Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst. (Sirius channel 93, XM 202, Internet 962)
Series History: UofL leads 30-8 (16-3 in Louisville, 13-3 at Blacksburg, 1-2 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 91, Virginia Tech 83 (Jan. 27, 2016 at Blacksburg, Va.)
UofL National Ranking: seventh USA Today, eighth Associated Press
Officials: Roger Ayers, Tim Nestor, Patrick Adams
Next UofL Game: Feb. 22 at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 9 p.m. ET (ESPN)

Louisville returns home to the KFC Yum! Center -- where UofL will play three of its last five regular season games -- as the Cardinals face the Virginia Tech Hokies on Saturday. Louisville won for the ninth time in its last 11 games in prevailing 76-72 in overtime at Syracuse on Feb. 13 as Donovan Mitchell led five Cardinals in double figures with 16 points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals.

Mitchell leads three Cardinals who are averaging double figures. He is averaging 15.2 points per game and 4.7 rebounds. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team in scoring with 12.2 points per game along with a team leading 82 assists. Deng Adel rounds out the top scorers with 11.4 points per game. Jaylen Johnson leads the Cardinals on the boards with 6.3 rebounds per game.

As a team, the Cardinals are shooting 44.9 percent from the field and 35.7 percent from behind the arc. UofL is averaging 40.3 rebounds per game while holding opponents to 34.3 rebounds a game.

Virginia Tech (18-7, 7-6 ACC) has won its last two games, including an 80-78 double overtime victory against Virginia on Feb. 12. The Hokies won 66-63 at Pitt in its last outing on Feb. 14 as they overcame a 13 point deficit in the second half. Virginia Tech fell only to Texas A&M in its 12 non-conference games and opened ACC play with a victory over Duke.

The Hokies are 32nd nationally in field goal percentage (.481) and 54th in three-point field goal percentage (.380).
Virginia Tech is No. 32 in the RPI, No. 49 in the Sagarin Ratings and No. 50 by Ken Pomeroy through Feb. 14. The Hokies have five players averaging double figures. Zach LeDay leads the team with 15.2 points per game. Chris Clarke leads the team on the boards with 7.3 rebounds per game.

Louisville leads 30-8 in its series against Virginia Tech, winning the last 11 matchups. UofL won 91-83 in last year's
meeting in Blacksburg, Va. (1-27-16) as Damion Lee (29 points) and Trey Lewis (22 points) led the Cards while burying a combined 10-of-14 threes.

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Louisville is one win away from 1,800 victories over its 103 seasons of collegiate basketball. UofL is 10th in the nation in all-time victories (1,799-897 record in 103rd year).
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 11th in the nation in field goal defense (.387), 11th in blocked shots (5.7 bpg), third in three-point field goal percentage defense (.283), 14th in scoring margin (+14.0) and 17^th in offensive rebounds per game (13.5).
Louisville has faced the nation's fifth-toughest schedule according to the RPI (Feb. 13).
Louisville has won at least 21 of its first 26 games for the third time in the last five seasons.
In his last 13 games, Donovan Mitchell has averaged 18.8 points 4.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 2.2 steals and has made 37-of-90 three-pointers (.411). Mitchell leads the ACC and is 16th in the nation in steals (2.2 per game). He is among the top 30 candidates for the Naismith Trophy for national player of the year.
Louisville has a 55-17 record (.764) in February over the last nine years (since 2007-08), winning 21 of its last 28 in the month.
Louisville has a 34-8 record in its conference home games over the last five years (.810), including an 8-1 record last season in ACC games in the KFC Yum! Center.
Louisville's 167 victories over the last six years are the fifth-most wins in the nation in that stretch.
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).

Men's Basketball Hosts Virginia Tech on Saturday Afternoon

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Jaylen Johnson

Damion Lee

Trey Lewis

Donovan Mitchell

Quentin Snider

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