Men's Basketball Travels to Notre Dame on Tuesday

GAME 18
Date: Jan. 16, 2018
Time: 7:01 p.m.
Site: Purcell Pavilion, Notre Dame, Ind. (9,149)
Television: ESPN2 - Rece Davis, play-by-play; Fran Fraschilla, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 81, XM 81, Internet 81)
Series History: UofL leads 21-15 (13-3 in Louisville, 4-9 at Notre Dame, 4-3 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 71, Notre Dame 64 (March 4, 2017 at KFC Yum! Center)
UofL National Ranking: unranked
Officials: Ron Groover, Ted Valentine, Jeff Clark
Next UofL Game: Jan. 21 vs. Boston College, KFC Yum! Center, Noon ET (ACC Network/ WHAS-TV in Louisville)

Louisville will play on the road game for the third time in four games as the Cardinals play at Notre Dame on Tuesday. Louisville (13-4, 3-1 ACC) won for the ninth time its last 11 games as the Cardinals beat Virginia Tech in the KFC Yum! Center on Saturday as Deng Adel scored a career-high 27 points and added 11 rebounds for his third career double-double and second in his last three games. Louisville shot a season-best 56.5 percent from three-point range (13-of-23) and the Cardinals have made at least eight three-pointers in six of its last 10 games.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 15.8 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 12.6 points per game while dishing out a team best 69 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.1 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 11.1 points per game. Ryan McMahon leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 40.9 percent on the year.

Notre Dame (13-5, 3-2 ACC) had won five straight before dropping its last two, falling 69-68 at home to No. 20 North Carolina on Jan. 13 in its last outing as TJ Gibbs led the Irish with 19 points and six assists, but missed a potential game-winner at the buzzer.

Notre Dame leads the nation in fewest fouls committed per game (12.9), is sixth in fewest turnovers per game (9.8) and is 24th in scoring margin (+13.5). Notre Dame is No. 19 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 22 by Ken Pomeroy and No. 50 in the RPI through Jan. 14. Bonzie Colson (21.4 ppg, 10.4 rpg), a preseason All-America selection and the preseason ACC Player of the Year, had surgery on Jan. 4 to repair a broken foot suffered in practice and is expected to be out for eight weeks. Senior guard Matt Farrell (15.9 ppg, 5.1 apg) missed the last three games with a sprained ankle.

Louisville has a 21-15 series advantage over Notre Dame, with the teams splitting their two meetings last season, with Donovan Mitchell scoring 20 points in each of the games to lead the Cardinals. Notre Dame won 77-70 on their home floor (1-4-17) and UofL won 71-64 in the KFC Yum! Center in the final game of the regular season (3-4-17). UofL has dropped its last six at Notre Dame, last winning there in 1994 (85-82 in overtime, 2-26-94).

CARDINAL NOTES

Quentin Snider needs two points to become the Cardinals' 68th career 1,000-point scorer. He matched a season-high with 19 points against Virginia Tech, his fourth game this season with that total. He is fourth in the ACC and 43rd in the nation in assists turnover ratio (2.65).
Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (7.6 bpg) and ranks 15th in field goal percentage defense (.389) and 26th in 3-point defense (.306). Center Anas Mahmoud is fifth in the nation in blocked shots (3.53) and Ray Spalding is 13th in offensive rebounds (3.65).
Deng Adel has scored in double figures in 19 of his last 20 games dating back to last season.
Louisville overcame a 45-32 halftime deficit at Florida State to win, marking the largest halftime deficit overcome in an road victory by the Cardinals since 2003. UofL also halted a 28-game home winning streak by FSU.
Louisville has a 29-17 record in its conference road games over the last six years (.630).
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).
Louisville has a 42-18 record during the month of January over the last eight years, including a 26-9 record in the last five years.
Louisville achieved a collective 3.083 grade-point average for the 2017 fall semester, with nine of 14 current student-athletes earning a 3.0 or better GPA (19th consecutive semester with at least a team 3.0 GPA). UofL 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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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Anas Mahmoud

Ryan McMahon

Quentin Snider

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