Men's Basketball Hosts Boston College on Sunday at Noon

GAME 19
Date: Jan. 21, 2018
Time: 12:06 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (126-16 in 8th year)
Television: ACC Network/WHAS-TV in Louisville - Tim Brando, play-by-play; Brian Oliver, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 134, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: UofL leads 5-3 (2-0 in Louisville, 2-1 in Chestnut Hill, 1-2 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 90, Boston College 67 (Feb. 4, 2017 at Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
UofL National Ranking: unranked (receiving votes in the AP poll)
Officials: Michael Stephens, John Gaffney, Tim Clougherty
Next UofL Game: Jan. 24 at Miami, Miami, Fla., 8 p.m. ET (ESPN2)

Louisville returns home to the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals play the Boston College Eagles on Sunday. Louisville (14-4, 4-1 ACC) won for the 10th time its last 12 games as the Cardinals claimed their second ACC road victory of year with an 82-78 double overtime victory at Notre Dame on Tuesday. Ray Spalding led the Cardinals with a career-high 23 points, 12 rebounds and two steals. The Cardinals forced 18 turnovers, limited the Irish to 38 percent shooting from the field for the game and made 8-of-11 shots in the two overtime periods (.727).

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 15.7 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 13.1 points per game while dishing out a team best 76 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.2 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 11.7 points per game. Ryan McMahon leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 42 percent on the year.

Boston College (13-6, 3-3 ACC) beat Florida State in a home game on Jan. 15 in its last outing as 6-1 guard Ky Bowman totaled 19 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and two steals, and Jerome Robinson added 19 points.

Boston College is No. 77 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 74 by Ken Pomeroy and No. 64 in the RPI through Jan. 18. Louisville has a 5-3 series advantage over Boston College, winning the last four matchups. Louisville prevailed 90-67 at Boston College in last year's meeting (2-4-17) as Deng Adel and Donovan Mitchell each scored 19 points to lead the Cardinals, which shot 57.6 percent from the field for the game.

CARDINAL NOTES

Quentin Snider became the Cardinals' 68^th career 1,000-point scorer when he totaled a career-high matching 22 points and season-high seven assists at Notre Dame. He is fourth in the ACC in assists turnover ratio (2.62).
Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (7.4 bpg) and ranks 14th in field goal percentage defense (.388) and 23rd in 3-point defense (.305). Center Anas Mahmoud is fifth in the nation in blocked shots (3.56) and Ray Spalding is 12th in offensive rebounds (3.72).
Deng Adel has scored in double figures in 20 of his last 21 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 a road victory by the Cardinals since 2003. UofL also halted a 28-game home winning streak by FSU.
Louisville has a 39-8 record in its conference home games over the last six years (.830), including an 8-1 record last year.
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 43-18 record during the month of January over the last eight years (.705), including a 27-9 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.

Men's Basketball Hosts Boston College on Sunday at Noon

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Anas Mahmoud

Ryan McMahon

Quentin Snider

Ray Spalding

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