Men's Basketball Travels to Miami on Wednesday

GAME 20
Date: Jan. 24, 2018
Time: 8:01 p.m.
Site: Watsco Center, Coral Gables, Fla. (7,972)
Television: ESPN2 - Karl Ravech, play-by-play; Dick Vitale, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 134, XM 202, Internet 962) Also: Compass Media Networks – Wayne Larrivee and Mike Wozniak
Series History: UofL leads 10-3 (4-0 in Louisville, 5-3 in Coral Gables, 1-0 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 71, Miami 66 (Feb. 11, 2017 at KFC Yum! Center)
UofL National Ranking: unranked (receiving votes in the AP and USA Today polls)
Officials: Mike Eades, Tim Nestor, Jeff Clark
Next UofL Game: Jan. 27 vs. Wake Forest, KFC Yum! Center, 8 p.m. ET (ACC Network/ WAVE-TV in Louisville)

Louisville will venture out on the road again as the Cardinals visit Miami, Fla. To face the Miami Hurricanes on Wednesday. Louisville (15-4, 5-1 ACC) won its fourth straight and its 11th in the last 13 games as the Cardinals prevailed 77-69 over Boston College in the KFC Yum! Center on Sunday. Deng Adel produced his third double-double in the last five games with 18 points and 10 rebounds, all accomplished in the second half. The Cardinals collected 10 steals and limited the Eagles to 35.4 percent shooting accuracy.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 15.8 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 12.8 points per game while dishing out a team best 79 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.3 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 11.4 points per game. Ryan McMahon and Jordan Nwora lead the team from behind the arc, shooting 40 percent on the year.

Miami (14-4, 3-3 ACC), ranked 24th in the USA Today poll and rose to as high as No. 6 in the nation for two weeks in December, won 86-81 at NC State on Jan. 21 as Bruce Brown, Jr. scored 19 points to lead the Hurricanes.

Miami ranks among the top 20 teams nationally in field goal percentage defense (.391, 16th in the nation), three-point field goal defense (.304, 14th) and scoring defense (63.1, 16th). Miami is No. 26 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 28 by Ken Pomeroy, and No. 19 in the RPI through Jan. 21. Miami is 6-1 at home this season and has won 33 of its last 36 home games. The Hurricanes have held nine of their 18 opponents below 60 points, but its last four foes have surpassed 70 points.

Louisville has a 10-3 series advantage over Miami, winning six of the last seven matchups. Louisville prevailed 71-66 in the KFC Yum! Center in last year's meeting (2-11-17) as Donovan Mitchell and Deng Adel each scored 18 points to lead the Cardinals, who made 11-of-28 three-pointers in the game.

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (7.3 bpg) and ranks ninth in field goal percentage defense (.386) and 12th in 3-point defense (.303). Center Anas Mahmoud is fourth in the nation in blocked shots (3.53) and Ray Spalding is 15th in offensive rebounds (3.53).
Louisville has collected double-digit steals on seven occasions this season, including 10 vs. Boston College. UofL is 7-0 in those games.
Deng Adel has scored in double figures in 21 of his last 22 games dating back to last season.
Louisville has a 30-17 record in its conference road games over the last six years (.638). UofL has the fifth-most conference road wins in its four years in the ACC with 16.
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 28-9 record during the month of January over the last five years (.757).
Louisville passed the three million mark in total home attendance on Jan. 21 in its eighth year in the KFC Yum! Center (3,002,074 now).
Louisville has made at least seven three-pointers in eight of its last 12 games, including 8-of-23 vs. Boston College. UofL is 11-0 when it makes seven or more threes in a game this season.
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

Jordan Nwora

Quentin Snider

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