Men's Basketball Travels to No. 23 Florida State on Wednesday

GAME 16
Date: Jan. 10, 2018
Time: 9:06 p.m.
Site: Donald L. Tucker Center (11,500), Tallahassee, Fla.
Television: Regional Sports Networks / FOX Sports South in Louisville - Tom Werme, play-by-play; Jason Capel, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 84, XM 84, Internet 84)
Series History: UofL leads 32-10 (17-2 in Louisville, 12-7 in Tallahassee, 3-1 neutral)
Last Meeting: Florida State 73, UofL 68 (Jan. 21, 2017 in Tallahassee, Fla.)
UofL National Ranking: unranked
Officials: Bert Smith, John Higgins, Doug Sirmons
Next UofL Game: Jan. 13 vs. Virginia Tech, KFC Yum! Center, 4 p.m. ET (ESPN2)

Louisville will play its second straight on the road and its second consecutive Top 25 opponent as the Cardinals visit Tallahassee, Fla. to face the Florida State Seminoles on Wednesday. Louisville (11-4, 1-1 ACC) lost for the second time in its last nine games as the Cardinals fell 74-69 in overtime at No. 25 Clemson in their first ACC road game last Saturday. Ray Spalding (16 points, 14 rebounds) and Deng Adel (14 points, 11 rebounds) each produced double-doubles to lead the Cardinals, who committed a season-high 21 turnovers in the game.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 15.1 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 12.4 points per game while dishing out a team best 60 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.5 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 11.1 points per game. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 40.0 percent on the year.

Florida State (12-3, 1-2 ACC), ranked 23rd in the Associated Press poll, fell 80-74 at No. 15 Miami on Jan. 7 in its last game as senior guard Brian Angola led the Seminoles with 16 points and five steals.

Florida State, one of the Cardinals' four ACC repeat opponents this season, is 11th in three-point field goal percentage defense (.295), 18th in blocked shots (5.7), 21st in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.387) and 27th in scoring offense (84.5). FSU is No. 22 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 24 by Ken Pomeroy and No. 27 in the RPI through Jan. 7. The Seminoles have a current 28-game home win streak.

Louisville has a 32-10 series advantage over Florida State. FSU won last year's meeting 73-68 in Tallahassee as Tony Hicks led the Cardinals with a season-high 16 points off the bench (1-21-17). Louisville has a 12-7 edge in games played in Tallahassee. The teams were fellow members of the Metro Conference from 1976-91, when the teams met in the league postseason tournament on five occasions.

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville is second in the nation in blocked shots (7.7 bpg) and ranks 12th in field goal percentage defense (.381) and 65th in scoring defense (66.0). Center Anas Mahmoud is fourth in the nation in blocked shots (3.93) and Ray Spalding is 12th in offensive rebounds (3.6).
Quentin Snider needs 30 points to become the Cardinals' 68th career 1,000-point scorer. He has averaged a team-high 15.0 points, made 15-of-32 three-pointers (.469) and handed out 36 assists with 11 turnovers over the last nine games. He is second in the ACC and 31st in the nation in assists turnover ratio (2.86) and has scored a season-high 19 points in three of the last six games.
Louisville has a 28-17 record in its conference road games over the last six years (.622).
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 40-18 record during the month of January over the last eight years, including a 24-9 record in the last five years.
Deng Adel has scored in double figures in 17 of his last 18 games dating back to last season.
Each of Louisville's four losses have come to teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25.
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 Travels to No. 23 Florida State on Wednesday

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Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Anas Mahmoud

Jordan Nwora

Quentin Snider

Ray Spalding

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