Cardinals Host Vermont on Friday Night

GAME 3
Date: Nov. 16, 2018
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (133-21 in 9th year)
Television: ACC Network Extra (available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN on the
Watch ESPN app) Kent Taylor, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (XM channel 382, Internet 966)
Series History: First Meeting
Officials: Ted Valentine, Bill Covington, Jr., Tommy Morrissey
Next UofL Game: Nov. 21 vs. Tennessee, NIT Season Tip-Off, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., 5 p.m. ET (ESPN2)

Louisville will play its third straight home game and its second unbracketed game in the NIT Season Tip-Off as the Cardinals face the Vermont Catamounts on Friday in the KFC Yum! Center. Louisville reached the century mark in winning its second game of the season over Southern 104-54 as the Cardinals shot 55.6 percent from the field, forced 23 turnovers and held a 37-22 rebounding edge.

The Cardinals are very balanced on the offensive end, with five players averaging double figures. Sophomore Jordan Nwora leads the Cardinals in in scoring and rebounding with 16 points and seven rebounds per game. Steven Enoch is second on the team, averaging 14 points and six rebounds per game. Darius Perry ranks third on the team with 13.5 points per game while shooting 80 percent from behind the arc.

The preseason choice to win the America East, Vermont beat Boston U. 78-72 in its opener last Friday, fell 84-68 at No. 2/1 Kansas on Monday after trailing just 40-36 at the half, and trounced NVU Lyndon 122-56 on Wednesday with a school record scoring output. Six Vermont players scored at least 13 points against NVU Lyndon as the Catamounts shot 58.8 percent from the field and doubled their opponent in rebounding with a 52-26 advantage.

Forward Anthony Lamb, who is averaging 16.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in three games, scored 24 points against Kansas. UV guard Ernie Duncan (17.5 ppg, 4.0 apg, 7-of-19 three-pointers this season) and Lamb are preseason All-America East selections. This is the first meeting between the two schools.

UofL has a 4-0 record against current members of the America East Conference, having previously faced two of its members (Albany 1-0, Hartford 3-0). I its last matchup against an America East team, Louisville beat Albany 70-68 on Dec. 20, 2017. UofL assistant coach Mike Pegues was the 1999 America East Conference Player of the Year as a player at Delaware (1996-2000) and was a three-time, first-team All-America East Conference selection.

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UofL has won its first two games of the season for the last 12 years. The Cardinals have started 3-0 the last nine years entering Friday's game.
Louisville scored a school-record 63 bench points against Southern. Jordan Nwora (20 points, seven rebounds, two steals) and Malik Williams (17 points, five rebounds) produced career scoring highs to lead the Cardinals off the bench, as a dozen players scored for UofL.
Louisville has won 67 of its last 70 nonconference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center, spanning the last nine seasons.
Louisville has made nearly double the number of free throws (73-of-94, .777) than its opponents have attempted (27-of-40, .675). Southern committed 39 fouls against UofL, a record for a UofL opponent.
In their first four games against outside competition including a pair of exhibitions, the Cardinals have limited their opponents to just 33.0 percent shooting from the field (72-of-218).
UofL has won 48 straight home games in the month of November spanning the last 28 years, including a 35-0 record in the KFC Yum! Center. Louisville has a 41-4 record during the month of November over the last eight years, winning 21 of its last 23 games in that month.
Akoy Agau is one of two active players in the nation that have made four stops at three schools. Agau's path of Louisville to Georgetown to SMU and back to Louisville is similar to Mike Gilmore, who went from VCU to Miami (Fla.) to Florida Gulf Coast and back to VCU. Agau totaled UofL career highs of seven points and seven rebounds vs. Southern in his first UofL game since Dec. 5, 2014, a span of 1,439 days.

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Players Mentioned

Akoy Agau

Steven Enoch

Jordan Nwora

Darius Perry

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