Men's Basketball Faces Duke on the Road Wednesday Night

GAME 28
Date: Feb. 21, 2018
Time: 9:05 p.m.
Site: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, N.C. (9,314)
Television: ESPN - Dan Shulman, play-by-play; Jay Bilas, analyst; Maria Taylor, reporter
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst (Sirius channel 84, XM 84, Internet 84)
Also: ESPN Radio - Bill Rosinski, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst.
Series History: UofL trails 6-8 (3-2 in Louisville, 1-2 in Durham, 2-4 neutral)
Last Meeting: Duke 81, UofL 77 (March 8, 2017 at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. - ACC Tournament Quarterfinals)
UofL National Ranking: unranked
Officials: Roger Ayers, Michael Stephens, Ed Corbett
Next UofL Game: Feb. 24 at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., 1 p.m. ET (CBS)

Louisville will take to the road – where three of its last four regular season games will be played -- as the Cardinals visit Durham, N.C. to face the Duke Blue Devils on Wednesday. After winning two straight, Louisville (18-9, 8-6 ACC) fell to No. 14 North Carolina at the KFC Yum! Center last Saturday. Deng Adel returned from missing two games with an ankle injury to lead UofL with 20 points and a career-high six assists, while Ray Spalding produced his ninth double-double of the season with 18 points and 12 rebounds.

Deng Adel leads the Cardinals in scoring with 15.7 points per game. Quentin Snider ranks second on the team, averaging 12.1 points per game while dishing out a team best 107 assists. Spalding leads the team on the boards with 9.0 rebounds per game and ranks third on the team in scoring with 11.7 points per game. Freshman Jordan Nwora leads the team from behind the arc, shooting 44.2 percent on the year.

Duke (22-5, 10-4 ACC), ranked fifth in both the Associated Press and USA Today polls, won 66-57 at Clemson last Sunday in its last outing as Grayson Allen led the Blue Devils with 19 points and four assists.

The Blue Devils are third in the nation in scoring offense (87.4 ppg), fourth in rebounding margin (+9.4), eighth in assists (17.9 apg), 14th in field goal percentage (.501) and 22nd in field goal percentage defense (.404). Duke is No. 2 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 3 by Ken Pomeroy and No. 4 in the RPI through Feb. 18.

Louisville trails 6-8 in its series against Duke, with the Cardinals winning two of the last three matchups. The Blue Devils won 81-77 in the 2017 ACC Tournament quarterfinals in the last meeting in Brooklyn, N.Y., as Deng Adel led the Cardinals with 21 points (3-9-17). UofL prevailed 78-69 in the regular season matchup last year in Louisville (1-14-17) as Anas Mahmoud's first career double-double of 17 points and 11 rebounds led the Cardinals, who forced Duke into 18 turnovers.

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville is third in the nation in blocked shots (6.5 bpg) and ranks 15th in field goal percentage defense (.401) and 43rd in steals per game (7.6). Anas Mahmoud is eighth in the nation in blocked shots (3.07) and Ray Spalding is 24th in offensive rebounds (3.30).
Louisville has held eight of its 14 ACC opponents to 40 percent or below shooting from the field. The Cardinals have collected nine or more steals in seven league games (eight vs. North Carolina in their last game) and lead the ACC in steals in conference games (7.9 per game).
Louisville has a 31-19 record in its conference road games over the last six years (.612). UofL is tied for the fourth-most conference road wins in its four years in the ACC with 17.
Louisville's bench has contributed 30 or more points in seven games this season, including the last four (37.5 average bench points in last four).
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), needing two victories to extend that streak.
Deng Adel needs 19 points for 900 in his career and Ray Spalding needs 16 points for 700.
Louisville has a 59-21 record during the month of February over the last 10 years (.747).
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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Men's Basketball Faces Duke on the Road Wednesday Night

Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Anas Mahmoud

Jordan Nwora

Quentin Snider

Ray Spalding

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