Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Bellarmine

October 29, 2019 | Men's Basketball

Louisville 75, Bellarmine 65 | KFC Yum! Center

By: Stephen Williams

Postgame Notes
Louisville 75, Bellarmine 65
KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky.
October 29, 2019

SERIES NOTES

Louisville and Bellarmine have met 10 times in exhibition contests, including each of the last six seasons, with the Cardinals winning all 10. The Cardinals are 22-0 in all contests against the Knights (12-0 in regular season).
Louisville has won 37 straight exhibition games, a span stretching the last 18 years (since 2001).

TEAM NOTES

Louisville's starting five on Tuesday featured junior Darius Perry, redshirt-senior Ryan McMahon, junior Jordan Nwora, freshman Samuell Williamson and redshirt-senior Dwayne Sutton.
The Cardinals were 13-of-15 (86.7 percent) from the free throw line in Tuesday's win. UofL was one of the top teams in the country from the charity stripe in 2018-19, shooting 77.7 percent as a team.
Louisville held Bellarmine to 65 points on Tuesday. The Cardinals are 359-55 when holding their opponent below 70 points over the last 18 years, including a 13-4 mark last season.
UofL held Bellarmine without a field goal over the final 4:33 of the contest, scoring nine of the game's final 10 points.
Louisville won the battle on the glass 40-26 over Bellarmine. UofL was 17-7 when outrebounding the opposition last year.
The Cardinals grabbed 15 offensive rebounds leading to 17 second chance points. Louisville had double-digit offensive boards in 18 games one year ago.

PLAYER NOTES

Jordan Nwora finished with a game-high 28 points on Tuesday night. Nwora, the Cardinals' leading scorer at 17.0 points per game last season, had 13 games with at least 20 points during his sophomore campaign.
Nwora hit five 3-pointers in the victory, which matched his career high.
Dwayne Sutton tallied a double-double of 18 points and 13 rebounds. The redshirt-senior has five career double-doubles, four of which came during the 2018-19 season. Sutton's career highs in regular season play are 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Samuell Williamson, the lone freshman in the starting lineup, ended the night with 17 points and nine rebounds. The McDonald's All-American was Louisville's highest-ranked recruit in the 2019 signing class.
Darius Perry was the fourth Cardinals player in double figures on Tuesday, adding 10 points. Perry had five double-digit scoring efforts as a sophomore.
Nwora, Sutton, Williamson and Perry combined for 73 of the Cardinals' 75 points in the victory.