No. 2 Louisville Hosts Akron on Sunday Night

GAME 6
Date: Nov. 24, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,090) (149-25 in 10th year)
Television: ACC Network - Mike Monaco, play-by-play; Jordan Cornette, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 138, XM 194, Internet 956)
Series History: UofL 111, Akron 85 (Dec. 10, 2005 in Freedom Hall; only previous meeting)
UL National Ranking: No. 2 Associated Press, No. 2 USA Today
Officials: Brian Dorsey, Jeb Hartness, Pat Driscoll
Next UofL Game: Nov. 29 vs. Western Kentucky, Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn., 5 p.m. ET (CBS on Facebook)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville plays its fifth straight at home in the KFC Yum! Center and its final game in the Global Sports Shootout as the Cardinals face the Akron Zips on Sunday.

Louisville won its 54th straight home game in the month of November when the Cardinals beat USC Upstate 76-50 on Wednesday as Dwayne Sutton grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds while adding nine points. Jordan Nwora scored a season-high 28 points while adding nine rebounds, Darius Perry handed out nine assists without a turnover and Ryan McMahon scored 15 points while hitting 5-of-8 three-point goals.

Louisville has four players averaging double figures through five games. Junior Jordan Nwora leads the team in scoring with 22 points per game, while pulling down seven rebounds a game. Ryan McMahon is second on the team in scoring with 12.8 points per game and connecting on 60 percent from behind the arc. Steven Enoch is averaging 10.6 points per game while Dwayne Sutton is also averaging 10.6 points. Enoch leads the team on the boards with 9.4 rebounds per game. Darius Perry leads the team with 35 assists.

Akron (4-1) has won four of its first five games of the season, falling only at West Virginia 94-84. The Zips beat Youngstown State 82-60 on Nov. 21 as Akron limited Youngstown to 32.4 percent shooting. Picked to finish fifth in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference, Akron posted a 17-16 record last season.

The Zips ranked No. 22 in NCAA and No. 1 in MAC for defense efficiency last season. Akron is No. 111 in the Kenpom rankings through Nov. 21. UofL forward Quinn Slazinski and Akron guard Greg Tribble were teammates last season at Huntington (W.Va.) Prep, which posted a 20-5 record and No. 16 national ranking among prep schools. Akron Coach John Groce was the head coach at Ohio University when the Cardinals prevailed over the Bobcats in 2008 and 2011, the latter during a season in which Ohio reached the NCAA Sweet 16.

Louisville won the only previous meeting between the two schools 111-85 on Dec. 10, 2005 as
Taquan Dean led the Cardinals with 22 points and eight assists. The Cardinals shot 60.6 percent
from the field in the game, including 71 percent in the second half.

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Louisville's next victory in the KFC Yum! Center will be its 150th in the spectacular arena. The Cardinals have a 149-25 record in 10 years.
Louisville is third in the nation in field goal percentage (.555) and is 10th in the nation in three-point percentage (.440, leads the ACC). Louisville is second in the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency by Kenpom.com.
UofL has won its first five games of the season for the eighth time in the last 11 years. The Cardinals last started 6-0 in the 2014-15 season.
Louisville's No. 2 AP ranking is the highest the Cardinals have been ranked since they were No. 2 on March 18, 2013 in the final poll of the season.
UofL has won 54 straight home games in the month of November spanning the last 28 years, including a 41-0 record in the KFC Yum! Center. Louisville has a 47-6 record during the month of November over the last eight years, winning 27 of its last 31 games.
Louisville has won 77 of its last 81 nonconference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center, spanning the last 10 seasons.
Jordan Nwora scored a season-high 28 points with nine rebounds in his last game vs. USC Upstate, his fourth occasion scoring over 20 points in his first five games. His 110 points scored this season is the most by a Louisville player through five games over the last 20 seasons. The preseason ACC Player of the Year, Nwora was a preseason AP All-America selection and is now third in the ACC in scoring (22.0 ppg).
Darius Perry is third in the ACC in assists (7.0 apg, 17th in the nation), more than four times his average assists from last season. He is second in assist/turnover ratio (4.38).

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Players Mentioned

Steven Enoch

Ryan McMahon

Jordan Nwora

Darius Perry

Quinn Slazinski

Dwayne Sutton

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