Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Eastern Kentucky

Postgame Notes
Louisville 99, Eastern Kentucky 67
KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky.
December 14, 2019

SERIES NOTES

Louisville improved to 53-22 all-time against Eastern Kentucky, including a 40-4 mark against the Colonels in Louisville.
- The Cardinals have won 15 straight in the series, tied for Louisville's longest active series winning streak (Virginia Tech).
Saturday was the 10^th game in Louisville history as the top-ranked team in the Associated Press poll.
- UofL is 4-2 in the regular season and 7-3 overall as the No. 1 team.
Louisville is 88-6 against non-conference opponents in the KFC Yum! Center, with wins in 44 of its last 47 contests.

TEAM NOTES

The Cardinals scored a season-best 99 points in the victory.
- The 99 points were the most for the Cardinals since scoring 104 in a win over Southern on Nov. 13, 2018.
- Louisville is 208-12 over the last 18 seasons when scoring 80 points or more, including a 5-0 mark this season.
- The Cardinals have won 152 consecutive games when scoring at least 85 points in regulation.
Louisville recorded its two best offensive halves of the season against Eastern Kentucky.
- The 50 points scored were the most in any half this year and are the most since scoring 50 in the second half against Miami on Jan. 6, 2019.
- It was the highest scoring first half for the Cardinals since tallying 52 points versus Central Arkansas on Dec. 5, 2018.
UofL shot 63 percent (34-for-54) from the field on Saturday.
- Louisville has shot better than 60 percent twice this season (67 percent against North Carolina Central).
- The Cardinals are 6-0 this season when shooting 50 percent or better from the field, and 159-7 over the last 18 years when doing so.
The Cardinals were nearly perfect at the free throw line Saturday, making 22-of-23 (96 percent) attempts.
- Saturday was just the third time in program history the Cardinals had attempted at least 20 free throws and only missed one.
  - 28-for-29 (96.6 percent) vs. South Florida, March 5, 1997
  - 22-for-23 (95.7 percent) vs. Eastern Kentucky, today
  - 21-for-22 (95.5 percent) vs. Memphis, Feb. 19, 1983
- The 22 makes were a season-best and the most since hitting 24 against NC State on Jan. 24, 2019.
Louisville won the battle on the glass Saturday 35-24.
- The Cardinals have held a rebounding advantage in nine of 11 games this season and are 9-0 in those contests.
Jordan Nwora, Steven Enoch, Dwayne Sutton and Malik Williams all scored in double figures on Saturday.
- Louisville has had at least four players in double figures in seven games.
Eleven different Cardinals scored in the victory, the highest number of players that have scored in a game this season.
- Louisville last had 11 players score in a game on Dec. 5, 2018 against Central Arkansas.
Louisville matched its season-best with 22 assists in the win.
UofL forced a season-high 14 turnovers for the second consecutive game.
- The Cardinals turned the 14 turnovers into 34 points on Saturday.
Louisville turned in runs of 10-0 and 11-0 against EKU, upping its season total to 23 runs of 8-0 or better.
The Cardinals held Eastern Kentucky scoreless for stretches of 3:04, 3:33 and 4:30, giving them 33 scoring droughts of three minutes or more forced.

PLAYER NOTES

Jordan Nwora finished with a game-high 26 points on Saturday.
- Nwora has led the Cardinals in scoring in all 11 games this season.
- Saturday marked the seventh time he has scored at least 20 points this season, and the 20^th time in his career.
Steven Enoch set a new career-high with 23 points on 9-of-10 shooting.
- Enoch surpassed his previous career-high of 22 points against Boston College on Feb. 27, 2019, his only other 20-point game of his career.
- Enoch has scored in double figures seven times in 11 games.
Dwayne Sutton scored 11 points in the victory, his sixth game with double-digit points this season.
- Sutton now has 1,001 points for his career (593 at Louisville, 408 at UNC Asheville).
Ryan McMahon surpassed 600 points for his career (601) with seven in the win.
- McMahon dished out a season-best six assists, the 10^th game of his career with at least four helpers.

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Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Eastern Kentucky

Players Mentioned

Steven Enoch

Ryan McMahon

Jordan Nwora

Dwayne Sutton

Malik Williams

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