Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Pittsburgh

Postgame Notes
Louisville 64, Pittsburgh 46
KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky.
December 6, 2019

SERIES NOTES

Louisville is now 18-6 all-time against Pittsburgh with wins in 14 of the last 15 meetings.
- UofL is 11-1 against the Panthers in Louisville and has won 10 straight in the series on its home court.
With the win, Louisville moved to 9-0 on the season. The Cardinals have won their first nine games for the first time since 2014-15, when they were victorious in 11 straight to begin the year.
The Cardinals improved to 2-0 in conference play and have now won their first home conference game in seven of the last eight years.
- Louisville is 2-0 in ACC play for the first time since the 2015-16 season.
Louisville won its second straight game as the top-ranked team in the Associated Press Poll.
- The Cardinals are 6-2 all-time as the AP No. 1 team.

TEAM NOTES

Louisville limited Pittsburgh to just 46 points in the win, building off the 43 points allowed to Michigan on Tuesday.
- UofL has won 160 straight games when holding the opposition under 50 points.
- It marks the first time the Cardinals have held their opponent under 50 in consecutive games since the 2014-15 season when it allowed 26 to Savannah State (Nov. 24, 2014) and 33 to Cleveland State (Nov. 26, 2014).
The Cardinals allowed 21 points in the first half and 25 points in the second half against Pittsburgh.
- Louisville has allowed 25 points or less in four consecutive halves and eight halves on the season.
Louisville's defensive effort included holding Pittsburgh scoreless for stretches of 3:10, 3:26, 3:39, 5:43 and 5:55 in the win.
- UofL's best defensive scoreless stretch was 5:10 on Nov. 5 at Miami, before the Cardinals surpassed it twice on Friday.
- The drought of 5:55 included holding the Panthers without a point for the final 5:35 of the first half, during which the Cardinals went from up six (27-21) to up 14 (35-21) at halftime.
- The Cardinals have forced their opponents into 28 scoring droughts of three minutes or longer through nine contests.
Pittsburgh shot just 38 percent (20-of-53) from the field in the loss.
- Louisville has held opponents under 40 percent shooting 69 times over the last six years, including seven times in nine games this season.
The Panthers made only 3-of-12 attempts from the 3-point line on Friday.
- Louisville's last three opponents have combined to shoot 7-of-48 (14.6 percent) from outside.
Louisville made a season-best 11 3-pointers in Friday's victory.
- The Cardinals were 9-of-17 from beyond the arc in the first half, the most 3-pointers they have made in a half since making 10 in the first half against Virginia on Feb. 23, 2019.
Louisville's first eight 3-point field goals on Friday were made by eight different players.
- Friday marked the first time eight different Cardinals made a 3-pointer in a game since a 90-62 victory over UMKC on Dec. 4, 2013. It was only the fifth time in UofL history that as many as eight different players hit a three-pointer in a single game, and it was the first time that it has ever happened in one half. Nine is the UofL record for the most different players to make a three-pointer in a game, accomplished once against Charlotte on March 8, 2003.
The Cardinals won the rebounding battle 33-29 in the victory.
- Louisville has out-rebounded the opposition in eight of its nine games this season.
Louisville finished with 17 assists on 23 made field goals in the win.
- The Cardinals have had at least 15 helpers five times through nine games.
UofL put together runs of 8-0, 11-0 and 13-0 on its way to victory.
- The Cardinals now have 20 runs of 8-0 or better this season.

PLAYER NOTES

Jordan Nwora led the Cardinals in scoring with 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting.
- The junior has finished as the Cardinals' leading scorer in all nine games this season, scoring at least 17 points in each game.
Malik Williams tallied 13 points and 11 rebounds for his first double-double of the season and fourth of his career.
- The 13 points and 11 rebounds were both season-bests for Williams, who played a season-high 20 minutes.
Ryan McMahon connected on 3-of-6 attempts from the 3-point line and ended the night with 11 points.
- McMahon has scored in double figures five times this season and made at least three 3-pointers in five of nine games this season.
- McMahon played a career-high 36 minutes in the win, surpassing his career-best of 35 from Tuesday's win over Michigan.

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Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Pittsburgh

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Jordan Nwora

Malik Williams

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