Louisville Postgame Notes at Florida State
February 09, 2019 | Men's Basketball
No. 16/17 Louisville 75, No. 22/24 Florida State 80 (OT) | Donald L. Tucker Center | Tallahassee, Fla.
SERIES NOTES
- Despite the loss, Louisville leads the all-time series with Florida State 34-12, with a 13-9 mark in Tallahassee.
- Louisville is 4-3 against Florida State as members of the ACC.
- Louisville is 1-3 in overtime games this season, defeating Michigan State while losing to Marquette, Pittsburgh and Florida State.
- Saturday's game was Louisville's third straight against a ranked opponent and eighth of the season.
- The Cardinals are 4-4 against ranked competition this year.
- Louisville won the rebounding battle 36-34 in Saturday's loss.
- The Cardinals have outrebounded the opponent in 19 of 24 games this season.
- The loss was just the fourth on the year when grabbing more boards than the opposition.
- The Cardinals made 12 three-pointers against Florida State, marking the fourth consecutive game with at least 10 made.
- The streak of four straight contests with at least 10 threes is the longest for the Cardinals since doing it in four straight games in January of 2005.
- Louisville's 42.9 percent shooting effort from three was its third-best of the season.
- Louisville limited Florida State to just 38 percent shooting on Saturday.
- The Seminoles are the 11th team UofL has held below 40 percent this season.
- Florida State's 29 percent shooting in the first half was the 21st time the Cardinals have held an opponent under 40 percent for a half this season.
- Louisville had a run of nine consecutive points in each half on Saturday to give the Cardinals 44 runs of 8-0 or better this season.
- The Cardinals did not allow a point for the first 5:09 of Saturday's game.
- Florida State also had scoring draughts of 3:55, 4:04 and 4:32, upping Louisville's total to 42 scoring droughts of three minutes or more forced.
- Jordan Nwora's blocked shot early in the first half extended Louisville's streak of consecutive games with a block to 293.Â
- Christen Cunningham finished Saturday with 20 points, seven rebounds and six assists.
- Cunningham led the Cardinals in points and assists and was tied for the team lead in rebounds.
- The seven rebounds were a season-best total for Cunningham.
- Cunningham reached 20 points for the third time this season (Kentucky, Pittsburgh).
- The leader in assists per game in ACC play, Cunningham had at least five assists for the ninth time in 11 conference games.
- Ryan McMahon made three consecutive threes during a personal 9-0 run midway through the second half.
- The last of the three gave McMahon 100 makes from outside in his Louisville career.
- Dwayne Sutton turned in his fourth straight double-digit scoring effort in the loss with 14 points.
- Sutton has at least 10 points in nine of 11 ACC games and is averaging 16.8 points over his last four.
- Jordan Nwora reached double figures for the 22nd time in 24 games, finishing with 13 points on Saturday.
- Nwora matched his career high with seven free throws made, previously done against NC State on Jan. 24.
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