Cardinals Host Notre Dame for Senior Day on Sunday Afternoon

Sunday, March 3

LOUISVILLE, KY

1:30 p.m.

University of Louisville

NOTRE DAME

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Cardinals Host Notre Dame for Senior Day on Sunday Afternoon

March 01, 2019 | Men's Basketball

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Fans are encouraged to "Wear Red for the Seniors"

By: Kim Pemberton

GAME 30
Date: March 3, 2019
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (144-25 in 9th year)
Television: CBS (WLKY-TV in Louisville) - Andrew Catalon, play-by-play; Steve Lappas, analyst.
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirus channel 84, XM 84, Internet 84).
Series History: Louisville leads 22-15 (13-3 in Louisville, 5-9 at South Bend, 4-3 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 82, Notre Dame 78 (OT) (Jan. 16, 2018 at Notre Dame, Ind.)
UL National Ranking: 24th USA Today, unranked Associated Press (26th in voting)
Officials: Jamie Luckie, Bert Smith, Doug Shows
Next UofL Game: March 9 at Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 4 p.m. ET (ESPN)

Louisville, ranked 24th in the USA Today poll, opens the month of March with its final home game of the season in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Sunday. Fans are encouraged to "Wear Red for the Seniors" and arrive by 1:10 p.m. for the Senior Day ceremony for Akoy Agau, Christen Cunningham, and Khwan Fore.

In their last game on Wednesday, the Cardinals fell 66-59 at Boston College. UofL matched its biggest rebounding margin of the year (+15, 53-38), but shot 32.8 percent from the field. Steven Enoch led the Cardinals with a career-high 22 points while grabbing six rebounds.

The Cardinals (18-11, 9-7 ACC) are very balanced on the offensive end, with four players averaging over eight points. Sophomore Jordan Nwora leads the Cardinals in in scoring and rebounding with 17.1 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. Dwayne Sutton ranks second on the team in scoring with 10.5 points along with 7.0 rebounds per game. Christen Cunningham is third on the team in scoring with 10.0 points and leads the team with 140 assists on the year. Steven Enoch averages 9.3 points per game along with 5.0 rebounds per game.

Louisville opens the month of March with its final home game of the season on Senior Day in the KFC
Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Sunday. Notre Dame (13-15, 3-12 ACC) has dropped its last four games, including a 68-61 loss at No. 16 Florida State in its last contest on Feb. 25 as D.J. Harvey led the Irish with 18 points.

Junior forward John Mooney averages a double-double (14.0 pts., 10.8 reb.) and leads the ACC in rebounding. Notre Dame leads the nation in committing just 13.5 fouls per game. Notre Dame is No. 82 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 83 in ESPN's College Basketball Power Index (BPI), No. 101 in the NET rankings and No. 88 by Ken Pomeroy through Feb. 27.

Louisville has a 22-15 series advantage over Notre Dame and the Cardinals have a 13-3 record in games played in Louisville. UofL has won the last two matchups, including an 82-78 double overtime victory at Notre Dame last year (1-16-18) as Ray Spalding led the Cardinals with 23 points and 12 rebounds. It was UofL's first victory in seven games at Notre Dame, having last won there in 1994.

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Louisville has won 15 of its last 17 Senior Day games, in which fans annually "Wear Red for the Seniors" for the final home game of the season.
Louisville is one of six schools in the nation to have faced at least 10 schools in the nation's Top 25. Six of the Cardinals' last eight opponents rank among the nation's top 21 teams in defensive efficiency by KenPom.
Jordan Nwora is the second-most improved scorer in the nation with his 17.1 scoring average (sixth in the ACC) up 10.4 ppg from his 5.7 average last year. He has scored 20 or more points on 11 occasions this season and has seven double-doubles, including 13 points and 12 rebounds at Boston College in his last game.
Christen Cunningham leads the ACC in assists in conference only games (6.4). He has handed out 87 assists in his last 13 games, including a season-best 12 assists vs. Duke on Feb. 12, the most for a Cardinal in five years.
In the Cardinals' 16 ACC games, centers Malik Williams (8.1 ppg, 6.2 rpg) and Steven Enoch (9.8 ppg, 5.1 rpg) have combined to average 17.9 points and 11.3 rebounds.
Louisville has limited an opponent to under 40 percent accuracy for a half on 28 occasions, including the first half at Boston College. UofL is 17th in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency.
UofL has scored 80 or more points in 13 games (74.9 ppg) and the Cardinals are 36^th in the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency by Kenpom. UofL is fourth in the ACC in scoring offense for conference games (71.9 ppg).
Louisville's 2019 signing class is ranked second in the nation by ESPN.com, fifth by Rivals.com and fifth by 247sports.com.