No. 6/5 Louisville Hosts Clemson on Saturday Afternoon

Saturday, January 25

LOUISVILLE, KY

2:00 PM ET

University of Louisville

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No. 6/5 Louisville Hosts Clemson on Saturday Afternoon

January 24, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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By: Kim Pemberton

GAME 20
Date: Jan. 25, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,090) (156-26 in 10th year)
Television: Regional Sports Networks (Fox Sports South in Louisville) - Tom Werme, play-by-play; Mike Gminski, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst (Sirius channel 81, XM 81, Internet 81)
Series History: UofL leads 6-2 (5-0 in Louisville, 1-2 in Clemson)
Last Meeting: UofL 56, Clemson 55 (Feb. 1, 2019 in KFC Yum! Center)
UL National Ranking: No. 5 USA Today, No. 6 Associated Press
Officials: Mike Eades, Mike Roberts, Tommy Morrissey
Next UofL Game: Jan. 29 at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 9:00 p.m. ET (ACCN)

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Winners of five straight games, Louisville plays its second straight at home in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Clemson Tigers on Saturday. Louisville's 1974-75 team which reached the NCAA Final Four will be honored at halftime of the game on the 45th anniversary of their achievement.

The Cardinals recovered from an 11-point second-half deficit to win 68-64 over Georgia
Tech on Wednesday in Louisville. Four Cardinals scored in double figures, led by Steven Enoch and Malik Williams with 13 points each.

Louisville has five players averaging eight or more points a game. Junior Jordan Nwora leads the team in scoring with 19.1 points per game, while pulling down 7.4 rebounds a game. Steven Enoch is second on the team in scoring and rebounding with 10.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Dwayne Sutton averages 9.1 points while leading the team in rebounding with 8.7 per game. Darius Perry leads the team with 66 assists.

The Tigers (10-8, 4-4 ACC) have won four of their last five games, including handing Duke its first ACC loss on Jan. 14 (79-72). Clemson won 71-68 over Wake Forest on Jan. 21 in their last outing as Hunter Tyson scored a career-high 21 points as the only double-figure scorer for the Tigers. Clemson recovered from a 10-point first-half deficit to win after trailing 37-31 at the half.

Junior forward Aamir Simms is the Tigers' scoring leader (14.4 ppg, 7.7 rpg) and is ninth in the ACC in rebounding. Six Tigers have made at least 16 three-pointers this season, led by Tevin Mack's 29-of-95 threes (.305). Clemson is No. 60 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 77 in the NET rankings, No. 70 in
ESPN's College Basketball Power Index (BPI) and No. 80 by Ken Pomeroy through Jan. 22.

Louisville leads 6-2 in its series against Clemson. In last year's meeting in the KFC Yum! Center, the Cardinals prevailed 56-55 in limiting the Tigers to 38.6 percent field goal shooting while forcing 19 turnovers. Christen Cunningham totaled 18 points, five assists and two steals for the Cardinals. UofL led by eight with 35 seconds remaining in the game before the Tigers closed the game on a 6-1 run. The two teams will also meet at Clemson this season on Feb. 15.

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Louisville has matched its best ACC start in its six years in the conference with a 7-1 league record, also achieved last season. The Cardinals have started with at least a 16-3 overall record through 19 games for the fifth time in the last seven years.
Dwayne Sutton (17 points) and Malik Williams (16 points) have combined to score 33 of the Cardinals' 65 points scored over the last five minutes of the last five games.
Louisville has recovered from deficits of nine or more points to win two of its last three games (9 at Pitt, 11 vs. Georgia Tech). UofL has come from nine or more points down to win 33 games over the last nine seasons.
Louisville has a 51-16 record in its conference home games over the last eight years (.761). UofL has the fifth-most conference home wins in its six years in the ACC with a 36-13 ACC home record.
In its last six games, Louisville has made 42.5 percent of its three-pointers (48-of-113).
UofL is eighth in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.372), 18th in three-point field goal percentage (.382), 23rd in scoring margin (+12.2), 38th in scoring defense (62.3) and 40th in rebound margin (+5.8). UofL is 16^th in the nation in defensive efficiency and 23rd in offensive efficiency in KenPom rankings.
Jordan Nwora's 363 points scored this year is the second-most by a UofL player through 19 games over the last 20 seasons. He is second in the ACC in scoring (19.1 ppg). The preseason ACC Player of the Year, his 20 points at Notre Dame was his 10th game this season and 23rd in the last two years scoring 20 or more points. He has made 16-of-31 threes in the last six games.