No. 6/5 Louisville Travels to NC State

GAME 22
Date: Feb. 1, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Site: PNC Arena (19,700), Raleigh, N.C.
Television: ESPN - Wes Durham, play-by-play; Sean Farnham, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 211, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: UofL leads 12-10 (7-2 in Louisville, 4-5 in Raleigh, 1-3 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 84, NC State 77 (Jan. 24, 2019 in KFC Yum! Center)
UL National Ranking: No. 5 USA Today, No. 6 Associated Press
Officials: Ted Valentine, Raymie Styons, Sean Hull
Next UofL Game: Feb. 5 vs. Wake Forest, KFC Yum! Center, 9:00 p.m. ET (ESPN2)

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Winners of seven straight games, Louisville opens the month of February with its second straight on the road as the Cardinals face the NC State Wolfpack in Raleigh, N.C. on Saturday.

Louisville won 86-69 at Boston College on Wednesday as Jordan Nwora scored a career-high 37 points, the highest scoring total for an ACC player this season and the seventh-highest total in UofL history. Nwora made a career-best seven of the Cardinals' season-high matching 12 threes, and he added nine rebounds as UofL held a 43-29 advantage on the boards. It was Louisville's 153rd consecutive victory when scoring at least 85 points in regulation.

Louisville has four players averaging eight or more points a game. Junior Jordan Nwora leads the team in scoring with 19.5 points per game, while pulling down 7.4 rebounds a game. Steven Enoch is second on the team in scoring and rebounding with 10.6 points and 6.2 rebounds per game. Dwayne Sutton averages 9.1 points while leading the team in rebounding with 8.6 per game. Perry leads the team with 69 assists.

After winning three straight, the Wolfpack (14-7, 5-5 ACC) have dropped their last two games, including a 75-65 home loss to North Carolina on Big Monday on Jan. 27 in their last game. NC State shot 42.4 percent from the field in the game, including 4-of-20 from three-point range (.200).

Senior guard Markell Johnson (13.2 ppg), second in the ACC in assists (6.5 apg), is just the fourth player in NC State history to score 1,000 points, hand out 500 assists and gather 125 steals. NC State is No. 60 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 59 in the NET rankings, No. 46 in ESPN's College Basketball Power Index (BPI) and No. 56 by Ken Pomeroy through Jan. 29.

Louisville leads 12-10 in its series against NC State, winning four of the last five meetings. In last season's matchup, Louisville prevailed 84-77 in the KFC Yum! Center in a game with 18 ties and four lead changes, as Christen Cunningham led five players in double figures with 17 points (1-24-19).

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UofL's current seven-game ACC winning streak is their longest ever ACC winning streak and longest conference win streak since 2013-14.
Louisville's 9-1 ACC start is its best in its six years in the conference and its best in any league since the Cardinals opened the 2008-09 Big East season with a 9-1 record. The Cardinals have started with at least an 18-3 overall record through 21 games for the third time in the last 22 years.
Louisville has made as many as nine three-pointers in a game on 12 occasions this season (seven of the last 13, season-high matching 12 at Boston College). UofL is 12th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (.3891).
In its last eight games, Louisville has made 43.5 percent of its three-pointers (70-of-161).
Louisville's 27 ACC road wins in its six years in the league is the fourth-most in that period.
Louisville's bench has delivered an average of 30.5 points over the last four games. Three of the Cardinals' top four bench scoring efforts of the season have come in the last four games.
UofL is eighth in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.372), 17th in scoring margin (+12.7), 28th in rebound margin (+6.5) and 35th in scoring defense (62.6). UofL is one of three teams in the nation ranked in the top 20 of both defensive efficiency (20th) and offensive efficiency (15th) in KenPom statistical rankings.
Jordan Nwora's 410 points scored this year is the second-most by a UofL player through 20 games over the last 20 seasons. He leads the ACC in scoring (19.5 ppg). The preseason ACC Player of the Year, his career-high 37 points at Boston College was his 11th game this season and 24^th in the last two years scoring 20 or more.

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Players Mentioned

Christen Cunningham

Steven Enoch

Jordan Nwora

Dwayne Sutton

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