No. 13 Louisville Hosts Miami on Tuesday Night

Tuesday, January 7

LOUISVILLE, KY

7:00 PM ET

University of Louisville

Miami

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Cardinals face the Hurricanes for the second time this season

By: Kim Pemberton

GAME 15
Date: Jan. 7, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,090) (154-25 in 10th year)
Television: ESPN2 - Rece Davis, play-by-play; Jon Crispin, analyst; Brooke Weisbrod, reporter.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (Sirius channel 211, XM 193, Internet 955)
Series History: UofL leads 12-4 (5-0 in Louisville, 6-4 in Coral Gables, 1-0 neutral)
Last Meeting: UofL 87, Miami 74 (Nov. 5, 2019 in Coral Cables, Fla.)
UL National Ranking: No. 11 USA Today, No. 13 Associated Press
Officials: Brian O'Connell, Brent Hampton, Matt Potter
Next UofL Game: Jan. 11 at Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., 2:00 p.m. ET (ESPN)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Louisville plays its second straight at home in the KFC Yum! Center and its third straight home ACC game as the Cardinals face the Miami Hurricanes for the second time this season on Tuesday.

Louisville (11-3, 2-1 ACC) lost its first ACC game and its first at home this season in falling 78-65 to Florida State on Saturday in its last outing. Jordan Nwora matched a career-high with 32 points while adding 10 rebounds, marking his 12^th career double-double and third this season. UofL allowed FSU to shoot 55.2 percent from the field, the best effort for a Cardinal opponent this year.

Louisville has four players averaging around nine points a game. Junior Jordan Nwora leads the team in scoring with 21.0 points per game, while pulling down 7.4 rebounds a game. Steven Enoch is second on the team in scoring and rebounding with 11.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. Ryan McMahon and Sutton both are averaging with 8.9 points per game. McMahon also leads the team, connecting on 42.7 percent from behind the arc. Sutton leads the team in rebounding with 8.5 per game. Darius Perry leads the team with 58 assists.

The Hurricanes (9-4, 1-2 ACC) have won five of their last six games, but fell 95-62 to Duke in Miami in their last game on Jan. 4. Picked to finish ninth in the ACC in a preseason media poll, the Hurricanes lead the ACC and are 29th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (.379, 102-of-269). Junior guard Chris Lykes (15.3 ppg, 2.8 apg), a preseason All-ACC second team selection, is one of three players averaging over 14 points per game (also Kameron McGusty, 14.9 ppg; DJ Vasiljevic, 14.6 ppg). Lykes is the second-leading returning scorer in the conference behind only Louisville's Jordan Nwora.

Miami is No. 72 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 85 in ESPN's College Basketball Power Index (BPI), No. 96 in the NET rankings and No. 89 by Ken Pomeroy through Jan. 5.

Louisville has a 12-4 series advantage over Miami, winning three of the last four matchups. In the opening game of this season, Louisville prevailed 87-74 at Miami on Nov. 5 in UofL's earliest season opener ever as five Cardinals scored in double figures. UofL shot well from all areas against the Hurricanes (.540 FG%, .474 3FG%, .714 FT%) and led by as many as 32 points in the second half. Louisville won last year's game in the KFC Yum! Center 90-73 (1-6-19) as UofL erased a
15-point first-half deficit.

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Jordan Nwora's first basket against Florida State pushed him over the career 1,000-point scoring mark, becoming the 69th Louisville player to reach that milestone. His 294 points scored this year is the most by a UofL player through 14 games over the last 20 seasons. He leads the ACC in scoring (21.0 ppg, 19th in the nation). The preseason ACC Player of the Year, Nwora was a preseason All-America selection by AP and many others. His career-high matching 32 points vs. Florida State in his last game was his ninth game this year with 20 or more points and 22nd in the last two years.
Over the last seven games, Steven Enoch and Malik Williams have combined to average 20.0 points, 13.7 rebounds and shoot 54 percent from the field (53-of-98) while primarily splitting the center position (Enoch 12.1 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 21.7 minutes/ game; Williams 7.9 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 17.8 mpg).
Louisville has started with at least an 11-3 record through 14 games for the ninth time in the last 10 years.
Louisville has a 48-16 record in its conference home games over the last eight years (.750). UofL has the fourth-most conference home wins in its six years in the ACC with a 33-13 ACC home record.
UofL is 14th in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.372), 25th in scoring margin (+14.1) and 29th in scoring defense (61.2). UofL is 16th in the nation in defensive efficiency and 14th in offensive efficiency in KenPom rankings.
Louisville has made as many as nine three-pointers in a game on eight occasions this season, including three of the last six games (8 vs. Florida State in its last game).