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Cards Face UNC Greensboro in Fifth Straight at Home
December 03, 2020 | Men's Basketball
UPDATE: This game was cancelled due to COVID-19 issues.
Louisville plays its fifth straight at home in the KFC Yum! Center, its fifth game in 10 days, and its final game among the early season "bubble" event in Louisville as the Cardinals face the UNC Greensboro Spartans on Friday.
Louisville (4-0) won its fourth straight on Tuesday in prevailing 75-54 over Western Kentucky. Freshman Dre Davis scored a career-high 21 points to lead the Cardinals and David Johnson totaled 17 points, six rebounds, a career-high matching eight assists and a career-high four steals. Carlik Jones added 18 points, six rebounds and four assists for his 87th career double-figure scoring effort and 27th consecutive.
Freshman Dre Davis's 21 points with two rebounds and two assists against Western Kentucky is the most scored by a Cardinal this season. Coupled with the 20 points and nine rebounds that redshirt freshman Jae'Lyn Withers scored in the previous game against Prairie View A&M, it is the first back-to-back games with a UofL freshman scoring 20 or more points in a game since Juan Palacios scored 20 at Houston and 23 against TCU on Jan. 5 and 8, 2005. It is the first time in UofL history in which different freshmen scored 20 or more points in back-to-back games. Only four Louisville teams have had two freshmen score 20 or more points in a game during a season.
UNC Greensboro has dropped two of its first three games of the season in Louisville, beating Little Rock 77-70 before falling to Winthrop 75-67 and losing 81-68 to Duquesne on Dec. 2.
The preseason choice to win the Southern Conference championship this year, the Spartans posted a 23-9 record last season. UNCG senior guard Isaiah Miller is the reigning SoCon Player Of The Year and Defensive Player Of The Year. He was named as ESPN's Pre-Season Mid-Major Player of the Year, a preseason All-America selection by Stadium, and is the SoCon preseason Player of the Year.
UNC Greensboro is the only first-time opponent for the Cardinals this season. UofL is 244-83 in first- time meetings, including 55-3 since 2002-03.
Notes
Louisville has won 84 of its last 88 non-conference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center, spanning the last 11 seasons. UofL has won its last 12 straight at home against non-conference foes.
Louisville is 18-5 all-time in games played on Dec. 4, winning its last nine on that date.
Louisville's offensive efficiency (21st in the nation) and defensive efficiency (29th) are both among the nation's top 30. Louisville has held three of its first four opponents below 40 percent shooting from the field (Evansville .298, Seton Hall .333, Prairie View .393). In early NCAA statistics, Louisville is 41st in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.365) and 33rd in scoring defense (58.0). The Cardinals are 37th in the nation in field goal percentage (.517).
Louisville has a collective 15-6 record against current members of the Southern Conference, having previously faced seven of its 10 members. The Cardinals last played a Southern Conference team when they beat Samford 86-45 to open its 2015-16 season on Nov. 13, 2015.
UofL program assistant Christen Cunningham played three seasons plus nine games at Southern Conference member Samford (2014-18) before transferring for this final collegiate season at Louisville.
UNCG freshman guard Reggie Raynor was a teammate of Louisville guard Josh Nickelberry at Northwood Temple Academy in Fayetteville, N.C. The duo helped Northwood Temple reach the runner-up position in the 1A NCISAA North Carolina state championship in 2019 when Nickelberry was a senior.
Through games of Dec. 1, Carlik Jones is seventh in the nation in career assists among active players with 490 (21 at Louisville, 469 at Radford) and is 13th nationally among active career scorers with 1,621 points (69 at UofL, 1,552 at Radford). Last season at Radford, Jones was the only player in the nation to average at least 20.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game, and was one of just 16 players in Division I men's basketball to do so since the 1996-97 season.
UofL is No. 12 in the Sagarin Ratings and No. 19 by KenPom through Dec. 1.
Louisville plays its fifth straight at home in the KFC Yum! Center, its fifth game in 10 days, and its final game among the early season "bubble" event in Louisville as the Cardinals face the UNC Greensboro Spartans on Friday.
Louisville (4-0) won its fourth straight on Tuesday in prevailing 75-54 over Western Kentucky. Freshman Dre Davis scored a career-high 21 points to lead the Cardinals and David Johnson totaled 17 points, six rebounds, a career-high matching eight assists and a career-high four steals. Carlik Jones added 18 points, six rebounds and four assists for his 87th career double-figure scoring effort and 27th consecutive.
Freshman Dre Davis's 21 points with two rebounds and two assists against Western Kentucky is the most scored by a Cardinal this season. Coupled with the 20 points and nine rebounds that redshirt freshman Jae'Lyn Withers scored in the previous game against Prairie View A&M, it is the first back-to-back games with a UofL freshman scoring 20 or more points in a game since Juan Palacios scored 20 at Houston and 23 against TCU on Jan. 5 and 8, 2005. It is the first time in UofL history in which different freshmen scored 20 or more points in back-to-back games. Only four Louisville teams have had two freshmen score 20 or more points in a game during a season.
UNC Greensboro has dropped two of its first three games of the season in Louisville, beating Little Rock 77-70 before falling to Winthrop 75-67 and losing 81-68 to Duquesne on Dec. 2.
The preseason choice to win the Southern Conference championship this year, the Spartans posted a 23-9 record last season. UNCG senior guard Isaiah Miller is the reigning SoCon Player Of The Year and Defensive Player Of The Year. He was named as ESPN's Pre-Season Mid-Major Player of the Year, a preseason All-America selection by Stadium, and is the SoCon preseason Player of the Year.
UNC Greensboro is the only first-time opponent for the Cardinals this season. UofL is 244-83 in first- time meetings, including 55-3 since 2002-03.
Notes
Louisville has won 84 of its last 88 non-conference games at home in the KFC Yum! Center, spanning the last 11 seasons. UofL has won its last 12 straight at home against non-conference foes.
Louisville is 18-5 all-time in games played on Dec. 4, winning its last nine on that date.
Louisville's offensive efficiency (21st in the nation) and defensive efficiency (29th) are both among the nation's top 30. Louisville has held three of its first four opponents below 40 percent shooting from the field (Evansville .298, Seton Hall .333, Prairie View .393). In early NCAA statistics, Louisville is 41st in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.365) and 33rd in scoring defense (58.0). The Cardinals are 37th in the nation in field goal percentage (.517).
Louisville has a collective 15-6 record against current members of the Southern Conference, having previously faced seven of its 10 members. The Cardinals last played a Southern Conference team when they beat Samford 86-45 to open its 2015-16 season on Nov. 13, 2015.
UofL program assistant Christen Cunningham played three seasons plus nine games at Southern Conference member Samford (2014-18) before transferring for this final collegiate season at Louisville.
UNCG freshman guard Reggie Raynor was a teammate of Louisville guard Josh Nickelberry at Northwood Temple Academy in Fayetteville, N.C. The duo helped Northwood Temple reach the runner-up position in the 1A NCISAA North Carolina state championship in 2019 when Nickelberry was a senior.
Through games of Dec. 1, Carlik Jones is seventh in the nation in career assists among active players with 490 (21 at Louisville, 469 at Radford) and is 13th nationally among active career scorers with 1,621 points (69 at UofL, 1,552 at Radford). Last season at Radford, Jones was the only player in the nation to average at least 20.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game, and was one of just 16 players in Division I men's basketball to do so since the 1996-97 season.
UofL is No. 12 in the Sagarin Ratings and No. 19 by KenPom through Dec. 1.
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