No. 5 Louisville Travels to Clemson on Saturday

GAME 26
Date: Feb. 15, 2020
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Site: Littlejohn Coliseum (9,000), Clemson, S.C.
Television: ACC Network - Dave O'Brien, play-by-play; Jordan Cornette, analyst; Katie George, reporter.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Jody Demling, analyst (Sirius channel 138, XM 194, Internet 956)
Series History: UofL leads 7-2 (6-0 in Louisville, 1-2 in Clemson)
Last Meeting: UofL 80, Clemson 62 (Jan. 25, 2020 in KFC Yum! Center)
UL National Ranking: No. 5 USA Today, No. 5 Associated Press
Officials: Ted Valentine, Tony Henderson, Mark Schnur
Next UofL Game: Feb. 19 vs. Syracuse, KFC Yum! Center, 7:00 p.m. ET (ESPN)

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Louisville will play its second straight on the road as the Cardinals visit Clemson, S.C. to face the Clemson Tigers for the second time this season on Saturday. Louisville had its 10-
game winning streak broken as the Cardinals fell 64-58 at Georgia Tech on Wednesday.

The Cardinals had their second-lowest scoring output and shooting performance from the field (.348) in the game. David Johnson (five rebounds) and Malik Williams (eight rebounds) scored 16 points each to lead the Cardinals as the bench produced 40 of the 58 points.

Louisville has four players averaging eight or more points a game. Junior Jordan Nwora leads the team in scoring with 18.8 points per game, while pulling down 7.2 rebounds a game. Steven Enoch is second on the team in scoring and rebounding with 10.2 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. Dwayne Sutton averages 8.8 points while leading the team in rebounding with 8.4 per game. Fresh Kimble leads the team with 74 assists.

The Tigers (12-12, 6-8 ACC) have dropped three of their last five games since losing at Louisville, but won 72-52 at Pittsburgh on Wednesday in their last outing as Al-Aamir Dawes led the Tigers with 18 points.

Clemson made 13-of 22 three-pointers in the game (.591). Junior forward Aamir Simms is the Tigers' scoring leader (13.3 ppg, 7.2 rpg) and is 12th in the ACC in rebounding. Six Tigers have made at least 19 three-pointers this season, led by Tevin Mack's 37-of-129 threes. Clemson is No. 84 in the Sagarin Ratings, No. 83 in the NET rankings, No. 71 in ESPN's College Basketball Power Index (BPI) and No. 80 by Ken Pomeroy through Feb. 13.

Louisville leads 7-2 in its series against Clemson. Last month in the KFC Yum! Center, the Cardinals prevailed 80- 62 as Darius Perry scored a career-high 19 points (5-of-6 three-pointers) and matched a career-best with five rebounds. Freshman forward Samuell Williams added 14 points off the bench, the second highest total of his young career.

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Louisville's 12-2 ACC start is its best in its six years in the conference and its best in any league since the Cardinals won the 1967 Missouri Valley Conference title with a 12-2 record. UofL has started with at least a 21-4 overall record through 25 games for the first time since 2013-14. UofL has 18 straight 20-win seasons on the court.
Louisville's 28 ACC road wins in its six years in the league is the fourth-most in the ACC.
Louisville is eighth in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (.391), but made just 3-of-24 threes in their last game at Georgia Tech. UofL has made as many as nine three-pointers in a game on 15 occasions this season (10 of the last 15), including 9-of-22 threes vs. Virginia on Feb. 8.
Dwayne Sutton needs 12 rebounds for 600 at UofL. He has grabbed double-digit rebounds in seven of the last 14 games (11 this year).
UofL is 12th in the nation in field goal percentage defense (.380), 15th in scoring margin (+11.9), 24th in rebound margin (+6.6) and 36th in scoring defense (63.4). UofL is 30^th in defensive efficiency and 11th in offensive efficiency in KenPom statistical rankings.
Louisville's bench has delivered an average of 32.4 points over the last eight games. Five of the Cardinals' top six bench scoring efforts of the season have come in the last eight games, with a different bench scoring leader in four of those.
Jordan Nwora's 469 points this year is the second-most by a UofL player through 25 games over the last 20 seasons. He leads the ACC in scoring (18.8 ppg). The preseason ACC Player of the Year, his 22 points vs. Virginia was his 13th game this season and 26th in the last two years scoring 20 or more.

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Players Mentioned

Steven Enoch

David Johnson

Jordan Nwora

Darius Perry

Dwayne Sutton

Malik Williams

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