Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Syracuse

Postgame Notes
#11 Louisville 90, Syracuse 66
KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky. | 16,428
February 19, 2020

TEAM RECORDS & SERIES NOTES

Louisville's Malik Williams won the tipoff.
- It's the first time this season he's won the tip.
The Cardinals improve to 22-5 on the season.
UofL is now 13-3 in ACC play.
- It's the first time they've been 13-3 to start conference play since 2014.
Louisville and Syracuse met for the 29th time.
- The Cards now lead the series 19-10.
- UofL improves to 10-4 at home against the Orange.
- The win snaps a two-game winning streak by Syracuse.
The Cardinals are now 66-30 all-time in February over the last 13 years.
UofL is now 15-12 all-time on February 19.
The Cards are now 160-26 all-time at the KFC Yum! Center.
UofL is now 55-16 in conference games at the KFC Yum! Center over the last six seasons.
- The Cardinals are now 40-13 at home in ACC games.

TEAM NOTES

Louisville's starting five featured junior Malik Williams, freshman David Johnson, redshirt-senior Ryan McMahon, junior Jordan Nwora, and redshirt-senior Dwayne Sutton.
- It is the first time this season the Cardinals have used this starting lineup.
Louisville improves to 213-12 over the last 18 seasons when scoring 80 or more points.
- They are now 376-56 when holding opponents under 70 points.
- It's the 155th consecutive victory when scoring at least 85 points.
- It's the sixth time this season UofL has scored at least 40 points in each half.
  - The 49 points scored by the Cards in the second half are the second most this season (52 vs Wake)
The 90 points scored by the Cardinals are the second most given up by Syracuse this season.
- The 24-point margin of victory by the Cards is the largest margin in a Syracuse loss this season.
Midway through the second half, Louisville went on a 13-0 run during a 3:43 stretch.
- It's the 43rd time this season they've gone on at least an 8-0 run.
- The Cards have now forced opponents in 60 scoring droughts of 3:00 or longer.
With Dwayne Sutton's block in the second half, Louisville has now recorded a blocked shot in in 327 of its last 330 games.
The Cards out-rebounded Syracuse 45-36.
- Louisville has now held the rebounding advantage in 19 of its 27 games.
- It's the fifth time this season they've finished with 45 or more rebounds.
- They finished with 12 offensive rebounds.
  - It's the fourth time in the last eight games they've grabbed double-digit offensive boards.
UofL connected on 10 three-pointers in the game, seven of which came in the first half.
- The Cardinals have made as many as nine three's in a game on 16 occasions, and in 11 of their last 18 games.
Louisville's defense held Syracuse to 38.3% (23-60) from the field.
- Over the last six seasons the Cards have held 79 opponents to under 40 percent shooting
The Cardinals connected on 20-of-29 at the free throw line.
- It's the seventh time this season they've made at least 20 free throws.
- They've now made at least 20 free throws in four of their last seven games.
Louisville finished with a season-high 23 assists.
The Cards finished with 27 bench points.
- They've now scored at least 20 bench points in 12 of their last 13 games.
- It's the 16th time on the season they've scored at least 20 bench points.
The Cardinals finished with 13 second chance points.
- It's the 21st time this season they've scored double-digit second chance points.

PLAYER NOTES

Jordan Nwora led the Cardinals with 17 points to go along with seven rebounds and three assists.
- It's the 23rd time this season he has scored in double digits.
- He's now recorded at least seven rebounds in eight of his last 10 games.
- His three assists were one off of a season and career high.
Malik Williams finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds.
- Williams earned his first start of the season for the Cardinals.
- It's his second double-double of the season and fifth of his career.
- His 13 rebounds match a season and career high.
  - It's the fourth time this season he's finished with double-digit rebounds.
- Williams has scored in double figures in four of his last five games.
  - He finished in double figures for the ninth time this season and the 22nd time for his career.
Dwayne Sutton narrowly missed a double-double, finishing with 16 points, eight rebounds, and five assists.
- With his fifth rebound at 8:36 of the second half, Sutton recorded the 600th rebound of his career.
- He has now scored in double figures in back-to-back games.
  - It's the 14th time this season he's scored in double-digits and the 34th time in his career.
- Sutton finished 3-of-4 from beyond the arc, tying a season high for made 3-pointers.
- His five assists tied a season high.
  - He recorded at least four assists for the sixth time this season and the 12th time in his career.
Ryan McMahon finished the game with 13 points, 12 of which came from long range.
- It's the 10th time this season and 24th time in his career he has scored in double figures.
- It's the fifth time this year McMahon has connected on at least four 3-pointers.
- McMahon added four assists.
  - It's the third time this season he's finished with at least four assists.
David Johnson earned his first career start for the Cardinals, finishing with seven assists, one off of a season high.
- Johnson has tallied at least five assists on six occasions, all of which have come in the last 10 games.
Steven Enoch came off the bench for the first time this season and finished with 10 points.
- Enoch has scored at least 10 points in 16 games this year and 33 for his career.
Keith Oddo entered the game for the first time since playing against Pitt on Dec. 6.
- His two points are a season high.
Grant Williams and Hogan Orbaugh appeared in a game for the first time since playing against Indiana State on Nov. 13.
- Orbaugh committed the first foul of his career.

University of Louisville Athletics

Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Syracuse

Players Mentioned

Steven Enoch

David Johnson

Ryan McMahon

Jordan Nwora

Keith Oddo

Hogan Orbaugh

Dwayne Sutton

Grant Williams

Malik Williams

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