Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Wake Forest

Postgame Notes
#5 Louisville 86, Wake Forest 76
KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky. | 15,270
February 5, 2020

TEAM RECORDS & SERIES NOTES

Wake Forest won the tipoff.
The Cardinals improve to 20-3 on the season.
- It's the first time they have started a season 20-3 since doing so in 2004-05.
- It marks the 18th straight 20-win season for the Cards.
The victory marks the ninth straight win for the Cardinals.
- The Cards' 9-game winning streak extends their longest ACC winning streak ever.
- It's the first time they've won nine straight conference games since the 2007-08 season in the BIG EAST.
UofL is now 11-1 in ACC play.
- It's the first time they've started conference played 11-1 since winning the Metro Conference title with an 11-1 record in 1993.
Louisville and Wake Forest met for the 9th time.
- The Cards now lead the series 7-2.
- UofL improves to 3-1 at home against the Demon Deacons.
The Cardinals are now 63-28 all-time in February over the last 13 years.
UofL is now 15-10 all-time on February 5.
The Cards are now 158-26 all-time at the KFC Yum! Center.
UofL is now 53-16 in conference games at the KFC Yum! Center over the last six seasons.
- The Cardinals are now 38-13 at home in ACC games.

TEAM NOTES

Louisville's starting five featured junior Darius Perry, graduate student Lamarr Kimble, junior Jordan Nwora, redshirt-senior Steven Enoch and redshirt-senior Dwayne Sutton.
- It is the 10th straight game the Cardinals have used this starting lineup.
UofL overcame a 15-point first half deficit (44-29 with 2:11 left).
- The Cards overcame a double-digit deficit for the second time this season (11 points vs Georgia Tech).
- It's the largest comeback since being also down 15 points to Miami on Jan. 6, 2019.
Louisville erased a 12-point halftime deficit thanks to a 15-0 run during a stretch of 3:48 early in the second half.
- The Cards had an extended run of 20-2 over a 5:03 stretch.
- UofL now has four scoring runs of 15-0 or better this season.
- The Cardinals have now gone on 41 runs of 8-0 or better for the season.
- It's the 53rd time the Cards have held an opponent scoreless for over three minutes.
The 52 points by the Cardinals in the second half are the most in any half this season.
- It's the most points in any half since scoring 52 in the first half against Central Arkansas on Dec. 5, 2018.
- It's the most points in a second half since scoring 55 points against Southern on Nov. 13, 2018.
UofL knocked down a season-high 14 three-pointers on the night.
- It's the most three's in a game since knocking down 14 against Memphis on Dec. 16, 2017.
- The Cards also attempted a season-high 28 shots from beyond the arc.
- Louisville has now made at least nine 3-pointers in 14 games this season.
The Cardinals made a season-high 24 free throws while also attempting a season-high 31.
- It's the most they have made in a game since also making 24 free throws against NC State on Jan. 24, 2019.
- It's the most free throw attempts since attempting 41 against Michigan State in overtime on Nov. 27, 2018.
Louisville recorded three blocks in the game and has now recorded a blocked shot in in 323 of its last 326 games.
The 17 assists by the Cards are the most since dishing out 22 against Eastern Kentucky (Dec. 14).
- It's the most assists for UofL in ACC play this season.
- It's the fifth time this season they've finished with at least 17 assists in a game.
It's the seventh time this season the Cardinals have scored 80 or more points.
- UofL is now 211-12 over the last 18 seasons when scoring 80 or more points.
- The Cards have now won 154 consecutive games when scoring at least 85 points in regulation.
Louisville's defense held Wake Forest to 30.0% (9-30) shooting in the second half.
- The Cards have held their opponent for 36% or worse from the field in 23 of 46 halves this season.
UofL finished the second half shooting 57.1% (12-21) from the field.
- It's their highest shooting percentage in a second half this season since shooting 63% against EKU on Dec. 14.
- It's the sixth time this season Louisville has shot over 50% in the second half.

PLAYER NOTES

Six Cardinals scored in double figures in Wednesday's win, marking the first time six players reached at least 10 points since Nov. 24, 2017 against St. Francis.
- The last time the Cardinals had six players in double figures in a conference game was Feb. 18, 2009 vs Providence.
- Jordan Nwora scored in double figures in that contest as well, finishing with 10 points.
Jordan Nwora led the Cardinals with 21 points, to go with seven rebounds.
- It was the 12th 20-point game of the season for Nwora and 25th of his career.
- Nwora has led the Cardinals in scoring 18 times this season.
- Nwora was 5-for-8 from the 3-point line in the win, the third time this season he has made at least five shots from outside.
- In his last 10 games, Nwora has made nearly 50 percent (29-of-59) of his attempts from the three-point line and better than 86 percent (38-of-44) of his free throws.
Dwayne Sutton tallied a double-double with 15 points and a team-high 11 rebounds.
- It was the 10th double-double of Sutton's career and his fifth this season.
- Sutton has grabbed at least 10 rebounds 10 times this season, including six of the last 11 games.
- Sutton has led the Cardinals in rebounding in 11 games during the year.
- His 15 points were one shy of his season-best 16 in the season opener at Miami.
- Sutton surpassed 700 career points at Louisville (703) and 1,100 for his collegiate career (1,111).
- Sutton was 8-of-10 from the free throw line on Wednesday, both of which were career highs.
- The senior also handed out four assists, the fifth time this season he has recorded four or more.
Lamarr "Fresh" Kimble scored a season-best 14 points in the victory.
- Kimble hit a season-high three three-pointers and matched his season-high with four rebounds.
- Kimble dished out four assists as well, giving him nine games with at least four helpers.
Ryan McMahon came off the bench and scored 12 points in 21 minutes.
- McMahon was 3-of-5 from the three-point line, making him 20-for-38 (.526) from outside over the last nine games.
- McMahon has made a three-pointer in 21 of 23 games this season and is just four makes shy of cracking Louisville's top 10 list for career makes.
- Just over four minutes into the second half, McMahon made his third three of the night and was fouled on the play. The converted free throw was Louisville's first four-point play since Deng Adel accomplished the feat against Miami on Feb. 11, 2017.
Steven Enoch and Malik Williams each finished with 11 points in a combined 40 minutes.
- It was the 14th double-digit scoring effort of the season for Enoch and sixth for Williams.
- The two have combined to average 18.4 points and 11.5 rebounds over the last 16 games while splitting minutes at center.

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Louisville Men's Basketball Postgame Notes vs. Wake Forest

Players Mentioned

Deng Adel

Steven Enoch

Ryan McMahon

Jordan Nwora

Darius Perry

Dwayne Sutton

Malik Williams

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