Cards Face Notre Dame in Second Straight on the Road

Game Information
Site: Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center, Notre Dame, Ind. (9,149)
Television: ESPNU - Anish Shroff, play-by-play; Jordan Cornette, analyst.
Radio: WKRD (790 AM; joined in progress on WHAS 840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, analyst (XM channel 388, SiriusXM App 978)
Series History: Louisville leads 26-16 (15-4 in Louisville, 6-9 in Notre Dame, 5-3 neutral)
Last Meeting: Notre Dame 82, UofL 70 (Jan. 22, 2022 at KFC Yum! Center)
UofL National Ranking: unranked in USA Today & Associated Press polls
Next UofL Game: Feb. 16 vs. Miami, KFC Yum! Center, 7 p.m. ET (RSN)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Louisville plays its second straight on the road -- where four of its next six games will be played -- as the Cardinals visit Notre Dame, Ind. to face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Wednesday.

Louisville fell 92-69 at Syracuse on Feb. 5 as the Orange shot 55.2 percent from the field, including 12-of-23 three pointers (.522), only the fourth team to shoot 50 percent or above from the field against the Cardinals. Jae'Lyn Withers led UofL with 13 points, his first time leading the Cardinals in scoring this season, the ninth different player to lead UofL in scoring, and the fifth straight game Louisville's leading scorer has come off the bench.

Notre Dame (16-7, 9-3 ACC), a half game out of first place in the ACC, has won six of its last seven games, including 69-57 at NC State on Feb. 5 in its last outing as forward Paul Atkinson, Jr. led five players in double figures with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Notre Dame is second in the ACC in three-pointers per game (8.8), is 19th in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (10.4) and third in the nation in fewest fouls per game (13.1). Five players are averaging over eight points each, led by guard Dane Goodwin at 14.5 points per game (16th in the ACC).

Louisville has a 26-16 series advantage over Notre Dame and the Cardinals have won six of the last seven meetings. In the last matchup, Notre Dame prevailed 82-70 over UofL in the KFC Yum! Center (1-22-22) as the Irish shot a torrid 63.3 percent from the field, including 15-of-23 three-pointers (.652). Jarrod West led the Cards with a season-high matching 14 points, Jae'Lyn Withers contributed nine points and a game-high nine rebounds, and Mason Faulkner totaled nine points and a team-high five assists.

Notes

Nine of the last 25 games in the series with Notre Dame have been decided in overtime, including four in multiple overtime periods. Louisville was a member of the Big East Conference with Notre Dame for eight seasons (2005-13). Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013, a year prior to Louisville and it was the only year (2013-14) over the last 16 that the two teams did not play.
UofL interim head coach Mike Pegues played for Notre Dame coach Mike Brey at Delaware (1996-2000) when Pegues scored 2,030 career points (No. 2 in Delaware history).
El Ellis has scored in double figures in the last three games, including a career-high 25 vs. North Carolina. He is averaging 11.1 points per game over the last 10 games -- tops for the Cardinals in that stretch while hitting 18-of-43 threes (.417), including 17.7 ppg in the last three.
Sydney Curry has scored 67 points in his last seven games after combining for 33 points over his first 12 games this season (8 pts., 10 reb., 3 assists at Syracuse). He is averaging 9.6 points and 5.1 rebounds over his last seven games.
Jae'Lyn Withers has averaged 8.0 points and 4.3 rebounds over the last six games while 48.6 percent shooting, scoring in double figures in three of those six. He averaged 4.2 points in the first 17 games of the season.
Jarrod West needs five assists for 500 in his career. Mason Faulkner handed out his 500th career assist at Syracuse. Faulkner is third in the ACC in assist-turnover ratio (2.68) while West is sixth (2.29). West is third in the nation in career steals among active players with 286.
Louisville made 10 three-pointers at Syracuse, its 11th game this season and fifth straight with at least eight made threes. The Cardinals made a season-high 15 three-pointers against North Carolina two games ago, its most in eight years and a span of 257 games.

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