Cardinals, Notre Dame Meet Wednesday Night at KFC Yum! Center

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville men's basketball has a stretch of four of its last five games at home to end the regular season, beginning against Notre Dame at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday at the KFC Yum! Center. The game will air on ESPNU.

The Cardinals are coming off an 86-59 loss at Pitt on Saturday. Notre Dame has been off since a 58-55 home win over Georgia Tech on Feb. 14.

Louisville is 26-18 all-time against the Fighting Irish, including a 15-4 mark at home. Notre Dame has won the last three in the series after dropping the previous six.

GAME 27

Notre Dame (9-16, 4-10 ACC) at Louisville (8-18, 3-12 ACC)
February 21, 2024 | 7 p.m. CT
KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky.

MEDIA INFO

Listen: Cardinal Sports Network (WLCL 93.9 FM & WGTK 970 AM flagship); Streaming (Paul Rogers, pxp | Bob Valvano, analysis)

Watch: ESPNU (Anish Shroff, pxp | Tom Crean, analysis)

Live Stats: Louisville Stats

TICKETS

Single-Game Tickets | Season Tickets

TOP STORYLINES

• Louisville's Kenny and Zan Payne and Notre Dame's Micah and Braeden Shrewsberry represent two of 28 programs in the country where a son is playing for their father as head coach.

• With guards Skyy Clark (rib) and Ty-Laur Johnson (concussion-like symptoms) sidelined Saturday at Pitt, the Cardinals played their second consecutive game with nine total players available, including seven on scholarship.

• Over the last three games, freshman forward Kaleb Glenn is averaging 12.7 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting 59% (16 of 27) from the field. He's set a new career high in scoring twice in that span, including 17 points Saturday at Pitt.

• Over the last 17 games, Brandon Huntley-Hatfield is averaging 15.2 points and 8.4 rebounds while shooting 60.2% from the field (100 of 166) with six double-doubles. He had two double-doubles in the first 68 games of his career.

• Guard Ty-Laur Johnson's 93 assists are the eighth-most ever by a Louisville freshman. Johnson is one of four Louisville freshmen since 1992 to record at least 90 assists in a season, joining current team Video Coordinator Reece Gaines (1999-00), DeJuan Wheat (1993-94) and Jason Osborne (1993-94), the father of senior forward JJ Traynor. Over his last four outings, Johnson is averaging 15.0 points, 7.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game.

• UofL is one of two teams in the nation, along with New Mexico, with five different players who have scored at least 26 points in a game this season – Huntley-Hatfield (29), Tre White (29), Clark (29), Johnson (27) and Mike James (26).

HISTORY VS. NOTRE DAME (UofL leads 26-18)

Last Meeting: Notre Dame 76, Louisville 62
Jan. 28, 2023 | South Bend, Ind.

Louisville men's basketball fell into an early hole at Notre Dame and couldn't fully recover on its way to a 76-62 road loss.

The Cardinals eventually trailed by 30 with 17:12 to play, then pulled back within 14 on multiple occasions, but the Fighting Irish were able to keep them at bay.

Louisville led 9-7 early after a basket by junior forward JJ Traynor, but Notre Dame (10-12, 2-9) went on a 13-0 run with three 3-pointers to open a 20-9 advantage at the 13:18 mark.

JJ Starling scored the final six points of the half for the Irish, including a steal and dunk just before the buzzer to make it 46-24 at the break.

Notre Dame had another 8-0 run early in the second half, but redshirt freshman guard/forward Mike James started Louisville's comeback effort with a 3.

The UofL run reached 14-0 after a steal and dunk by James and another shot by the freshman in the lane.

The Fighting Irish halted the spurt with a pair of free throws, and the Cardinals never came any closer.

Notre Dame made 10 3-pointers in the game and turned it over just three times compared to 12 by Louisville, which became a 16-4 advantage for the Fighting Irish off turnovers. JJ Starling paced Notre Dame with 22 points and six rebounds.

James had 14 points to lead Louisville, which also got 10 points from redshirt junior forward Jae'Lyn Withers.

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Players Mentioned

Skyy Clark

Kaleb Glenn

Brandon Huntley-Hatfield

Mike James

Ty-Laur Johnson

Zan Payne

JJ Traynor

Tre White

Jae'Lyn Withers

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