No. 25 Louisville Travels to SMU

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville men's basketball will face a new member of the ACC for the first time this season when the Cardinals travel to SMU to play the Mustangs in Moody Coliseum on Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on ACC Network.

Louisville enters the game on an eight-game win streak that includes seven straight conference wins. The Cardinals most recently beat Virginia 81-67, completing the sweep of the Cavaliers on the year. The Mustangs are on a three-game win streak and won 117-74 at Miami on Saturday afternoon.

The Cardinals lead the all-time series 8-2 over SMU with a 3-1 mark on the road. The last time the teams met was when Louisville spent its lone year in the American Athletic Conference in the 2013-14 season. Louisville won the last matchup 84-71 in Dallas on March 5, 2014.

GAME 20
Listen: Cardinal Sports Network (WLCL 93.9 FM & WGTK 970 AM flagship);
Streaming (Paul Rogers, pxp | Bob Valvano, analysis)
Watch: ACC Network (Doug Sherman, pxp | Malcolm Huckaby, analysis)
Live Stats: SMU Stats

CARDINAL NOTES

For the first time since Jan. 25, 2021, Louisville is ranked in a national poll, coming in at No. 25 in the AP Poll on Jan. 20.
Four of Louisville's five losses have all come to teams now ranked in the AP Top 25: No. 2 Duke (16-2), No. 6 Tennessee (16-2), No. 9 Kentucky (14-4), and No. 16 Ole Miss (15-3). As of Jan. 20, those teams, along with Oklahoma (14-4) are a combined 75-15.
Against North Carolina on Jan. 1, Chucky Hepburn made 16 free throws, tying the program record for free throws made in a single game.
Louisville played five ranked opponents before the New Year. The Cardinals have the 12th best strength of schedule according to KenPom as of Jan. 9.
As of Jan.19, Louisville is ninth in the country in 3-point attempts per game (30.5).
As of Jan. 19, Chucky Hepburn is eighth in total steals with 49 and 10th in the country in steals per game at 2.58. Reyne Smith is second in the country in total 3-pointers made (68), fourth in total 3-point attempts (174) and sixth in 3-pointers per game (3.58).
Sophomore forward James Scott is fourth in the country in dunks as of Jan. 19 with 40 makes on the year, according to Bart Torvik. He leads the ACC in that category and is one dunk away from cracking Louisville's top-15 dunks in a season list.
Sixth year senior Noah Waterman is just 22 points away from scoring 1,000 DI career points.
Senior guard Reyne Smith was named ACC Player of the Week on Dec. 23 for his 27-point performance at Florida State. It was just the third time in the program's 11 years in the ACC that Louisville has had multiple ACC Player of the Week awards as Chucky Hepburn also earned that title on Dec. 2.
Against Florida State on Dec. 21, Chucky Hepburn and Terrence Edwards Jr. both logged eight assists apiece; it was the first Louisville game to have two Cardinals log at least eight assists each in the same game since Peyton Siva and Gorgui Deng both had eight against Syracuse in the 2013 Big East Tournament championship game.
Louisville's 89-61 victory over No. 14/15 Indiana in the quarterfinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis was Louisville's first win over a ranked team since beating No. 19/20 Virginia Tech 73-71 on Jan. 6, 2021. It's the highest ranked opponent the Cards have beat since beating No. 3 Duke 79-73 on Jan. 18, 2020

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Players Mentioned

Terrence Edwards Jr.

Chucky Hepburn

James Scott

Reyne Smith

Noah Waterman

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