Cardinals Take on Florida State on Saturday

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville men's basketball hits the home stretch of the regular season and plays four of its last five in the KFC Yum! Center, beginning on Saturday against Florida State at noon. The game will be broadcast on The CW.

The Cardinals look to extend their winning streak to five games, most recently beating Notre Dame 75-60 on Sunday evening. Florida State has won three of its last four, beating Miami 74-66 on Wednesday night at home.

The two programs met on Dec. 21 in Tallahassee and the Cards left victorious 90-76. it was the beginning of a nine-game league win streak for UofL.

GAME 27
Listen: Cardinal Sports Network (WLCL 93.9 FM & WGTK 970 AM flagship);
Streaming (Paul Rogers, pxp | Jody Demling, analysis)
Watch: The CW (Thom Brenaman, pxp | Brian Oliver, analysis)
Live Stats: Louisville Live Stats

PROMOTIONS

Kid's Day | This will be the sixth annual event where the youngest members of Card Nation take over the gameday experience.

CARDINAL NOTES

For the first time in the 111 years of program history, Louisville has earned five road wins with a margin of victory of 20 points or more: at Virginia (20), at Syracuse (24), at SMU (25), at Boston College (26) and at NC State (25).
Louisville's game at NC State on Feb. 12 was the first time in program history that the team has hit marks of 60% FG, 50% 3FG and 90% from the free throw line in the same game.
Starting point guard Chucky Hepburn was named to the Naismith Trophy Men's Player of the Year Midseason Team.
Pat Kelsey's Cardinals are one of the most improved teams from the end of 2023-24 to now, accounting for the NET and number of wins. He was named to the Naismith Men's College Coach of the Year Watch List on Friday.
As of Feb. 20, Louisville is fifth in the country in 3-point attempts per game (30.3).
As of Feb. 20, Reyne Smith is leading in the country in 3's per game (3.85) and second in total 3-pointers (100). He's fourth in total 3-point attempts (251). Chucky Hepburn is 16th in the country in assists per game (6.2) and 21st in total assists (155). He's also 17th in total steals (59) and 14th steals per game (2.36).
Sophomore forward James Scott is fourth in the country in dunks as of Feb. 20 with 56 makes on the year, according to Bart Torvik. He leads the ACC in that category and is now fifth on Louisville's dunks in a single season list.
Four of Louisville's six losses have all come to teams now ranked in the AP Top 25: No. 3 Duke (23-3), No. 6 Tennessee (21-5), No. 17 Kentucky (18-8), and No. 24 Ole Miss (19-7). As of Feb. 20, those teams, along with Oklahoma (16-10) are a combined 97-33.
At SMU on Jan. 21, Chucky Hepburn broke the UofL single game assists record with 16. Reyne Smith broke the program's single game made 3's record with 10. Louisville became the only DI team this century to have a player with 10+ 3's and 15+ assists in the same game. The Last NBA team to do it was the Warriors with Klay Thompson (10 3PM) and Steph Curry (15 AST) on Nov. 20, 2022.
Fifth-year senior guard/forward Terrence Edwards Jr. earned ACC Player of the Week on Feb. 10and became the third Cardinal to earn the weekly honor this season.

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Players Mentioned

Terrence Edwards Jr.

Chucky Hepburn

James Scott

Reyne Smith

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