Louisville Basketball Quick Facts Location Louisville, Ky. 40292 Founded / Enrollment 1798 / 22,000 Nickname / Colors Cardinals / Red & Black TOUGH. TOGETHER. UNBREAKABLE. Conference Atlantic Coast 1980, 1986 NCAA Champions 8 NCAA Final Fours 38 NCAA Tournament Appearances Home Court KFC Yum! Center (22,000) President Dr. Neeli Bendapudi Sports Information University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 www.GoCards.com Vice President/Director of Athletics Vince Tyra Phone: (502) 852-6581 email: [email protected] Twitter/Instagram: @LouisvilleMBB Head Coach Chris Mack (Xavier ‘92) Exhibition Game UofL Record first year Louisville Cardinals Overall Record 215-97 (9 years) vs. Simmons Falcons Assistant Coach Dino Gaudio (Ohio U. ’81) Assistant Coach Luke Murray (Fairfield ‘07) Saturday, Nov. 3 7:01 p.m. ET KFC Yum! Center Louisville, Ky. Assistant Coach Mike Pegues (Delaware ‘00) Dir. of Basketball Operations Kahil Fennell (Redlands ‘04) PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS All-Time Record 1,702-912 (104 yrs.) Louisville (22-14, 9-9 ACC) Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG Hometown (does not include 123-3 record vacated by NCAA) F 13 V.J. KING 6-6 215 Jr. 8.6 3.3 Cleveland, Ohio All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 61-40 F 33 Jordan NWORA 6-7 225 So. 5.7 2.2 Buffalo, N.Y. (38 Appearances, 8 Final Fours, 2 NCAA Titles - ‘80, ‘86) C 23 Steven ENOCH 6-10 260 Jr. 3.4 2.3 Norwalk, Conn. Important Phone Numbers G 1 Christen CUNNINGHAM 6-2 190 Gr. 7.7 2.9 Georgetown, Ky. Athletics Office (502) 852-5732 G 2 Darius PERRY 6-2 195 So. 3.9 1.2 Marietta, Ga. Stats are from each player’s last season Basketball Office (502) 852-6651 Simmons (4-17) Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG Hometown Sports Information Office (502) 852-6581 F 5 Korey MOSLEY 6-0 194 Jr. 10.1 2.3 Hopkinsville, Ky. SID - Kenny Klein, cell (502) 599-7865 F 23 James WHITE 6-2 225 Jr. 5.0 4.4 Hopkinsville, Ky. 2018-19 Schedule / Results C 14 Jeremy STEADMAN 6-8 195 Jr. 1.4 1.0 Woodbridge, Va. Date Opponent TV Time (ET) G 11 Kittrell WITHERS 5-11 180 Jr 14.0 2.0 Louisville, Ky. October / Result G 20 Jonathon HENRY 5-11 186 So. 7.8 2.6 Louisville, Ky. Sun. 28 BELLARMINE ~ ............. ACCN W 71-60 Head Coach: Jerry Eaves (Louisville ‘82) in fourth season at Simmons. November Sat. 3 SIMMONS (Ky.) ~ .......... ACCN 7:00 p.m. Louisville’s second exhibition contest of CARD FILE Thur. 8 NICHOLLS STATE ..........ACCN 7:00 p.m. 2018-19 season will be against a second team Tues. 13 SOUTHERN + ............... ACCN 7:00 p.m. from within the city as the Cardinals face the Louisville has won its last 35 straight in- Fri. 16 VERMONT + .................ACCN 7:00 p.m. Simmons College of Kentucky Falcons on season exhibition games, a span stretching the Wed. 21 Tennessee # ......................ESPN2 5:00 p.m. Saturday in the KFC Yum! Center. UofL won last 18 years (since 2001). The Cardinals last Fri. 23 Kansas or Marquette # ......ESPN2 7 or 9 p.m. its first game against outside competition, dropped an exhibition game on Dec. 2, 2000 Tues. 27 MICHIGAN STATE ^ .........ESPN 7:30 p.m. when falling 87-86 in double overtime to a December prevailing 71-60 against Bellarmine, the Global Sports team in Freedom Hall. Sat. 1 at Seton Hall ..........................FOX Noon nation’s top-ranked NCAA Division II team Wed. 5 CENTRAL ARKANSAS ......WAVE 7:00 p.m. by the DII Basketball Bulletin. The Cardinals In his first game with the Cardinals against Sat. 8 at Indiana ..............................FOX 2:30 p.m. limited the Knights -- a team that returned outside competition, Steven Enoch produced 14 Wed. 12 LIPSCOMB ....................RSN 7:00 p.m. eight of its top 10 scorers and ranked second points, five rebounds and made all four of his Sat. 15 KENT STATE ..................RSN 4:00 p.m. in the nation in field goal percentage last field goals, including a pair of threes. Enoch red- Fri. 21 ROBERT MORRIS ..........ACCN 7:00 p.m. season (.530) -- to 34.6 percent accuracy shirted last year after transferring from UConn. Sat. 29 KENTUCKY .................ESPN2 2:00 p.m. from the field. Coached by former UofL Louisville will face one of the nation’s most January difficult schedules this season, with 11 possible Sun. 6 MIAMI.......................ESPNU 6:00 p.m. guard and assistant coach Jerry Eaves, the Falcons posted a 4-17 record in NCCAA opponents ranked among the preseason AP Top Wed. 9 at Pittsburgh ........Raycom/WAVE 8:00 p.m. 25, including seven of the top 10 teams. UofL’s Sat. 12 at North Carolina ESPN or ESPN2 Noon Division II (National Christian College Athletic eight games against preseason AP Top 10 foes Wed. 16 BOSTON COLLEGE ...........RSN 7:00 p.m. Association). Eaves was a starting guard on is three more than any team in the nation. Over Sat. 19 at Georgia Tech ...Raycom/WHAS 4:00 p.m. the Cards’ 1980 NCAA Championship team half of the Cardinals’ games -- 17 of 31 -- will Thur. 24 NC STATE ........Raycom/WAVE 8:00 p.m. and scored 1,250 career points at UofL. Sat. 26 PITTSBURGH ....Raycom/WHAS 2:00 p.m. be played against teams in the AP Top 25 or Wed. 30 at Wake Forest .....Raycom/WAVE 8:00 p.m. GAME FACTS among those receiving votes in the preseason February poll. UofL’s schedule has been among the top Sat. 2 NORTH CAROLINA .ESPN/ESPN2 2/4/6 p.m. Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, 16 toughest by the RPI in nine of the past 11 Mon. 4 at Virginia Tech ...................ESPN 7:00 p.m. Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (131-21 in 8th year) seasons (10th-toughest last year). Sat. 9 at Florida State ....ESPN/ESPN2/U 4:00 p.m. Television: ACC Network Extra (available V.J. King is the Cardinals’ leading returning Tues. 12 DUKE ............. ESPN or ESPN2 9:00 p.m. to authenticated subscribers of ESPN on the scorer and lone returning starter, averaging 8.6 Sat. 16 CLEMSON ........ESPN/ESPN2/U Noon Watch ESPN app) Jim Kelch, play-by-play; points and 3.3 rebounds a year ago. The two- Wed. 20 at Syracuse .........................ESPN 7:00 p.m. Cortnee Walton, analyst. Sat. 23 VIRGINIA .........Raycom/WHAS Noon time All-ACC Academic Team selection scored Wed. 27 at Boston College ................. RSN 9:00 p.m. Radio: WKRD (790 AM) in double figures in 14 games last year. King March Nick Curran, play-by-play; Bob Valvano, and Christen Cunningham were elected team Sun. 3 NOTRE DAME .................CBS 1:30 p.m. analyst (game not available on Sirius XM) co-captains by a vote of their teammates. Sat. 9 at Virginia ...........ESPN or ESPN2 4/6/8 p.m. Series History: First Meeting Louisville’s Nov. 8 season opener vs. Nicholls Tues. 12- at ACC Tournament ...............TBA TBA Officials: Mike Eades, Mark Schnur, State will be the earliest season opener in UofL Sat. 16 (Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC) Patrick Harwood history. UofL’s 2013-14 opener vs. College of ~ exhibition game + NIT Season Tip-Off, Louisville, KY Next UofL Game: Nov. 8 vs. Nicholls State, Charleston on Nov. 9 had been the earliest. # NIT Season Tip-Off, Brooklyn, NY KFC Yum! Center, 7:01 p.m. ET UofL is one of just four schools which have won * ACC/Big 10 Challenge, Louisville, KY (ACC Network Extra) at least 20 games each of the last 16 seasons. Simmons at Louisville (exhibition) -- Page 2 Louisville Sports Information (502) 852-6581 Cards Begin New Era with Chris Mack — UofL began a new era when it named Chris Mack CARD FILE as its new head men’s basketball coach on March 28. In nine seasons as the head coach at Xavier, Mack guided the Musketeers to a 215-97 record and eight NCAA Tournament appearances (the last Louisville has finished among the nation’s Top five straight years), including reaching the Sweet 16 on four occasions and the Elite Eight in 2017. 25 teams in seven of the last eight years. Louisville His teams won or shared three conference regular season championships while compiling a 105-49 has been ranked on 624 occasions in the Associate league record over nine seasons in the Big East and Atlantic 10. Among active coaches, Mack’s Press poll, sixth all-time. .689 winning percentage as a head coach ranks him 19th in the nation and his 215 victories are tied Louisville has 75 NBA Draft selections, includ- for the 11th-most ever amassed by a coach in their first nine seasons. ing eight in the last six years (Ray Spalding the His most recent 2017-18 squad achieved a 29-6 record, won Xavier’s first Big East Conference latest in 2018 as the 56th overall pick). Former regular season championship and earned the school’s first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA UofL and current Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell Tournament. Mack was honored as the 2018 Big East Coach of the Year, NABC District 5 Coach was the 2018 NBA Dunk Contest winner and was of the Year, and he became the all-time coaching wins leader with the Musketeers. Xavier finished runner-up for the NBA Rookie of the Year. third in the final Associated Press poll – its highest ever ranking -- and last year’s team was one Louisville is the only school in the nation to short of the school record for victories.