Cardinals play a rival from the area at Notre Dame

Louisville goes to South Bend for their Sunday night game against the Fighting Irish

By: Dana Brown

Louisville, Ky. – On Sunday evening, Louisville men’s basketball will play its second to final road ACC game of the season against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at 8 p.m. ET in South Bend, Indiana. The game will be aired on the ACC Network.

The Cardinals have won 13 of their past 14 games, defeating NC State 91-66 on Wednesday night in Raleigh. Notre Dame triumphed in double OT against Boston College on the same night, stopping a three-game losing streak.

Louisville leads the rivalry with the Fighting Irish 26-19 overall, while Notre Dame leads 11-6 when playing at South Bend. The Cardinals haven’t won the game since February 23, 2021, losing the previous four encounters.

GAME 26
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• CARDINAL NOTES
  For the first time in the program’s 111-year history, Louisville has five road wins by 20 points or more: at Virginia (20), Syracuse (24), SMU (25), Boston College (26) and NC State (25).
  Louisville’s average margin of victory in ACC games is 16.5 points.
  Louisville’s game at NC State on Feb. 12 became the first time in school history that the team shot 60% FG, 50% 3FG, and 90% from the free throw line in the same game.
  Starting point guard Chucky Hepburn has been chosen 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 the present, based on NET and amount of victories.
  Louisville is ninth in the nation in 3-point attempts per game as of February 13.
  As of February 13, Chucky Hepburn was ranked 15th in the country in assists per game (6.2) and 17th in total assists (149). He also ranks 15th in total steals (56) and thefts per game (2.33). Reyne Smith is second in the country in 3-pointers per game (3.84) and total 3-pointers (96). He ranks third in total 3-point attempts (240).
  According to Bart Torvik, sophomore forward James Scott is second in the country in dunks as of Feb. 13, with 55 this season. He leads the ACC in that statistic and is now ranked fifth on Louisville’s single-season dunk list.
  Louisville’s 10-game winning run was the longest since the Cardinals won 10 straight from January 7 to February 8, 2020.
  Four of Louisville’s six defeats have come against current AP Top 25 teams: No. 3 Duke (21-3), No. 5 Tennessee (20-5), No. 15 Kentucky (17-7), and No. 19 Ole Miss (19-6). As of Feb. 13, these teams, along with Oklahoma (16-8), had a combined record of 93-29.
  Chucky Hepburn broke the University of Louisville’s single-game assists record with 16 on January 21 against SMU. Reyne Smith broke the program’s single-game made 3-point record with ten. Louisville became the first DI team this century to have a player record 10+ three-pointers and 15+ assists in the same game. The Warriors last did it on November 20, 2022, with Klay Thompson (10 3PM) and Steph Curry (15 AST).
  Terrence Edwards Jr., a fifth-year senior guard/forward, was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday, becoming the third Cardinal to receive the weekly title this season.