No. 20 Tennessee Volunteers host No. 11 Louisville Cardinals

By Canadian Press on December 16, 2025.

Louisville Cardinals (9-1) at Tennessee Volunteers (7-3)

Knoxville, Tennessee; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: No. 20 Tennessee plays No. 11 Louisville.

The Volunteers are 5-0 on their home court. Tennessee ranks third in the SEC with 18.7 assists per game led by Ja’Kobi Gillespie averaging 5.4.

The Cardinals have gone 0-1 away from home. Louisville ranks sixth in the ACC shooting 37.5% from 3-point range.

Tennessee makes 46.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 9.0 percentage points higher than Louisville has allowed to its opponents (37.8%). Louisville averages 13.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 5.6 more made shots on average than the 7.6 per game Tennessee allows.

TOP PERFORMERS: Gillespie is scoring 17.3 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Volunteers. Nate Ament is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers.

Ryan Conwell is averaging 19.4 points for the Cardinals. Mikel Brown Jr. is averaging 16.6 points.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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