No. 20 Tennessee Volunteers play the No. 11 Louisville Cardinals

By Canadian Press on December 15, 2025.

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

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

BOTTOM LINE: No. 11 Louisville takes on No. 20 Tennessee.

The Volunteers have gone 5-0 in home games. Tennessee ranks third in the SEC in rebounding with 40.6 rebounds. Nate Ament leads the Volunteers with 7.1 boards.

The Cardinals are 0-1 on the road. Louisville leads the ACC with 19.7 assists. Mikel Brown Jr. leads the Cardinals with 5.1.

Tennessee’s average of 7.4 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.3 more made shots on average than the 7.1 per game Louisville allows. Louisville has shot at a 47.9% rate from the field this season, 9.4 percentage points above the 38.5% shooting opponents of Tennessee have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Ja’Kobi Gillespie averages 2.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Volunteers, scoring 17.3 points while shooting 33.8% from beyond the arc. Ament is shooting 37.4% and averaging 16.3 points.

Ryan Conwell is averaging 19.4 points for the Cardinals. Brown 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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