Here’s how to watch Saturday’s ACC clash between Notre Dame and Louisville online.
The ACC’s long, bludgeoning gauntlet of a conference schedule mercifully ends for its teams this Saturday. A full slate of games features three top-25 matchups. While Duke-North Carolina will get the pub, the game between Notre Dame and Louisville is an interesting clash of unique styles. And (by the way) both squads currently sit above Duke in the ACC standings.
Louisville’s defense has been great as always. Fueled by its press, forcing turnovers on 20.5 percent of all possessions, and anchored by the interior defense of Anas Mahmoud, the defense is top-5 yet again. But Louisville have really been picking it up on offense lately.
Much of this has been fueled by Donovan Mitchell and Quentin Snider. Mitchell has made the jump this year as a scorer, carrying the team through Snider’s absence. He’s hitting the long ball, sitting at 38.1 percent this year after a sub-30 percent effort his freshman year. But he still finishes at the rim, hitting 58.2 percent of his 98 attempts there. And since returning from injury, Snider has averaged 14 points per game and has been scorching from deep.
Notre Dame has ridden its pass-heavy, egalitarian style of offense to a 24-6 record and a top-4 spot in the deepest conference in basketball.
Everything is set up by point man Matt Farrell. He’s currently averaging 14.3 points and 5.4 assists per game, and scoring efficiently. But the engine of the offense is Bonzie Colson. The multi-talented big man can score from all levels: he’s hitting 54.3 percent of his twos, and nearly 40 percent of his 3s. He also gets it done in a big way on the defensive end. Notre Dame asks him – at 6-foot-5 – to spend a ton of time at power forward and center on defense. He’s proven up to the challenge, averaging 1.4 blocks per game and even pulling in more than a steal per game to go along with it.
Date: Saturday, March 4
Start Time: 2:00 p.m. ET
Location: Louisville, KY
Venue: KFC Yum! Center
TV: CBS
Live Stream: CBS All-Access (subscriber-only, free 1 week trial available)
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The winner here will gain an advantage in seeding for the ACC tournament, and boost their chances to add to the NCAA tournament resume.