Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals are playing on Friday night in the NCAA college basketball tournament and the matchup for the Sweet 16 is streaming live on the radio and comes from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and offers the in-state rivals a chance to fight against each other for the Elite 8 and the game starts up around 9:45 pm ET and is coming live from the March Madness website on CBS.
The two teams come in playing some great ball and Kentucky was the first team to knock off a number one seed off the bracket and Louisville comes in after a dominating win against St. Louis and now John Calipari and Rick Pitino get the chance to go head to head with each other once again. There are a number of stars on both sides of the ball for the teams on Friday night and the Cardinals are coming in as defending champions and the Wildcats would love nothing more than to knock off their biggest rival as they look to repeat and the winners will play in the Midwest regional final against the winner of the Tennessee and Michigan game.
Kentucky has as much talent as anyone in the tournament and after starting the season as the preseason number one, they have the chance to make up for it and that fan with the championship tattoo for 2014 is hoping they do. The team comes in after knocking off Wichita State and Andrew Harrison had 20 points to lead the team, while Willie Cauley-Stein and Julius Randle were excellent as well, with the freshman snagging 10 rebounds and six assists and Randle has been the leading scorer for the team this season and in rebounding with 15 points and 100 assists, while Cauley-Stein is grabbing six per game. Harrison has been great as well and he is tops in assists and will be a main focus for Louisville on Friday.
Montrezl Harrell has been one of the most impressive players for Louisville in the tournament and this season along with Russ Smith and Luke Hancock and Harrell will be the main focus for Kentucky after the game he had against St. Louis, snagging 11 rebounds to lead the way. Smith has been the leading scorer this season with 18 points per game and he has been much smarter with the ball than last year and he is now shooting over 47 percent from the field and that will make him a deadly weapon for the Cardinals on Friday and if he can get going, he has been very solid from three as well and is shooting over 40 percent from beyond the arc this season.
Harrell is ranked second on the team in points with 14 per game and he is shooting over 60 percent from the floor and that will be huge for the team, as they are averaging over 47 percent for the season as a whole. Harrell is over Chane Behanan with eight rebounds per game and he has been a force, while Smith has been the top player in assists and he has helped the team rank 19th in the nation in assists per game and eighth in the nation in points with 82 per contest.
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