STARTERS & BENCH: Louisville vs. Duke

Mark BlankenbakerMarch 8, 2017

Louisville uses a deep bench, Duke uses just a few players. We’ll find out which approach works better in the post-season as the Cards and Blue Devils square off Thursday at 2:00(ish) p.m. in the ACC Tournament Quarterfinals at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. Louisville defeated Duke 78-69 earlier this season at the KFC Yum! Center. Duke is playing its best basketball of the season in March and here are the starters & bench comparisons:

Starters

	Quentin Snider	Frank Jackson
	6-2, 175, Jr.	6-3, 205, Fr.
Minutes	31.3	23.9
Points	12.6	10.4
FG %	39.6%	46.70%
3P %	40.0%	38.30%
FT%	73.0%	79.50%
Rebounds	2.7	2.5
Assists	4.1	1.8
Steals	0.6	0.5
Blocks	0.0	0.1
Turnovers	1.5	1.2
Fouls	1.4	2.4

	Donovan Mitchell	Matt Jones
	6-3, 200, Soph	6-5, 204, Sr.
Minutes	31.9	33.6
Points	15.9	7.40
FG %	42.0%	39.4%
3P %	37.1%	33.6%
FT%	80.6%	66.7%
Rebounds	4.70	2.9
Assists	2.6	1.9
Steals	2.1	1.6
Blocks	0.5	0.2
Turnovers	1.7	1.2
Fouls	2.5	2.4

	Deng Adel	Luke Kennard
	6-7, 200, Soph	6-6, 202, Soph
Minutes	29.6	35.6
Points	11.6	20.1
FG %	40.4%	50.40%
3P %	33.0%	45.00%
FT%	75.6%	84.70%
Rebounds	4.5	5.30
Assists	2.2	2.50
Steals	0.6	0.80
Blocks	0.4	0.30
Turnovers	1.4	1.60
Fouls	1.8	2.20

	Ray Spalding	Jayson Tatum
	6-10, 215, Soph	6-8, 205, Fr.
Minutes	19.0	32.3
Points	5.8	16
FG %	57.30%	43.30%
3P %	0.00%	35.80%
FT%	53.60%	87.00%
Rebounds	5.7	7.3
Assists	0.8	2.2
Steals	0.6	1.3
Blocks	0.9	1.2
Turnovers	1.3	2.6
Fouls	2.7	2.7

	Mangok Mathiang	Amile Jefferson
	6-10, 230, Jr	6-9, 224, Sr.
Minutes	20.5	29.5
Points	7.3	11.20
FG %	50.60%	61.90%
3P %	0%	0.0%
FT%	66.20%	61.00%
Rebounds	6.2	8.5
Assists	0.7	1.7
Steals	0.5	0.7
Blocks	1.1	1.7
Turnovers	1.2	1.5
Fouls	2.5	2.4

Bench

	Ryan McMahon
	6-0, 170, Fr.
Minutes	6.5
Points	2.6
FG %	33.3%
3P %	36.5%
FT%	85.7%
Rebounds	0.5
Assists	0.6
Steals	0.2
Blocks	0.1
Turnovers	0.4
Fouls	1.1

	Tony Hicks
	6-1, 180, Sr.
Minutes	10.5
Points	4.0
FG %	40.0%
3P %	26.3%
FT%	60.9%
Rebounds	1.2
Assists	0.9
Steals	0.4
Blocks	0.1
Turnovers	1.0
Fouls	0.7

	David Levitch
	6-3, 180, Sr.
Minutes	9.9
Points	2.0
FG %	37.70%
3P %	39.40%
FT%	46.20%
Rebounds	1.20
Assists	1.0
Steals	0.3
Blocks	0.0
Turnovers	0.2
Fouls	1.0

	VJ King	Grayson Allen
	6-6, 190, Fr.	6-5, 202, Jr.
Minutes	14.1	30.5
Points	5.9	14.5
FG %	42.90%	38.80%
3P %	43.20%	34.80%
FT%	82.10%	80.60%
Rebounds	2.1	4.00%
Assists	0.5	3.6
Steals	0.2	0.9
Blocks	0.1	0.1
Turnovers	0.7	2.2
Fouls	0.8	2.4

	Jaylen Johnson	Harry Giles
	6-9, 230, Jr.	6-10, 240, Fr.
Minutes	20.7	12.00
Points	8.2	4.3
FG %	59.40%	56.7%
3P %	57.1%	0.0%
FT%	63.20%	45.5%
Rebounds	5.9	4.1%
Assists	0.5	0.3
Steals	0.5	0.3
Blocks	0.5	0.5
Turnovers	1.3	0.8
Fouls	2.5	2.2

	Anas Mahmoud	Marques Bolden
	7-0, 215, Jr.	6-11, 245, Fr.
Minutes	18.9	7.1
Points	5.8	1.8
FG %	61.90%	45.7%
3P %	0%	0.0%
FT%	50.00%	62.5%
Rebounds	3.9	1.2
Assists	0.8	0.1
Steals	1.0	0.1
Blocks	2.1	0.3
Turnovers	1.1	0.5
Fouls	2.8	1.4