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Maci Morris - Women's Basketball - University of Kentucky Athletics 4

MaciMorris

  • position Guard
  • height 6-0
  • class Senior
  • Hometown Pineville, Ky.
  • High school Bell County HS

Terrific shooter and all-around scorer that was an in-state product and has worked hard to succeed on both sides of the floor … Morris ranks sixth all-time in scoring with 1,692 points while her 252 career 3s made ranks second all time … Connected on 41.1 percent of her 3-point attempts during her career, ranking her at the top of UK’s all-time list in that category … Hit at least one 3 in 107 of 129 career games…. Had 21 games where she scored 20 or more points and hit three or more 3s in 40 games … Hit 48.4 percent from 3 in 2017-18 which was the highest percentage for a player in a single season in program history … Chose Kentucky over Louisville, Marquette and Dayton.

  • SEC Academic Honor Roll (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  • SEC All-Freshman Team by league coaches (2016)
  • All-SEC Second Team by league coaches (2018)
  • Preseason All-SEC First Team by league coaches (2019)
  • Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List (2019)
  • Citizen Naismith Trophy Watch List (2019)
  • Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Top 10 Watch List (2019)
  • Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Finalist (2019)
  • Citizen Naismith Trophy Top 30 Watch List (2019)
  • SEC Community Service Team (2019)
  • SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2019)
  • All-SEC First Team by league coaches (2019)
  • All-SEC Second Team by Associated Press (2019)
  • WBCA All-America Honorable Mention (2019)

2018-19 (Senior)
Played and started in 32 of the Wildcats’ 33 games averaging 15.1 points and 3.1 rebounds per game … Finished first on the team with 75 3s hitting 45.2 percent from long range on the season … Also added 51 assists, 24 blocks and 46 steals … Finished the season ranking fifth nationally and first in the SEC in 3-point field-goal percentage … Scored 10 or more points in 26 games with 15 or more points in 14 games and 20 or more in eight games … Had one 30-point performance going 12-of-20 from the field with four 3s for 31 points against Morehead State … Scored 25 first-half points against Morehead State which is believed to be the most points ever scored in the first half by a player in program history but records the first few years of the program are incomplete … Made three or more 3s in 14 games while she had three or more assists in six games … Led UK in scoring 12 times, rebounding twice, assists three times and in blocks 12 times … Best game vs. Tennessee when she scored 27 points with four 3s, three rebounds and three steals in UK’s win against the Lady Vols … Scored 17 points vs. UCLA in second game of Paradise Jam with three 3s and led UK with seven rebounds… In final game of Paradise Jam vs. UNC, scored 18 points and tied her career-high 3FGM with five 3s on 10 attempts … Charted 29 points vs. Rhode Island on five 3s, 6-of-6 free throws and 9-of-20 shooting, saw five defensive boards and led UK with four assists … Led Kentucky in scoring at Mississippi State with 20 points, charting four rebounds, two steals and led UK with three blocks … Led UK with 20 points and three steals at LSU, adding five rebounds … Dished out a career-high seven assists vs. Florida adding 10 points and a block … Scored 19 points in UK’s first-round NCAA Tournament win over Princeton with three 3s, four rebounds and two steals while she had 18 points with four 3s against NC State in the second round.

2017-18 (Junior) 
Played in 31 of the team’s 32 games missing one due to a knee injury … Led the team with 17.3 points per game … Added 3.6 rebounds per game and finished tied for third with 56 assists … Second on the team with 37 steals … Hit 48.4 percent from the field, 47.5 percent from long range and 84.6 percent from the free-throw line … Her strong 3-point percentage ranked first in the league and second in the nation, while she finished third in the league in 3s per game and fourth in total 3s … Finished top 10 in the league in field goals made, field-goal percentage and points per game … Hit a team-best 75 3-pointers, including five or more in five games … Scored 20+ points in seven straight games vs. SEC foes becoming only the second player in program history to accomplish that feat joining All-American Valerie Still … Was the only player in the league to score 20 or more points in seven straight games against league opponents … Recorded 10 or more points in 27 of her 31 games played, including 15 or more points in 23 games and 20 or more points in 12 games … Made three or more 3s in 14 games with three or more assists in eight games and two or more steals in 11 games … Led UK in scoring 20 times, in rebounding four times, in assists seven times and in blocks six times … Set or tied career highs during the year in points, field-goals made, field-goals attempted, 3-pointers made, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, total rebounds, assists, blocks and steals … Recorded a career-high 35 points at No. 8 South Carolina on Feb. 18, with a career-high 13 made field goals and became just the third player in program history to score 35+ points in an SEC game … Led Kentucky in the SEC Tournament victory over Alabama, scoring 25 points, 18 of which were scored in the second half … Led UK with 21 points vs. No. 2 Mississippi State and followed with 20 points – 14 in the first half – vs. Arkansas … Matched a then-season high with 22 points at No. 15 Missouri, scoring 17 of those points in the second half … Recorded her first career double-double vs. Gardner-Webb with 10 points and a career-high 10 boards … Dished out a career-best six assists against Alabama … Tied a career high with three blocks and three steals against Mississippi State. 

2016-17 (Sophomore)
Put together a great season for Kentucky, starting all 33 games … Finished fourth on the team in scoring with 11.8 points per game, scoring the third-highest total points on the team with 391 … Led the team in 3-pointer field goals made with 53, shooting 32.3 percent from long range … Ended her true sophomore season with 102 career 3-pointers made, becoming only the second UK player to hit 100 or more 3s in their first two seasons on campus … Averaged 32.7 minutes per game last season, which ranked third most on the team … Paced the Wildcats going 74-for-84 from the free-throw line for a team-best 88.1 percent … Averaged 2.8 rebounds per game … Set or tied career highs on the season in points (29), field-goals made (9), field-goals attempted (21), free-throws made (9), free-throws attempted (9), 3-point field-goals made (5), 3-point field-goals attempted (10), offensive rebounds (3), defensive rebounds (9), total rebounds (9), assists (4), steals (2) and minutes (42) … Scored 10 or more points in 22 games with 15 or more points eight times … Led the Wildcats in scoring three times, rebounds twice, assists four times and blocks nine times … Finished third on the team with 20 blocks … Best performance came against Arizona State, where she had a career-best 29 points with three assists, going 9-for-9 from the charity stripe … Had 19 points in Kentucky’s win over Oklahoma, hitting three 3s with eight rebounds … After scoring 18 points at Auburn, including the game-winning basket in the paint and a free-throw with three seconds left to seal the win, she scored in double figures in 12 of her final 14 games … Posted 17 points against Ole Miss with a season-best five 3-pointers hit, while she had 15 points against Belmont in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. 

2015-16 (Freshman)
Great freshman season, being named to the SEC All-Freshman Team by league coaches … Started all 33 games, averaging 8.5 ppg … Second on the team with 49 3-pointers made … Had the fifth-best scoring effort in a varsity debut in UK history against Rice, draining 16 points in the victory and going 3-for-5 from 3-point range … Dropped an SEC career-high-tying 17 points to lead the Cats in the victory over No. 14 Mississippi State …Hit at least one 3-pointer in the first 11 games this season … Missed the first free throw of her career after going 13-of-13 in her first attempts … It was a record for most consecutive free throws to start a career in Mitchell era … Had a career day against Eastern Michigan, pouring in 17 points thanks to five 3-pointers and grabbing a career-best six rebounds while also notching her first career block … Hit her first seven 3-point attempts in the first two games of the NCAA Tournament, going 3-for-3 against UNCA and 4-for-5 versus Oklahoma, marking a UK record for consecutive triples in NCAA Tournament play … Her 49 3-pointers were just one off tying the UK freshman 3-point record, tying Carly Ormerod for the second-most triples made by a freshman in UK history … Sits second in freshman 3-point percentage after connecting on 39.2% of her shots beyond the arc. 

High School
Played varsity basketball at Bell County High School since the seventh grade and has been a starter since the eighth grader … Was ranked as the 10th-best shooting guard and a top-50 prospect nationally by espnW … Was named Miss Kentucky Basketball in a statewide vote of coaches and was on Courier-Journal’s All-State Team last season … A three-time All-State honoree by the CJ and Lexington Herald-Leader … Finished her career with 3,368 career points, ranking sixth in state history … Morris averaged 25.6 points and 7.9 rebounds her senior season to help Bell County finish 29-3 and reach the first round of the Sweet 16 … Averaged 22.1 points and 9.6 rebounds per game as a junior, shooting 55.6 percent from the floor and 35.1 percent from beyond the 3-point line. 

Personal
Place of Birth: Hazard, Ky. … Parent(s): Lewis and Patti Morris … Siblings: One brother (Victor) … Major: Kinesiology … Shooting Hand:  Right

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