• Kentucky has won eight in a row and is 26-5 overall.

• UK finished the regular season 16-2 in the Southeastern Conference and claimed its 48th regular-season league championship as well as the No. 1 seed in the SEC Tournament. It is UK’s fifth crown in eight seasons under John Calipari.

o The conference championship is Calipari’s 15th regular-season league title as a head coach. He won five at UMass, five at Memphis and now five at Kentucky. He is the only coach in NCAA Division I men’s basketball history to have won at least five regular-season titles at three different schools.

• Texas A&M’s two-game winning streak ended and the Aggies closed the regular season 16-14 overall, 8-10 in the SEC.

Kentucky leads the series 8-3. UK has won three in a row dating to last season’s SEC Tournament Championship game.

o This was the first time in four games in College Station, Texas, that the game didn’t go to overtime.

• Next for the Wildcats: UK will open up the SEC Tournament on Friday in Nashville, Tennessee’s Bridgestone Arena. As the No. 1 seed UK will play at 1 p.m. ET.

• Kentucky’s starting lineup featured De’Aaron Fox, Bam Adebayo, Malik Monk, Isaiah Briscoe and Derek Willis.

o Kentucky improved to 5-0 with this lineup.

o After coming off the bench the previous seven games, Willis has started two in a row.

o Adebayo is the only Wildcat to have started all 31 games of the regular season this year.

• Texas A&M scored the first six points and held UK scoreless through the first 4:54 of the game.

• Texas A&M stretched its lead to double digits at the 13:32 mark when Tyler Davis completed a traditional three-point play to make it 14-2.

• After entering the game at the 16:56 mark, Dominique Hawkins scored five of Kentucky’s first seven points.

• Hawkins’ made 3-pointer at the 11:15 mark extended UK’s streak of 1,005 consecutive games with a triple.  

• Kentucky trailed by as much as 15, at 19-4 with 12:09 to play.

o It was the third straight game the Wildcats have fallen behind by double digits.

• Kentucky outscored the hosts 28-9 over the final 12 minutes of the first half.

• Willis gave UK its first lead, 24-23, with a made 3 at the 3:09 mark.

o Including Willis’ 3, UK seniors (Willis, Hawkins and Mychal Mulder) scored nine straight of UK’s points to give the Wildcats a 30-27 lead.

• Briscoe hit a layup with one second remaining to give UK a 32-28 halftime lead.

• De’Aaron Fox scored Kentucky’s first eight points of the second half.

• UK opened up a double-digit lead for the first time at the 14:06 mark, 47-35, via a Willis 3-pointer.

• Having led by as much as 12 at 53-41 as late as the 11:24 mark, Texas A&M cut UK’s lead to four, 55-51, with 6:10 on the clock.

o UK scored five straight points after that to stretch its lead to nine.

o Concluded at the 2:10 mark UK used a 9-2 lead to stretch its lead back to 11, 64-53.

• Kentucky led by as much as 14, with 40 seconds remaining.

• Fighting back to win from a 15-point deficit, Kentucky made its biggest comeback in a road game of the John Calipari era.

• Kentucky came back from a double-digit deficit to win for the third game in a row.

o UK fought back from as much as 12 points vs. Florida last week, down 19 points on Tuesday against Vanderbilt and down 15 Saturday.

• Kentucky’s six turnovers tied its season low (at Vanderbilt on Jan. 10, 2017).

• Kentucky held Texas A&M to 63 points.

o UK is 17-0 this season when limiting the opponent to 72 or fewer points.

• Kentucky shot 44.1 percent from the field. UK is 25-1 this season when shooting at least 42 percent.

• Kentucky and Texas A&M tied in the rebounding battle. UK had won rebounding in the seven previous games. In any event, UK is 8-0 in its last eight games when winning or tying in the rebounding department. 

o UK has outrebounded opponents by 10.9 boards per game during the current eight-game win streak.

• Calipari has a 688-192 (.782) on-court record, including a 243-52 (.824) mark at UK.

• Freshman De’Aaron Fox scored a team-high 19 points.

• He made a career-high tying two 3-pointers on four attempts.

• He scored 15 of his points in the second half, including Kentucky’s first eight after halftime.

• Freshman Malik Monk scored a season-low six points.

• His streak of games in double-figures scoring ended at 30.

• Freshman Bam Adebayo had 13 points on 6-of-7 shooting (with four dunks) from the field.

• He added eight rebounds and three blocks.

• He is averaging 11.2 rebounds over the last five games.

• Sophomore Isaiah Briscoe had seven points and once again stalked the backboards with six rebounds.  He has averaged 7.4 boards rebounds in the last 12 games.

• Briscoe dished eight assists against one turnover.

• He’s dished 15 assists compared with one turnover in the past two games. 

• Senior Derek Willis scored 11 points, reaching double-figure scoring for the 10th time this season.

• He grabbed six rebounds and blocked a season-high tying three shots for the second game in a row and third time overall.

• Senior Dominique Hawkins scored eight points – two off his season-high – all in the first half.

• Shooting 3 of 6 from the field, he tied season high in both makes and attempts. 

• He had three assists and two steals.

• His two steals tied his season high for the sixth time.

• Sophomore Isaac Humphries scored two points.

• The Wildcats improved to 23-0 this season when Humphries scores.