Men’s Basketball Postgame Notes
Kentucky at Tennessee, Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Jan. 24, 2017
Attendance: 19,349
Tennessee 82, No. 4/4 Kentucky 80
Team Records and Series Notes
• Kentucky is 17-3 overall, 7-1 in the Southeastern Conference. Tennessee is 11-9, 4-4 in the SEC
• Kentucky leads the series 152-69, including 54-50 in Knoxville
o Kentucky is 12-4 against Tennessee under John Calipari
• UK has lost two in a row, and three of the last four in Knoxville
• Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats welcome No. 2/1 Kansas to Rupp Arena on Saturday with tipoff scheduled for 6:15 p.m. ET on ESPN. College GameDay will be on site, and broadcast from Rupp Arena that morning
In the First Half
• Kentucky started the lineup of Isaiah Briscoe, De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk, Wenyen Gabriel and Bam Adebayo for the 14th time this season. UK is 11-3 with this lineup
• Fox extended Kentucky’s streak of made 3-pointers to 995 consecutive games at the 12:12 mark of the opening half
• Kentucky scored 34 first-half points – tying its season low (vs. Michigan State – Nov. 15, 2016)
• UK also shot a first-half season-low 34 percent on 11 of 32 from the field.
• UK faced its largest halftime deficit of the season, and trailed after 20 minutes for the second time this season (vs. UCLA)
In the Second Half
• UK’s deficit reached double-digits at 50-40. It was the second largest deficit UK faced this season (largest was 14 vs. UCLA)
o Tennessee’s largest lead was 11, at the 12:49 mark
• Kentucky closed to the deficit to two points, 68-66, at the 3:24 mark – the under-four media timeout
• Tennessee scored five straight to take a 73-66 lead and force a UK timeout with 2:43 to play
• UK got as close as within three points multiple times down the stretch, but no closer
Team Notes
• Kentucky shot 42 percent from the field (25 of 60), its worst output in a SEC game this year
o UK had shot better than 50 percent in all seven SEC games prior, and 14 times overall
o It had been the longest streak for the Wildcats since the 1983-84 Wildcats had eight straight games of 50 percent or better
• Tennessee’s 82 points were the third most by a UK opponent this year
o UK’s 80 points were its third fewest in a game this year
• Tennessee’s 10 3-point field-goal attempts were the fewest by a UK opponent this year
• Tennessee’s 18 assists tied North Carolina and UCLA for the most by a UK opponent this year
• Calipari has a 679-190 (.781) on-court record, including a 234-50 (.824) mark at UK
Player Notes
• Freshman Malik Monk paced the Wildcats with 25 points
• This was his 12th 20-point game of the season
• He continued his streak of double-figure scoring in every game this season
• He made 8 of 10 free throws – both numbers were career highs
• Freshman Bam Adebayo notched 21 points, 15 of them in the second half
• He scored in double figures for the 17th time in 20 games
• Adebayo has made 21 of 25 field goal attempts over the last five games
• He scored more than 20 points for the second time this season
• Freshman De’Aaron Fox scored 17 points and had four assists
• He made a career-high two 3-pointers
• He tallied his first block since Dec. 7, 2016 vs. Valpo
• Sophomore Isaiah Briscoe grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds
• He scored 11 points, and had five assists
• Freshman Wenyen Gabriel grabbed nine rebounds
• Senior Derek Willis grabbed seven rebounds
• Senior Mychal Mulder missed a second-straight game because of illness
