Big Blue Preview: No. 12/12 Kentucky Women’s Basketball Goes on the Road at Georgia
ATHENS, Ga. – The No. 12/12 University of Kentucky women’s basketball program will go back on the road for another back-to-back road game stretch in the Southeastern Conference beginning with a contest at Georgia on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. ET in Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia.
Big Blue Nation interested in attending the game at Georgia can purchase tickets here.
Darren Headrick will have the radio call for UK Sports Network, his eighth straight season as the voice of the Wildcats. His call will be carried on 630 AM WLAP (Lexington) and 790 AM WKRD (Louisville).
Big Blue Nation also can watch the game on SEC Network+, with Matt Stewart and Anne Marie Armstrong on the call.
The Wildcats are 15-1 overall and 4-0 in the league, marking their fourth-best start to a season through 16 games in program history and their best start to league action since 2012-13. That season, the Cats won their first six straight league games.
The Wildcats aren’t just winning games, though, they’re winning them by a large margin. The Cats have won each of their first four SEC games of the season by at least 16 points for the first time in program history. The Cats also have scored at least 71 points in each of their first four SEC games of a season for the first time since 1979-80.
Kentucky, who ranks 22nd in the nation in scoring margin (22.7), has won 14 of its 15 victories by at least 10 points. In fact, it has won 12 of its 15 victories by at least 16 points, including the last six straight.
In SEC action alone, UK has held at least an 11-point lead over its opponents at halftime and at least a 21-point lead over its opponents at some point in the game.
The Wildcats are scoring by committee, with all five of their starters averaging double digits, including Georgia Amoore (18.1), Clara Strack (15.3), Dazia Lawrence (14.5), Teonni Key (11.9) and Amelia Hassett (10.9). In Kentucky’s last game against Auburn on Jan. 12, Amoore and Lawrence scored 21 points each, marking the seventh time this season any two Cats have scored 20-plus points in the same game.
Kentucky is ranked in the nation’s top 25 in an impressive 12 categories, ranking in the nation’s top 10 in blocks per game (1st, 7.4), assist-turnover ratio (6th, 1.55) and assists per game (6th, 19.6). Strack and Key are first and second, respectively, in the SEC in blocks this season, 41 and 37, while Amoore is third in the nation in assists per game with 7.4.
Lawrence, UK’s 3-point field goal leader, also is leading the conference in percentage beyond the arc at 45.7 percent (43-of-94). Kentucky remains the lone team in NCAA Division I that has three players with at least 37 3-pointers, including Amoore (39) and Hassett (37).
This is the 65th all-time meeting between the two teams. The Wildcats will face the Lady Bulldogs twice this season, while each program’s home-and-home opponent will rotate annually. Kentucky trails the all-time meetings with Georgia, 41-23, in a series that began in 1980. Kentucky also trails Georgia in Athens, 19-8.
The Wildcats won the last meeting between the two teams, 64-50, in the 2024 SEC Tournament First Round in Greenville, South Carolina, on March 6. The Cats haven’t won in Athens since a 62-58 triumph on Feb. 25, 2021.
For more information on the Kentucky women’s basketball team, visit UKathletics.com or follow @KentuckyWBB on X, Instagram, and Facebook.
