Kentucky-Purdue Postgame Notes

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
RUPP ARENA AT CENTRAL BANK CENTER | LEXINGTON, KY.
OCTOBER 24, 2025
ATTENDANCE: 19,906

Final Score: No. 9 Kentucky 78, No. 1 Purdue 65

Team Records and Series Notes

UK improved to 155-12 all-time in exhibition games.
UK has won its last 34 exhibition games dating back to a win vs. Pikeville on Nov. 2, 2014.
- The last loss was Aug. 17, 2014, vs. the Dominican Republic in the final game of the 2014 Big Blue Bahamas exhibition tour.
Tonight’s game does not count in the series record. Kentucky leads the series, 6-2, including 2-1 in games played in Lexington.
The Wildcats play their second exhibition Thursday, Oct. 30 vs. Georgetown University. Game time is 7 p.m. and it will be televised on SEC Network+.

Team Notes

Kentucky shot 49.2 percent from the field while limiting Purdue to 38.6 percent.
The Wildcats won second chance points 14-4, fast break points 15-5 and bench points 34-18.

Player Notes

Ten Wildcats played at least 15:41 tonight. All 10 players scored, had at least one rebound and one assist.
Three Wildcats scored in double figures. Jasper Johnson led the way with 15 points while Trent Noah and Otega Oweh tallied 10 each.
Mouhamed Dioubate led all rebounders with nine boards.

Coach Mark Pope

UK is 3-0 in exhibition play under Mark Pope.
Pope will enter his 11^th season as a head coach with a 211-120 all-time record, including 24-12 entering his second season at Kentucky.

In the First Half

Kentucky started Otega Oweh, Denzel Aberdeen, Trent Noah, Mo Dioubate and Brandon Garrison.
Collin Chandler was UK’s first substitution at the 15:40 mark.
Tied at 8, a Dioubate layup put UK ahead and the Wildcats led the remainder of the half.
Leading 24-21, a 7-0 spurt gave UK its largest lead of the half at 31-21.
UK went to halftime with a 38-30 advantage, as Oweh and Jasper Johnson paced the Wildcats in scoring with eight apiece.

In the Second Half

Kentucky began the second half with the starters.
Purdue came within three points at 44-41, but a UK seven-point surge restored a double-digit lead.
With Kentucky leading 58-50, Purdue missed nine consecutive field goal attempts and the Wildcats stretched the lead to 66-52.
Kentucky eventually led by 17 points at 74-57.

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