Kentucky-Marshall Women's Basketball Postgame Notes

#23/20 KENTUCKY 76, MARSHALL 44 – FINAL

Team Records and Series Notes

The University of Kentucky women’s basketball program is in its 52nd season of varsity status.

UK has a 934-616 all-time record.
Kentucky is 8-4 on the road under head coach Kenny Brooks, including 2-0 in 2025-26.
- Today’s game marked the second of seven games away from home for UK this nonconference season. The last time it played two true road games in the first five games of the season was 2017-18. That team got off to a 5-0 start, including triumphs at Montana and at Washington State.
Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 28-8 record in Blue and White.
He is 545-212 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

Kentucky remains the leader in the all-time series with Marshall, 16-2.
This is the second straight season that UK has won its first five games of the season.
- Kenny Brooks became the first head coach in program history to lead Kentucky to even a 3-0 start in each of their first two seasons at the helm.

Team Notes

Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack.
- UK is 5-0 when using that starting combination.
- UK won the opening tip for the fourth time this season.
- Teonni Key was the first player to score for Kentucky for the first time this season.
Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the fifth straight game.
The Wildcats held the Thundering Herd from scoring on a field goal until 3:21 in the first quarter.
Kentucky has held its last four straight opponents to under 20 points at halftime, including Marshall’s 17.
Kentucky has scored 75+ in each of its first five games of the season for the first time since 2013-14 (first seven).
UK improved to 8-0 when it holds its opponent to under 50 points under head coach Kenny Brooks.
- UK also improved to 15-0 when it holds its opponent to under 60 points under Brooks.
Kentucky has had a different leading scorer in all five games this season, this time with graduate guard Jordan Obi leading the way on 17 points.
The Wildcats have held all five opponents to under 36.0 percent shooting this season.
Kentucky has defeated all five opponents by at least 16 points.
- Kentucky has defeated its last four straight opponents by at least 32 points.
UK had 9 3s, moving to 21-4 when it makes at least six 3s under head coach Kenny Brooks.

Player Notes

Jordan Obi, graduate guard, paced the team with 17 points.
- She added four rebounds, and a block.
- She went 6-of-7 from the free throw.
- She has scored 10+ points in three games this season and 68 games in her career.
Tonie Morgan, senior guard, dished out 11 assists.
- Seven of her assists came in the first half.
Morgan, who entered the game second in the nation and first in the SEC in assists per game, has had at least 11 assists in two straight games and at least nine assists in four straight games.
She added six points, one steal and one block.

Clara Strack, junior center, had 15 points and 13 rebounds.
- It marked her third straight double-double. It also marked her fourth double-double of the season and the 35th of her career.
- She added one assist, one steal and one block.
  - She has recorded at least one assist, one steal and one block in all five games this season.
- Asia Boone, junior guard, had a season-high-tying 14 points.
  - She has made four 3s in three of her last four games.
  - She added four rebounds, two steals and one assist.
- Amelia Hassett, senior forward, had 9 points and a season-high 14 rebounds.
  - She has grabbed 10+ rebounds on 38 games in her career.
  - She drained a trio of 3s.
  - She has had at least two 3s in every game this season.
  - She added a team-high two blocks.
    - She has made at least one block in every game this season.

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