Kentucky-LSU Postgame Notes

#11/12 KENTUCKY 80, #5/5 LSU 78 – FINAL

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 14-1 (1-0, SEC), and LSU is 14-1 (0-1, SEC).
  • Kentucky tied six other seasons as the best start through 15 games in program history, also starting out 14-1 in 2024-25, 2018-19, 2012-13, 1982-83, 1980-81 and 1979-80.

• UK is one of two teams in the country with a top-five win this season (also Texas).
• The Wildcats’ last ranked win was against No. 11 Lady Volunteers last season on Feb. 27, 2025, at home (82-58).
  • The Cats’ last top-five or even top-10 win was against the No. 1 Gamecocks to win the 2022 SEC Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee (64-62).
• UK is 6-0 in true road games in 2025-26.
  • UK is 12-4 in true road games under head coach Kenny Brooks.

• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 37-9 record in Blue and White.
• He is 554-213 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky trails the all-time meetings with LSU, 39-18.
  • Kentucky is 5-24 against a ranked LSU team in program history.
  • This is Kentucky’s first win in Baton Rouge since Jan. 17, 2019.

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the 13th time this season.
  • UK is 12-1 when using that starting combination.
  • UK lost the opening tip for the fifth time this season.
  • Tonie Morgan 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 13th time this season.
• Tonight marked UK’s highest ranked true road win in program history (No. 5 LSU).
• Kentucky scored its most points scored in a true road game against a top-five opponent (80 points) since Dec. 18, 2011 at No. 3 Notre Dame (83).
• Four players scored at least 15 points, which marked the first time since at least 2002-03 that UK had four players with at least 15 points each in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent.
• The Wildcats had a 17-5 deficit in the first four minutes of the game, then used a 13-0 run to take an 18-17 lead just under the two-minute mark of the first quarter.
  • That 13-0 run used five different scorers.
• UK and LSU were tied, 41-41, at halftime.
  • It marked just the second time this season that Kentucky didn’t have a lead at halftime (also Maryland).
• The Wildcats overcame a five-point deficit going into the fourth quarter, outscoring the Tigers by 20-13 in the final period.
  • The Cats enjoyed 43.5 percent shooting in the final period, while holding the Tigers to a game-low 2
• Despite LSU being first in the nation in field-goal percentage (54.8), UK continued its stretch under head coach Kenny Brooks of holding all 46 opponents to under 50.0 percent shooting (49.2).
• The Wildcats outrebounded the Tigers, 45-29.
  • The Cats outscored the Tigers in second-chance points, 18-4.
• UK had just 10 turnovers.
• Kentucky led LSU in bench points, 18-7.

Player Notes

• Tonie Morgan, senior guard, who had the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer, had 24 points and 12 assists – and no turnovers – for her third double-double of the season.
  • She already had seven assists in the first half.
• She is the only DI women’s player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 24 points and 12 assists and 0 turnovers against an opponent ranked in the AP Top 5.
• She is just the second DI women’s player since 2002-03 to have at least 24 points and 12 assists in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent (also Iowa’s Caitlin Clark at No. 2 Ohio State on Jan. 23, 2023).
• She is the first UK player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 24 points and 12 assists in a single game.
• It marked her third 20+ point game of the season.
  • It marked her first 20-10 double-double of the season.
• She went 7-of-10 from the field and 3-of-3 from the arc.
• She added one steal.

• Teonni Key, senior forward, had 17 points and 16 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.
  • She is the first SEC player to have at least 17 points and 16 rebounds in a true road game against an SEC team in the top five of the AP since LSU’s Sylvia Fowles at No. 2 Tennessee on March 3, 2007.
  • She is the first UK player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 17 points and 16 rebounds in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent.
  • She already had nine points and 10 rebounds in the first half.
  • She added one steal.
• Asia Boone, junior guard, had 18 points ,
  • She had five 3s, including going 3-of-5 in the first half.
    • She has had at least three 3s nine games this season.
  • She is the first UK player since at least 2002-03 to make at least five 3s in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent.
  • She added four rebounds, three assists and one steal.
• Clara Strack, junior center, had 15 points .
  • She added nine rebounds, one assist and one steal.
• Jordan Obi, graduate guard, had six points, 10 rebounds and two assists.