Kentucky-Missouri Postgame Notes

#11/12 KENTUCKY 74, MISSOURI 52 – FINAL

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 15-1 (2-0, SEC), and Missouri is 12-5 (0-2, SEC).
  • Kentucky tied five other seasons as the best start through 16 games in program history, also starting out 15-1 in 2024-25, 2012-13, 1982-83, 1980-81 and 1979-80.

• UK is 8-0 at home this season.
  • UK is 23-3 at home under head coach Kenny Brooks.

• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 38-9 record in Blue and White.
• He is 555-213 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky leads the all-time series with Missouri, 14-5.
  • UK leads UM, 9-0 at home.
• Today marked UK’s second largest margin of victory over UM at home (22 points).

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the 14th time this season.
  • UK is 13-1 when using that starting combination.
  • UK lost the opening tip for the sixth time this season.
  • Clara Strack was the first player to score for Kentucky for the eighth time this season.
• Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the 14th time this season.
• UK has scored at least 72 points in at least 14 of its 16 games this season for the first time since 2011-12.
• UK has allowed 59 points or less in at least 12 of its 16 games of a season for the first time since 2009-10.
• The Wildcats have opened up both SEC first quarters this season shooting at least 50.0 percent (at LSU, vs. Missouri).
• Kentucky went on a12-0 run to start to the fourth quarter, holding Missouri scoreless from the field until the fifth minute of the period, for its biggest lead of the game at the time (27).
• UK had 11 3s.
  • UK has made 10-or-more 3s in eight games this season.
  • UK is 17-1 when it makes 10-or-more 3s under head coach Kenny Brooks.
• Meanwhile, UK held UM to five 3s, a team that is fourth in the league on 8.9 3PG.
• The Wildcats held the Tigers to 29.7 percent defense.
  • It is the Cats’ best FG% defense against an SEC opponent (29.7%) since Feb. 27, 2022, vs. Auburn.
• The Wildcats held the Tigers to 17.9 percent defense.
  • It is the Cats’ best 3FG% defense (min. 25 att.) (17.9%) since Jan. 4, 2024, vs. Arkansas (14.8%).
• UK, who is leading the nation in blocks, had seven tonight.

Player Notes

• Clara Strack, junior center, recorded her eighth double-double of the season on 19 points and 10 rebounds.
  • She made a career-high-tying three 3s.
    • She has made at least one 3 in nine of 16 games this season.
    • She is the third DI player that is 6-5 or taller since the start of last season to have at least two games with at least three 3s.
  • She added three blocks and two steals.
  • She is the first UK player to have two games in a single season with at least 19 points, 10 rebounds, three blocks and two steals since Victoria Dunlap in 2010-11.
• Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had her second straight double-double and the fourth of the season on 18 points and 14 assists.
  • She already had five assists in the first quarter.
• She is just the second player in program history to have at least 18 points and 14 assists in a single game (also Sandy Harding vs. Dayton on Jan. 15, 1986).
• She is the first player in program history to have at least 19 points and 12 assists in consecutive games.
• She has had 10+ assists in six games and the last three straight.
  • She was leading the nation in assists and second in assists per game going into the game.
  • She is the only UK player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 10 assists in three straight games.
• She eclipsed 600 career assists (third in the nation among active players).
• Her eight points were on 7-of-11 from the field and 2-of-3 from long range.
• She added two rebounds, a steal and a block.

• Asia Boone, junior guard, made three 3s for nine points.
  • She has had at least three 3s 10 of 16 games this season.
• Jordan Obi, graduate guard, had 10 points on 5-of-8.