Kentucky-Arkansas Postgame Notes

#18/18 KENTUCKY 93, ARKANSAS 73

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 18-5 (5-4, SEC), and Arkansas is 11-12 (0-8, SEC).

• UK is 7-3 on the road in 2025-26.
  • UK is 13-7 on the road under Brooks.

• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 41-13 record in Blue and White.
• He is 558-217 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky leads the all-time series with Arkansas, 29-16.
  • UK narrowly trails UA in Fayetteville, 11-9.
  • Tonight marked the first points scored against Arkansas in program history (93).

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the 15th time this season.
  • UK is 14-1 when using that starting combination.
  • UK won the opening tip for the 13th time this season.
  • Clara Strack was the first player to score for Kentucky for the 11th time this season.
• Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the 15th time this season.
• Kentucky outscored Arkansas, 18-0, in second chance points.
  • UK outrebounded UA, 51-24.
    • This is the first time that Kentucky has had five players with at least six rebounds each in an SEC game since vs. South Carolina on Feb. 5, 2009.
    • Teonni Key and Clara Strack combined for 25 rebounds. Arkansas had 24 rebounds.
• The Wildcats scored 93 points.
  • This is the third time in the Kenny Brooks era that the Cats scored at least 90 points in an SEC road game, the same amount in the previous 22 seasons combined (2002-03 to 2023-24).
  • They moved to 10-0 this season with at least 80 points and 6-0 this season with at least 90 points.
  • The 59 points scored in the second half today is Kentucky’s most scored in any half of an SEC road game since at least 2002-03.
• The Wildcats had a school-record 92.3% shooting effort in the fourth quarter on 12-of-13.
• UK moved to 6-0 this season when at least two players have a double-double in the same game (Clara Strack, Teonni Key).
• Five players scored in double digits for the sixth time this season and the third time in the SEC.
  • This is the third time in the Kenny Brooks era that Kentucky has had at least four players score at least 14 points each in an SEC road game, the same amount in the previous 22 seasons combined (2002-03 to 2023-24).

Player Notes

• Clara Strack, junior center, had her 11th double-double of the season on a career-high 33 points and 15 rebounds.
  • With her 33 points, she has exactly 1,000 career points through 86 games.
  • It marked her fifth 20+ point game this season but her first 30+ point game this season.
  • She is the first player in program history to have at least 33 points and 15 rebounds against an SEC opponent.
  • She also made a 3-pointer.
    • The 6-5 versatile center has made at least one 3 in 11 of 23 games this season (16 total 3s).
  • She added two steals.
• Teonni Key, senior forward, in her first game back after a six-game hiatus with an arm injury, had her fourth double-double of the season on 15 points and 10 rebounds.
  • She added a team-high three assists, one steal and one block.
• Amelia Hassett, senior forward, had 16 points.
  • She made four 3s on 4-of-9 from the arc but she went 3-of-4 from in the second half.
    • She has made multiple 3s in 19-of-23 games this season.
  • She added seven rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block.
• Asia Boone, junior guard, had 11 points.
  • She went 3-of 8 from the arc.
    • She has made multiple 3s in 17-of-23 games this season.
  • She added two assists and two steals.
• Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had 14 points and eight assists.
  • This is the 14th game this season she has dished out at least eight assists.
  • She joined Georgia Amoore as the only Kentucky players since 2002-03 to have multiple games with at least 14 points and eight assists in SEC true road games (Georgia had three such games in 2024-25).