Big Blue Preview: No. 16/6 Kentucky Women’s Basketball Plays at No. 4/4 Texas on Monday
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The No. 16/16 University of Kentucky women’s basketball program (18-6, 5-5 Southeastern Conference), who also is 16th in the latest NET rankings, will play at Texas (22-2, 7-2 SEC) at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Monday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
It is the program’s lone Monday game this season.
Fans in the Austin area can purchase tickets to the game here.
Darren Headrick will have the radio call for UK Sports Network on 630 AM WLAP in Lexington and on 790 AM WKRD in Louisville. Headrick will have a 30-minute pregame chat with head coach Kenny Brooks beginning at 7 p.m. ET.
Big Blue Nation also can watch the game on SEC Network, with Roy Philpott and Nell Fortner on the call. Fortner, who retired as the Georgia Tech women’s basketball head coach at the end of last season, was Tonie Morgan’s head coach there for her three seasons prior to Kentucky.
Kentucky is coming off a one-point loss to No. 7/8 Vanderbilt, 83-82, in Historic Memorial Coliseum on Thursday. Despite the loss, Kentucky became the only Division I women’s team since at least 2002-03 to accomplish all these benchmarks in the same game against an Associated Press Top 10 opponent: score at least 83 points; shoot at least 56.0 percent overall from the field; shoot at least 60.0 percent from 2; shoot at least 50.0 percent from 3; make at least 10 3-pointers; have at least 23 assists; and have a rebounding margin of at least +18.
Teonni Key had a monster game, scoring a team-high and career-high 27 points on 11-of-15 from the field. She added 12 rebounds for her second straight double-double since being out for the six games prior to that recovering from a dislocated elbow.
The Wildcats still picked up some wins in the awards column this week.
Morgan was named to the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top 10 Midseason List, while Clara Strack was picked to the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Top 10 Midseason List.
Both upperclassmen are in striking distance of a pair of school records.
Morgan is just six assists from tying the single-season school record for assists, which Georgia Amoore set last season with 213 assists through 31 games. Strack is just nine blocks from tying her own single-season blocks record that she set last season on 73 through 31 games.
Monday night is the fourth all-time meeting between the Wildcats and the Longhorns. Kentucky trails Texas, 3-0, in the all-time series.
The first two meetings were held on a neutral court, while last season’s 67-49 defeat was held in Lexington. It marked Texas’ first year in the SEC.
For more information on the Kentucky women’s basketball team, visit UKathletics.com or follow @KentuckyWBB on X, Instagram, and Facebook.
