Kentucky-Texas Postgame Notes

#4/4 TEXAS 64, #16/18 KENTUCKY 53

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 18-7 (5-6, SEC), and Texas is 23-2 (8-2, SEC).
• The Wildcats moved to 3-4 against AP teams this season.

• UK is 7-4 on the road in 2025-26.
  • UK is 13-8 on the road under head coach Kenny Brooks.

• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 41-15 record in Blue and White.
• He is 558-219 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky trails Texas, 4-0, in the all-time series.
  • Tonight marked the first meeting in Austin.

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the 17th time this season.
  • UK is 14-3 when using that starting combination.
  • UK lost the opening tip for the 11th time this season.
  • Teonni Key was the first player to score for Kentucky for the third time this season.
• Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the 17th time this season.
• UK held UT to 23.8 points below its fourth-in-the-nation scoring offense (87.8).
  • This is just the second time in Texas’ last 52
• The Wildcats, who allowed the Longhorns to shoot 61.5 percent in the first half, held the Longhorns to 27.3 percent (6-of-22) in the second half.
  • Kentucky’s defense held Texas to 26.7 percent (4-of-15) from the field in the third quarter.

• That marked UK’s best FG% defense against an SEC opponent in the third quarter this season.

Player Notes

• Asia Boone, junior guard, had a team-lead16 points.
  • She went 5-of-11 from the field and 4-of-6 from the arc.
    • She has made multiple 3s in 19-of-25 games this season.
  • This is the fourth straight game she has had at least three 3s.
  • She moved into solo 10th on the program’s single-season, top-10 list for 3FGM.
  • She is the only Kentucky player since 2002-03 to have multiple games with at least four made 3s in a true road game against an AP Top Five opponent.
• Clara Strack, junior center, had 14 points, seven rebounds, three steals and two assists.
  • She has dished out multiple assists in 16 of 25 games this season.
  • She is the only Kentucky player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 14 points, seven rebounds and three steals in a true road game against an AP Top Five opponent.
• Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had 12 points and four assists.
  • She needs just three more assists to break the single-season school record, which Georgia Amoore set last season through 31 games (213).