Kentucky-James Madison Postgame Notes
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#16/17 KENTUCKY 71, JAMES MADISON 56
Team Records and Series Notes
- Kentucky is 24-10 and James Madison is 26-9.
- UK has 24 wins for the first time since 2018-19 (25).
- This is Kentucky’s 19th appearance in the NCAA Championship, including its second straight.
- UK is 24-18 all-time in the NCAA Championship.
- UK is 15-4 all-time in the First Round.
- Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 47-18 record in Blue and White.
- He is 564-222 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.
- Kentucky leads the all-time series with James Madison, 3-1.
- The series is tied, 1-1, on a neutral site and 1-1 in the NCAA Championship.
Team Notes
- Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Asia Boone, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the ninth game this season.
- This is UK’s third starting lineup this season.
- UK is 6-3 when using that starting combination.
- UK won the opening tip for the 20th time this season.
- Teonni Key was the first player to score for Kentucky for the sixth time this season.
- Jordan Obi and Kaelyn Carroll were the first substitutes off the bench for Kentucky for the ninth and third time, respectively, this season.
- Kentucky scored a first-quarter, season-high 32 points.
- In that quarter, UK led 10-0 in points off turnovers.
- Kentucky had its fifth largest halftime lead of the season (25).
- UK moved to 43-3 when it scores at least 70 points under head coach Kenny Brooks.
- UK has a 30-game winning streak, including a perfect 27-0 record in the Brooks era, when it holds its opponents to 59 points or fewer.
- This is the 24th time this season that Kentucky has held its opponent to 64 points or less, the most in a single season since 2011-12 (also 24).
- This is the 18th time this season that Kentucky has defeated an opponent by at least 15 points, its most in a single season since 2012-13 (19).
- With eight blocks in today’s game, UK broke the single-season school record in blocks in today’s game currently with 226.
- The Cats came into the game with 217 and the previous school record, which was set just last season, was 218.
- Today was UK’s best field-goal percentage defense in an NCAA Tournament game (33.8%) since vs. Oklahoma on March 21, 2016 (27.3%).
- With one of Asia Boone’s 3s, both Boone and Hassett have more than 90 3s.
- UK is now the second SEC school to have two players with at least 90 3s in a single season ever (also Arkansas in 2019-20).
Player Notes
- Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had a team-lead 18 points and a team-lead seven assists.
- It marked a team-lead-tying 11 times she has led the team in scoring.
- It marked a team-high 33 times she has led the team in assists.
- She added seven rebounds and one block.
- She became the first Kentucky player to have at least 18 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in an NCAA Tournament game.
- Amelia Hassett, senior forward, had 14 points.
- She had four 3s to extend her school record with 96 3s.
- She has made multiple 3s in 27-of-34 games this season.
- She added two rebounds, two blocks, one assist and one steal.
- Teonni Key, senior forward, added nine points and 10 rebounds.
- It is the eighth time this season she has had 10+ rebounds.
- She added a team-high three blocks and two steals.
- She has led the team in blocks in six games.
- Clara Strack, junior center, had 10 points and 14 rebounds for her 15th double-double of the season.
- She now has 30 career double-doubles in a UK uniform, becoming the fifth Wildcat to have as many.
- She now needs 10 more points to tie for 10th on the program’s all-time, single-season scoring list.
- Her 14 rebounds tied for the second-most in program history in an NCAA Championship game and most since Evelyn Akhator had 23 vs. Ohio State in 2017.
- She added four assists, two steals and two blocks.
- She improved her single-season school record in blocks to 87.
- Asia Boone, junior guard, had two 3s for six points.
- She has made multiple 3s in 26-of-34 games this season.
