Kentucky Ends Road Stretch Sunday at No. 12/11 LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. – The University of Kentucky women’s basketball team will end a difficult stretch of four games in eight days Sunday as it travels to play No. 12/11 LSU at 2 p.m. ET inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
 
Sunday’s game will be televised on SEC Network with Eric Frede and Christy Thomaskutty on the call. Darren Headrick will have the call on the UK Sports Network (630 AM in Lexington). Live stats and free live audio will be available online at UKathletics.com.
 
Kentucky (9-8, 2-5 Southeastern Conference) – which is in the midst of playing four games in eight days – is also in a stretch of being as shorthanded as any team in the nation due to injuries and a disciplinary matter. UK has played each of its last four games missing at least two starters and it missed three in its last game at Vanderbilt. UK had just six players available vs. the Commodores, falling in Nashville 65-57. Four of UK’s eighth losses have come with UK not full strength, missing at least one starter in each of those games and multiple starters in three games. The other four losses were road games at top-six ranked teams.
 
Senior guard Rhyne Howard scored her 2,000th point in UK’s last game at Vanderbilt, becoming the third-fastest Wildcat – men or women – to reach that threshold. She joins elite company with Dan Issel and Valerie Still as the only UK players to score 2,000 career points in 100 games or less. Howard’s career point total ranked third all-time in UK WBB history, needing 16 more points to tie A’dia Mathies for second.
 
Sunday is the 52nd all-time meeting between Kentucky and LSU in women’s basketball with the Tigers holding a 34-17 all-time lead in the series. LSU leads in games played in Baton Rouge, 15-5. The Tigers won the last meeting in the PMAC, 65-59 on Jan. 19, 2020. That meeting was the last in the series. The two teams did not meet last year after the game was postponed due to COVID protocol and never rescheduled. It was the first time the two teams have not met since 1983. UK has won five of the last seven meetings and two of the last three.
 
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