Jan. 24, 2015

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KENTUCKY POSTGAME NOTES

No. 1/1 Kentucky at South Carolina
Colonial Life Arena –­­ Jan. 24, 2015

Attendance: 18,000

FINAL SCORE: No. 1/1 Kentucky 58, South Carolina 43

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky is 19-0, 6-0 in the Southeastern Conference. South Carolina is 10-8, 1-5 in the SEC.
• UK leads the all-time series with South Carolina, 48-11, including a 19-7 mark in games played in Columbia.
• Kentucky coach John Calipari has a 10-2 all-time record vs. South Carolina.
• Calipari has a 616-177 overall record and a 171-37 mark at Kentucky.
• UK has a 193-27 all-time record as the nation’s No. 1 team, winning 37 of the last 39 games as the AP’s top-ranked team.
  • Calipari has an 81-9 all-time record as the No. 1 team in the nation, including a 40-4 mark at Kentucky.
• Kentucky will return to action on Thursday, traveling to Missouri for a 12 p.m. ET tip-off, with the game televised live on ESPN. The game will also be broadcast live on the UK Radio Network, with Tom Leach and Mike Pratt voicing the action.

Team Notes

• With a 19-0 start, UK has tied the 2009-10 team for the third-best start in UK history.
  • UK’s 19-0 start ties the best under coach
    John Calipari
    .
• With 2,159 wins, Kentucky is the all-time wins leader in college basketball.
  • UK has a league-best 929-262 all-time mark in SEC play.
• After Devin Booker’s 3-pointer to give UK a 9-8 lead early in the first half, Kentucky extended its streak of games with a 3-pointer to 919 consecutive, the second-longest streak in the nation.
• UK improved to 14-0 when holding a halftime lead.
• The nation’s leader in blocks and blocks per game, Kentucky swatted nine shots and have had at least three blocked shots in each game this season.
• Kentucky is now 52-0 under Calipari when holding its opponent under 55 points, including 14 wins in 2014-15.
• Kentucky held South Carolina to 23-percent shooting from the field and have held 10 opponents under 30 percent shooting on the year.
• UK had more blocks and steals (17) than South Carolina had field goals (12).
  • It marked the eighth time in 2014-15 UK has had more blocks and steals than the opponent had field goals and the first time since a win over UCLA.
• South Carolina had just five assists, marking the 15th time this season UK has held its opponent to under 10 assists.
• Kentucky has held its opponent to under 55 points in 14 of 19 games, the most in school history in the shot-clock era (since 1985-86).
• UK held South Carolina to just four field goals in the second half.
• The Wildcats held the Gamecocks without a field goal from the 4:31 mark in the first half to the 15:12 mark in the second half.
• UK also held South Carolina to a 6:16 field-goal drought that ended with a SC 3-pointer with 6:07 left in the game.

Individual Notes

• Freshman guard
  Devin Booker
  charted a game-high 18 points, his fifth game with at least 18 points.
  • Booker is 22 for 33 over his last nine games from 3-point range.
  • Booker has led UK in scoring a team-best seven times.
• Sophomore guard
  Aaron Harrison
  totaled 13 points, adding four rebounds and a season-high tying three steals.
  • Aaron Harrison has made 24 3-pointers over his last nine games and has had a 3-pointer in 11 consecutive games.
• Junior forward Wille Cauley-Stein played in his team-leading 85th career game.
  • A member of the Midseason Wooden Award watch list, Cauley-Stein had two steals to become the first player in Kentucky history with 200 or more blocks and 100 or more steals.
• Freshman guard
  Tyler Ulis
  had a team-best six assists in just 20 minutes, his most assists since dishing out seven in a win over Ole Miss.
  • Ulis added six points, three rebounds and a steal.
  • Ulis has a 63-17 assist-turnover ratio in his collegiate debut.
• Freshman forward
  Trey Lyles made his seventh start of the year.
  • Lyles had seven points and two rebounds, adding an assist and a steal.
• Sophomore center
  Dakari Johnson
  led UK with six rebounds and has had at least three rebounds in nine consecutive games.
• Sophomore forward
  Marcus Lee
  tied his career high with four blocks, in just 13 minutes.