Kentucky-UConn Postgame Notes

Nov. 25, 2010

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Kentucky drops to 4-1 on the season. UConn improves to 5-0.
UK is now 1-2 all-time against UConn.
The Wildcats are now 165-72 against schools comprising the Big East.
UK is 10-5 in the Maui Invitational. It marks the first time the Wildcats have been runners-up and their best finish since winning the 1993 Maui Invitational championship.
Kentucky will be in action again Tuesday, Nov. 30, hosting Boston University. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET with the game being televised on FSS.

The Wildcats used the starting combination of Darius Miller, Terrence Jones, Brandon Knight, DeAndre Liggins and Josh Harrellson for the fifth straight game. Kentucky is 4-1 with that starting five.
Doron Lamb was the first sub off the bench for Kentucky. It was Lamb’s fourth time this season to be the first Wildcat off the bench.
Kentucky extended its streak of game with a three-pointer to 754 games, the third longest streak in the country.
Terrence Jones scored UK’s first 10 points.
Leading 29-27 UConn closed out the first half on a 21-2 run to carry a 50-29 lead into halftime. It was UK’s largest halftime deficit this season.
UConn shot 57.7 pct. from the field, marking the first time in the John Calipari era at Kentucky that a team has shot 50 pct. or better from the field.
Terrence Jones recorded Kentucky’s first four-point play of the season.
Prior to tonight’s game, Brandon Knight was the only Wildcat to record an old-fashioned three-point play. Terrence Jones and DeAndre Liggins both converted one in the first half.
The Wildcats tied their season-high free-throw percentage, shooting 75 pct. (15-of-20) from the stripe.
UK suffered its worst loss since an 18-point defeat at South Carolina on Feb. 25, 2009.
Terrence Jones was named to the all-tournament team.

Scored 10 first-half points, his second double-digit effort in the first half this season.
Hit a personal best four 3-pointers.
Finished 8-of-9 from the free-throw line, his best performance from the charity stripe this season. — Averaged 23 points, 11.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks in the Maui Invitational.
Named to the Maui Invitational All-Tournament team.