Kentucky-Baylor Postgame Notes

March 25, 2012

Kentucky improves to 36-2, while Baylor ends its season at 30-8.
The Wildcats are 7-0 all-time against Baylor and 2-0 against the Bears in the NCAA Tournament.
UK is now 109-46 in NCAA Tournament games.
The Wildcats are 15-18 in NCAA Tournament regional final games.
Kentucky is 68-29 all-time in Atlanta and 5-2 in NCAA Tournament games played in Atlanta.
The Wildcats have advanced to the Final Four in back-to-back seasons for the first time since going three straight times in 1997, ’97 and ’98.
Head coach John Calipari is now 36-13 in the NCAA Tournament and has been to four Final Fours.
The Wildcats will face Louisville on Saturday in New Orleans in the Final Four.

The Wildcats used the starting combination of Terrence Jones, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Doron Lamb, Anthony Davis and Marquis Teague for the 27th time this season. UK is 26-1 with that starting five.
Darius Miller was the first sub off the bench for UK. It was his 25th time as the Wildcat sixth man.
Kentucky extended its streak of games with a 3-pointer to 825 games, the third-longest streak in the country.
With nine blocked shots, the Wildcats pushed their NCAA record number of blocks to 326.
Trailing 10-5, Kentucky went on a 16-0 run over a 3:40 span to take a 21-10 lead.
Kentucky led 42-22 at the half. The Wildcats are 30-0 when leading at halftime.
UK held Baylor to 22 first-half points, the fewest by an opponent since holding Georgia to 19 on March 1.
It was also the fewest first half points by a UK opponent since allowing 16 to Cornell in the 2010 Sweet 16.
Kentucky has scored 80+ points in each game in the NCAA Tournament. The last school to do that in four straight games was Kentucky in the 1998 tournament. (Elias)
Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Doron Lamb were selected to the NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was selected NCAA South Regional Most Outstanding Player, it marks the second straight season UK has had a player named MOP (Brandon Knight, 2011).

Finished with eight points pushing his career total to 1,230 points, placing him 37th on the UK all-time scoring list.
Ranks 10th on UK’s all-time 3-point field goals list with 173.
Averaging 13 points and 3.3 rebounds in NCAA Tournament.

With 12 points, Jones moves to 54th on UK’s all-time scoring list with 1,049 career points.
Dished a career-high six assists
Finished with 12 points, nine rebounds and six assists.

Tallied 17 first-half points, the eighth time this season he’s gone for double-digits in the first half.
Finished with 19 points and five rebounds.
Fouled out for the fifth time this season.
Selected to NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team
Most Outstanding Player of NCAA South Regional

Tallied 14 first-half points, the 10th time this season he’s gone for double-digits in the first half.
With six blocks, moved to sole possession of third on the NCAA all-time freshman block list with 175.
Broke the SEC single-season blocks list.
Averaging 14.5 points, 11 rebounds and 4.5 blocks in NCAA Tournament.
Selected to NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team

Finished with three assists to four turnovers. In last 20 games, has 107 assists to 48 turnovers, a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Averaging 14.5 points and 5.3 assists in NCAA Tournament.

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