Kentucky-Kansas Postgame Notes

April 3, 2012

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Kentucky move 38-2, while Kansas drops to 32-7.
The Wildcats are 21-6 all-time against Kansas and 2-1 against the Jayhawks in the NCAA Tournament.
UK is now 111-46 in NCAA Tournament games.
Kentucky’s 111 tournament wins is the most in the country.
The Wildcats are 19-7 in Final Four games and 8-3 in national championship games.
Kentucky is 37-13 all-time in New Orleans and 7-2 in NCAA Tournament games played in New Orleans.
Head coach John Calipari is 38-13 in the NCAA Tournament.
Kentucky joins the Kentucky ’96 and Indiana ’76 team as the only teams to go unbeaten in conference and win the National Championship.
Kentucky was the selection committee’s top overall seed, marking only the third time since 2004 — when the committee began ranking the four No. 1 seeds — that the top overall seed reached the title game. In 2005, Illinois lost in the final and the 2007 Florida Gators won the national championship.

The Wildcats used the starting combination of Terrence Jones, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Doron Lamb, Anthony Davis and Marquis Teague for the 29th time this season. UK is 27-1 with that starting five.
Darius Miller was the first sub off the bench for UK. It was his 27th time as the Wildcat sixth man.
Kentucky extended its streak of games with a 3-pointer to 827 games, the third-longest streak in the country.
With 11 blocked shots, the Wildcats pushed their NCAA record number of blocks to 344.
Kentucky led at the half 41-27. The Wildcats are 32-0 when leading at halftime.
UK is 5-0 when leading at the half of a national championship game.
Kentucky blocked an NCAA Championship game record 11 shots, breaking the record previously set by UConn in ’11 and Florida in ’06.
Anthony Davis and Marquis Teague tied UK’s single-season record for games started with 40.
Darius Miller broke the school record for career games played with 152, breaking Wayne Turner’s record of 151.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was named the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player, while he, Anthony Davis and Doron Lamb were all named to the Final Four All-Tournament team.

Finished with five points ending his career with 1,248 points, placing him 34th on the UK all-time scoring list.
Ranks 10th on UK’s all-time 3-point field goals list with 175.
Averaged 11.7 points in NCAA Tournament.
Broke the school record for career games played with 152, breaking Wayne Turner’s record of 151.

With nine points, Jones moved in to a tie at 51st on UK’s all-time scoring list with 1,064 career points.
Averaged 11.5 points and 8.2 rebounds in NCAA Tournament.

With 22 points, became the 60th member of the 1,000-point club and the third one this season. Ranks 55th with 1,018 points.
Averaged 16.5 points and shot .556 percent (10-18) from 3-point range in NCAA Tournament.
Named to the Final Four All-Tournament Team

With six blocks, moved to first on the NCAA all-time freshman block list with 186. Previous freshman record 182 (Hassan Whiteside, Marshall; 2010).
Tied NCAA Championship game record for blocks with six, tying Joakim Noah’s six in 2006 championship.
Named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
Averaged 13.7 points, 12.3 rebounds and 4.8 blocks in NCAA Tournament
Tied UK’s single-season record for games started with 40.

Finished with three assists to two turnovers. In final 22 games of the season, had 115 assists to 53 turnovers, a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Averaged 13.3 points and 4.8 assists in NCAA Tournament.
Tied UK’s single-season record for games started with 40.

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