Men’s basketball– Kentucky captured a pair of critical home victories this week including an overtime thriller against Missouri.- Senior Julius Mays poured in a team-high 24 points in the win over Missouri on Saturday. He launched four 3-pointers and has now connected on at least one shot from long range in 16 straight games.- Freshman Willie Cauley-Stein notched a career-high 20 points to push UK past Vanderbilt earlier in the week. He followed that performance witha career-high tying 12 rebounds against Missouri to go along with a career-best seven blocked shots.- Alex Poythress scored 21 points, while Archie Goodwin notched 18 – all coming after the half in the win over Missouri.Women’s basketball– Kentucky split road games last week, defeating No. 10/13 Texas A&M 70-66 in College Station on ESPN2’s Big Monday before falling at LSU on Sunday in Baton Rouge 77-72.- Against the Aggies, junior center DeNesha Stallworth flirted with a triple-double as she charted 12 points, 12 rebounds and a school-record seven blocks. .- Mathies netted a team-high 20 points at LSU, passing former Wildcat great Victoria Dunlap as UK’s No. 2 all-time leading scorer with 1,863 career points.Gymnastics– Kentucky recorded its best score of the year at Florida on Friday. The Wildcats finished with a total score of 196.075, dropping the meet to the Gators’ score of 196.975.- UK’s score was good for the sixth best in program history.- The Wildcats used season-high event scores on vault and beam to reach 196 for the first time this season.- Audrey Harrison also notched her sixth all-around title of the season and fourth in a row, scoring a 39.225.Rifle– The Kentucky rifle team finished second at the Great America Rifle Conference over the weekend, shooting a 4690 over the course of the weekend.- Freshman Connor Davis won the GARC individual air rifle title, shooting a 596 before winning with a 105 in the Final.- Senior Henri Junghanel placed second overall individually with an aggregate score of 1179.Softball– The UK softball team continued its winning ways over the weekend with a 3-0 record, taking down Georgetown, Howard and USC Upstate.- Sophomore catcher Griffin Joiner led the Wildcats offensively with a .583 (7-for-12) average with two doubles, two homers, eight RBI and four runs scored.- Pitchers Ellen Weaver, Katie Henderson and Kelsey Nunley all recorded wins, while Weaver going five strong innings, allowing only one hit and no runs against Georgetown and Henderson allowing only one hit over five innings against Howard. Nunley threw the final nine innings against Upstate to get the win.Baseball– No. 8 Kentucky continued its season-opening six-game road trip with the Caravelle Resort Invitational, hosted by Coastal Carolina in Myrtle Beach. S.C., picking up wins over CCU and Elon and suffering its first loss of the year to Kansas State in the opener on Thursday.- UK finished the weekend with a ninth-inning win at Coastal Carolina, 2-2.- UK has hit .314 as a team through six games, slugging .435 and reaching base at a .311 clip. UK has stolen 12 bases and on the mound, owns a 3.57 ERA, with 16 walks and 42 strikeouts in 53 innings.Track and field– The women’s track and field team finished seventh in the SEC Indoor Championship team standings with 34 points, and the men finished 10th with 30.- Cally Macumber led all Wildcats with 15 points earned throughout the meet. Matt Hillenbrand led the men with 11.25. Macumber won the women’s 3,000 meters SEC championship.- Hillenbrand won the SEC mile championship with a time of 4:01.55. Hillenbrand’s time was a new personal best, and the seventh-fastest in school history. The junior became the first Kentucky athlete to win the SEC men’s mile since David Freeman took home the title in 2004.Men’s tennis– The No. 6 men’s tennis team traveled to Birmingham, Ala., this weekend and collected two wins in a doubleheader with Samford University and Jacksonville State, both by a score of 5-1, to move to 12-2 on the season.- No. 90 Anthony Rossi picked up his 93rd and 94th career wins in a UK uniform on Sunday with wins in both matches for the Wildcats.- Also picking up wins in both ends of the doubleheader for the Wildcats were Beck Pennington, Kevin Lai and Juan Pablo Murra.Women’s tennis– The Kentucky women’s tennis team defeated the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks 5-2.- Freshman Nadia Ravita improved to 7-1 in the No. 1 singles slot after defeating Christiana Raymond 6-1, 6-2.- Senior Jessica Stiles and sophomore Stephanie Fox won their singles matches in straight sets, with Stiles winning 6-4, 6-3 and Fox taking the No. 6 singles point 6-3, 6-1.- The Wildcats moved into the rankings for the first time this season, landing in the No. 63 spot.Men’s golf– The Kentucky men’s golf team opened up its 2013 spring season, placing 10th out of 16 teams in the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate. UK finished 37-over-par with a final score of 901.- Senior Chase Parker was the low golfer of the week for the Wildcats, finishing tied for 16th overall at 4-over-par.- Junior transfer Ben Stow made his Kentucky debut, placing tied for 27th at 6-over-par.Swimming and diving– The UK men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams competed in the 2013 Southeastern Conference Swimming and Diving Championships last week with both the men (368.5) and the women (452.5) finishing in ninth place.- Junior diver Greg Ferrucci earned two second place finishes on the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events and earned an eighth place on the platform. He broke the program record on the platform in the preliminaries with a 435.5.- Junior swimmer Lucas Gerotto broke multiple program records at the Championships including the 200-IM (1:47.20) and the 100-backstroke (47.29).Upcoming scheduleTuesday, Feb. 26Women’s tennis hosts Eastern Kentucky – 10:00 a.m.Women’s tennis hosts Northern Kentucky – 1:00 p.m.Baseball hosts Murray State – 4:00 p.m.Women’s tennis hosts Abilene Christian – 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Feb. 27Baseball hosts Eastern Kentucky – 4:00 p.m.Men’s basketball hosts Mississippi State – 8:00 p.m.Thursday, Feb. 28Women’s basketball at Ole Miss – 8:00 p.m.Friday, March 1Softball vs. Illinois – 11:30 a.m. (Tampa, Fla.)Women’s tennis at Arkansas – 1:00 p.m.Men’s tennis hosts Arkansas – 1:00 p.m.Softball vs. USF – 2:00 p.m. (Tampa, Fla.)Baseball hosts Akron – 4:00 p.m.Track and field at NCAA Qualifying (South Bend, Ind./Fayetteville, Ark.)Saturday, March 2Baseball hosts Akron – NoonSoftball vs. Loyola Marymount – 12:15 p.m. (Tampa, Fla.)Softball vs. Central Michigan – 2:45 p.m. (Tampa, Fla.)Baseball hosts Akron – 3:00 p.m.Men’s basketball at Arkansas – 4:00 p.m.Swimming and diving at Last Chance Meet (Knoxville, Tenn./Athens, Ga.)Track and field at Last Chance Qualifier (Fayetteville, Ark.)Sunday, March 3Softball vs. Western Michigan – 9:00 a.m. (Tampa, Fla.)Men’s tennis hosts LSU – 1:00 p.m.Women’s tennis at LSU – 1:00 p.m.Gymnastics at Ball State – 1:00 p.m.Baseball hosts Akron – 1:00 p.m.Women’s basketball hosts Tennessee – 3:30 p.m.Men’s golf at USF Invitational (Tampa, Fla.)Swimming and diving at Last Chance Meet (Knoxville, Tenn./ Athens, Ga.)