Kentucky-Missouri Postgame Notes

Jan. 30, 2015

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Kentucky is 20-0, 7-0 in the Southeastern Conference. Missouri is 7-13, 1-6 in the SEC
UK leads the all-time series with Missouri 8-0, including a 2-0 mark in games played in Columbia, Mo.
Kentucky coach John Calipari has a 5-2 all-time record against Missouri.
Calipari has a 617-177 overall record and a 172-37 mark at Kentucky.
UK has a 197-27 all-time record as the nation’s No. 1 team, winning 42 of the last 44 games as the AP’s top-ranked team.
- Calipari has an 86-9 all-time record as the No. 1 team in the nation, including a 45-4 mark at Kentucky.
With Thursday’s win, Calipari has now had 21-straight 20-win seasons.
Kentucky will return to Rupp Arena on Saturday against Alabama at 7 p.m. ET, with the game broadcast on SEC Network. The game will also be broadcast live on the UK Radio Network, with Tom Leach and Mike Pratt voicing the action.

With a 20-0 start, UK passed the 2009-10 team for sole possession of the third-best start in UK history.
- UK’s 20-0 start is the best under coach John Calipari.
- Kentucky is the first SEC team since the 1965-66 UK team to win its first 20 games.
With 2,160 wins, Kentucky is the all-time wins leader in college basketball.
UK has a league-best 930-262 all-time mark in SEC play.
Dominique Hawkins began the game by hitting a 3-pointer with 19:33 on the clock to extend Kentucky’s streak of games with a 3-pointer to 920 consecutive, the second-longest streak in the nation.
UK improved to 15-0 when holding a halftime lead.
The nation’s leader in blocks and blocks per game, Kentucky swatted just one shot, marking the first time this season Kentucky did not block at least three shots.
Kentucky is now 53-0 under Calipari when holding its opponent less than 55 points, including 15 wins in 2014-15.
Kentucky has held its opponent to under 55 points in 15 of 20 games, the most in school history in the shot-clock era (since 1985-86).
Kentucky outrebounded Missouri 34-26, meaning UK has outrebounded its 2014-15 opponents by 165.

Sophomore point guard Andrew Harrison led UK with 15 points.
- He had an efficient night shooting going 3 of 4 from the field and 9 of 11 from the free-throw line.
- His nine made free throws tied his season high set against North Carolina, and was one off his career-best output.
Sophomore guard Aaron Harrison was UK’s second-leading scorer with 11 points.
- Harrison scored in double figures for the second game in a row.
Sophomore center Dakari Johnson finished with a game-high seven rebounds, which marked the second-straight game, and third time in the last four, that Johnson has led UK in boards.
Sophomore guard Dominique Hawkins began the game by making a 3-pointer. He has hit a 3 in each of the past two games he has played in.

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