Kentucky-South Carolina Postgame Notes

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#15/14 KENTUCKY VS. #6/6 SOUTH CAROLINA
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2025
COLONIAL LIFE ARENA – COLUMBIA, S.C.

#6/6 SOUTH CAROLINA 78, #15/14 KENTUCKY 66 – FINAL

Team Records and Series Notes 

• Kentucky is 22-6 overall and 11-5 in the Southeastern Conference, while South Carolina is 27-3 overall and 15-1 in the league.
  • It is UK’s most wins (22) and most SEC wins (11) in the regular season since 2018-19.
  • UK has reached 11 SEC regular-season wins just seven times in program history.
  • Kentucky clinched a winning record in SEC action.
    • It is the 15th season UK has earned at least a .500 in SEC action since league play formally began in 1982-83.
  • Head coach Kenny Brooks set the program record for most SEC wins by a head coach in their first year at Kentucky (11).
• The University of Kentucky women’s basketball program is in its 51st season of varsity status.
  • UK has a 928-614 all-time record.
• Kenny Brooks is in his first season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 22-6 record in Blue and White.
  • He is 539-210 (.721) in his 23rd overall season as a head coach.
• The Wildcats trail the all-time series with the Gamecocks, 42-35, and in Columbia, 26-10.
• Kentucky will play as the fourth seed in the SEC Tournament on Friday, March 7 at 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Georgia Amoore, Dazia Lawrence, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the 28th straight game.
  • UK is 22-6 when using that starting combination.
• The Wildcats lost the opening tip.
• Clara Strack was the first player to score for Kentucky for the 10th time this season.
• Clara Silva and Lexi Blue were the first substitutes off the bench for Kentucky for the 15th and fourth time, respectively, this season.
• UK shot 42.9 percent from the field at USC (27-63).
• Kentucky narrowly outrebounded South Carolina, 34-33.
• The Wildcats played the top six scoring average teams in the country this year, holding all six below their scoring average.
• Kentucky held all 28 of its opponents in the regular season to under 50.0 percent shooting, and 26-of-28 opponents to under 45.0 percent shooting.
  • UK allowed No. 6/6 USC to score at 49.2 percent from the field (32-65).
• Kentucky recorded its most total points in the SEC regular season (1,189) since 2012-1 (1,231).
• This is the only UK team since at least 2002-03 to shoot at least 45.0 percent from the field in the SEC regular season.

Player Notes

• Clara Strack, sophomore center, had 23 points.
  • She has scored 20+ points in eight games this season.
    • She has scored 10+ points in 23 games this season.
  • She went 2-of-4 from long range.
    • The center now has 15 3s this season.
  • She added eight rebounds, four assists, two blocks and a steal.
    • She has dished out multiple assists in 20-of-28 games this season.
    • She has swatted multiple blocks in 20-of-28 games this season.
  • She is the first player to have at least 23 points, eight rebounds, four assists, two blocks and a steal against South Carolina since UConn’s Gabby Williams on Feb. 13, 2017.
    • She is the only player to do this in Columbia since at least 2002-03.
  • She is the first UK player to have at least 23 points, eight rebounds, four assists, two blocks and a steal in a game since Rhyne Howard at Ole Miss on Feb. 4, 2021.
  • She is the first DI women’s player to have at least 23 points, eight rebounds, four assists, two blocks and one steal in a regular-season true road game against an AP Top 10 opponent since Caitlin Clark did so at No. 2 Ohio State on Jan. 23, 2023.
• Georgia Amoore, graduate guard, had 16 points.
  • She has scored 10+ points in all but one game this season.
  • She added four rebounds and three assists.
    • She needs 18 more assists to break the single-game assists school record (209).
  • Teonni Key, junior forward, had 12 points.
    • She has scored 10+ points in 21 games this season.
    • She added four rebounds and two blocks.
  • Dazia Lawrence, graduate guard, had 10 points.
    • She has scored 10+ points in 20 games this season.
    • She had two 3s.
      • She needs 23 more 3s to break the single-season school record (84).
    • She added one rebound.