Kentucky-Georgetown Men's Basketball Postgame Notes
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KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
RUPP ARENA AT CENTRAL BANK CENTER | LEXINGTON, KY.
OCTOBER 30, 2025
ATTENDANCE: 19,251
Final Score: Georgetown 84, No. 9 Kentucky 70
Team Records and Series Notes
- UK is now 155-13 all-time in exhibition games.
- Tonight’s game ended UK’s 34 game-win streak in exhibition games, dating back to a win vs. Pikeville on Nov. 2, 2014.
- The last loss was Aug. 17, 2014, vs. the Dominican Republic in the final game of the 2014 Big Blue Bahamas exhibition tour.
- This game does not count in the series record. Georgetown leads the series, 2-0. This was the first time the teams had met in Lexington.
- The Wildcats open the regular season Tuesday at home vs. Nicholls. Game time is 7 p.m. and it will be televised on SEC Network+.
Team Notes
- Kentucky won the rebounding, 38-30, and had an 11-9 advantage in second-chance points.
Player Notes
- Three Wildcats scored in double figures, Otega Oweh (17), Mouhamed Dioubate (13) and Collin Chandler (11).
- Had this been a regular-season game, Chandler would have tied his career high.
- Dioubate, Chandler and Malachi Moreno paced the Wildcats in rebounding with seven each.
- Three Wildcats – Denzel Aberdeen, Jaland Lowe and Jayden Quaintance – missed the game because of injury.
Coach Mark Pope
- UK is 3-1 in exhibition play under Mark Pope.
- Pope will enter his 11th season as a head coach with a 211-120 all-time record, including 24-12 entering his second season at Kentucky.
In the First Half
- Kentucky started Otega Oweh, Collin Chandler, Trent Noah, Mo Dioubate and Brandon Garrison.
- Kam Williams was UK’s first substitution at the 16:10 mark.
- The teams battled evenly, with five ties and six lead changes providing a 19-16 Kentucky lead.
- Georgetown took the lead with a seven-point spurt and never trailed again.
- Georgetown went on to stretch the lead to as many as 10 points at 42-32 and 46-36.
- The Hoyas shot 56.3 percent in the first half and went to intermission leading 46-39.
- UK was led by Oweh’s nine points and Moreno with five rebounds.
In the Second Half
- Kentucky began the second half with the starters.
- Georgetown took the lead to 17 points at 64-47 with 10:36 remaining.
- Kentucky inched back within 10 points at 66-56 but got no closer.
