Kentucky-USC Upstate Postgame Notes

#23/20 KENTUCKY 90, USC UPSTATE 30 – FINAL

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 4-0 to begin the season and USC Upstate moved to 1-3.

• The University of Kentucky women’s basketball program is in its 52nd season of varsity status.

• UK has a 933-616 all-time record.
• The Wildcats have a 3-0 mark at home in 2025-26.
  • The Cats are 546-202 all-time at home.
  • The Cats are 506-175 all-time in Historic Memorial Coliseum.
• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 27-8 record in Blue and White.
• He is 544-212 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky remains the leader in the all-time series with USC Upstate, 6-0.
• This is the second straight season that UK has won its first four games of the season.
  • Kenny Brooks became the first head coach in program history to lead Kentucky to even a 3-0 start in each of their first two seasons at the helm.

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack.
  • UK is 4-0 when using that starting combination.
  • UK lost the opening tip for the first time this season.
  • Clara Strack was the first player to score for Kentucky for the third straight game.
• Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the fourth straight game.
• The Wildcats held the Spartans to 30 points.
  • The last time the Cats have held a team to 30 or fewer was against Jackson State on Nov. 29, 2015 (24 points).
• Six players scored in double digits (Hassett – 20, Strack – 18, Obi – 12, Boone – 12, Morgan – 11, Key – 10).
  • The last time UK had at least six players score in double digits was on Dec. 18, 2018 (also 6).
• Kentucky has scored 75+ in each of its first four games of the season for the first time since 2013-14 (first seven).
  • UK has scored 80+ in its last three straight games (UK scored 80+ in six straight games last season).
  • UK’s 87.5 points per game through the first four games are its most since 2014-15 when that team averaged 92.0 ppg through four.
• Kentucky put up 25 points in the first quarter, tying a first-quarter team high this season.
  • UK made five 3s in the first quarter, setting a new first-quarter team high this season.
  • UK made eight 3s in the first half, also setting a new first-quarter team-high this season.
• The Wildcats held the Spartans to four points and one field-goal in the second quarter, and just 15 points at halftime, all of which are opponent lows this season.
  • The Cats have held their last three straight opponents to 18 or fewer points in the first half.
• Kentucky made 14 3s.
  • It marked the second game of four games this season it has had 10+ 3s.
  • Since the start of the Kenny Brooks era – the start of last season – his teams have had six performances on the top-10, single-game, team 3s list in program history, including two this season.
    • The 14 3s are tied for fifth in program history.
  • Under head coach Kenny Brooks, Kentucky has made 10+ 3s in 12-of-35 games.
• The Wildcats had 12 blocks.
  • It marked the third game of four games this season they have had 10+ blocks.
    • They have had at least eight blocks in all four games this season.
  • Since the start of the Kenny brooks era – the start of last season – Kentucky now has six games with at least 12 blocks. Prior to last season, Kentucky had three such games in program history.
• UK – who shot 47.8 percent from the field – has had at least 46.0 percent shooting for the third straight game.
• UK – who held USC Upstate to 21.2 percent shooting – has 25 of its last 35 opponents (since the start of the Kenny Brooks era) to 40.0 percent shooting or less.
  • It has held eight of its 35 opponents to 30.0 percent shooting or under.

Player Notes

• Amelia Hassett, senior forward, led the team with 20 points, 12 of which came from 4-of-9 shooting from the arc.
  • She has had at least two 3s in every game this season, while four is her season high.
  • She added five rebounds, a season-high three assists and one block.
    • She has made at least one block in every game this season.
  • Clara Strack, junior center, had 18 points and a career-high-tying 16 rebounds.
    • It marked her third double-double this season and the 34th of her career.
    • She knocked down two 3s on 2-of-5 from the arc.
    • She added four blocks, three steals and one assist.
      • She had made at least three blocks in all four games this season.
        • She has 14 total for the season, averaging 3.5 bpg.
      • She recorded at least one of each of the following (assists, steals and blocks) in all four games this season.
    • Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had dished out 16 assists and had 0 turnovers.
      • She tied the more-than-40-year-old, single-game school record for assists, which was set by Patty Jo Hedges against Cincinnati on Jan. 15, 1982.
        • No UK player even had as many as 12 since Makayla Epps in 2015.
      • She eclipsed 500 career assists and now has 506.
        • Going into the game, she was fifth among all active players in all three divisions with her 490 career assists.
      • Georgia Amoore was the last player to have at least nine assists through three straight games from Dec. 28-Jan. 5.
      • She also had 11 points for her first double-double of the season and the 16th of her college career.
        • She went 1-of-1 from the arc for her first 3 of the season.
      • She added a career-high-tying two blocks and two rebounds.
    • Asia Boone, junior guard, had 12 points on 4-of-9 from the arc.
      • She has made four 3s in two of her last three games.
      • She added three assists, a rebound and a steal.