Kentucky-Texas A&M Postgame Notes

#18/19 KENTUCKY 75, TEXAS A&M 55

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 19-7 (6-6, SEC), and Texas A&M is 9-11 (2-9 SEC).

• UK is 11-2 at home in 2025-26.
  • UK is 26-5 at home under head coach Kenny Brooks.

• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 42-15 record in Blue and White.
• He is 558-219 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky trails Texas A&M, 11-6, in the all-time series.
  • Kentucky trails Texas A&M, 5-3, in Lexington.

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Asia Boone, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the first time this season.
  • This is UK’s third starting lineup this season.
  • UK is 1-0 when using that starting combination.
  • UK won the opening tip for the 15th time this season.
  • Asia Boone was the first player to score for Kentucky for the first time this season.
• Jordan Obi was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the first time this season.
• Kentucky’s 16-0 scoring run to start the game was its most consecutive points against a conference opponent this season.
• The Wildcats led the Aggies, 27-5, at the end of the first quarter, which marked the Cats’ best scoring defense in any quarter in league action this season.
  • And it tied the Cats’ best scoring defense in any quarter against any opponent this season.
  • The Cats also held the Aggs to 14.3 percent in the first quarter, which marked the Cats’ best FG% defense in any quarter in league action this season.
• UK led TAMU, 38-18, at halftime, its largest halftime lead in conference action thus far.
• The Wildcats improved to 33-2 in the Brooks era when they score at least 75 points.
  • The Cats are 24-0 in the Brooks era when they hold their opponent to 59 points or less.
• Tonight marked UK’s 12th win by at least 20 points this season, its most 20-point margin wins in a single season since 2012-13 (17).
• Kentucky’s defense has held seven SEC opponents to 40% or worse from the field this season.
• Kentucky outrebounded Texas A&M, 52-32.
  • It is the fourth straight game UK has outrebounded its opponent.
  • UK has outrebounded its opponents in eight of 12 games this season.
  • 25 of today’s 52 rebounds were offensive.

Player Notes

• Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had 19 points and eight assists.
  • She broke the single-season school record for assists tonight, which Georgia Amoore reset last season with 213 assists through 31 games.
    • Morgan, who has led the country in assists almost all season, now has 219 assists.
  • She went 6-of-6 from the line.
• Clara Strack, junior center, had her 13th double-double of the season on 17 points and 13 rebounds.
  • She added three blocks and two assists.
    • She has dished out multiple assists in 17-of-26 games this season.
    • With 69 career blocks, she now needs just four more blocks to break her own single-season school record in blocks, which she set last season with 73.
  • Asia Boone, junior guard, had a team-high-tying 19 points on 5-of-11 from the field and 4-of-9 from 3.
    • She has made multiple 3s in 20-of-26 games this season.
    • She now has 73 3-pointers this season, which is tied for eighth on the single-season, top-10 3FGM list.
    • She is the third Kentucky player since 2002-03 to have at least 10 games with at least four made 3-pointers in a single season (also Rhyne Howard 2x, Sara Potts).
  • Jordan Obi, graduate guard, coming off the bench for the first time this season, had eight points, eight rebounds, two assists and a steal.
    • She started the game 3-of-3 from the field in the first half, which included 1-of-1 from long range.
  • Teonni Key, senior forward, had seven points, 11 rebounds, two assists and two blocks.
    • She has grabbed 10-or-more rebounds in six games this season.