Kentucky-Ole Miss Postgame Notes

#18/19 KENTUCKY 74, #14/16 OLE MISS 57

Team Records and Series Notes  

• Kentucky is 20-7 (-6, SEC), and Ole Miss is 20-6 (7-4 SEC).

• The Wildcats are 4-4 against Associated Press ranked opponents this season.
  • Tonight is the first time since 1982-83 that the Cats have defeated three AP Top 15 teams in the regular season.
  • Tonight marked the first time since 2012-13 that the Cats have held multiple AP Top 15 opponents to 57 points or less in a single season.
  • Tonight marked the first time UK has scored at least 74 points against three AP Top 15 teams (LSU, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss) in a single season since 2016-17 (5).
• UK is 12-2 at home in 2025-26.
  • UK is 27-5 at home under head coach Kenny Brooks.

• Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 43-15 record in Blue and White.
• He is 559-219 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

• Kentucky trails Ole Miss, 29-20, in the all-time series.
  • Kentucky also trails Ole Miss, 12-11, in Lexington.
    • Tonight marked UK’s first win over UM at home since Jan. 26, 2017.

Team Notes

• Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Asia Boone, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the second time this season.
  • This is UK’s third starting lineup this season.
  • UK is 2-0 when using that starting combination.
  • UK won the opening tip for the 16th time this season.
  • Clara Strack was the first player to score for Kentucky for the 12th time this season.
  • Jordan Obi was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the second time this season.
• First Half Notes:
  • UK held UM to 17.9 percent shooting (5-of-28) in the first half, marking UK’s best FG% defense in either half of the SEC season.
  • UK held UM to 5.9 percent shooting (1-of-17) in the second quarter, marking UK’s best FG% defense in any quarter this season.
    • The Wildcats held the Rebels to one field goal in the second quarter, while the Rebels enjoyed a 7-of-8 performance from the line in that stanza.
  • Kentucky had a 19-0 run in the middle of the second quarter, marking its best scoring run of the SEC season.

• Kentucky has had two straight games with scoring runs of at least 16-0, both of which are its best this season.

• Kentucky had its best FG% defense night of the SEC season, holding Ole Miss to 27.1%.
  • UK has held two SEC opponents to under 30.0% this season (also Missouri), marking the first time since 2011-12.
    • UK has held seven opponent this season to under 30.0% shooting from the field, the most in a single season since 2006-07 (also 7).
  • Tonight marked UK’s best FG% defense against an AP Top 15 team since vs. No. 12 Georgia on March 9, 2013 (22.2%).
• The Wildcats improved to 40-2 under head coach Kenny brooks when they score at least 70 points.
• UK shot 50.1 percent, moving to 2-1 in the SEC and 7-1 overall when it shoots at least 50.0%.
• Kentucky has a 28-game winning streak, including a perfect 25-0 under head coach Kenny Brooks, when holding opponents to 59 points or less.
• The Wildcats went a season-best 90.0 percent on 9-of-10 from the line.

Player Notes

• Clara Strack, junior center, had a game-high 28 points and nine rebounds.
  • She went 11-of-23 from the field and 6-of-6 from the line.
  • It is her team-lead sixth 20+ point game this season.
  • She added two blocks and one assist.
    • With 71 career blocks, she now needs just three more blocks to break her own single-season school record in blocks, which she set last season with 73.
      • No player in program history has ever recorded two seasons with at least 70 blocks.
    • Strack is the first UK player with at least 28 points and nine rebounds against an AP Top 15 team since Rhyne Howard at No. 12 Mississippi State on Jan. 3, 2021.
  • Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had 14 points, nine assists, two blocks and two rebounds.
    • Morgan, who has led the country in assists almost all season, also extended her single-season school record in assists now with 228.
    • She is the first SEC player since South Carolina’s Cristina Ciocran in 2002-03 to have at least nine assists in three regular-season conference games against AP Top 15 teams.
  • Asia Boone, junior guard, had 15 points on 5-of-9 from the field and 4-of-8 from the arc.
    • She has made multiple 3s in 21-of-27 games this season.
      • She is the first UK player to have at least four 3s against four AP ranked teams in a single season since Jennifer O’Neill in 2012-13.
      • This is her 17th game this season with at least three 3s, which is the most in a single season by a UK player since at least 2002-03.
    • She now has 77 3-pointers this season, which is tied for fourth on the single-season, top-10 3FGM list.
      • She needs seven to tie and eight to break.
    • She added six rebounds, the second-most on the team, three assists and two steals.