Kentucky-Georgia Postgame Notes

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
RUPP ARENA AT CENTRAL BANK CENTER | LEXINGTON, KY.
FEBRUARY 17, 2026
ATTENDANCE: 19,780

Final Score: Georgia 86, (RV) Kentucky 78

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky is 17-9 overall, 8-5 in the Southeastern Conference
• Georgia is 18-8 overall, 6-7 in the SEC.
• Kentucky leads the series 132-30, including 65-6 in Lexington.
  • Kentucky had won the last 12 matchups in Lexington, dating back to a Georgia win in 2009.
• Next for Kentucky: The Wildcats travel to Auburn for a Saturday matchup vs. the Tigers. Game time is 8:30 p.m. Eastern (7:30 p.m. Central time in Auburn) and it will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2.

Team Notes

• Kentucky won the rebounding, 43-36. The Wildcats are 13-3 are outrebounding the opponent
• Kentucky is 5-8 this season when trailing at halftime.

Player Notes  

• Otega Oweh tied his career high of 28 points (also last season at Oklahoma).
  • Among his 28 points were three 3-pointers, tying his career best in that category.
  • It is his 12^th 20-point game of the season, all coming in the last 17 games.
  • He has tallied at least 20 points in 10 of UK’s 13 SEC games.
  • He has 18 games of at least 20 points against SEC opponents, ranking second among Wildcats since 1996-97. Antonio Reeves did so 19 times.
  • He has scored in double figures in all 26 games this season, one of only nine Division I players to do so this season.
  • He has a total streak of double-figure 29 games dating back to last season, the longest such streak of his career. He ranks third in Division I for most double-figure games in the last two seasons.
• Hitting a career-high six 3-pointers, Collin Chandler tied his career high in scoring with 18 points.
  • It is his fourth time this season with 18 points, including three times in the last four games.
  • It was his second game in a row to have a career high in 3-pointers, as he sank five long shots Saturday at Florida.
  • It was his 16th game this season – including nine of the last 10 – with multiple made 3s.
• Denzel Aberdeen had 14 points and tied for the team high in assists with four.
  • It is his 18^th double-figure game of the season and ninth in the last 11 games.
• Mouhamed Dioubate led all rebounders tonight with nine.
• Kentucky is currently missing Jayden Quaintance, Kam Williams and Jaland Lowe because of injury. Lowe is out for the season.
  • By the time Kentucky reaches the end of the regular season, during his two years at UK, Coach Mark Pope will have played only five of 52 games against high-major opponents (9.6%) with a full roster.

In the First Half

• Kentucky started the combination of Denzel Aberdeen, Collin Chandler, Otega Oweh, Andrija Jelavic and Malachi Moreno for the seventh consecutive game.
• UK’s first substitutions were Brandon Garrison and Mo Dioubate at 15:39.
• Georgia missed its first six field goal attempts as Kentucky jumped out to a 7-2 lead.
• Kentucky led 29-22 when Georgia closed the half on a 17-5 run, taking a 39-34 lead into halftime.
  • Oweh led the Wildcats in the first half with 12 points.

In the Second Half

• Kentucky opened with the starters.
• Georgia led the entire second half.
• Kentucky rallied within one point on three occasions, the last at 56-55, when Georgia went on a 10-0 run for a 66-55 lead.
• Georgia took its largest lead of 12 points at 69-57.
• Trailing 81-72, Kentucky went on a 6-0 run to pull within 81-78 but got no closer as Georgia scored the final five points.