Kentucky-Vanderbilt Postgame Notes

#5/6 VANDERBILT 81, #16/18 KENTUCKY 79

Team Records and Series Notes

The Wildcats are 4-5 against Associated Press ranked opponents this season.
UK is 7-5 on the road in 2025-26.
- UK is 13-9 on the road under head coach Kenny Brooks.

Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 43-16 record in Blue and White.
He is 559-220 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.

Kentucky trails Vanderbilt, 35-28in the all-time series.
- Kentucky also trails Vanderbilt, 19-9, in Lexington.

Team Notes

Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Asia Boone, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the third time this season.
- This is UK’s third starting lineup this season.
- UK is 2-1 when using that starting combination.
- UK won the opening tip for the 17th time this season.
- Teonni Key was the first player to score for Kentucky for the fourth time this season.
- Jordan Obi was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the third time this season.
The Wildcats had just three turnovers in the first half.
UK shot 46.9 percent from the field in the game.
- UK shot 50.0 percent from the field – and went a perfect 5-of-5 from the line – in the first half.
The Wildcats put up 10 3s in the game for the 14th time this season.
- They have 243 3s and need nine more to tie and 10 more to break the single-season 3FGM record set in 2019-20 (252).
- Kentucky hit seven 3s in the first half, which ties its most in a first half in SEC games this season.
- Today is the first time that UK has made at least 10 3s against an AP Top 5 team since at least 2002-03.

Player Notes

Clara Strack, junior center, had a team-high 17 points on 7-of-15.
- She added seven rebounds, four blocks, two assists and two steals.
  - She broke her own single-season school record in blocks today, which she set last season with 73.
    - She now has 75 blocks.
    - No player in program history has ever recorded two seasons with at least 70 blocks.
  - Amelia Hassett, senior forward, had 15 points, including a season-high-tying five 3s.
    - She has made multiple 3s in 22-of-28 games this season.
    - She added eight rebounds, a block and a steal.
  - Asia Boone, junior guard, had 13 points, including a trio of 3s.
    - She has made multiple 3s in 22-of-28 games this season.
      - This is her 18th 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 is the first UK player to have at least three 3s in seven consecutive games since at least 2002-03.
    - She now has 80 3-pointers this season, which is third on the single-season, top-10 3FGM list.
      - She needs four to tie and five to break.
    - Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had 10 point and nine assists
      - Morgan, who has led the country in assists almost all season, also extended her single-season school record in assists now with 237.
      - She added two steals.

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