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SEC Tournament Championship: Did You Know Stats

We are SEC Tournament Champs for the 27th time! And who could not be happy for Darius Miller?! It’s great to see him playing this well at just the right time of the season.

Now here’s our SEC Tournament Championship edition of “Did You Know Stats”.
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[*]This game was statistically over in the 2nd half with 1:30 left to go.
[*]The win over Florida extended the Kentucky winning streak to 6 games.
[*]UK beat the spread by 17.5 points. That makes the 13th time this season the Wildcats have beat the spread.
[*]Prior to this game, UK played 47 Top 25 opponents in the last 5 seasons with a record of 19-28.
[*]The Wildcats have won 100% of the time this season (4-0) after recording 24 or more free throws made.
[*]Kentucky has won 83% of the time this season (10-2) when its had a three point percentage of 42.9% or better.
[*]UK has won 100% of the time this season (5-0) when opponents record 54 or fewer total points.
[*]UK has won 94% of the time this season (16-1) after holding an opponent to under 38.6% field goal percentage.
[*]UK wins 90% of the time this season (10-1) when their opponent has 14 or more turnovers.
[*]This season Kentucky has won 73% of the time (11-4) when Terrence Jones plays 34 minutes or more, 76% of the time (16-5) when Brandon Knight has 4 assists or more, and 80% of the time (16-4) when Josh Harrellson has 8 rebounds or more.
[*]UK set a season low for turnovers.
[*]The Wildcats have recorded more blocks than their opponents for the past 7 games.
[*]The top two scorers (Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones) accounted for 47.1% of the points.
[*]The top two rebounders (Josh Harrellson and Terrence Jones) accounted for 46.8% of the rebounds.
[*]Brandon Knight has led the team in scoring in 13 out of 33 games this season.
[*]Josh Harrellson has led the team in rebounding in 20 out of 33 games this season.
[*]Brandon Knight has 28 straight double-digit point games.
[*]Darius Miller has 9 straight double-digit point games.
[*]DeAndre Liggins set a career high with a 100% three point percentage.
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