Kentucky opened Southeastern Conference play with an 80-78 upset win over No. 5 LSU on Thursday night.
The Wildcats have tied six other seasons as the best start through 15 games in program history (2024-25, 2018-19, 2012-13, 1982-83, 1980-81 and 1979-80).
Check out all the highlights from the win over the previously-undefeated Tigers:
Postgame notes from the win:
#11/12 KENTUCKY 80, #5/5 LSU 78 – FINAL
Team Records and Series Notes
– Kentucky is 14-1 (1-0, SEC), and LSU is 14-1 (0-1, SEC).
– Kentucky tied six other seasons as the best start through 15 games in program history, also starting out 14-1 in 2024-25, 2018-19, 2012-13, 1982-83, 1980-81 and 1979-80.
– UK is one of two teams in the country with a top-five win this season (also Texas).
– The Wildcats’ last ranked win was against No. 11 Lady Volunteers last season on Feb. 27, 2025, at home (82-58).
– The Cats’ last top-five or even top-10 win was against the No. 1 Gamecocks to win the 2022 SEC Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee (64-62).
– UK is 6-0 in true road games in 2025-26.
– UK is 12-4 in true road games under head coach Kenny Brooks.
– Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 37-9 record in Blue and White.
– He is 554-213 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.
– Kentucky trails the all-time meetings with LSU, 39-18.
– Kentucky is 5-24 against a ranked LSU team in program history.
– This is Kentucky’s first win in Baton Rouge since Jan. 17, 2019.
Team Notes
– Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the 13th time this season.
– UK is 12-1 when using that starting combination.
– UK lost the opening tip for the fifth time this season.
– Tonie Morgan was the first player to score for Kentucky for the first time this season.
– Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for the 13th time this season.
– Tonight marked UK’s highest ranked true road win in program history (No. 5 LSU).
– Kentucky scored its most points scored in a true road game against a top-five opponent (80 points) since Dec. 18, 2011 at No. 3 Notre Dame (83).
– Four players scored at least 15 points, which marked the first time since at least 2002-03 that UK had four players with at least 15 points each in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent.
– The Wildcats had a 17-5 deficit in the first four minutes of the game, then used a 13-0 run to take an 18-17 lead just under the two-minute mark of the first quarter.
– That 13-0 run used five different scorers.
– UK and LSU were tied, 41-41, at halftime.
– It marked just the second time this season that Kentucky didn’t have a lead at halftime (also Maryland).
– The Wildcats overcame a five-point deficit going into the fourth quarter, outscoring the Tigers by 20-13 in the final period.
– The Cats enjoyed 43.5 percent shooting in the final period, while holding the Tigers to a game-low 2
Despite LSU being first in the nation in field-goal percentage (54.8), UK continued its stretch under head coach – – – Kenny Brooks of holding all 46 opponents to under 50.0 percent shooting (49.2).
– The Wildcats outrebounded the Tigers, 45-29.
– The Cats outscored the Tigers in second-chance points, 18-4.
– UK had just 10 turnovers.
– Kentucky led LSU in bench points, 18-7.
Player Notes
– Tonie Morgan, senior guard, who had the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer, had 24 points and 12 assists – and no turnovers – for her third double-double of the season.
She already had seven assists in the first half.
She is the only DI women’s player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 24 points and 12 assists and 0 turnovers against an opponent ranked in the AP Top 5.
She is just the second DI women’s player since 2002-03 to have at least 24 points and 12 assists in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent (also Iowa’s Caitlin Clark at No. 2 Ohio State on Jan. 23, 2023).
She is the first UK player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 24 points and 12 assists in a single game.
It marked her third 20+ point game of the season.
It marked her first 20-10 double-double of the season.
She went 7-of-10 from the field and 3-of-3 from the arc.
She added one steal.
– Teonni Key, senior forward, had 17 points and 16 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.
She is the first SEC player to have at least 17 points and 16 rebounds in a true road game against an SEC team in the top five of the AP since LSU’s Sylvia Fowles at No. 2 Tennessee on March 3, 2007.
She is the first UK player since at least 2002-03 to have at least 17 points and 16 rebounds in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent.
She already had nine points and 10 rebounds in the first half.
She added one steal.
– Asia Boone, junior guard, had 18 points ,
She had five 3s, including going 3-of-5 in the first half.
She has had at least three 3s nine games this season.
She is the first UK player since at least 2002-03 to make at least five 3s in a true road game against an AP Top 5 opponent.
She added four rebounds, three assists and one steal.
– Clara Strack, junior center, had 15 points .
She added nine rebounds, one assist and one steal.
– Jordan Obi, graduate guard, had six points, 10 rebounds and two assists.
