The Kentucky women’s basketball team opened the 2025-26 campaign with a 75-59 win over Morehead State last night at Historic Memorial Coliseum.
Tonie Morgan led the Cats (1-0) with 16 points and 4 assists. Clara Strack and Jordan Obi both added 15 points and 15 rebounds. Amelia Hassett chipped in 10 points and 8 boards.
Marie Sepp paced Morehead State with a game-high 21 points and 9 assists.
Check out the highlights:
Postgame notes:
#24/20 KENTUCKY 75, MOREHEAD STATE 59 – FINAL
Team Records and Series Notes
– Kentucky is 1-0 to begin the season and Morehead State is 0-1.
– The University of Kentucky women’s basketball program is in its 52nd season of varsity status.
– UK has a 930-616 all-time record.
– The Wildcats have a 1-0 mark at home in 2025-26.
– The Cats are 544-202 all-time at home.
– The Cats are 504-175 all-time in Historic Memorial Coliseum.
– Kenny Brooks is in his second season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 24-8 record in Blue and White.
– He is 541-212 in his 24th overall season as a head coach.
– Kentucky remains the leader in the all-time meetings with Morehead State, 34-4.
– UK is 44-8 all-time in season openers, and it has won 17 in a row.
– UK is 48-4 all-time in home openers, and it has won 17 in a row.
Team Notes
– Kentucky used the starting combination Tonie Morgan, Jordan Obi, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack.
– UK is 1-0 when using that starting combination.
– UK won the opening tip.
– Jordan Obi was the first player to score for Kentucky.
– Asia Boone was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky.
– Kentucky is 10-0 under head coach Kenny Brooks when the opponent scores fewer than 60 points.
– UK has held 23 of its last 32 opponents to under 40.0 percent shooting from the field.
– The Wildcats went on a 21-4 run to close out the first quarter 25-17.
– The Wildcats ended the game with 22 second-chance points and held the Eagles to three. Their 22 second-chance points are more than the team recorded in any game in 2024-25.
– The Cats had 17 second chance points at halftime, holding the Eagles to 0.
– UK had two scoring runs of 10+ points in the game and held MSU to none.
– Tonight marked the first time Kentucky has had three players score at least 15 points each in a season opener since vs. Presbyterian on Nov. 9, 2021 (Rhyne Howard, Dre’una Edwards, Treasure Hunt).
– Two players had a double-double in the game – Strack (15 pts, 15 rbs) and Obi (15 pts, 15 rbs).
– It marked the first time that Kentucky has had teammates with at least 15 points and 15 rebounds each in the same game since at Texas A&M on Feb. 28, 2016 (Evelyn Akhator, Alexis Jennings).
– They’re also the first players to have 15 and 15 in a season opener since vs. Rice on Nov. 13, 2015 (Evelyn Akhator).
– The last time two players had a double-double in the same game was by Clara Strack and Teonni Key in a triumph over Tennessee on Feb. 27.
– Kentucky had 12 blocks.
– Since the start of last season, Kentucky has now had five games with at least 12 blocks. Prior to last season, Kentucky had three such games in program history.
– UK had its fewest two-point field goals allowed in a season opener (10) since vs. Mount St. Mary’s on Nov. 5, 2019 (five).
– The Wildcats got 14 points from their bench tonight.
– The Cats had five games all last season with 14-or-more bench points.
– Kentucky had nine steals (and 13 points off those miscues).
– UK had three games all lasts season with nine-or-more steals.
Player Notes
– Tonie Morgan, senior guard, had a team-high 16 points in her Kentucky debut.
She has scored 10+ points in 73 career games.
She added four assists, two rebounds and one block.
She went 4-of-4 from the FT line.
– Clara Strack, junior center, had a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds.
She is the first Kentucky player to score at least 15 points in consecutive season openers since Taylor Murray in 2017 and 2018.
She has scored 10+ points in 32 career games.
It marked her 17th career double-double.
Her 15 rebounds are one shy of her career high.
She went 3-of-3 from the FT line.
She added three blocks, three steals and two assists.
– Jordan Obi, graduate guard, had a double-double with 15 points and a career-high-tying 15 rebounds.
She is the first Kentucky player to have at least 15 points and 15 rebounds in their Kentucky debut since Evelyn Akhator vs. Rice on Nov. 13, 2015.
She has scored 10+ points in 66 career games.
It marked her 20th career double-double.
She added one assist and one steal.
– Amelia Hassett, senior guard, had 10 points, including two 3s.
She has scored 10+ points in 59 career games.
She added eight rebounds, two assists, two blocks and a steal.
– Kaelyn Carroll, freshman forward, played 13 minutes in her college debut.
She recorded five points on 2-of-5 shooting, including one 3, and added three rebounds, and assist and a steal.
