Postgame Notes from Kentucky’s Loss to Ohio State

Team Records and Series Notes

 Kentucky is now 10-2 while Ohio State improves to 8-4.
 The series is tied 11-11 with OSU winning the last three meetings.
o Ohio State leads in games played on neutral courts, 7-4.
 Kentucky is 5-6 in the CBS Sports Classic, 0-3 vs. Ohio State in the event.
 Kentucky is 38-17 all-time in games played in the New York City area, including
14-7 in the modern version of Madison Square Garden.
 Mark Pope is 197-110 as head coach, including 10-2 at Kentucky.
 Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats take a holiday break before returning to the court
Tuesday, Dec. 31, in Rupp Arena vs. Brown University. Game time is 2 p.m. and
it will be televised on ESPNU.
 
Team Notes

 Led by Otega Oweh’s 13 of 13, Kentucky did a good job getting to the free throw
line, making 27 of 32.
 UK had 11 assists on 17 made baskets, an assist percentage of 64.7.
o UK entered the game with an assist percentage of 59.1.
 UK won fast-break points, 7 to 4.

Player Notes  

 For the third time this season, Otega Oweh had a season-high 21 points.
o He made a career-high 13 of 13 at the foul line.
o He tied the fifth-best free throw performance in school history, as four
Wildcats have had games making 14 of 14.
o He has scored in double figures in every game this season.
 Jaxson Robinson had 10 points, his sixth straight game in double figures.
o He made a pair of 3-pointers. It is his fifth straight game, and 10 th game
this season making multiple 3-pointers.

 Andrew Carr had 13 points, his fourth straight double-figure game and ninth of
the season.
 Koby Brea had eight points, including two 3-pointers. He has made at least one
3-pointer in every game this season and this was his 10 th game with multiples
threes.
 Amari Williams had six points and a game-high eight rebounds.

In the First Half

 Kentucky’s starters were Lamont Butler, Jaxson Robinson, Otega Oweh,
Andrew Carr and Amari Williams. UK has an 8-2 record with this lineup.
 Brandon Garrison and Koby Brea were the first substitutions at 15:36.
 With UK ahead 21-20, Ohio State went on an 8-0 run and UK called timeout at
4:26. OSU never trailed again.
 OSU continued a string of five consecutive made field goals in stretching the lead
to 35-25.
 UK went more than eight minutes without a field goal until a Williams dunk with
47 seconds left.
 Ohio State went to halftime ahead 39-30. It tied UK’s lowest-scoring half of the
season, also 30 in the first half at Clemson.

In the Second Half