UK Hoops Postgame Notes
Rupp Arena
Lexington, Ky.
Dec. 22, 2013
Final Score: No. 5/6 Kentucky – 61, No. 2/2 Duke – 69
Team Records and Series Notes
UK fell to 11-1 on the season, while Duke improved to 12-1.
The Wildcats saw their 11-game winning streak come to an end. The 11-game winning streak tied for the second-longest winning streak in school history and in the Matthew Mitchell era.
Kentucky saw its 21-game winning streak vs. nonconference opponents and 44-game winning streak vs. nonconference opponents at home come to an end.
UK is now 22-13 all-time in Rupp Arena, including a 3-5 mark under Mitchell.
UK is now 2-1 this season vs. teams ranked in the top 10.
The Cats are 70-4 at home over the last five seasons (including three games at Rupp Arena).
Kentucky’s all-time record is 697-478 (.593) in 40 seasons of varsity basketball.
Mitchell is in his seventh season as the head coach of the Wildcats and owns a record of 155-63 at UK. Overall, Mitchell is 185-92 in nine seasons.
He already ranks first on UK’s all-time wins list with 155 and winning percentage (.711).
UK is 1-4 all-time vs. Duke.
Today’s attendance was a school-record 23,706, besting the previous high of 18,422 set vs. DePaul on Dec. 7, 2012 in Rupp Arena.
The attendance breaks the record for largest crowd ever to see a college women’s hoops game in the Commonwealth — the previous mark was 22,152 for the first Kentucky-Louisville game played in the KFC Yum Center Dec. 5, 2010.
It marked the first sellout in Rupp Arena for a women’s basketball and UK’s second sellout of the season. UK’s game vs. Louisville on Dec. 1 in Memorial Coliseum also was sold out.
Next up: UK wraps up the nonconference slate on Sunday, Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. ET vs. Grambling State in Memorial Coliseum.
First Half Notes
UK started with the lineup of Janee Thompson, Bria Goss, Kastine Evans, Makayla Epps and Samarie Walker.
The Wildcats are 0-1 this season when using this starting lineup.
Epps made her first career start.
Bria Goss scored the first point of the game for UK by knocking down 1-of-2 free throws.
Azia Bishop, Linnae Harper, Jennifer O’Neill, Bernisha Pinkett and Jelleah Sidney were the first UK players off the bench at the 15:40 mark in the first half.
The 24 first half points were a season low for Kentucky.
UK shot a season-low 28.6 percent (10-for-35) from the field, while Duke shot 48.3 percent (14-of-29).
Kentucky was only 1-of-7 (14.3 percent) from beyond the arc, while Duke was 1-of-4 (25 percent).
The Wildcats trailed by 12 points at the half, which was their biggest halftime deficit of the season.
UK outscored Duke in bench scoring, 16-2.
Second Half Notes
UK began the second half with Kastine Evans, Bria Goss, Jennifer O’Neill, Jelleah Sidney and Samarie Walker.
Janee Thompson scored all 12 of her points in the second half.
Team/Game Notes
UK has hit a 3-pointer in 340 consecutive games.
The Wildcats shot a season-low 33.3 percent (25-of-75) from the field, while Duke shot 44.1 percent (26-of-59).
The Wildcats shot a season-low 42.1 (8-of-19) from the free-throw line.
UK hit just 3-of-15 from beyond the arc for a season-low 20 percent.
Kentucky held Duke to just 18.2 percent (2-of-11) from 3-point range.
The Wildcats were outrebounded by Duke, 46-42. The Wildcats have outrebounded all but three opponents this season.
The Wildcats outscored the Blue Devils in bench scoring, 27-2.
Individual Notes
Senior Samarie Walker pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds.
She has recorded 10-plus rebounds in six games this season.
Sophomore Janee Thompson recorded her eighth double-digit scoring output of the season with 12 points.
Junior Azia Bishop grabbed 10 rebounds, marking her second double-digit rebounding game of the season and fifth of her career.
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