Kentucky-Michigan Postgame Notes

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
O2 ARENA | LONDON, ENGLAND

DEC. 4, 2022
ATTENDANCE: 8,242

Remaining Rating: No. 19/18 Kentucky 73, RV/RV Michigan 69

Crew Information and Sequence Notes

• Kentucky is now 6-2 on the season, Michigan is 5-3.
• Kentucky leads the general collection, 6-2, and has gained two in a row.
  • UK leads 3-1 in video games performed at impartial websites.
• Kentucky is now 6-1 in regular-season video games performed on overseas soil, 1-0 in England.
• Subsequent for UK: Kentucky performs host to Yale on Saturday at 1 p.m. The sport might be televised on the SEC Community.

Crew Notes

• Kentucky restricted Michigan to 39.1% from the sphere because the Wolverines made 25 of 64. UK is 227-24 (90.4%) below Calipari when preserving the opponent to 40 % or much less taking pictures, together with 6-0 this season.
• 5 Wildcats scored in double figures for the second time this season, additionally vs. South Carolina State.
• UK held a 46-33 benefit on the boards, transferring to 6-0 on the yr when outrebounding its opponent.

Participant Notes

• Jacob Toppin tied for a workforce excessive in scoring with 14 factors, pouring in 10 within the second half.
  • Toppin additionally grabbed 5 boards.
• Cason Wallace matched Toppin with 14 factors to go together with eight boards and 5 assists.
  • The eight rebounds matched his profession greatest, recorded earlier this yr in opposition to Howard.
  • Wallace additionally tied his profession greatest in makes from distance, going an ideal 4-for-4 from deep.
• Antonio Reeves went 3-for-4 from 3-point vary on his solution to an 11-point, four-rebound outing.
  • He has landed in double-figure scoring in seven of eight video games this season.   
  • He has made no less than one 3-pointer in every recreation this season.
• Oscar Tshiebwe notched his SEC-leading fourth double-double of the season and 44^th of his profession, going for 13 factors and a game-high 14 rebounds.
  • Tshiebwe, at 14.2 factors and 13.5 rebounds per recreation, is the one participant nationally this season to common no less than 14 factors and 13 rebounds per contest.
• Sahvir Wheeler went for 11 factors and game-best seven assists.
  • Scored his 1,000^th collegiate level on the 11:18 mark of the primary half and now has 1,008, together with 644 at Georgia and 364 at Kentucky.
  • Wheeler additionally drew a game-high eight fouls.

Coach John Calipari

• Calipari is 2-0 vs. Michigan.  The opposite recreation was a 75-72 win within the 2014 NCAA Event.
• Calipari is 82-30 in neutral-site video games at UK, together with 4-0 in overseas international locations.
• Calipari has an 816-243 all-time on-court document and a 371-103 mark in his 14^th season at UK.
• UK is 304-58 (84.0%) in opposition to unranked competitors below Calipari.

Within the First Half

• Kentucky began the mix of Sahvir Wheeler, Cason Wallace, Antonio Reeves, Jacob Toppin and Oscar Tshiebwe for the third straight recreation.
• CJ Fredrick, Daimion Collins and Chris Livingston had been UK’s first subs on the 13:19 mark.
• The groups performed evenly within the opening interval, with Michigan’s 17-11 lead the biggest of the half by both workforce.
• Wheeler’s 3-pointer on the expiration of the shot clock with 11:18 remaining gave him 1,000 factors for his collegiate profession.
• Trailing 34-29, UK closed the half with an 8-2 run and went to intermission forward 37-36. Tshiebwe led Kentucky with 11 factors and 7 rebounds.  Reeves hit three 3-pointers.

Within the Second Half

• UK began the second stanza with Wheeler, Wallace, Reeves, Collins and Tshiebwe.
• Wallace received scorching with eight fast factors, together with a pair of 3-pointers, because the Wildcats spanned the halves with a 16-3 run (8-1 to open second half), constructing their largest lead at 45-37.
• UK led 49-42 when Michigan had an eight-point run and regained the lead at 50-49.
• Ugonna Onyenso put UK again within the lead with a layup at 12:13, making it 51-50 and the Wildcats by no means trailed once more.
• Forward 60-58, a six-point outburst by Wheeler gave UK its largest lead at 66-58.
• Michigan closed inside two factors at 68-66 however an enormous 3-pointer by Wallace with 1:11 on the clock put the Cats forward 71-66 and UK led by no less than two possessions the remainder of the way in which.