Kentucky-South Carolina State Postgame Notes

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
RUPP ARENA AT CENTRAL BANK CENTER | LEXINGTON, KY

NOV. 17, 2022
ATTENDANCE: 18,885

Remaining Rating: #4/4 Kentucky 106, South Carolina State 63

Workforce Information and Sequence Notes

• Kentucky is 3-1, South Carolina State is 0-4.
• Kentucky leads the sequence, 2-0. The earlier matchup was an 82-67 UK win within the 1998 NCAA Match in Atlanta.
• The Wildcats fly to Spokane, Washington, on Friday to organize for Sunday’s sport vs. Gonzaga. Recreation time is 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT) at Spokane Area and will probably be televised on ESPN.

Workforce Notes

• Kentucky restricted South Carolina State to 35.3% from the sphere. UK is 224-24 (90.3%) underneath Calipari when conserving the opponent to 40 % or much less capturing, together with 3-0 this season.
• Kentucky held SC State to 63 factors. UK is 205-9 (95.8%) underneath Calipari when conserving the opponent to 63 factors or much less, together with 3-0 this season.
• Kentucky led by as many as 47 factors at 106-59. UK is 313-13 (96.0%) when main by as many as 10 factors at any time within the contest.
• Kentucky scored 106 factors, first time this season to succeed in the century mark, and most because the 107-79 win over Tennessee on January 15.
• The Wildcats had balanced scoring tonight – 5 Wildcats scored in double figures and all 11 scholarship gamers netted no less than six factors. The final time UK had 5 gamers in double figures was Feb. 5, 2022, when TyTy Washington Jr. (15), Keion Brooks Jr. (10), Kellan Grady (10), Oscar Tshiebwe (10) and Daimion Collins (10) completed the feat at Alabama.
• Kentucky shot a season-high 57.4 % from the sphere, making 39 of 68.
• Kentucky had a +20 rebound margin, 48-28.
• Kentucky had 25 assists tonight and has had no less than 20 in all three victories this season.

Participant Notes

• CJ Fredrick had a game-high 17 factors and a career-high 4 steals.
• Freshman Chris Livingston had 13 factors, his first double-figure sport as a Wildcat.
• Freshman Cason Wallace had 12 factors, his third double-figure sport of the season.
• Lance Ware had a career-high 12 factors, making all six field-goal makes an attempt.
• Antonio Reeves tossed in 11 factors, his third double-figure sport of the season.   
• Sahvir Wheeler had six factors and a game-high 10 assists and is averaging 9.7 for the season.
• In his second sport again after recovering from a knee damage and surgical procedure, Oscar Tshiebwe was given solely 14 minutes and totaled six factors and game-high-tying seven rebounds.
  • It ended a streak of 17 consecutive double-doubles, together with the ultimate 16 video games of final season.
• Daimion Collins tied Tshiebwe for sport rebounding honors with seven and added six factors.

Coach John Calipari

• This was Coach Calipari’s first sport vs. South Carolina State.
• Calipari has an 813-242 all-time on-court report and a 368-102 mark in his 14^th season at UK.
• UK is 301-58 (83.8%) towards unranked competitors underneath Calipari.

Rupp Area

• UK prolonged its house win streak to 22 video games, relationship again to the 2020-21 season, and is the longest present house win streak within the Southeastern Convention.
• Kentucky is 636-77 (89.2%) within the 47-year historical past of Rupp Area.
• Kentucky is 209-17 (92.5%) in Rupp Area underneath Calipari.

Within the First Half

• Kentucky began the mixture of Sahvir Wheeler, Cason Wallace, CJ Fredrick, Jacob Toppin and Lance Ware for the primary time this season.
• Daimion Collins was UK’s first substitute on the 15:04 mark.
• Fredrick scored UK’s first six factors with a pair of threes – a 3-pointer on the sport’s first possession, adopted by a basket-and-one a few minutes later.
• Kentucky by no means trailed, though the sport was tied as soon as at 3-3.
• Forward 32-22, UK took management with a 13-0 run, marking the biggest lead of the half at 45-22.
• Ten Wildcats scored within the first half, and led by Fredrick’s 11 factors, UK went to intermission forward 49-30.

Within the Second Half

• Kentucky started the second half with Wheeler, Fredrick, Wallace, Toppin and Tshiebwe.
• Kentucky stretched the result in as many as 47 factors at 106-59.
• Kentucky hit the 100-point mark at 2:03 on a Chris Livingston foul shot.