Some Notes From Last Nights Win Over Georgia

Men’s Basketball Postgame Notes

Georgia at Kentucky, Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky.

January 31, 2017
Attendance: 23,814 

Final Score: #8/6 Kentucky 90, Georgia 81 F/OT

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky is 18-4 overall while Georgia dropped to 13-9. 
• Kentucky is now 8-1 in the Southeastern Conference, and remains tied in first place with South Carolina. 
• Georgia dropped to 4-5 in the SEC. 
• Kentucky now leads the series 123-26, including 60-5 in Lexington.  
• The Wildcats have won seven in a row against the Bulldogs. 
• Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats will play at No. 24/23 Florida on Saturday night at 9 p.m. ET in the ESPN Primetime Game of the Week. College GameDay will also be in Gainesville at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN marking the second week in a row UK has played at the GameDay site.

In the First Half

• Kentucky started the lineup of Isaiah Briscoe, Derek Willis, Malik Monk, Isaac Humphries and Bam Adebayo for the first time this season.  UK is 11-4 with this lineup.
• De’Aaron Fox missed his first game of the season due to illness. 
• Isaac Humpries’ made his first start of the season. 
• Three players missed the game with an illness, Fox, Sacha Killyea-Jones and Mychal Mulder. 
• Georgia scored the first 12 points of the game in just 3:11 to take the early lead. 
• Wenyen Gabriel scored UK’s first basket with 16:31 remaining in the first half. 
• It was Gabriel’s fifth time this season scoring UK’s first basket of the game. 
• Kentucky tied the game at 29-29 with 48.3 seconds left to go in the first half at that scoreline. 
• The 29 points were the lowest offensive output by Kentucky this season in any half. 
• UK’s previous low was 30 at Louisville on Dec. 21, 2016. 
• Kentucky finished the half on a 13-3 run over the final 5:25 of the half. 
• UK had a 13-0 edge in second-chance points stemming from a 22-15 edge on the glass, including 11-3 in offensive rebounds. 
• Briscoe and Gabriel led Kentucky in scoring with seven points each. 
• Georgia’s largest lead of the half was 14 points, when it led 19-5 with 14:07 to go in the period. 

In the Second Half

• UK took its first lead of the game at 33-31 on an Isaiah Briscoe lay-up in transition with 18:16 to go. 
• Kentucky made five out of six field-goal attempts, including four Monk 3s, forcing UGA into its first timeout of the half with UK leading 50-44. 
• Monk and Briscoe scored 35 of UK's first 39 points in the second half. 
• Georgia came back to tie the game at 70-70 with 3:47 to go in the game after being down as much as eight, and force UK into a timeout. 
• After a missed free throw by UGA, Malik Monk scored the game-tying jump shot from the left wing with eight seconds to go in the game and send it into overtime. 

In Overtime

• UK scored the first five points of the period, including Malik Monk’s sixth 3-pointer of the game. 
• After four-straight UGA points to make it 82-81, the Wildcats went on a 5-0 run thanks to a Malik Monk 3 and Adebayo’s alley-oop dunk to force UGA into a timeout leading 87-81 with 1:42 remaining. 
• Kentucky held UGA scoreless for the final 3:10 of the overtime session – an 8-0 run to finish. 
• UK outscored UGA 14-5 in the period. 

Team Notes

• Kentucky snapped a two-game losing streak.
• UK has never lost three games in a row under John Calipari. 
• Calipari has a 680-191 (.781) on-court record, including a 235-51 (.822) mark at UK.
• Kentucky has an all-time mark of 557-66 (.894) in Rupp Arena.  
• UK is 130-6 (.956) at Rupp Arena under John Calipari.
• The last time UK trailed by at least 14 and came back and won was when it beat Miami (Ohio) 72-70 on Nov. 16, 2009. Kentucky trailed by 18 in the first half of that game.
• That was the second game of the Calipari era.
• This was UK’s first overtime game since the 2016 SEC Tournament Championship vs. Texas A&M in Nashville.
• This was Kentucky’s first SEC regular-season game go overtime since Feb. 20, 2016 –

 a 79-77 loss at Texas A&M.

• This was the first time a UK SEC regular-season game in Rupp Arena reached overtime since Jan. 6, 2015 – an 89-86 win over Ole Miss.

Player Notes  

• Freshman Malik Monk scored 37 points, continuing his streak of double-figure scoring in every game (22) this season.
• He notched his fifth game with at least five made 3-pointers this season.
• His 35 points tied for the second-most ever by a freshman, and tied for the second most in the Cal era
• His 47-point game vs. North Carolina in December was the only better output.
• He scored 20 or more points for the 13th time this season. 
• He has scored 25 or more points in seven games this year – a single-season record in the Calipari era. 
• He tallied his third game with 30 or more points this season, tying Jamal Murray for the most by a freshman in school history.
• He scored eight of Kentucky’s 14 points in the overtime session, including two 3s. 
• He made 10 of his 12 free throws, career highs for most makes and attempts from the line. 
• Sophomore Isaiah Briscoe had 23 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, coming up just two assists shy of his second triple-double of the season. 
• He recorded his third double-double of the season, and fifth of his career. 
• He notched a double-double in two of the last three games overall, and two-straight in SEC play.
• He made 11 of 15 free throws, setting his career high for made free throws.
• His previous high was seven made free throws vs. Arkansas in January. 
• He played a career-high 45 minutes. 
• Briscoe has grabbed 33 rebounds over the last three games.
• Freshman Bam Adebayo scored 12 points, as the third-leading scorer for UK in the game. 
• He played the last 17:33 minutes of the game with four fouls to his name.
• He grabbed five rebounds.
• Sophomore Isaac Humphries scored four points in his first start of the 2016-17 season. 
• He grabbed seven rebounds, two off his season high of nine. 

Notable Occasion

• Tuesday marked ESPN play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger’s final game working for the network.
• He was honored on the court with a framed jersey. The jersey had No. 50 denoting the number of years Musburger has worked in broadcasting.
• Musburger served as the “Y” in the Kentucky spell-out as well.