Basketball ***** Postgame Notes: Ole Miss 98, UK 84 *****

[Jeff Drummond]

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
PAVILION AT OLE MISS | OXFORD, MISS.
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
ATTENDANCE: 9,128

Final Score: No. 14 Kentucky: 84, No. 25 Ole Miss: 98

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky is now 15-7 overall, 4-5 in the Southeastern Conference. Ole Miss is 17-6, 6-4 in the league
• Kentucky leads the series 111-15, 30-12 in Oxford, Mississippi
• Mark Pope is 202-115 as head coach, including 15-7 at Kentucky.
• Next for Kentucky: Kentucky returns home to take on South Carolina Saturday, February 8 at Rupp Arena. Game time is set for noon E.T.

Team Notes

• Kentucky made 10 of 21 on 3-pointers. The Wildcats are 11-3 this season when making at least 10 long balls in a game.
• Kentucky won the rebounding 37-29. UK is 11-3 this season when winning the rebounding.
• Cats had 21 assists on 29 field goals, a 72.4 percent assist rate. It was the ninth game this season for Kentucky with at least 20 total assists
• Wildcats shot 29-58 (.500) from the field overall. UK is 10-1 when shooting 50 percent or better this season
• Ole Miss finished with 24 assists and just one turnover. The 24 assists tied for the most ever by the Rebels against Kentucky
• Ole Miss’s 98 points were the Rebels most ever against Kentucky
• This was Kentucky’s first game this season to feature no ties and no lead changes
• UK lost despite leading Ole Miss in second chance points (6-2), bench points (20-18), points in the paint (38-30) and fastbreak points (13-8)
• Kentucky played without starting point guard Lamont Butler for the third consecutive game.

Player Notes

• Amari Williams posted a triple-double with 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists
  • He becomes the fourth Kentucky player all-time to record a triple-double joining Isaiah Briscoe (12/29/16), De’Aaron Fox (11/28/16) and Chris Mills (12/27/98)
  • Coincidently, the most recent UK triple-double prior to Williams (by Briscoe) also came in Oxford against Ole Miss
  • Williams’ 10 assists were a career high
  • It is the seventh game this season for Williams with at least a double-double, third-consecutive game and fifth in the last seven.
  • It is his 13th double-figure scoring game of the season and his 11th game rebounding double digits
• Otega Oweh scored a career-high 24 points and added six rebounds
  • He has scored in double figures in every game this season, the only SEC player to do so and one of 13 (entering tonight) in Division I
  • It marks his sixth game with at least 20 points this season, the most on the team
• Jaxson Robinson had 18 points, his seventh-straight double-figure game
  • He was 5 of 10 from beyond the arc and now has made at least three triples in seven-straight games and at least four 3s in three-straight
  • He is 34-61(.557) from deep in SEC play and is averaging 16.1 points per game in league games
• Koby Brea scored 10 points and made two triples. He has16 games with multiple 3s this season and 37-straight contests overall with at least one made 3
• Andrew Carr contributed 10 points and was a team-best +7 on the night
  • Carr also added four rebounds and three assists
  • He was a perfect 3 of 3 from the floor

In the First Half

• Kentucky’s starters were Jaxson Robinson, Koby Brea, Otega Oweh, Ansley Almonor and Amari Williams for the third game in a row.
  • UK is 1-2 with this starting lineup
• Travis Perry and Trent Noah were the first substitutions at 16:22
• Ole Miss connected on three early triples to lead 15-7 at the first media timeout
• Ole Miss ended the half on a 15-3 run to lead 54-31. The 23-point deficit was the largest for Kentucky this season and UK’s third-largest halftime deficit ever in an SEC game
• Ole Miss had zero turnovers in the first half
• Matthew Murrell led the Rebels with 14 points
• Jaxson Robinson paced Kentucky with 8 points in the opening 20 minutes
  • UK is now 3-7 this season when trailing at halftime

In the Second Half

• Kentucky began the second half with the starters.
• Ole Miss built the lead to 27 points at 64-37 with 17:42 to go
• Wildcats chipped away and cut the deficit to 18 at the under 12 media timeout
• A 8-0 spurt brought UK within 11, 78-67, with 7:43 to play
• Kentucky again brought the game within 11 with 1:20 to go at 92-81, but would get no closer