WOMEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME MATERIALS
#14/16 KENTUCKY VS. ARIZONA STATE
TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 2024
HISTORIC MEMORIAL COLISEUM – LEXINGTON, KY.
#14/16 KENTUCKY 77, ARIZONA STATE 61 – FINAL
Postgame Links
Team Records and Series Notes
Team Notes
Player Notes
#14/16 KENTUCKY VS. ARIZONA STATE
TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 2024
HISTORIC MEMORIAL COLISEUM – LEXINGTON, KY.
#14/16 KENTUCKY 77, ARIZONA STATE 61 – FINAL
Postgame Links
Team Records and Series Notes
- Kentucky is 6-0 to begin the season, while Arizona State moved to 3-3.
- UK improved to 6-0 for the first time since 2020-21.
- The University of Kentucky women’s basketball program is in its 51st season of varsity status.
- UK has a 912-608 (.600) all-time record.
- Kenny Brooks is in his first season as the head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 6-0 record in Blue and White.
- He improved to 523-204 (.719) in his 23rd overall season as a head coach.
- Kentucky leads the all-time series with Arizona State, 2-1.
- UK leads the all-time series with ASU on a neutral court, 1-0.
- In its next game, Kentucky will play No. 19/19 Illinois in the Music City Classic on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. ET in Trevecca Nazarene University / Trojan Fieldhouse in Nashville, Tennessee, on BallerTV.
Team Notes
- Kentucky used the starting combination Georgia Amoore, Dazia Lawrence, Amelia Hassett, Teonni Key and Clara Strack for the sixth straight game.
- UK is 6-0 when using that starting combination
- The Sundevils won the opening tip.
- Clara Strack was the first player to score for Kentucky for the third time this season.
- Cassidy Rowe was the first substitute off the bench for Kentucky for third time this season.
- UK improved to 6-0 for the first time since 2020-21.
- The Wildcats have won each of their first six games of the season by at least 10 points.
- It marked the first time they have won their first six games by at least 10 points since 2013-14.
- Two players had at least 20 points in the game for the second straight game in Clara Strack (24) and Georgia Amoore (20).
- UK swatted at 10 blocks.
- It marked the fifth game this season UK has recorded at least 10 blocks.
- UK has swatted at least nine blocks in all six games this season.
- UK has 68 blocks this season, needing just 114 more to break the team record (181), set through 36 games in 2012-13.
- Kentucky held Arizona State to no field goals for the first seven minutes and 16 seconds of the second quarter.
Player Notes
- Clara Strack, sophomore center, had her third double-double this season on a career-high and game-high 24 points and 10 rebounds.
- She has led UK in scoring twice this season.
- She has scored in double-digits in all six games this season.
- She has scored 20+ points in two games this season
- She also recorded a career-high two 3-pointers on 2-of-3 from the arc.
- She has pulled down double-digit rebounds in three games this season.
- She added two assists and three blocks.
- She has made at least three blocks in five games this season.
- She played just 24 minutes in the game.
- Georgia Amoore, graduate guard, scored 20 points, the second straight game she has recorded at least 20 points.
- She has scored in double-digits in all six games this season.
- She has scored 20+ points in two games this season.
- She added nine assists and a season-high three steals.
- She has made at least seven assists in all six games this season.
- Teonni Key, junior forward, had her third double-double this season – and her second straight – with 16 points and a game-high 13 rebounds.
- She has scored in double-digits in five games this season.
- She has led UK in rebounds in three games this season.
- She has pulled down double-digit rebounds in three games this season.
- She added a career-high and a game-high six blocks, four assists and three steals.
- She has recorded at least five blocks in three straight games.
- Six blocks are tied with 10 others for the second most in program history for a single game.
- Amelia Hassett, a junior forward, had eight points, nine rebounds and two assists.
