< Previous10 @KentuckyMBBYou can enjoy FREE * grocery delivery, 2X Fuel Points and more for as low as $59/year. *$35 order minimum. Restrictions apply. Subject to availability. Delivery time not guaranteed. Official Grocery Partner of UK AthleticsWEEKNIGHTS 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY 9:00 a.m.14 @KentuckyMBB From Press Row Big Blue Win on the Road Kentucky's 63-56 win on the road at No. 5 Tennessee on Saturday was not only much needed for this team, but historic as well. • Was the first in program history over an Associated Press Top 5 team on the road, while a UK team was unranked • Kentucky outrebounded the Volunteers by 20 and limited the Vols to just four of- fensive rebounds. Tennessee entered the matchup as the nation's best offensive re- bounding team • UK's 88.1% free-throw percentage (22-25) was the third-best in a true road game under Calipari with a minimum of 25 attempts • Kentucky moved to 5-1 against Tennes- see on the road when the Wildcats are un- ranked and the Volunteers are ranked • The 56 points scored by UT was the second-fewest ever allowed by an unranked Kentucky team against a top-five team in the AP poll (UK allowed 45 points to No. 2 Michigan State on Dec. 16, 2000) S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C! Kentucky is the Southeastern Confer- ence's gold standard. Since the SEC’s inception in 1932-33, the Wildcats are the most dominant team in the league, recording a 1,036-300 mark (77.5%) in regular-season conference play. Only Alabama has won more than 800 reg- ular-season SEC games and no other team owns a better winning percentage. • UK has averaged 11.6 wins and only 3.3 losses per season in 89 seasons in the SEC • Kentucky has won 49 SEC regular-sea- son titles and 31 SEC Tournament champi- onships • Kentucky is 11-3 in the opening game of the SEC season under John Calipari and 13-1 in the first home league opener. UK is 69-20 all-time in SEC openers • The Wildcats have won 16 of the last 29 SEC Tournaments (the 2020 one was not played because of the COVID-19 pandemic) • UK has captured at least a share of six of the last 13 SEC regular-season champion- ships under John Calipari • Kentucky has played in the champion- ship game of the SEC Tournament in eight of Calipari’s 11 tourneys, winning six times (2020 tournament not played because of COVID) • UK won its 1,000th game in SEC reg- ular-season action vs. Alabama on Jan. 11, 2020. Kansas has won 1,000 conference games when combining its records in the Big 6, Big 7, Big 8 and Big 12, but no other team in the country had won 1,000 or more regular-season league games in one confer- ence alone • Six teams made the 2022 NCAA Tour- nament field with Arkansas reaching the Elite Eight • The SEC has had 27 NCAA Tournament selections over the last four tournaments, the third most. Only the Big 10 (30) and At- lantic Coast Conference (28) have had more • The SEC went 5-6 in NCAA Tourna- ment games in 2022. SEC teams are 78-49 (61.4%) in the NCAA tourney since 2012 • The league has advanced at least one team to the Elite Eight in 10 of the last 12 tournaments and nine different SEC teams have advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in the last five NCAA Tournaments • The SEC has held its own in the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge. The SEC leads 31-28 over the last six seasons in the yearly Jan- uary showdown and won outright in 2021 and '22 • Four SEC teams are ranked in the Jan. 16 Associated Press Top 25, with Texas A&M and Missouri also receiving votes Cats Deliver the Knockout Punch Kentucky is 319-13 (96.1%) in the John Calipari era when leading by at least 10 points at any time in the contest. Ten of the 13 losses in the Calipari era are to confer- ence opponents. Perhaps most impressive of all is that 68.7% of games Calipari has coached in at Kentucky have produced 10-point leads at some point during the game for UK. The Wildcats have led by 10 points or more in a whopping 84.8% of Calipari’s 376 career wins at Kentucky.MOP IT LIKE IT ' S HOTMOP IT LIKE IT ' S HOTInside The Numbers 18 @KentuckyMBB GEORGIA (13-4, 3-1) AT KENTUCKY (11-6, 2-3) Series Breakdown Overall - UK, 130-27 at Lexington - UK, 63-5 Calipari vs. UGA - 20-3 White vs. UK - 4-10 Current UK streak - W1 John Calipari Mike White Overall Record: 821-247* Overall Record: 256-132 Record at UK: 376-107 Record at UGA: 13-4 Overall Seasons: 31st Overall Seasons: 12th at Kentucky: 14th at Georgia: 1st * on court record UK Statistic UGA 75.5 Points Per Game 70.5 39.3 Rebounds PG 39.1 16.5 Assists PG 12.0 4.4 Blocks PG 3.2 6.9 Steals PG 6.8 11.9 Turnovers PG 13.9 .456 FG Pct. .422 .375 3-Pt. FG Pct. .342 .674 FT. Pct. .746 1.4 Assist-to-TO Ratio 0.9 THE MATCHUPTALE OF THE TAPE • Bring John Calipari to within three wins of passing Harry Rabenhorst (178) for the sixthmost SEC regular-season wins in league history • Be the 10th home victory of the season • Improve the Wildcats to 347-47 all-time in Rupp Arena against SEC foes A UK WIN WOULD... 49 SEC regular-season titles in program history 31 SEC Tournament championships 10 SEC-best double-doubles by Oscar Tshiebwe 14.06 SEC-leading offensive rebounds per game BY THE NUMBERSNext >