< 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.From Press Row On Foreign Soil The game against the Wolverines will be the Cats' seventh all-time matchup outside the United States. Kentucky is 5-1 in such contests. • UK went 2-1 in the San Juan Shootout in Puerto Rico in the 1998-99 season, earning wins over Colorado and UCLA sandwiched around a defeat to Pittsburgh • Kentucky picked up victories over Cleveland State and Stanford at the Cancun Challenge in the 2009-10 campaign • UK also defeated Arizona State in the Atlantis Showcase in The Bahamas in the 2016-17 season Best in the Bluegrass Kentucky is 22-3 against in-state foes with John Calipari at the helm, including an 11-3 mark vs. Louisville. Two of the victories over the Cardinals were during postseason play. The Wildcats have won all six meetings played inside Rupp Arena, including a 29-point win in 2017-18, the third-largest margin of victory in the his- tory of the series. UofL's three wins are by a combined nine points. Tuesday's matchup with Bellarmine, a 60- 41 Kentucky win, was the first between the two programs in their histories and the first of two regular-season matchups against in-state foes for the Cats in 2022-23. Need to Know ... Need to know facts about the Cats: • Sahvir Wheeler ranks second in the league and 12th nationally with a 4-to-1 as- sist-to-turnover ratio. Wheeler leads the SEC and ranks 11th nationally with 7.3 assists per game • Since the start of the 2019-20 season, his freshman season at Georgia, Wheeler's 583 total assists rank second nationally, only behind the 627 by Yuri Collins of Saint Louis • Cason Wallace ranks 11th nationally with 20 total steals • Wallace has totaled 32 assists and 20 steals through the first seven games of his college career. The freshman is one of three players nationally to have totaled at least 30 assists and 20 steals • Oscar Tshiebwe's 22-point, 18-rebound game against Michigan State was the third such contest of his UK Career. He now has three of the six 20 or more and at least 18 re- bounds in a game by an SEC player in the last 10 seasons. No other player has more than one and the feat had not been accomplished since South Carolina's Sindarius Thornwell did so against Alabama on Feb. 7, 2017 • Tshiebwe also has tallied a pair of 20-point, 15 rebound games so far this sea- son and has five over the last two seasons. He has nine of the 51 20-point, 15-rebound contests by SEC players in the last 10 seasons • Tshiebwe is the only player in the NCAA this season averaging more than 14 points and 13 rebounds per game • As a team, Kentucky has been one of the best nationally in keeping opponents from blocking their shots. UK is tied for fourth in the country, having only 10 shots blocked through seven games Five Players on National Watch Lists Five Wildcats -- Chris Livingston, Anto- nio Reeves, Oscar Tshiebwe, Cason Wallace and Sahvir Wheeler -- are on major national watch lists to begin the season. Reeves and Wallace are two of 20 players on the preseason watch list for the Jerry West Award (best shooting guard), while Living- ston is on the Julius Erving Award list (best small forward), Tshiebwe is looking to repeat as a winner for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar honor (best center) and Wheeler was picked as a Bob Cousy Award (best point guard) ear- ly-season favorite. • Tshiebwe has been a unanimous se- lection to preseason All-America teams • Tshiebwe and Wheeler were selected to the Naismith Trophy Player of the Year watch list, while Tshiebwe also was named to the NABC Player of the Year Award watch list • Tshiebwe, Wallace and Wheeler each were named to the Wooden Award watch list • In its history, Kentucky's Malik Monk (2017) won the West Award, Tyler Ulis (2016) captured the Cousy Award and Tshiebwe (2022) was tabbed the Ab- dul-Jabbar winner • Wheeler was a finalist for the Cousy Award in 2021-22 Cats Deliver the Knockout Punch Kentucky is 315-13 (96.0%) 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 69.3% 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. KENTUCKY 14 @KentuckyMBBMOP IT LIKE IT ' S HOTMOP IT LIKE IT ' S HOTInside The Numbers KENTUCKY 18 @KentuckyMBB MICHIGAN (5-2) VS. KENTUCKY (5-2) Series Breakdown Overall - UK, 5-2 at Neutral Sites - 2-1 Calipari vs. UM - 1-0 Howard vs. UK - 0-0 Current UK streak - W1 John Calipari Juwan Howard Overall Record: 815-243* Overall Record: 65-34 Record at UK: 370-103 Record at UM: 65-34 Overall Seasons: 31st Overall Seasons: 4th at Kentucky: 14th at Michigan: 4th * on court record UK Statistic UM 83.3 Points Per Game 76.0 42.1 Rebounds PG 37.0 19.1 Assists PG 13.9 6.6 Blocks PG 6.4 9.0 Steals PG 5.0 12.1 Turnovers PG 9.6 .465 FG Pct. .456 .374 3-Pt. FG Pct. .329 .710 FT. Pct. .679 1.6 Assist-to-TO Ratio 1.4 THE MATCHUPTALE OF THE TAPE • Be the second straight for the Cats in the series • Improve Calipari's record to 82- 30 at neutral-site events as UK's head coach • Push Kentucky's regular-season record to 6-1 on foreign soil and the first in the United Kingdom • Calipari's record would improve to 4-0 as UK's coach when playing in a foreign country A UK WIN WOULD... 49 SEC regular-season titles in program history 31 SEC Tournament championships 24 Straight home victories in Rupp Arena 5 UK players averaging double-figure scoring BY THE NUMBERSNext >