< Previous16 @KentuckyMBB Around the SEC Around the Country 2021-22 SEC Standings Team SEC Overall Home Road Auburn 8-0 20-1 11-0 6-0 Kentucky 6-2 17-4 13-0 3-3 Arkansas 5-3 16-5 12-1 2-2 Tennessee 5-3 14-6 11-0 2-4 Mississippi State 4-3 13-7 11-1 0-4 LSU 4-4 16-5 11-1 2-4 Texas A&M 4-4 15-6 10-2 3-2 Alabama 4-4 14-7 10-1 1-4 South Carolina 4-4 13-7 9-2 2-4 Florida 3-5 13-8 9-3 1-4 Vanderbilt 3-5 11-9 6-6 4-3 Missouri 2-5 8-12 6-4 1-6 Ole Miss 2-6 11-10 10-4 0-3 Georgia 1-7 6-15 6-7 0-6 Scoring Player-Team ...................................................................PPG JD Notae, ARK ...............................................................18.8 Scotty Pippen Jr., VANDY ...............................................18.6 Iverson Molinar, MISS ST ...............................................18.1 Jaden Shackelford, ALA .................................................17.2 Oscar Tshiebwe, UK ......................................................16.3 Rebounding Player-Team ...................................................................RPG Oscar Tshiebwe, UK ......................................................15.1 Jaylin Williams, ARK ........................................................9.2 Colin Castleton, UF .........................................................9.1 Kobe Brown, MIZZOU ....................................................8.5 Nysier Brooks, MISS ........................................................8.0 Assists Player-Team ...................................................................APG Sahvir Wheeler, UK .........................................................6.9 Aaron Cook, UGA ...........................................................5.9 Wendell Green Jr., AUB ...................................................4.9 Kennedy Chandler, UT ....................................................4.7 TyTy Washington Jr., UK ..................................................4.4 Steals Player-Team ...................................................................SPG JD Notae, ARK .................................................................2.4 Kennedy Chandler, UT ....................................................2.3 Eric Gaines, LSU ..............................................................2.1 K.D. Johnson, AUB ..........................................................2.1 Keon Ellis, ALA ................................................................2.0 Blocks Player-Team ...................................................................BPG Walker Kessler, AUB ........................................................4.0 Colin Castleton, UF .........................................................2.8 Charles Bediako, ALA ......................................................1.5 Dylan Cardwell, AUB ......................................................1.5 Oscar Tshiebwe, UK ........................................................1.5 2021-22 Associated Press Rankings As of January 31 (Week 13) Team Record Points 1 Auburn (49) 20-1 1508 2 Gonzaga (12) 17-2 1475 3 UCLA 16-2 1338 4 Purdue 18-3 1282 5 Kentucky 17-4 1195 6 Houston 18-2 1164 7 Arizona 17-2 1159 8 Baylor 18-3 1141 9 Duke 17-3 1107 10 Kansas 17-3 1014 11 Wisconsin 17-3 938 12 Villanova 16-5 807 13 Michigan State 16-4 751 14 Texas Tech 16-5 741 15 Providence 18-2 709 16 Ohio State 13-5 548 17 UConn 15-4 483 18 Illinois 15-5 445 19 USC 18-3 337 20 Iowa State 16-5 324 21 Xavier 15-5 255 22 Tennessee 14-6 234 23 Texas 16-5 203 24 Marquette 15-7 188 25 LSU 16-5 18018 @KentuckyMBB From Press Row Kentucky Heading for Midpoint of Southeastern Conference Schedule Coming off the final nonconference game of the regular season, Kentucky (17-4, 6-2 SEC) will reach the midpoint of the Southeastern Conference schedule by playing host to Van- derbilt on Wednesday. Game time is 7 p.m. and it will be telecast on the SEC Network. It will be the second meeting this season between the Cats and the Commodores. On Jan. 11 in Nashville, Kentucky jumped out to a 13-point halftime lead and went on to a 78-66 win. Oscar Tshiebwe led the way with a ca- reer-high 30 points, along with 13 rebounds, and TyTy Washington added 15 points. Scotty Pippen Jr. took the game’s scoring honors with 32 points for the Commodores. Kentucky leads the series, 152-47, and has won the last 11 meetings. UK leads 84-14 in games played in Lexington. Vanderbilt is 11-9 overall, 3-5 in league play, and is coming off an 85-77 home win over Georgia on Saturday. The Commodores actually have a better record away home this season. VU is 5-3 away from Memorial Gym- nasium, including 4-3 in true road games, with road victories at Pittsburgh, Hawaii, Ar- kansas and Georgia, plus a neutral-site win over Brigham Young. Vanderbilt is led by Pippen, the SEC’s sec- ond-leading scorer at 18.6 points per game. In addition to his shooting prowess, Pippen does a great job drawing fouls and is third in the nation in free-throw attempts (142). Jordan Wright averages 12.3 points per game and is the team’s leading rebounder with a 5.8 av- erage. Defensively, VU is limiting foes to just 64.7 points per game, including less than 30 percent on 3-point defense. Kentucky Wins 82-66 at Kansas, Largest Top-Five Road Win in School History Keion Brooks Jr. scored 27 points and Os- car Tshiebwe had a double-double as No. 12 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Kansas 80-62 on Sat- urday night, with the final margin of 18 points marking Kentucky’s largest road win over a top-five opponent in school history. The Wildcats grabbed a big halftime lead in Allen Fieldhouse and cruised to improve to 24-10 all-time in the series. Kansas had won four of the past five coming in. The last Ken- tucky win in Allen Fieldhouse was in 1983. Kentucky coach John Calipari wasn’t interest- ed in discussing history. ‘’I don’t even know who we played two weeks ago,’’ he said after the game. ‘’We’ve won a lot of games against ranked teams, all kinds of different ways. I’ve done this a long time and I’ve been in many of these games on the road where it’s (ESPN College) GameDay. I told the team, `All the pres- sure is on the other team. If you play for 40 minutes, watch what happens.’’’ Calipari said he’s seen this coming from Brooks. ‘’It’s how he’s been playing in his last couple of games and in practice,’’ Calipari said. ‘’It wasn’t just making baskets. He rebound- ed. He defended. He came from the weak side and tipped the ball. He made great plays. He did all the other things, and then he made shots.’’ Tshiebwe had 17 points and 14 rebounds for Kentucky (17- 4), which also got 12 points from Kellan Grady and 11 from Jacob Toppin. Kansas coach Bill Self was not surprised by Tshiebwe’s game. ‘’Oscar’s stats don’t show how good he is at rebounding, and his stats show that he’s the best re- bounder in the country,’’ Self said. But Tshiebwe was more inter- ested in talking about Brooks. ‘’I’m so proud of him,’’ Tshiebwe said. ‘’I want him to keep coming like that every night. We can be a top team if everyone steps up like that. They pay attention too much to me. Now, they forget about him.’’ Kansas (17-3) was led by Ochai Agbaji, who had 13 points, 10 in the second half. But the two-time reigning Big 12 Player of the Week was held well below his Big 12-leading 21.3 points per game. Christian Braun also had 13 points. Kentucky dominated the boards, owning a 41-29 rebounding advantage, leading to a 17-6 edge in second-chance points. ‘’Their guys got to a level that we couldn’t get to,’’ Self said. ‘’When you get into a jumping contest with those dudes, we couldn’t compete.’’ Self kept searching for combinations that would allow his team to get back in the game, but that search turned up empty. Kansas used a 7-0 run to cut the deficit to 62-48 early in the second half when Ken- tucky missed seven straight shots, but the Jayhawks never got any closer. Kentucky used an 8-0 run early to grab the lead and then held Kansas at bay. Ken- tucky led by 12 at the 10:29 mark, with their points spread among seven different play- ers. More telling, the Wildcats held a 13-4 advantage on the boards. The Kentucky lead grew to as many as 20 when Grady hit a 3-pointer with 2:31 left in the half and the Wildcats led 51-31 at the break, Kansas’ largest halftime deficit of the season. They trailed Kansas State by 16 a week earlier but rallied for a 78-75 win. Kentucky shot 61.8% (21 of 34) in the first half, while Kansas was just 13 of 33 (39.4%) and Agbaji was held to just three points. Brooks Captures SEC Player of the Week Honors Kentucky junior forward Keion Brooks Jr. was tabbed the Southeastern Conference’s Player of the Week after leading the Wildcats in scoring at 19.5 points per game in a pair of victories last week. He is the fourth different UK player to earn an SEC Weekly honor this season, but this marks the first such accolade of his career. Brooks was sensational for Kentucky in a career performance on the road at No. 5 Kansas. The Fort Wayne, Indiana, native scored a career-high 27 points and added eight re- bounds as UK won 80-62 over the Jayhawks to help the SEC secure a 6-4 win in the Big 12/ SEC Challenge. It marked his second 20-point perfor- mance of the season and the 10th double-fig- ure scoring effort of the year for Brooks. 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Avg. FG-FGA Pct 3FG-FGA Pct FT-FTA Pct Pts Avg. Off Def Total Avg. PF A TO Stl Blk. 34 Tshiebwe, Oscar 21-21 634 30.2 139-226 .615 0-0 .000 65-89 .730 343 16.3 108 209 317 15.1 52 19 37 36 31 03 Washington Jr. , TyTy 20-20 604 30.2 107-219 .489 23-62 .371 24-32 .750 261 13.1 16 62 78 3.9 29 88 33 26 5 31 Grady, Kellan 21-21 666 31.7 88-187 .471 61-139 .439 16-24 .667 253 12.0 5 36 41 2.0 18 23 15 19 2 12 Brooks Jr., Keion 20-20 471 23.6 88-179 .492 5-22 .227 40-53 .755 221 11.1 32 59 91 4.6 31 16 24 9 15 02 Wheeler, Sahvir 19-19 571 30.1 84-174 .483 9-32 .281 29-34 .853 206 10.8 12 26 38 2.0 45 132 58 24 1 10 Mintz, Davion 18-2 417 23.2 48-126 .381 24-73 .329 26-37 .703 146 8.1 12 32 44 2.4 25 35 21 6 2 00 Toppin, Jacob 17-1 284 16.7 40-72 .556 2-3 .667 21-28 .750 103 6.1 18 38 56 3.3 23 22 10 9 9 04 Collins, Daimion 18-1 169 9.4 27-45 .600 0-3 .000 7-9 .778 61 3.4 15 29 44 2.4 28 4 13 6 19 11 Allen, Dontaie 14-0 116 8.3 15-50 .300 7-37 .189 4-4 1.000 41 2.9 5 17 22 1.6 10 6 4 2 3 23 Hopkins, Bryce 20-0 152 7.6 19-46 .413 5-15 .333 4-7 .571 47 2.4 14 18 32 1.6 13 7 14 4 3 55 Ware, Lance 15-0 102 6.8 11-14 .786 0-0 .000 7-16 .438 29 1.9 6 22 28 1.9 19 2 11 2 7 20 Payne, Zan 9-0 13 1.4 2-6 .333 0-3 .000 4-4 1.000 8 0.9 0 2 2 0.2 1 0 1 1 0 14 Canada, Brennan 9-0 13 1.4 3-4 .750 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 6 0.7 1 0 1 0.1 0 1 0 0 1 25 Watkins, Kareem 9-0 13 1.4 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0.0 1 2 3 0.3 2 2 3 2 0 Total 21 4225 201.2 671-1349 .497 136-390 .349 247-337 .733 1725 82.14 280 594 874 41.6 296 357 251 146 98 Opponents 4225 201.2 504-1239 .407 131-433 .303 208-297 .700 1347 64.14 169 437 606 28.9 311 232 268 132 64The UK HealthCare John Calipari Show Behind Kentucky Basketball SUBSCRIBE TO PODCASTS TODAY! SPORTS NETWORKSPORTS NETWORK Presented By2021-22 Vanderbilt Commodores Statistics TOTAL 3-POINT F-THROW REBOUNDS SCORING No. Player GP-S Min.-Avg. FG-FGA Pct 3FG-FGA Pct FT-FTA Pct Off Def Total Avg. PF DQ A TO Blk. Stl Pts Avg. 2 Pippen Jr., Scotty 19-19 592-31.2 110-262 .420 33-104 .317 96-132 .727 18 52 70 3.7 41 1 58 64 3 32 349 18.4 4 Wright, Jordan 19-19 574-30.2 78-199 .392 24-74 .324 50-59 .847 30 81 111 5.8 44 2 36 44 2 29 230 12.1 10 Stute, Myles 19-17 412-21.7 50-116 .431 36-91 .396 20-25 .800 17 43 60 3.2 46 1 9 14 9 14 156 8.2 12 Thomas, Trey 19-0 369-19.4 41-120 .342 29-92 .315 16-20 .800 3 19 22 1.2 18 0 19 23 1 9 127 6.7 42 Millora-Brown, Quentin 19-19 457-24.1 43-68 .632 0-0 .000 18-41 .439 47 64 111 5.8 45 1 27 15 25 11 104 5.5 23 Mann, Jamaine 16-1 295-18.5 30-60 .500 0-8 .000 27-48 .563 28 46 74 4.6 30 0 4 8 10 12 87 5.4 0 Lawrence, Tyrin 19-9 317-16.7 28-73 .384 4-30 .133 20-30 .667 6 40 46 2.4 22 0 17 20 3 14 80 4.2 3 Chatman, Rodney 5-4 106-21.3 6-18 .333 4-11 .364 5-8 .625 1 8 9 1.8 15 0 8 6 1 5 21 4.2 5 Dezonie, Shane 18-2 255-14.2 20-45 .444 11-19 .579 10-12 .833 9 30 39 2.2 26 0 16 26 1 9 61 3.4 1 Daniels, Peyton 3-0 38-12.9 3-13 .231 2-8 .250 1-2 .500 1 10 11 3.7 1 0 4 4 0 0 9 3.0 15 Frank, Terren 18-0 216-12.0 14-45 .311 3-19 .158 8-13 .615 10 26 36 2.0 25 0 4 10 3 6 39 2.2 33 Weikert, Drew 7-3 65-9.3 4-10 .400 3-9 .333 2-2 1.000 0 5 5 0.7 2 0 3 1 0 4 13 1.9 11 Dorsey, Gabe 16-2 107-6.7 4-26 .154 2-21 .095 0-1 .000 2 3 5 0.3 8 0 1 4 1 0 10 0.6 20 Adelman, Max 3-0 05-1.8 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 0.3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 22 Calton, Graham 3-0 09-3.2 0-2 .000 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 0.3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0 Team 28 27 55 9 Total 19 3825 431-1058 .407 151-488 .309 273-393 .695 200 456 656 34.5 324 5 207 248 59 146 1286 67.7 Opponents 19 3825 430-1041 .413 133-443 .300 224-315 .711 196 483 679 35.7 369 7 235 297 72 121 1217 64.1 Scotty Pippen Jr. Jordan Wright 24 @KentuckyMBBFind your vibe at VisitLEX.comNext >