Kentucky-Vanderbilt Postgame Notes
Vanderbilt 71, Kentucky 64
March 11, 2012
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Kentucky falls to 32-2, while Vanderbilt improves to 24-10.
The Wildcats are 136-45 all-time against Vanderbilt and 4-4 against the Commodores in the SEC Tournament.
Kentucky leads the SEC with 27 SEC Tournament titles.
UK is now 119-23 in SEC Tournament games.
The Wildcats 24-game winning streak ended, it was the sixth longest streak in program history.
The Wildcats are now 28-9 all-time in SEC Tournament championship games and 0-2 against Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament championship.
Kentucky has won 46 of its last 55 SEC Tournament games.
Coach John Calipari has won 20 of his last 21 conference tournament games.
Team game notes
The Wildcats used the starting combination of Darius Miller , Terrence Jones , Doron Lamb , Anthony Davis and Marquis Teague for the first time this season.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was the first sub off the bench for UK. It was his first time as the Wildcat sixth man.
Kentucky extended its streak of games with a 3-pointer to 821 games, the third-longest streak in the country.
With eight blocked shots, the Wildcats moved to third on the all-time NCAA team blocks list with 299.
The game was tie d 37-37, marking only the second time this season the Cats have been tied at the half. Kentucky beat Kansas 75-65 after being tied 28-28 at the half.
Kentucky attempted 28 3-pointers, the most since taking 33 against Chattanooga on December 17th.
The Wildcats have attempted 20 or more 3-pointers six times this season.
Individual game notes
Finished with 16 points, the most since scoring 17 points on senior night against Georgia.
With 16 points, moved to 41st on UK’s all-time scoring list with 1,178 career points.
Attempted a career high 17 shots.
Tallied his third double-double of the season and the 16th in his career.
With 12 points, Jones is now five points shy of becoming UK’s 59th member of the 1,000-point club.
Selected to SEC All-Tournament Team.
Came off the bench for the first time this season.
Fouled out for the fourth time this season.
With three blocks, sits in fourth on the NCAA Freshman blocks list with 157.
Moved to sixth on UK’s career blocks list with 157.
Selected to SEC All-Tournament Team.
With 11 points, scored in double figures for the 24th time this season.
With 86 assists to 37 turnovers, Teague boasts a 2.3 assist-to-turnover ratio over the last 16 games.
Committed zero turnovers for the first time since January 24th at Georgia.
Finished with eight points and three blocks.
Hit multiple 3s for the ninth time this year and first time since hitting three against Georgia on March 1.
Blocked career-high three shots.
Recorded multiple blocks for the fourth time this season and the first time since blocking two shots against Radford on Nov. 23.
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