Mathies' 21 Leads Kentucky to 84-72 Win Over Arkansas; Mathies scores 21 and adds six assists; Bishop adds 11 points, eight rebounds in only 10 minutes
General Has played in 89 career games with 80 starts, including 46 in a row ... Redshirted last season due to an injury to her left knee suffered during a pick-up game in July of 2010 ... Extremely quick and heady point guard who can see the floor extremely well ... Very effective at shooting from long-range and creating her own shot ... Ranks ninth on UK's career assists list with 333 and sixth in assists per game (3.741) ... Graduated with a degree in integrated strategic communications (ISC) in May ... Working on a second bachelor's degree.
• Courtyard LaGuardia Turkey Classic All-Tournament Team (2008) • SEC All-Freshman Team (2007-08) • SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll (2007-08) • SEC Freshman of the Week (2007) 2010-11 (Senior) Redshirted due to an injury to her left knee suffered during a pick-up game in July of 2010.
2009-10 (Junior) Started in all 36 games ... Reached double-figures 13 times ... Averaged a career-high 9.2 points per game ... Her 161 assists were 10th on UK's single-season list and were the most by a UK player since Rita Adams dished out 162 in 2001-02 ... Hit a team-high 81.0 percent from the charity stripe, a mark that ranks ninth on UK's single-season list ... Averaged 5.5 assists in seven post-season games (39) ... Handed out five or more assists in 19 games ... Tallied 14 points on 5-of-9 shooting with a team-high seven assists in UK's come-from-behind win over Mississippi State in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament (3/6/10) ... Scored a career-high 20 points and grabbed a season-high seven rebounds vs. Vanderbilt (1/10/10) ... Recorded a team-high 15 points, all in the second half, to go with five rebounds and four assists in a season-high 38 minutes at Georgia (1/7/10) ... Made a pair of clutch free throws with 2.1 seconds left in regulation to force overtime in Athens ... Dished out a career-high nine assists vs. Alabama (11/17/10) ... Scored 19 points, one shy of her career-high and made a career-high seven field goals vs. South Carolina (1/14/10) ... Scored 19 points on 5-of-9 shooting from the field and 9-of-10 shooting from the foul line against Louisville (12/20/09) ... Ranked among SEC leaders (all games) in three categories: assists (4th-4.5), free-throw shooting (6th-80.7 percent) and assist-to-turnover ratio (T8th-1.3-to-1).
2008-09 (Sophomore) Started in 30 of 32 games ... Led team and ranked 10th in the SEC in assists (3.6) ... Third on the team in steals with 30 ... Team's fourth-leading scorer with 7.8 points per game ... Scored in double figures 11 times ... Charted a season- and career-high 17 points to go along with a game-high six assists vs. Chattanooga in the first round of the WNIT ... Played a career-high 42 minutes in the overtime game ... Contributed 11 points and UK's only three-pointers (two) against Georgia (2/26/09) ... Dished out a career-high eight assists and added 12 points at No. 7 Tennessee (1/8/09) ... Scored all 13 points vs. N.C. A&T (1/1/09) in the second half, hitting a career-high eight free-throws on a season-high eight attempts ... Pulled down a season-high-tying five rebounds vs. Western Kentucky (12/4/08) ... Named to All-Tournament Team at Courtyard LaGuardia Turkey Classic after scoring 17 points vs. Yale (11/28/08) in the first round.
2007-08 (Freshman) Started in 14 of 21 games ... Missed 12 games due to injury ... Tore ACL and meniscus in her right knee vs. No. 2 Tennessee (Feb. 3) ... Also sat out the Louisville game (12/20/07) due to a shoulder sprain ... Averaged 6.7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game ... Led the team in steals (17) in SEC games only despite missing six games ... Ranked second on the team in scoring and rebounding in SEC games, averaging 9.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game ... Second on the team in assists (58) ... Dished out seven assists in her first collegiate game at point guard vs. USC-Upstate (11/10/07) ... Earned her first career start against William & Mary (12/4/07), replacing an injured Carly Ormerod ... Named SEC Freshman of the Week after averaging 7.5 points and 3.0 assists in two games vs. Old Dominion and South Alabama ... Instrumental in the Wildcats' 47-44 upset of No. 17/14 Georgia in Athens as she scored a team-high 12 points, including nailing two free throws with :06 remaining in the game to seal the victory ... Scored in double figures six times, including three of the last five games before her injury ... Scored a career-high 13 points twice against Florida (1/10/08) and South Carolina (1-24-08) ... Set a career mark in rebounds against Auburn with nine and minutes played with 37 (1/20/08) ... Also added 11 points, four assists and two steals in the win over the 20th-ranked Tigers ... Named to All-SEC Freshman Team and SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.
High School Four-year starter and team captain for Winter Haven High School ... Averaged 7.0 points and 8.2 assists as a senior and 11.0 points and an impressive 9.0 assists per game as a junior ... In her four-year career, WHS held an impressive 119-8 overall record ... Helped the Blue Devils claim the 2007 FHSAA Class 5A State Championship with a 28-3 finish ... Only player in school history to play in four state tournaments in her career ... State finalist for the 2006-07 Wendy's High School Heisman Award ... Named to the first team of the Sun Sports/FSN Florida Girl's All-State Basketball Team ... Awarded the Polk News Chief Player of the Year honors and was a first-team All-Area selection ... Rated the top point guard in Florida by Breakdown Magazine as a junior ... Listed a No. 38 by the All-Star Girls Report ... Named the Lakeland Ledger's 2005-06 Girl's Basketball Player of the Year after helping her team finish in the state finals of the Class 5A State Tournament as a junior ... Led Winter Haven to a 32-2 overall record and a ranking as high as No. 15 in the USA Today poll ... Blue Devils also captured the Class 4A state title in her sophomore season with a 29-1 record ... First-team all-state in Class 5A her junior season and a third-team all-state selection in Class 4A by the Florida Sports Writers Association her sophomore season ... Voted football homecoming queen and Most Athletic as a senior ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Chose Kentucky over Miami, Vanderbilt and Clemson.
The Cats' Cause Played Bingo at Kentucky Children's Hospital ... Volunteered at YMCA's Fall Festival ... Participated in Cats Cultivating Character, where student-athletes teach character lessons once a month to third grade students at a local elementary school ... Volunteered to pack and deliver food for God's Pantry BackPack program ... Participated in Beaumont Centre YMCA's Fall Festival ... Volunteered at Huntertown Elementary Reading Walk-A-Thon ... Volunteered to serve lunch at the Lexington Hope Center ... Visited patients at UK's Markey Cancer Center ... Volunteered to pack bags for the Joplin, Mo., tornado victims.
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