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POSTGAME NOTES

Compiled by UK Athletics

Final Score: No. 4/4 Kentucky 66, Missouri 58

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky improved to 22-4 overall and 11-2 in the Southeastern Conference.

• With Tennessee’s win earlier in the night, UK remains a game out of first place in the SEC and a half game behind LSU. The Tigers host Florida on Wednesday.

• Missouri falls to 12-13, 3-10 in the league.

• Kentucky increased its series lead to 12-1 and 4-1 in Columbia, Mo.

• Next up for UK: the Wildcats return home to host Auburn on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. That game will be televised by CBS.

• Kentucky won the first meeting, 82-80, on Jan. 19 in Auburn.

In the First Half

• Kentucky started Ashton Hagans, Tyler Herro, Keldon Johnson, PJ Washington and Reid Travis for the 19th time this season. UK is now 15-4 with that lineup.

• After Mizzou opened the game with a 3, Kentucky followed with a 10-2 run going into the first media timeout.

• Following a brief 11-10 Missouri lead, Kentucky quickly answered. A high-low alley-oop combination from Travis to Washington for a flush sparked a 9-0 Kentucky run. Herro scored the seven after that thanks to a flagrant foul that earned him two free throws and a layup in the same possession, followed by a 3 on the ensuing possession.

• Herro scored his seven straight points in just 18 seconds of game time.

• Up 22-17 with 7:24 left in the first half, UK outscored Missouri 19-6 heading into halftime for a 41-23 lead.

• UK shot 50 percent in the first half and held Mizzou to 30.8 percent.

• Washington, who was named the Oscar Robertson Trophy National Player of the Week by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association earlier in the day, kept his recent momentum rolling with 15 first-half points and five rebounds.

• He made 6 of 10 shots in the first half, including two 3-pointers.

• Nick Richards (pictured) had one of his finest halves of the season with seven points in seven minutes in the first half.

In the Second Half

• UK started the second half with Hagans, Herro, Johnson, Washington and Richards.

• Hagans carried the Cats early in the second half with eight points in the first 5:26 of game time, including two 3-pointers.

• Travis exited the game and did not return with a right knee sprain at the 10:24 mark.

• UK did not make a field goal for the final 6:57 of the game.

Team Notes

• It was UK’s seventh straight road victory, the program’s longest road winning streak since the 2014-15 season that saw the Wildcats win its first 38 games overall.

• Kentucky is now 240-40 vs. Associated Press unranked competition under John Calipari.

• UK held Missouri to 58 points and 37-percent shooting.

• The Wildcats improved to 176-16 under Calipari when holding the opponent to less than 40-percent shooting, including 12-0 this season

• Kentucky is 167-7 when limiting the opponent to 63 points or fewer under Calipari.

• The Wildcats continue to put opponents away when they get up by double figures. UK moved to 255-5 all-time under Calipari when leading by at least 10 points in the contest. A remarkable 85.9 percent of Calipari’s 297 wins at Kentucky have featured a double-digit lead at some point in the contest.

• Kentucky lost the rebounding 28-34.

• UK is now 3-2 this season when losing the rebounding.

• UK won points in the paint 22-20.

• UK is 19-3 when prevailing in the paint.

• The Wildcats have won 12 of their last 13 games. During that 13-game span, UK has …

• Limited the opponents to 38.5 percent from the field.

• Limited the opponents to 31.6 percent from 3-point range.

• Limited the opponents to 60.7 points per game.

Player Notes

• PJ Washington, this week’s reigning USBWA National Player of the Week, showed no signs of ending his conference tear with a game-high-tying 18 points and an outright game-high eight rebounds.

• He came up two points shy of a 10th 20-point game of the season. He’s scored at least 15 in nine straight, but broke a streak of four-straight 20-plus performances.

• He is averaging 20.7 points and 8.1 boards over the last nine games.

• He has 11 straight games in double figures.

• Tyler Herro continued to be a road warrior with 18 points and five rebounds. He’s averaging a team-high 16.1 points and 4.3 rebounds while shooting 52.3 percent and 43.2 from 3 in Kentucky’s eight road games.

• The Wildcats are now 13-0 when he scores at least 15 points.

• Nick Richards came off the bench to score seven points in 12 minutes, adding four rebounds.

• UK is 10-0 this season when he scores at least four points.

• Ashton Hagans scored 12 points, reaching double figures for the seventh time this year, but first since Jan. 26 vs. Kansas.

Coach John Calipari

• Calipari is now 297-68 at UK, tying Joe B. Hall for the second-most victories by a UK head coach in program history. He trails only the great Adolph Rupp, who won 1,066 games at Kentucky.

• It took the legendary Hall 397 games to get to 297. It took Calipari 365 games. Rupp did it two games faster than Calipari.

• Calipari has a 742-208 all-time on-court record.

• Calipari is now 9-3 vs. Missouri all-time.

• He is just three wins shy of 300 victories at Kentucky.