KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | NEW YORK, NY
DEC 21, 2024
ATTENDANCE: 19,812

Final Score: Ohio State 85, #4 Kentucky 65

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky is now 10-2 while Ohio State improves to 8-4.
• The series is tied 11-11 with OSU winning the last three meetings.
  • Ohio State leads in games played on neutral courts, 7-4.
• Kentucky is 5-6 in the CBS Sports Classic, 0-3 vs. Ohio State in the event.
• Kentucky is 38-17 all-time in games played in the New York City area, including 14-7 in the modern version of Madison Square Garden.
• Mark Pope is 197-110 as head coach, including 10-2 at Kentucky.
• Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats take a holiday break before returning to the court Tuesday, Dec. 31, in Rupp Arena vs. Brown University. Game time is 2 p.m. and it will be televised on ESPNU.

Team Notes

• Led by Otega Oweh’s 13 of 13, Kentucky did a good job getting to the free throw line, making 27 of 32.
• UK had 11 assists on 17 made baskets, an assist percentage of 64.7.
  • UK entered the game with an assist percentage of 59.1.
• UK won fast-break points, 7 to 4.

Player Notes  

• For the third time this season, Otega Oweh had a season-high 21 points.
  • He made a career-high 13 of 13 at the foul line.
  • He tied the fifth-best free throw performance in school history, as four Wildcats have had games making 14 of 14.
  • He has scored in double figures in every game this season.
• Jaxson Robinson had 10 points, his sixth straight game in double figures.
  • He made a pair of 3-pointers. It is his fifth straight game, and 10^th game this season making multiple 3-pointers.
• Andrew Carr had 13 points, his fourth straight double-figure game and ninth of the season.
• Koby Brea had eight points, including two 3-pointers. He has made at least one 3-pointer in every game this season and this was his 10^th game with multiples threes.
• Amari Williams had six points and a game-high eight rebounds.

In the First Half

• Kentucky’s starters were Lamont Butler, Jaxson Robinson, Otega Oweh, Andrew Carr and Amari Williams. UK has an 8-2 record with this lineup.
• Brandon Garrison and Koby Brea were the first substitutions at 15:36.
• With UK ahead 21-20, Ohio State went on an 8-0 run and UK called timeout at 4:26. OSU never trailed again.
• OSU continued a string of five consecutive made field goals in stretching the lead to 35-25.
• UK went more than eight minutes without a field goal until a Williams dunk with 47 seconds left.
• Ohio State went to halftime ahead 39-30. It tied UK’s lowest-scoring half of the season, also 30 in the first half at Clemson.

In the Second Half

• Kentucky began the second half with the starters.
• Ohio State scored the first six points to make it 45-30.
• Kentucky cut the deficit to six, 51-45, and OSU called timeout at 14:20.
• OSU came out of the timeout with five quick points to reclaim a double-digit lead.
• Kentucky got back within eight points at 59-51 but got no closer.