Postgame notes: Kentucky finally gets another SEC Tournament win

 Kentucky has won three in a row and is now 22-10 overall, while Oklahoma is now 20-13.
o UK leads the series 5-0 with tonight being the first meeting in the SEC Tournament.

 Mark Pope is 209-118 as head coach, including 22-10 at Kentucky.
 Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats advance to the SEC quarterfinals vs. Alabama on Friday at 9:30 p.m. ET (8:30 p.m. in Nashville). The Crimson Tide swept the games this season, 102-97 in Lexington on Jan. 18 and 96-83 in Tuscaloosa on Feb. 22.

Kentucky in the SEC Tournament

 Kentucky is now 136-30 all-time in the SEC Tournament.
 UK is 22-6 in SECT games played in Nashville, including 19-6 in the current arena.
 UK is 1-1 in the second round of the tourney.

Team Notes

 Tonight’s win gives Kentucky its first three-game win streak of the season vs. SEC opponents.
 Kentucky shot 51.7 percent from the field, 31 of 60. The Wildcats are 15-1 this season when making at least 50 percent of their shots.
 Kentucky won the rebounding, 36-28. The Wildcats are 15-4 this season when outrebounding the opponent.
 With Otega Oweh reaching 1,000 career points tonight, he is the eighth current Wildcat to eclipse the millennium mark in his career – also Ansley Almonor, Koby Brea, Lamont Butler, Andrew Carr, Kerr Kriisa, Jaxson Robinson and Amari Williams.
o Kentucky is the only team in the country with eight 1,000-point scorers on the roster.

Player Notes  

 Otega Oweh led the Wildcats with 27 points, adding four rebounds, along with team highs with five assists and three steals.
o The two highest scoring games of his career have come in the last two weeks vs. Oklahoma, including 28 in Norman on Feb. 26.
o Oweh scored the game-winning basket in the closing seconds of each game, both of which were one-point wins.
o He has 10 games with at least 20 points this season, including six of the last eight, and all three games in the current win streak.
o Oweh surpassed 1,000 career points tonight and how has 1,026 as a collegian.
o He also had three steals, his third straight game with three thefts.

 Koby Brea finished with 22 points, one shy of his career best set earlier this season vs. Florida.
 Andrew Carr tallied 11 points and a team-high seven rebounds.
 Lamont Butler played exited the game with 9:35 remaining in the first half. He did not
return, finishing with two points and three assists in eight minutes of action.

In the First Half

 Kentucky’s starters were Lamont Butler, Koby Brea, Otega Oweh, Andrew Carr and Amari Williams for the fourth-consecutive game.
 First substitution was Brandon Garrison at 16:42.
 Kentucky scored on its first three possessions, capped by 3-pointers from Oweh and Carr, for an 8-0 lead and Oklahoma called timeout at 18:05.
o UK eventually scored on its first five possessions for a 12-3 advantage, its largest of the half.

 Trailing 25-18, Oklahoma went on a 9-0 run and took its first lead, coaxing a UK timeout at 4:41.
 The teams played evenly the rest of the way and UK held a 40-38 lead at halftime.
o Brea and Oweh led UK with 12 and 11 points, respectively.
o UK is now 19-1 on the year when leading at the half.

In the Second Half