Kentucky knocked off Oklahoma 85-84 last night on a late Otega Oweh layup.
The win was the first SEC Tournament win for the Wildcats since 2022.
The two highest scoring games of Oweh’s career have come in the last two weeks vs. Oklahoma. He had 28 against the Sooners in Norman and 27 last night. Oweh also scored his 1,000th career point during the game.
Check out all the postgame notes from last night’s win:
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KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT | BRIDGESTONE ARENA | NASHVILLE,
TENN.
MARCH 13, 2025
ATTENDANCE: 16,347
FINAL SCORE: No. 15/19 Kentucky 85, Oklahoma 84
Team Records and Series Notes
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
Kentucky began the second half with Collin Chandler, Brea, Oweh, Carr and Williams.
Nursing a 66-65 lead, Kentucky called timeout with 6:39 left. On the next four possessions in a two-minute span, UK got 3-pointers from Oweh and Brea, a basket-and-one from Oweh, and a dunk by Garrison and suddenly the Wildcats led 77-65, their largest lead of the game.
Kentucky led 80-70 with 1:26 remaining but Oklahoma stormed back to take an 84-83 lead with 5.6 seconds remaining.
Oweh took the inbounds pass and drove the length of the court for the game-winning layup with 0.5 left on the clock.
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