Crunching some numbers from UK’s win:
- Kentucky shot 51.1 percent from the floor.
- That’s the second straight game UK has 50 percent or better.
- Cats shot 64.5 in win over Lafayette.
- UK shot 41 free throw attempts.
- That’s the most since taking 44 against Baylor in South Region final last year.
- Kentucky got just 29.6 percent of its offensive rebound opportunities.
- Morehead got 35.6 percent of its offensive rebound opportunities.
- UK averaged 1.133 points per possession.
- Morehead averaged 1.020 points per possession.
- UK had 13 turnovers and just 11 assists.
- That’s first time this year it has had a negative assist-to-turnover ratio.
- Archie Goodwin scored a career-high 28 points. His previous best was 16.
- Goodwin shot 17 free throws, making 12.
- He’s the first UK player to take as many as 17 free throws since 2010.
- DeMarcus Cousins made seven of 17 against Tennessee on March 13, 2010.
- Nerlens Noel had a career-high 11 rebounds and a career-high six blocks.
- Alex Poythress has scored 20-or-more points in each of the last three games.
- Poythress scored 20 tonight.
- Poythress has made 12 of 13 free throws over the last two games.
- Julius Mays scored 11 points, first time he has scored in double-figures as a Cat.
