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Cason Wallace Earns SEC Freshman of the Week Honors

Cason Wallace earned SEC Freshman of the Week accolades after posting a career-high 27 points in Kentucky’s win over Florida A&M on Wednesday

Freshman Cason Wallace earned Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Week accolades after posting a career-high 27 points in Kentucky’s win over Florida A&M on Wednesday.

Wallace produced a stat line of 27 points, a career-high-tying nine assists, four steals and two rebounds in the win for the Wildcats. It pushed UK’s win streak at home to 26 games which ranks as the longest home-winning streak in the conference.

Kentucky has dominated the weekly SEC awards with John Calipari at the helm. UK has won more weekly SEC honors (120) than any other school during the Calipari era, including 91 SEC Freshman of the Week awards and 29 SEC Player of the Week honors.

Wallace’s honor is the first of the season for the Wildcats.

UK’s dynamic freshman ranks among the league leaders in assists-per-game (3rd), steals per game (4th) assist-to-turnover ratio (5th) and minutes per game (8th). For the season, Wallace is averaging 11.8 points, 4.4 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game. He’s scored in double figures in six games and led the Cats in steals in a team-high seven games.

Wallace and the Wildcats open SEC play on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET at Missouri. The game will be televised by SEC Network.

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 24, 1947, before a Madison Square Garden record crowd of 18,493, Wat Misaka held Ralph Beard to two points and Utah ended the Wildcats’ bid for back-to-back NIT Championships.

 

On March 24, 1951, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Illinois in the 1951 NCAA Final Four.  After UK standouts Bill Spivey and Cliff Hagan fouled out, Shelby Linville, a 6-foot-5 junior, scored Kentucky’s final six points, including the game-winning basket on a layup with 12 seconds left before 16,425 in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

On March 24, 2017, in a highly anticipated matchup with UCLA, which beat the Wildcats in the regular season in Rupp Arena, freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox scores an NCAA Tournament freshman record 39 points to propel UK to the Elite Eight.

 

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