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SCORING


Team Records

Most Points Scored
Half: 86 at LSU (1-16-96, 1st half)
Game: 143 vs. Georgia (2-27-56)
Game (both teams): 245 at Kansas (12-9-89) [KU 150, UK 95]
Season: 3,325 (1996-97) [40 games]

Fewest Points Scored
Game: 1 vs. Transylvania (2-5-1905)
Season: 538 (1924-25) [22 games]


Individual Records

Points Scored
Game: 54, Jodie Meeks at Tennessee (1-13-09)
Season: 948, Dan Issel (1969-70)
Career: 2,138, Dan Issel (1968-70)

Highest Scoring Average
Season (min. 20 games): 33.9, Dan Issel (1969-70)
Career (min. 40 games): 25.8, Dan Issel (1968-70)


FIELD GOALS


Team Records

Field Goals Made
Game: 60 vs. Georgia (2-27-56)
Season: 1,238 (1996-97)

Field Goals Attempted
Game: 125 vs. Ole Miss (2-8-64)
Season: 3,465 (1947-48)

Highest Field Goal Percentage
First Half: .786 vs. Ole Miss (1-14-81) [11-of-14]
Second Half: .875 at Alabama (2-9-80) [14-of-16]
Game: .765 vs. Notre Dame (12-29-81) [13-of-17]
Season: .556 (1982-83)


Individual Records

Field Goals Made
Game: 23, Dan Issel at Ole Miss (2-7-70)
Season: 369, Dan Issel (1969-70)
Career: 843, Jack Givens (1975-78)

Field Goals Attempted
Game: 42, Bill Spivey (2-18-50)
Season: 667, Dan Issel (1969-70)
Career: 1,638, Jack Givens (1975-78)

Highest Field Goal Percentage
Game (min. 10 made): 1.000, Rodney Dent vs. Morehead State (12-17-93) [12-of-12]; Kenny Walker vs. Western Kentucky (3-16-86) [11-of-11]; Lamont Butler vs. Louisville (12/14/2024) [10 of 10]; Justin Edwards vs. Alabama (2/24/2024) [10 of 10]
Season (min. 100 att.): .680, Marcus Lee (2015-2016) [102-of-150]
Career (min. 400 att.): .629, Nick Richards (2018-20) [281-of-447]

Longest Field Goal Made
Game: 63 feet, 7 inches, Cliff Barker vs. Vanderbilt (2-26-49 in Alumni Gym).

Other long shots on record include
53 ft. 9 in., Ralph Beard vs. Tennessee in 1947-48;
53 ft. 6 in., Linville Puckett vs. Mississippi State in 1953-54;
48 ft. 2 in., Red Hagan vs. Marquette in 1937-38;
47-feet, Vernon Hatton vs. Temple [12-7-57] that tied the score at the end of the first overtime.  UK later won the game in 3 overtimes, 85-83).


FREE THROWS


Team Records

Most Free Throws Made
Game: 46 at Vanderbilt (1-7-63)
Season: 781 (2013-14)

Most Free Throws Attempted
Game: 56 vs. Mississippi State (2-12-79)
Season: 1146 (2013-14)

Highest Free Throw Percentage
Game (min. 10 att.):
vs. Mississippi State (2/8/1983) [19 of 19]
vs. Duke (3/3/1930) [19 of 19]
vs. Austin Peay (12/19/2009) [18 of 18]
vs. Vanderbilt (2/19/2025) [13 of 13]
at Ole Miss (1/28/1989) [13 of 13]
at Vanderbilt (2/21/2024) [12 of 12]
at LSU (2/6/2024) [12 of 12]
vs. Georgia (3/13/1988) [12 of 12]
vs. LSU (3/4/2025) [11 of 11]
vs. Florida (2/7/2012) [11 of 11]
vs. Auburn (2/27/1983) [11 of 11]
at Vanderbilt (3/2/1974) [11 of 11]
vs. Alabama (2/1/1934) [11 of 11]
vs. Florida (2/22/20) [10 of 10]
at Alabama (1/18/1989) [10 of 10]

Fewest Free Throws Attempted
Game: 1 vs. Auburn (3-10-84); at Tennessee (1-5-80); vs. Georgia (2-8-75)


Individual Records

Free Throws Made
Game: 18, Dwight Anderson vs. Miss. State (1-15-79)
Season: 218, Kenny Walker (1984-85)
Career: 550, Kenny Walker (1983-86)

Free Throws Attempted
Game: 24, Cliff Hagan vs. Temple (12-18-54)
Season: 289, Julius Randle (2013-2014)
Career: 733, Kenny Walker (1983-86)

Highest Free Throw Percentage
Game (min. 10 att.):
1.000, (40 times), last by Otega Oweh vs. Ohio State (12/21/2024 ) [13-13]; most [14-14] done four times last by Immanuel Quickley vs. MISSISSIPPI STATE (2/4/20)

Game (min. 15 att.): .944, Cliff Hagan vs. Ole Miss (1-2-52) [17-of-18]
Season (min. 50 att.): .935, Tyler Herro (2018-2019) [87-of-93]
Career (min. 200 att.): .895, Immanuel Quickley (2019-20) [197-of-220]


THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS


Team Records

Most 3-point Field Goals Made
Game: 21 vs. North Carolina (12-27-89) [21-of-48]
Season: 341, 2024-25 341 of 910 in 36 games]

Most 3-point Field Goals Attempted
Game: 53 vs. UL Lafeyette (12-23-89) [15-of-53]
Season: 910, 2024-25 [341 of 910 in 36 games]

Highest 3-point Field Goal Pct.
Game (min. 10 made): vs. Alabama (3/10/2018) [12 of 18]; .667 vs. Wake Forest (3-25-93) [16-of-24]
Game (min. 20 made): .571 vs. LSU (3-4-95) [20-of-35]
Season: .409, 2023-24 [327 of 800 in 33 games]


Individual Records

Most 3-point Field Goals Made
Half: 7, Jamal Murray vs. Ohio State (12/19/2015); Jodie Meeks at Tennessee (1/13/09); Tayshaun Prince vs. North Carolina (12-8-01); Derrick Miller vs. Kansas (12-9-89)
Game: 10, Jodie Meeks at Tennessee (1/13/09) [10-of-15]
Season: 117, Jodie Meeks (12008-09) [117-of-288]
Career: 283, Tony Delk (1993-96) [283-of-712]

Most 3-point Field Goals Attempted
Game: 19, Derrick Miller vs. Kansas (12-8-90) [8-of-19]
Season: 289, Derrick Miller (1989-90) [99-of-289]
Career: 712, Tony Delk (1993-96) [283-of-712]

Highest 3-point Field Goal Pct.
Game (min. 5 made): 1.000, Wenyen Gabriel vs. Alabama (3/10/2018) [7 of 7]; Lamont Butler vs. Louisville (12/14/2024) [6 of 6]; Ramel Bradley vs. South Carolina (1-26-08) [5-of-5]; Keith Bogans vs. Tulane (12-10-02) [5-of-5]; Tayshaun Prince vs. South Carolina (2-3-01) [5-of-5]; Jamal Mashburn vs. Wake Forest (3-25-93) [5-of-5]

Season (min. 75 att.): .532, Cameron Mills (1996-97) [42-of-79]
Season (min. 100 att.): .529, Travis Ford (1992-93) [101-of-191]
Career (min. 150 att.): .475, Doron Lamb (2011-12) [144-of-303]


REBOUNDS


Team Records

Most Rebounds
Game: 108 vs. Ole Miss (2-8-64)
Season: 2,109 (1950-51)

Highest Rebounding Average
Season: 64.6 (1955-56) [1,680 in 26 games]

Highest Rebounding Margin
Season: 21.5 (1955-56)


Individual Records

Most Rebounds
Game: 34, Bob Burrow vs. Temple (12-10-55); Bill Spivey vs. Xavier (2-13-51)
Season: 567, Bill Spivey (1950-51)
Career: 1,078, Dan Issel (1968-70)

Highest Rebounding Average
Season: 17.7, Bob Burrow (1954-55) [459 in 26 games]
Career: 16.1, Bob Burrow (1955-56) [823 in 51 games]


ASSISTS


Team Records

Most Assists
Game: 35 vs. San Jose State (3-14-96)
Season: 783 (1995-96)


Individual Records

Most Assists
Game: 17, TyTy Washington Jr. vs. Georgia (1/8/2022)
Season: 246, Tyler Ulis (2015-16)
Career: 646, Dirk Minniefield (1980-83)

Most Assists Per Game
Season: 7.0, Tyler Ulis (2015-16) [246 in 35 games]
Career: 5.3, Sean Woods (1990-92) [482 in 91 games]


BLOCKS


Team Records

Most Blocks
Game: 18 vs. St. John’s (12-1-11)
Season: 344 (2011-12)


Individual Records

Most Blocks
Game: 12, Nerlens Noel at Ole Miss (1/29/2013)
Season: 186, Anthony Davis (2011-12)
Career: 268, Jamaal Magloire (1997-00)

Most Blocks Per Game
Season: 4.65, Anthony Davis (2011-12) [186 in 40 games]
Career: 4.65, Anthony Davis (2011-12) [186 in 40 games]


STEALS


Team Records

Most Steals
Game: 23 vs. Tennessee-Martin (11-26-94); vs. Mississippi State (1-9-91)
Season: 480 (1996-97)

Individual Records

Most Steals
Game: 8, Cason Wallace vs. Michigan State (11/15/2022); Ashton Hagans vs. North Carolina (12/22/2018); Rajon Rondo vs. Mississippi State (2-19-05); Wayne Turner vs. George Washington (11-24-97)

Season: 87, Rajon Rondo (2004-05)
Career: 238, Wayne Turner (1996-99)

Most Steals Per Game
Season: 2.56, Rajon Rondo (2004-05) [87 in 34 games]
Career: 2.49, Reed Sheppard (2024) [82 in 33 games]


MISCELLANEOUS


Team Records

Most Games Played
Season: 40 (1996-97); (2011-12); (2013-14)

Most Wins
Season: 38 (2011-12);(2014-15)

Fewest Wins
Season (20 or more games): 9 ( 2020-21) [9-16]

Longest Win Streak
Overall: 38 (11/14/2014-4/4/2015)
SEC: 51 (Jan. 28, 1950 to Jan. 8, 1955)

Longest Home Win Streak
Overall: 129 (Jan. 4, 1943 to Jan. 8, 1955)
SEC: 70 (Jan. 21, 1939 to Jan. 8, 1955)

Most Losses
Season: 19 (1988-89) [13-19]

Fewest Losses
Season: 0, 1911-12 [9-0] and 1953-54 [25-0]

Longest Losing Streak
Overall: 9 (1922-23)
SEC: 6 (1988-89)

Most Personal Fouls
Game: 41 vs. Tennessee (1-21-92); vs. Ohio (1-12-48)
Season: 847 (1991-92)

Fewest Personal Fouls
Season: 307 (1944-45)


Individual Records

Most Games Played
Season: 40, Anthony Epps, Jamaal Magloire, Ron Mercer and Wayne Turner (1996-97); Anthony Davis, Michael-Kidd Gilchrist, Doron Lamb, Darius Miller, Marquis Teague, Kyle Wiltjer (2011-12)); Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Alex Poythress, Julius Randle, James Young (2013-14)

Career: 152, Darius Miller (2008-12)
Career (SEC): 72, Kenny Walker (1983-86)

Most Games Started
Season: 40, Ron Mercer (1996-97); Anthony Davis, Marquis Teague (2011-12); Aaron Harrison, Julius Randle (2013-14)
Career: 136, Ralph Beard (1946-49)

Most Consecutive Games Started
Career: 110, Chuck Hayes (Feb. 19, 2002 to Mar. 27, 2005); Alex Groza (Nov. 28, 1946 to Mar. 26, 1949)
Career (SEC): 54, Dan Issel (1968-70); Mike Pratt (1968-70); Jack Givens (1975-78)

Most Wins
Career: 132, Wayne Turner (1996-99)

 

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.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date