Nerd alert: Statistical leftovers from Kentucky’s win over Florida
Some leftover notes from Kentucky’s 65-59 win over Florida on Saturday:
▪ The Cats have won six straight and 10 of their last 11 games.
▪ Florida shot 43.1 percent from the floor, the highest percentage against UK since Georgia shot 43.5 on Jan. 21 at Rupp Arena.
▪ Florida averaged 0.913 points per possession, the third time in the last four games UK has held the opponent under 1.0 PPP.
▪ UK averaged 1.004 PPP.
▪ Florida’s PPP of 0.913 was its lowest since averaging 0.777 in a 68-51 loss at Ole Miss on Feb. 8.
▪ Florida averaged 1.330 in its last game against Arkansas.
▪ Florida’s shooting percentage of 43.1 percent was the first time in four games it had failed to shoot at least 50 percent.
▪ UK’s offensive rebound percentage of 22.2 was its lowest since 19.4 percent at Auburn on Feb. 1.
▪ Kentucky has been out-rebounded each of its last two games — by 12 at LSU and by three by Florida.
▪ UK was a perfect 10-for-10 at the foul line.
▪ The last time the Cats were perfect from the foul line was on Feb. 7, 2012, when they were 11-of-11 in a 78-58 win over Florida at Rupp Arena.
▪ Saturday was the second game in the Calipari era in which the Cats did not miss a free throw.
▪ Kentucky was 5-of-15 from three-point range.
▪ Prior to Florida, UK was 7-of-51 from three-point range over their last four games at Rupp Arena.
▪ Florida committed 16 turnovers, the most by a UK opponent since Utah committed 17 on Dec. 18.
▪ Florida’s turnover percentage was 24.7, highest since Utah’s 25.8.
▪ Over his last three games, UK point guard Ashton Hagans has made 11 assists compared to 13 turnovers.
▪ Hagans made three steals on Saturday, most since his three at Texas Tech on Jan. 25.
▪ Tyrese Maxey made seven assists, most since his eight at Georgia on Jan. 7.
▪ Maxey had seven rebounds, his most since his seven at Georgia on Jan. 7.
▪ Maxey is 1-of-11 from three-point range over his last three games.
▪ EJ Montgomery has blocked 11 shots over his last five games.
▪ Immanuel Quickly has scored in double figures in 15 straight games, including all 14 of UK’s SEC games.
▪ Quickley has scored 20-or-more points in seven games, all SEC games.
▪ Over his last two games, Quickley has made six of 10 three-point shots.
▪ Quickley’s 17 field goal attempts tied a career-high. Quickley was 7-of-17 from the floor at Texas Tech on Jan. 25, he was 8-of-17 on Saturday.
▪ Nick Richards scored nine points, fewest since he scored seven points in loss at Auburn on Feb. 1.
▪ Saturday was just the second game in SEC play Richards has failed to score in double figures.
▪ After blocking six shots at LSU, Richards did not block a shot on Saturday.
▪ Kerry Blackshear’s 18 points against Kentucky was his most since scoring 22 at Missouri on Jan. 11.
▪ Blackshear turned it over five times and has committed 11 turnovers in his last two games.
▪ Blackshear’s 14 field goal attempts (6-of-14) tied his high of 14 against Auburn on Jan. 18 (4-of-14).
▪ Saturday, Blackshear scored nine points in the game’s first 7:32, then nine more the rest of the way.
▪ Keyontae Johnson led Florida with 19 points on Saturday.
▪ Johnson’s basket with 17:06 remaining put Florida up 40-33.
▪ Johnson did not score again until the 2:09 mark, at which point Florida trailed 58-53.
▪ Johnson missed all four of his three-point attempts, and is now 1-of-10 from three-point range in his last four games.
▪ After scoring 51 points during Florida’s three-game win streak, Noah Locke field to score Saturday.
▪ Locke was 0-of-5 from the floor and all five were three-point attempts.
▪ Florida was 28-of-63 for 44.4 percent from three-point range in its three-game win streak.
▪ The Gators were 6-of-23 from three for 26.1 percent on Saturday.
▪ Florida’s Tre Mann scored an SEC-high 13 points on Saturday.
▪ Mann was three-of-four from three-point range while his teammates were three-of-20.
▪ Florida point guard Andrew Nembhard scored an SEC-low four points on Saturday.
▪ His previous low was five points at Ole Miss on Feb. 8.
▪ In his last three games, Nembhard has made 12 assists compared to 12 turnovers.
This story was originally published February 24, 2020 at 9:59 AM.
