kentuCky No. 10/12 Kentucky Wildcats vs. Auburn Tigers (14-3, 2-2 seC) Sunday, Jan. 19 • 2 p.m. ET • UK IMG Sports Network (Radio)/SEC TV (TV) November Auburn, Ala. • Auburn Arena (9,121) 11/3 Eckerd College (EXH) W, 83-35 UK Media Relations • (859) 257-3838 • (859) 608-5019 (cell) • www.UKathletics.com 11/8 at Marist W, 75-61 11/10 at Wagner W, 96-57 Women’s Basketball Contacts: Susan Lax ([email protected]) and Weston Pletcher ([email protected]) 11/13 GEORGIA SOUTHERN W, 103-38 11/17 CENTRAL MICHIGAN UKIMG/FSN W, 96-74 11/21 LIPSCOMB W, 116-49 kentuCky wildCats 11/24 at Middle Tennessee MyTV 30/CW W, 84-72 11/27 BRADLEY W, 117-77 KENTUCKY WILDCATS AUBURN TIGERS Record: 14-3, 2-2 Southeastern Conference Record: 11-6, 2-2 Southeastern Conference December Ranking: No. 10 AP / No. 12 ESPN/USA Today Ranking: Not ranked 12/1 #3/4 LOUISVILLE UKIMG/FSN W, 69-64 12/6 vs. #9/9 Baylor (N1) 4OT W, 133-130 RPI: No. 16 RPI: No. 59 12/12 at DePaul Fox Sports 1 W, 96-85 Coach: Matthew Mitchell (Miss. State, ‘95) Coach: Terri Wiliams-Flournoy (Penn St, ‘91) 12/15 EAST TENNESSEE ST UKIMG/FSN W, 73-56 Overall: 188-94 (.665) (Ninth season) Record: 173-125 (.580) (Ninth season) 12/22 #2/2 DUKE (Rupp Arena) UKIMG/FSN L, 61-69 12/29 GRAMBLING STATE W, 109-46 at UK: 158-65 (.707) (Seventh season) at AU: 30-21 (.588) (Second season) vs. AU: 7-2 vs. UK: 0-1 January 1/2 at Alabama W, 85-63 wildCats look for siXtH straiGHt win over tiGers sunday at auburn 1/5 FLORIDA CSS L, 73-83 1/9 at #10/11 South Carolina L, 59-68 • No. 10/12 Kentucky looks to remain on the winning track after defeating Missouri last Sunday in 1/12 MISSOURI ESPNU W, 80-69 Lexington, 80-69. The Wildcats are 5-1 away from home this season, 1-1 in SEC play. UK is averag- 1/19 at Auburn SEC TV 2 p.m. ing 82.5 points per game away from Lexington, with four players averaging 10.5 points or more. 1/23 ALABAMA 7 p.m. 1/26 ARKANSAS SPSO 1 p.m. • This marks just the 43rd all-time meeting against Auburn. The Tigers lead the all-time series 25-17, 1/30 at Georgia SPSO 9 p.m. including an 11-6 advantage when playing in Auburn. However, the Wildcats have been successful as February of late vs. the Tigers as they have won the last five games by an average of +23.6 points. The Cats have 2/2 LSU SPSO Noon won two in a row on the road at Auburn, the last loss coming on Feb. 28, 2010 (65-53). 2/9 at Florida CSS Noon • This week marks the third annual SEC “We Back Pat” week. The week will feature 19 conference 2/13 OLE MISS SPSO 7 p.m. matchups. Since its inception all 14 SEC schools have participated annually in the week. This year, the 2/16 at Tennessee ESPN 1 p.m. 2/20 SOUTH CAROLINA UKIMG/FSN 7 p.m. SEC is expecting more than 75 teams nationally to participate in the campaign. Kentucky’s “We Back 2/23 at Texas A&M ESPN2 2 p.m. Pat” home games are Thursday, Jan. 23 vs. Alabama and Sunday, Jan. 26 vs. Arkansas. Visit www.pat- 2/27 at Mississippi State 8 p.m. summitt.org to donate or for more information. March • Last season in Lexington, UK defeated the Tigers, 97-53, the most points scored against an Auburn 3/2 VANDERBILT ESPN2 4 p.m. team in program history. The 44-point victory also ranked as the third-largest margin of victory against an SEC opponent in school history. 3/5-9 SEC Tournament (N2) TBA 3/22-25 NCAA First & Second Rounds (N3) TBA • Kentucky charted its 700th win in program history last Sunday vs. Missouri. UK now holds a 700- 3/29-4/1 NCAA Regionals (N4) TBA 480 overall record (59.3) in 40 seasons of varsity women’s basketball. • UK is 160-221 all-time in SEC play (.419) (regular-season games only), including a 63-33 (65.6) April 4/7 & 9 NCAA Final Four (N5) TBA mark in seven seasons under Matthew Mitchell. The Wildcats have finished in the top two in the SEC race four consecutive seasons. N1 – Doubleheader with UK men’s basketball – AT&T Stadium • Senior forward DeNesha Stallworth returned to action on Jan. 5 vs. Florida after missing five games (Arlington, Texas) N2 - SEC Tournament - Duluth, Ga. (Gwinnett Center) due to arthroscopic knee surgery on her left knee (Dec. 11). In the three games since her return, she is N3 – NCAA First & Second Rds – March 22/24 and March 23/25 averaging 8.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and shooting .440 percent from the floor (11-of-25) in 17.3 minutes N4 – NCAA Regionals – March 29/31 or March 30/April 1 per game. Stallworth, who is UK’s leading scorer and third-leading rebounder, is an All-America candi- N5 – NCAA Final Four – Nashville, Tenn. (Bridgestone Arena) date and on the watch lists for all of the major national Player of the Year awards, including the Naismith Game Center Trophy, the Wade Trophy, Senior CLASS Award and the John R. Wooden Award. 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Available on www.auburntigers.com • Double-figure pts in • Averaging 12.8 • Averaging 10.5 • Double-figure pts in • Averaging 10.1 ppg 10 of last 14: Scored ppg & 6.3 rpg ppg and a team- 10 of 16 games (11.2) • 91.2% from FT line 16 vs. Missouri • Candidate for all high 9.8 rpg • Did not dress vs. (52-57), 11th nationally • Averaging 10.3 national POY awards • Leads the SEC in Missouri with a right • Taken a team- ppg this season • Team-high 16 steals rebounding leg injury high 21 charges 2013-14 uk Hoops www.ukathletics.com twitter/instagram - @ukHoopCats #neXt UK Media Relations 859.257.3838 Susan Lax, 859-608-5019 weekly media sCHedule 859.323.4310 (fax) friday - 17 saturday - 18 sunday - 19 monday - 20 tuesday - 21 wednesday - 22 tHursday - 23 Gameday practice 7-8 a.m. CT UK vs. Alabama Practice 1 p.m. ET UK at Auburn 7 p.m. ET Media Opportunity 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET Practice TBA Practice TBA Practice TBA Depart for Auburn TBA UK IMG Sports UK IMG Sports 4 p.m. ET Network (Radio) Network (Radio) SEC TV (TV) QUICK FACTS media information Location: Lexington, Ky. 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Jeff House, Shalon Pillow, Danielle Santos The University of Kentucky has partnered with StatBroadcast Systems to provide stats technologies, namely its StatMonitr wireless stat monitors and online media stats, at Kentucky home women’s basketball MEDIA RELATIONS Assoc. Media Relations Dir./WBB Contact games this season. Susan Lax To access live game stats on your personal laptop, go to: http://kentucky.statbroadcast.com. 859-257-8420 [email protected] Twitter: slax0 UK MEDIA CONFERENCE Each game week in the UK Media Room Coach Matthew Mitchell will hold a press conference to discuss Media Relations Assistant (No. 2 WBB Contact) the upcoming game. Selected players are available following the press conference. Check with UK media rela- Weston Pletcher tions for exact times and dates. 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