The Kentucky WBB team took on the Purdue Boilermakers and came out on top with a convincing 82-52 win at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Amelia Hassett led the Wildcats with a season-high 22 points, while Georgia Amoore scored 21 points, eclipsing the 2,000-point mark for her career. She is ranked seventh in NCAA DI among active career leaders. Dazia Lawrence added 13 points, Clara Strack had a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds, and Teonni Key contributed 10 points and eight rebounds.
The Wildcats overcame a slow start—they trailed 12-8 after the first quarter—to dominate the rest of the game. The Boilermakers came out in a box and one defense on Georgia Amoore, which slowed down the Cats early on.
In the second quarter, Coach Kenny Brooks made some adjustments for the Wildcats that made a significant difference. Amoore played more aggressively, scoring nine points in the quarter. The Cats took a halftime lead 32-23. Midway through the third quarter, the score was 39-33 when Kentucky took complete control of the game. The Wildcats finished the quarter on a 13-0 run to lead 52-33 after three.
Amelia Hassett caught fire in the fourth period, scoring 11 of her 22 points. She made a season-high five 3-pointers on 5-of-10 from the arc. With Amelia’s 22 points in tonight’s game, four different players have scored 20-plus points this season. Kentucky outscored Purdue in the final three quarters 74-40 while shooting 29-53 from the field for 54.7% the rest of the game after their slow start.
This win marks Kentucky’s first road victory of the season and improves their record to 9-1. The win marked UK’s largest margin of victory in a non-conference road game (30 points) since Nov. 10th, 2013, at Wagner. The 16th-ranked Kentucky Women’s Basketball team has two remaining games, Dec. 20th vs. Belmont and Dec. 28th vs. Western Kentucky at home before SEC play begins.
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