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Some notes and stats for 3-0 Kentucky:
- Kentucky has made 28 of 64 three-point attempts thus far for a percentage of 43.8. Before you are convinced this is a better shooting team than last year, the 2009-10 Cats made 21 of 52 threes in its first three games for a percentage of 40.4.
- Free throws are a definite problem. Through three games, Kentucky has made just 35 of 65 from the stripe for 53.8 percent.
- Surprising free throw stat: Jon Hood is just three of seven at the line.
- Rebounding has not been a problem, or was not against Oklahoma. The Cats got 35.3 percent of the available offensive rebounds. Oklahoma snared 28.2 percent of its available offensive boards.
- Josh Harrellson grabbed a season-low three rebounds against the Sooners.
- DeAndre Liggins has played 103 minutes and is still looking for his first offensive rebound.
- Liggins did have three steals against the Sooners.
- Terrence Jones has two double-doubles in his first three games. Patrick Patterson also had two double-doubles in his first three games. Patterson had 12 points and 12 rebounds against Gardner-Webb in his second game as a Cat. He scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds against Liberty in his third game.
- The Cats were outscored 36-34 in second half of the 76-64 win over Oklahoma. That’s the first half in six so far this year that John Calipari’s team has been outscored.
- In its first three games, Kentucky has led at the half by 15, 14 and 14.
- UK shot 54.9 percent vs. Portland and 50.0 vs Oklahoma. UK shot 50 percent or better in back-to-back seven times last season.
- Oklahoma managed just six assists, the lowest total against UK since South Carolina was credited with just six assists in the Gamecocks’ upset of Kentucky last year in Columbia.
- After making 13 of 26 shots in his first two games, Brandon Knight was just 4-of-15 vs. Oklahoma.
- Knight also had five turnovers.
- Doron Lamb has scored in double figures in all three games, and has hit eight of 12 three-pointers.
- Neither Jarrod Polson or Stacy Poole played against OU.
- UK’s offense has been pretty efficient so far, posting a 1.26 points per possession average against East Tennessee, a 1.31 vs. Portland and 1.13 versus Oklahoma. Not bad considering the Cats’ woeful free throw shooting thus far.
