Saturday, January 7, 2017

What SEC road sites have been most difficult for UK?

(Updated through road win at Georgia on 2/18/17)

It's no secret that UK has dominated the SEC in basketball.  Especially in Lexington.  Their combined home conference record against current league members?  520-54, a winning percentage of 90.6%.  Ridiculous!

The road has, of course, been significantly tougher.  But UK has still performed to an elite level in opposing conference venues.  Let's rank the opponents from easiest to toughest.

UK's all-time record in conference regular season road games at:

1) Columbia MO (Missouri) - 100% (2-0)
2) Sewanee - 100% (1-0) - left SEC after 1940
3) New Orleans (Tulane) - 76.9% (10-3) - left SEC after 1966
4) Columbia SC (South Carolina) - 75% (18-6)
5) Starkville (MSU) - 73.3% (34-12)
6) Oxford (Ole Miss) - 73.6% (28-10)
7) Athens (UGA) - 72.7% (40-15)
8) Auburn - 68.2% (30-14)
8) Atlanta (Georgia Tech) - 68.2% (15-7) - left SEC after 1964
10) College Station (A&M) - 66.7% (2-1)
11) Nashville (Vandy) - 66.3% (53-27)
12) Baton Rouge (LSU) - 60.9% (28-18)
13) Tuscaloosa (Alabama) - 58.5% (31-22)
14) Gainesville (Florida) - 58.3% (35-25)
15) Knoxville (Tennessee) - 52.4% (43-39)
16) Fayetteville (Arkansas) - 46.2% (6-7)

TOTAL: 64.6% (376-206)

TOTAL AGAINST CURRENT MEMBERS: 64.1% (350-196)

These results probably don't seem very surprising.  Fayetteville, Knoxville, Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, Baton Rouge and Nashville are exactly what you'd expect are the top tier of difficulty for the Cats.  They've had some battles (and some nightmarish losses) in all of those locales.

Still - how crazy is it that only ONE league team even has a non-losing home record against UK?  The perfectionist in me wants UK to ruin that mark, too!

What if we look at more recent history?  Just the last TEN road games at these places?

Columbia, MO - 100% (2-0)
Auburn - 80% (8-2)
Starkville - 80% (8-2)
Athens - 70% (7-3)
Oxford - 70% (7-3)
Columbia, SC - 70% (7-3)
College Station - 67% (2-1)
Baton Rouge - 60% (6-4)
Tuscaloosa - 60% (6-4)
Fayetteville - 50% (5-5)
Nashville - 50% (5-5)
Gainesville - 40% (4-6)
Knoxville - 40% (4-6)


And just under Calipari?

Starkville - 100% (5-0)
Columbia, MO - 100% (2-0)
Auburn - 80% (4-1)
Oxford - 75% (3-1)
Nashville - 71% (5-2)
Athens - 67% (4-2)
Columbia, SC - 67% (4-2)
College Station - 67% (2-1)
Tuscaloosa - 60% (3-2)
Baton Rouge - 60% (3-2)
Gainesville - 50% (4-4)
Knoxville - 42% (3-4)
Fayetteville - 25% (1-3)

His total SEC road regular season mark is 43-24 (64.2%)

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