UK's record against each school in the SEC tournament

(updated through 2017 tournament)

Kentucky is 130-25 in the SEC tournament, and have taken home 30 titles (the rest of the league has 27 combined).

Against each school (Georgia Tech and Tulane left long ago):

Mississippi: 15-0 (100%)
Georgia Tech: 5-0 (100%)

Texas A&M: 1-0 (100%)
Auburn: 13-1 (92.9%)
Georgia: 11-1 (90.9%)
Arkansas: 9-1 (90%)
Louisiana State: 16-2 (88.9%)
Alabama: 15-2 (88.2%)
Tulane: 6-1 (85.7%)
Mississippi State: 8-2 (80%)
Florida: 13-4 (76.5%)
Tennessee: 11-4 (73.3%)
South Carolina: 3-2 (60%)
Vanderbilt: 4-5 (44.4%)

Some thoughts, and additional facts:

1) I hate Vanderbilt.  They're like our SEC Tournament version of UConn.  Their only two titles (1951 and 2012) were both won at our expense, and they also defeated us in 1981, 1989 and 2013.  Our victories against them were in 1940, 1947, 1992 and 2003.  Really strange that we haven't met more frequently.

2) No surprise that we dominate Ole Miss and Auburn, just as we have in the regular season.

3) It is, however, a bit surprising that UK has a combined 24-3 record against Arkansas and LSU, two teams that have been very difficult opponents in the regular season.

4) We still haven't faced Missouri.

Kentucky basketball vs. Auburn all-time (17 different arenas)

Kentucky has been extremely successful against Auburn throughout the years, to put it mildly.  The overall record is 91-18 (83.5%), second only to our marks against Ole Miss (89%) and Missouri (9-0).  Let's check out the breakdown...

Home games: 45-2 (95.7%)

Rupp Arena: 25-2 (92.6%) - no losses at home since 1988

Memorial Coliseum: 18-0 (100%) - complete domination

Alumni Gym: 1-0 (100%)

Buell Armory Gym: 1-0 (100%)

Road games: 30-14 (68.2%)

Auburn Arena: 3-1 (75%) - lost in 2016

Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum: 24-9 (72.7%)

Auburn Sports Arena: 3-4 (42.9%)

Neutral sites: 16-2 (88.9%)

Garrett Coliseum (Montgomery, AL): 3-0 (100%) - regular season

Birmingham City Auditorium: 0-1 (0%) - regular season

Jefferson County Armory (Louisville): 5-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center: 1-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

Rupp Arena: 1-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

Memorial Gymnasium (Nashville): 1-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

The Omni (Atlanta): 0-1 (0%) - SEC Tournament

Georgia Dome (Atlanta): 2-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

The Pyramid (Memphis): 1-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

Superdome (New Orleans): 1-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

Bridgestone Arena (Nashville): 1-0 (100%) - SEC Tournament

By type of game:

Regular season SEC home games: 43-2
Regular season SEC road games: 30-14
Regular season SEC neutral games: 3-1
Regular season SEC games overall: 76-17

Regular season pre-SEC home games: 2-0

SEC Tournament: 13-1

By coach:

Calipari: 8-1
Billy G: 2-0
Tubby: 11-1
Pitino: 11-1
Sutton: 5-4
Hall: 23-6
Rupp: 29-5
Ecklund: 1-0
Buchheit: 1-0

UK's record against each school in the SEC Tournament

(updated through 2016 tournament)

Kentucky is 127-25 in the SEC tournament, and have taken home 29 titles (the rest of the league has 27 combined).

Against each school:

Mississippi: 15-0 (100%)
Georgia Tech: 5-0 (100%)

Texas A&M: 1-0 (100%)
Auburn: 13-1 (92.9%)
Georgia: 10-1 (90.9%)
Louisiana State: 16-2 (88.9%)
Arkansas: 8-1 (88.9%)
Alabama: 14-2 (87.5%)
Tulane: 6-1 (85.7%)
Mississippi State: 8-2 (80%)
Florida: 13-4 (76.5%)
Tennessee: 11-4 (73.3%)
South Carolina: 3-2 (60%)
Vanderbilt: 4-5 (44.4%)

Some thoughts, and additional facts:

1) I hate Vanderbilt.  They're like our SEC Tournament version of UConn.  Their only two titles (1951 and 2012) were both won at our expense, and they also defeated us in 1981, 1989 and 2013.  Our victories against them were in 1940, 1947, 1992 and 2003.  Really strange that we haven't met more frequently.

2) No surprise that we dominate Ole Miss and Auburn, just as we have in the regular season.

3) It is, however, a bit surprising that UK has a combined 24-3 record against Arkansas and LSU, two teams that have been very difficult opponents in the regular season.

4) We still haven't faced Missouri.

Longest Winning Streaks in Kentucky Basketball History

(updated through 2016)

In Kentucky's storied history, they have won 8 national titles, reached 17 Final Fours and won more games than any other school.  Many of those wins have come consecutively...and here are their longest streaks of all time.  As you would expect, most if not all of these streaks occurred during either national championship seasons or years when they absolutely SHOULD have won the whole thing, with #1 being the most painful example.

1) 38 games during the 2014-2015 season.

Coach: John Calipari

Leading scorer during the season: Aaron Harrison

Loss before it began: 60-54 to Connecticut in National Title Game, 4/7/14

First win: 85-45 over Grand Canyon at Rupp Arena, 11/14/14

Notable victories in streak: #5 Kansas (by 32 points), #6 Texas, #21 North Carolina, UCLA (by 39 points), at #4 Louisville, won 28th SEC Tournament title over #21 Arkansas

Last win: 68-66 over Notre Dame in the Midwest Regional Final, 3/28/15

Loss to end the streak: 71-64 to Wisconsin in a National Semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, 4/4/15

Ranking: #1 pre-season, finished as national semifinalists.

Notes: UK became the first power conference team to finish a regular season undefeated since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers, and only team other than Wichita State in 2014 to enter NCAA tournament 34-0.  They are the first team to ever start a season 38-0, surpassing Wichita State's 35-0.  Alas, the perfect season was not to be...and it was made ten times worse when Duke stole the 2015 title.

2) 32 games over 2 seasons (1953-54 and 1954-55).

Coach: Adolph Rupp

Leading scorer during the season: Cliff Hagan

Loss before it began: 64-57 to St. John's in the Elite Eight, 3/22/52.

First win: 86-59 over Temple at Memorial Coliseum, 12/5/53.

Notable victories in streak: #13 Duke, #16 LaSalle, #8 Minnesota, #8 LSU in SEC playoff to end 1954 season, #2 Utah and #4 LaSalle in the following season

Last win: 101-69 at Temple, 1/1/55

Loss to end the streak: 59-58 to Georgia Tech at Memorial Coliseum, 1/8/55

Ranking: #2 at start, #1 at end

Notes: The 1953-54 season remains UK's only undefeated year.  It followed a year in which there was no Kentucky basketball, due to the infamous point-shaving scandal.  The 25-0 Wildcats did not play in the postseason because of a rule preventing graduate students from participating.  The following season, they extended the streak to 32 games.  The loss to Georgia Tech is equally significant for ending UK's 129-game home winning streak, which still stands as the NCAA record.  They hadn't lost a home game in more than 12 years - since falling to Ohio State at Alumni Gym on January 2nd, 1943.

3) 27 games during the 1995-1996 season.

Coach: Rick Pitino

Leading scorer during the season: Tony Delk

Loss before it began: 92-82 to #5 Massachusetts in Great Eight at Auburn Hills, Michigan on 11/28/95.

First win: 89-82 over Indiana at Indianapolis, 12/2/95

Notable victories in streak: #16 Georgia Tech (by 23 points), #25 Louisville (by 23 points), at #12 Mississippi State (by 18 points)

Loss to end the streak: 84-73 to #25 Mississippi State in the SEC Tournament Championship game at New Orleans, 3/10/96.  Dontae Jones scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.  His better-known teammate Erick Dampier actually contributed very little to the upset, going 2 for 11 from the field.  Tony Delk was ice cold, shooting 5 of 19.

Ranking: #1 at start and end (fell to #5 in first poll after the UMass loss, back to #1 in late February)

Notes: Went on to win school's 6th national title, and defeated UMass in the Final Four along the way.  

4) 26 games during the 2002-2003 season.

Coach: Tubby Smith

Leading scorer during the season: Keith Bogans

Loss before it began: 81-63 at unranked Louisville, 12/28/02.  Fell to a record of 6-3 at the time.

First win: 115-87 over Tennessee State at Rupp Arena on 12/30/02.  

Notable victories in streak: #10 Notre Dame (by 15 points), at #15 Alabama (by 17), #1 Florida (by 15), #3 Florida on Senior Night, won SEC Tournament, beat Wisconsin in Sweet 16

Loss to end the streak: 83-69 to Marquette in the Elite Eight at Minneapolis, 3/29/03.  Dwyane Wade had 29 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.  Keith Bogans scored 15 points in spite of suffering a high ankle sprain in the Sweet 16.  

Ranking: #20 at start, #1 at end

Notes: This was probably Tubby Smith's best team, but Bogans' injury was ill-timed and they ran into a future NBA star.

5) 26 games over 2 seasons (1945-46 and 1946-47).

Coach: Adolph Rupp

Leading scorer during the season: Alex Groza

Loss before it began: 56-47 to Notre Dame at Louisville (Jefferson County Armory) on 1/26/46

First win: 54-26 over Georgia Tech at Alumni Gym, 1/28/46

Notable victories in streak: Michigan State, won SEC Tournament, won NIT over Arizona/West Virginia/Rhode Island, DePaul, St. John's

Loss to end the streak: 37-31 to Oklahoma A&M at Sugar Bowl (New Orleans) 12/30/46.  

Rankings: N/A

Notes: Stars like Groza, Jones, Beard and Barker went on to win championships for Rupp.

The rest of the top ten....

6) 25 wins in 1965-66, ended with loss at Tennessee.

7) 24 wins in 2011-12, ended with loss to Vanderbilt in SEC Tournament Championship Game.

8) 24 wins in 1932-33 and 1933-34, ended with loss to Florida in first round of the second-ever SEC Tournament.

9) 23 wins in 1951-52, ended with loss to St. John's in Elite Eight.  After this loss, they won 32 more games in a row (see #1 on this list).

10) 21 wins in 1950-51, ended with loss to Vanderbilt in SEC Tournament Championship Game.

10) 21 wins in 1948-49, ended with loss to Loyola in NIT, but they subsequently won the NCAA Championship.

UK's record against each school in the SEC Tournament

(updated after 2015 tournament)

Kentucky is 124-25 in the SEC tournament, and have taken home 28 titles (the rest of the league has 27 combined).

Against each school:

Mississippi: 15-0 (100%)
Georgia Tech: 5-0 (100%)
Auburn: 13-1 (92.9%)
Georgia: 9-1 (90%)
Louisiana State: 16-2 (88.9%)
Arkansas: 8-1 (88.9%)
Alabama: 13-2 (86.7%)
Tulane: 6-1 (85.7%)
Mississippi State: 8-2 (80%)
Florida: 13-4 (76.5%)
Tennessee: 11-4 (73.3%)
South Carolina: 3-2 (60%)
Vanderbilt: 4-5 (44.4%)

Some thoughts, and additional facts:

1) I hate Vanderbilt.  They're like our SEC Tournament version of UConn.  Their only two titles (1951 and 2012) were both won at our expense, and they also defeated us in 1981, 1989 and 2013.  Our victories against them were in 1940, 1947, 1992 and 2003.  Really strange that we haven't met more frequently.

2) No surprise that we dominate Ole Miss and Auburn, just as we have in the regular season.

3) It is, however, a bit surprising that UK has a combined 24-3 record against Arkansas and LSU, two teams that have been very difficult opponents in the regular season.

4) We still haven't faced Missouri or Texas A&M.

UK's History in the SEC Tournament by Location

(updated after 2016 tournament in Nashville)

The Kentucky Wildcats officially have 29 SEC tournament titles (through 2016).  They've actually won 30, but forfeited the 1988 title to Georgia.

UK's all-time record in the SEC Tournament is 127-25 (83.6%)

Winning percentage by city:
1) Memphis 6-0 (100%)
2) Louisville 43-3 (93.5%)
3) Nashville 17-2 (89.5%)
4) Lexington 8-1 (88.9%)
5) Knoxville 10-2 (83.3%)
5) New Orleans 7-2 (77.7%)
7) Atlanta 24-8 (75%)
8) Baton Rouge 3-1 (75%)
9) Birmingham 8-5 (61.5%)
10) Tampa 1-1 (50%)


Winning percentage by venue:
1) Pyramid (Memphis) 6-0 (100%)
1) Memorial Gymnasium (Nashville) 3-0 (100%)
1) Pete Maravich Assembly Center (Baton Rouge) 3-0 (100%)
4) Jefferson County Armory (Louisville) 43-3 (93.5%)
5) Alumni Memorial Gymnasium (Knoxville) 10-1 (90.9%)
6) Rupp Arena (Lexington) 8-1 (88.9%)
7) Bridgestone Arena / Gaylord Entertainment Center 14-2 (87.5%)
8) Superdome (New Orleans) 5-1 (83.3%)
9) Georgia Dome (Atlanta) 20-5 (80%)
9) Atlanta Municipal Auditorium 4-1 (80%)
11) New Orleans Arena 2-1 (66.7%)
12) Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center 8-5 (61.5%)
13) St. Pete Times Forum 1-1 (50%)
14) Huey Long Field House (Baton Rouge) 0-1 (0%)
14) Omni (Atlanta) 0-1 (0%)
14) Alexander Memorial Coliseum (Atlanta) 0-1 (0%)
14) Thompson-Boling Arena (Knoxville) 0-1 (0%)


Total winning percentage by site type:
Home 8-1 (88.9%)
Other schools' home courts 16-3 (84.2%)
Regional/neutral 103-21 (83.1%)


Titles by city:
1) Louisville - 9 (1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952)
2) Atlanta - 6 (1933, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2011)
3) Nashville - 5 (1984, 2001, 2010, 2015, 2016)
4) Knoxville - 3 (1937, 1939, 1940)
5) Lexington - 2 (1986, 1993)
5) Memphis - 2 (1994, 1997)
7) New Orleans - 1 (2003)
7) Birmingham - 1 (1992)
7) Baton Rouge - 1 (1988) <-----vacated 

Titles by venue:
1) Jefferson County Armory - 9
2) Georgia Dome - 5
3) Bridgestone / Gaylord Entertainment Center - 4
4) Alumni Memorial Gymnasium - 3
5) Pyramid - 2
5) Rupp Arena - 2
7) Superdome - 1
7) Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center - 1
7) Memorial Gymnasium - 1
7) Atlanta Municipal Auditorium - 1


UK's title-winning percentage by city 
1) Memphis 2 of 2 (100%)
2) Louisville 9 of 12 (75%)
3) Nashville 5 of 7 (71.4%)
4) Lexington 2 of 3 (66.7%)
5) Knoxville 3 of 5 (60%)
6) Atlanta 6 of 14 (42.9%)
7) New Orleans 1 of 3 (33.3%)
8) Birmingham 1 of 6 (16.7%)
9) Tampa 0 of 1 (0%)
10) Baton Rouge 0 of 2 (0%) - won 1 but vacated

Among other websites consulted, one of my main sources for this and many other posts is the peerless UK resource (and probably the best site of its kind for any sports team) known as "The Kentucky Basketball Statistics Project" operated by Jon Scott.  Available at http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/statistics.html  

Kentucky basketball vs. Vanderbilt in 20 different arenas

(updated through 2016-17 regular season) 

Here are Kentucky's results in the 20 different arenas where they've met the Commodores, against whom they hold a 143-47 advantage all-time.


Home (80-14 overall - 85.1%)
Rupp Arena: 37-2 (had a perfect 28-0 record against them at Rupp, but then lost in 2006 and 2007)
Memorial Coliseum: 20-5
Alumni Gym: 17-2
Buell Armory: 5-2
Woodland Auditorium: 1-3


Road (56-28 overall - 67%)
Memorial Gymnasium: 38-25
Hippodrome: 12-3 (games from 1922-1946)
McQuiddy Gymnasium: 3-0 (1950-52)
East High School Gym: 1-0 (1949)
Father Ryan High School Gym: 1-0 (1947)
Navy Classification Center: 1-0 (1948)


Neutral sites (7-5 overall, 4-5 in SEC Tournament)
Alumni Memorial Gym, Knoxville: 1-0 (SEC Tournament)
Paducah Tilghman Gym, Paducah: 1-0
UT Armory Fieldhouse, Knoxville: 1-0 (SEC playoff)
Superdome, New Orleans: 1-0 (SEC Tournament)
Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati: 1-0
Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center: 1-1 (SEC Tournament)
Jefferson County Armory, Louisville: 1-1 (SEC Tournament)
Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville: 0-1 (SEC Tournament)
New Orleans Arena: 0-1 (SEC Tournament)
Bridgestone Arena, Nashville: 0-1 (SEC Tournament)

By type of game
SEC home games: 71-7
SEC road games: 53-27
SEC regular season record: 124-34

Pre-SEC home games (before 1932-33): 9-7
Pre-SEC road games (before 1932-33): 3-1
Pre-SEC regular season record: 12-8

SEC neutral site games: 2-0
SEC playoffs: 1-0

SEC tournament: 4-5