Three interesting stats from last night's Kentucky-Tennessee game

1) UK shot 54% and UT only 28%.  

The 26% difference is the largest since a 29% advantage against Marist earlier this season.

For a bigger difference in an SEC regular season game, though, you have to go back to January 16th, 2007 when UK won 87-49 at South Carolina, and shot 63% to their 27%.

2) UK won by 25 points while only hitting a single three-point field goal (out of 10 attempts).

Over the years, the Wildcats' streak of games with a made three-pointer has had a number of similarly close calls.  The most recent was the SEC Tournament quarterfinal against Alabama on March 3rd, 2010, when they hit only 1 of 13.  Darnell Dodson hit that three.

The last regular season game with only 1 made three-pointer:
11/29/08 vs WVU (made 1 of 5, won by 11, Jodie Meeks hit the lone three)

The last SEC regular season game with only  1 made three-pointer:
2/12/08 at Vanderbilt (made 1 of 10, lost by 41, Ramel Bradley hit the lone three)

The last time UK made only 1 three-pointer, and won by 25 or more:
12/20/03 vs Indiana (made 1 of 8, won by 39, Kelenna Azubuike hit the lone three)

Finally, to meet all the criteria of last night's game (SEC, regular season, one made three-pointer, won by 25+):
2/1/97 vs Georgia (made 1 of 9, won by 25, Allen Edwards hit the lone three)

3) UK made 24 of 27 free throw attempts (89%).

The last superior performance (with at least 20 attempts) was against Georgia on 2009 Senior Day.  In spite of their ridiculous accuracy at the line (26-28, 93%), UK managed to lose to an atrocious team and assure Billy G of being fired after the season.

Earlier that same season (1/13/09), UK won by 18 at Tennessee in the infamous Jodie Meeks 54 game.  UK was 18 of 20 from the line (90%), with Jodie going 14 for 14.