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%)

Undefeated seasons in SEC men's basketball history

Updated through 2016

There have been a total of 24 undefeated regular seasons in the history of SEC men's basketball (1932-33 to now).  No surprise, Kentucky owns 15 of them.


1933 Kentucky = 8-0
1934 Kentucky = 11-0
1935 Kentucky = 11-0
1935 LSU = 12-0 (also "national champions" although they only had to win 1 game for it)
1937 Georgia Tech = 10-0
1938 Kentucky = 6-0
1944 Georgia Tech = 2-0
1944 Tulane = 4-0
1946 LSU = 8-0
1946 Kentucky = 6-0
1947 Kentucky = 11-0
1948 Kentucky = 9-0
1949 Kentucky = 13-0
1951 Kentucky = 14-0
1952 Kentucky = 14-0
1953 LSU = 13-0
1954 LSU = 14-0
1954 Kentucky = 14-0
1956 Alabama = 14-0
1996 Kentucky = 16-0
2003 Kentucky = 16-0
2012 Kentucky = 16-0
2014 Florida = 18-0
2015 Kentucky = 18-0


Among those 24 teams, only 9 went on to also win the SEC tournament and complete a truly perfect conference season.  It's important to note that four teams (1953 LSU, 1954 LSU, 1954 Kentucky, 1956 Alabama) didn't get to play in a tournament because league tournaments weren't held from 1953 through 1978.  So to be truly accurate, 9 of 20 possible teams have completed the entire gauntlet.


Here are the seven clean SEC sweeps:


1933 Kentucky = 12-0
1946 Kentucky = 10-0
1947 Kentucky = 15-0
1948 Kentucky = 13-0
1949 Kentucky = 17-0
1952 Kentucky = 18-0
2003 Kentucky = 19-0
2014 Florida = 21-0
2015 Kentucky = 21-0