ranked opponents, shooting 54.2 percent with a 3.8 assist-to-turnover ratio in those games … Played 291 of the possible 295 minutes vs. 28 … Named to the NABC District 21 First Team … Three-time SEC Player of the Week … Set the new UK single-season assist mark with 246 dimes … Posted a streak of 28 games with four or more assists, the longest streak in school history since at least 1972-73 … One of four players in the country to average at least 17.3 points and 7.0 assists … Led the SEC in both assists per game (7.0) and assist-to-turnover ratio (3.6), ranking in the top 10 nationally in both categories … Completed the season with a school-record 14 20-point, five-assist games … Also had three 20-point, 10-assist games, the most in the SEC in the last 20 seasons, according to the SEC Network … Averaged 8.4 assists with a 4.5 assist-to-turnover ratio in league play … Played 672 of a possible 725 minutes in SEC games, only committing a turnover every 19.8 minutes per game … Averaged a team-best 24.4 points and a team-high 7.6 assists in UK’s seven games vs. 17 … Named College Basketball Talk’s national player of the week on Dec. ![]() Wooden Award, the Naismith Trophy and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, all awarded to the national player of the year … Also named a finalist for the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award … Earned the Capital One Cup Performance of the Week on Feb. Consensus first-team All-American, the 21st Wildcat in school history to earn the distinction … Shortest consensus first-team All-American since Pittsburgh’s Don Hennon (5-foot-9) in 1958 … First Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year winner in school history … Named SEC Player of the Year by both the league’s coaches and the Associated Press … Tabbed SEC Defensive Player of the Year by the league’s coaches in addition to All-SEC First Team honors and SEC All-Defensive Team honors … Just the second player in league history (Anthony Davis being the other) to win SEC Player of the Year and SEC Defensive Player of the Year in the same season … Named an All-American by Sporting News (first team), the Associated Press (first team), the NABC (second team) and USBWA (second team), the four NCAA-recognized All-America teams … Also named to USA Today’s All-America First Team, CBS Sports’ All-American First Team and Sports Illustrated’s All-America Second Team … Made the Wooden All-American Team … Tabbed the USBWA District Player of the Year … Named the SEC Tournament MVP after averaging 24.0 points and 5.0 assists in three games in Nashville while leading UK to an SEC Tournament championship … Finalist for the John R.
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