LEXINGTON, Ky. — Otega Oweh scored 24 points on 9 of 11 shooting to lead No. 19 Kentucky to a 95-64 win over LSU on Tuesday night.

Ansley Almonor and Brandon Garrison scored 15 points each and Collin Chandler finished with 11 for Kentucky (20-10, 9-8 Southeastern Conference).

Robert Miller III led LSU (14-16, 3-14) with 15 points, followed by Cam Carter with 14 and Jordan Sears with 13.

Oweh scored 15 points in the first half as the Wildcats took a 50-23 halftime lead.

Tuesday”s game was Senior Night for Ansley Almonor, Koby Brea, Lamont Butler, Andrew Carr, Jaxson Robinson and Amari Williams.  They were on the team for a year, but to hear head coach Mark Pope talk about it, the year was filled with memories as if they had been at UK for four. Pope said, “They built relationships with each other. And to watch them just in that setting where the only focus was just taking them in, was actually really fun last night.  Special guys”

Takeaways

LSU: The Tigers have lost four straight games since posting back-to-back wins over Oklahoma and South Carolina. Forward Daimion Collins, who played two seasons at Kentucky (2021-23), scored two points against his former team.

Kentucky: The Wildcats honored senior Almonor and graduate seniors Amari Williams, Andrew Carr, Koby Brea, Jaxson Robinson and Lamont Butler before the game. Kentucky secured its fifth straight 20-win season and coach Mark Pope reached the 20-win plateau for the seventh time in his coaching career.

Key moment

The Wildcats missed their first three field goals but put the game away with a 15-0 run, the team’s longest scoring spree since a 13-0 run propelled the team to an 81-69 win over No. 22 Texas A&M on Jan. 14. The spurt gave the hosts a 15-2 lead.

Pope was asked about what was different with the team, especially following the Auburn loss. Pope said, “We’ve been patch-working so much that we’ve lost a couple of things over the last six weeks.  We lost this desperate hunger to get better, because we were just trying to stay afloat, right?  By staying afloat in some ways, I think we did get better but there were so many distractions going on.  You know we kind of lost the pace of the game because we are just trying to stay afloat. We are trying to get just enough live bodies to function.”

Key stat

Kentucky made 12 3-pointers and limited the Tigers to just two second-chance opportunities. The Wildcats outrebounded LSU, 37-30.

Up next

Kentucky wraps up the regular season on Saturday at No. 15 Missouri. The game will be at noon ET on ESPN.