LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 Mark Mitchell and Jayden Stone combined for 41 points, and Missouri ended the game with a 15-2 run to beat Kentucky 73-68 on Wednesday night for the Tigers’ first win in Lexington. <\/p>\n
Missouri (12-3), which entered 0-9 at Rupp Arena, is also 2-0 for the first time in Southeastern Conference play. It was Kentucky’s (9-6, 0-2) first SEC home-opening loss since 2013. <\/p>\n
Otega Oweh’s 3-pointer stretched the Wildcats’ lead to 66-58 with 4:37 to play. Stone answered with a dunk and a 3-pointer to spark the game-sealing run. Mitchell’s jumper gave the Tigers a 69-68 lead with 36 seconds left before Stone sealed it with four free throws. <\/p>\n
Mitchell finished with 21 points and Stone scored 20. They combined for 13-of-25 shooting from the field and 11 of 14 from the free-throw line. Stone made three of the Tigers’ six 3-pointers. Anthony Robinson II grabbed 10 rebounds to go with nine points. <\/p>\n
Oweh made three 3s and scored 20 points to lead Kentucky. He has scored in double-figures in all 15 games this season and has 20 points or more in four of his last six games. <\/p>\n
The Wildcats scored the last five points of the first half that included Oweh’s heaving 3-pointer at the buzzer to pull within 33-32 at the break. Mitchell scored 10 first-half points for the Tigers, who led for most of the opening period. <\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Missouri: At Mississippi on Saturday<\/p>\n
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Missouri’s Mark Mitchell (25) drives near Kentucky’s Kam Williams, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. Credit: AP\/James Crisp<\/p>\n
Kentucky: Hosts Mississippi State on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 Mark Mitchell and Jayden Stone combined for 41 points, and Missouri ended the game with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-523955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115857272601484470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}