Hoops Completes California Sweep with Win at UC Santa Barbara
A'dia Mathies scored 19 points and No. 7 Kentucky extended its winning streak to nine games Friday with a 66-38 victory over UC Santa Barbara. The Wildcats (10-1) went 2-0 on their Pacific Coast road trip that began with an 80-62 win over Pepperdine in Malibu on Tuesday. DeNesha Stallworth and Samarie Walker each scored 12 for the Wildcats. Stallworth, a 6-foot-3 junior from Richmond, Calif., stood tall in her home state. She had 17 points against Pepperdine. Mathies, a senior guard from Louisville, hit four 3-pointers, three of them in the second half, as Kentucky broke the game open after leading 28-20 at halftime.