FOUR IN DOUBLES
Monmouth put four players in double figures for the first time since a triple overtime win at Siena on February 18, 2018 in the last contest with Princeton. Louie Pillari led the way with 13 points, while Ray Salnave pitched in 12 and Mustapha Traore and Deion Hammond added 10 apiece.

MONMOUTH ALL-TIME VS. THE SEC
-Against current members of the SEC, Monmouth has posted an all-time record of 1-6.
-Monmouth has played five schools that are currently in the SEC.
-Monmouth's lone win against a current SEC school came on 11/24/01 over Vanderbilt, 81-67 at the Hawai'i Pacific Thanksgiving Classic in Honolulu.
-King Rice is 0-3 against the SEC, falling to Vanderbilt in 2011, South Carolina in 2017 on a tip-in at the buzzer and Ole Miss in the first round of the 2017 NIT.
-Rice spent five seasons on Kevin Stallings' staff at SEC member Vanderbilt (2006-2011) prior to taking over at Monmouth.
-Monmouth is 0-1 against Kentucky in men's basketball competition, falling at Madison Square Garden last season.

RICE PLAYING AGAINST KENTUCKY
While a point guard at North Carolina, King Rice went 2-0 against Kentucky in his career, including a 121-110 win on 12/27/89 that saw Rice post a career-high 13 assists while also posting 22 points, 3 steals and 5 rebounds in 33 minutes. The game was played at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY. In the 1990 contest in Chapel Hill, Rice added 14 points as the Tar Heels topped UK 84-81.

RICE AND CALIPARI COACH TOGETHER
In the summer of 2017, King Rice had the opportunity to be a court coach for the USA Basketball Men's U19 World Cup Team in Colorado Springs in June at the US Olympic Training Center. The team was headed up by current Kentucky head coach John Calipari, while Rice was joined by Tad Boyle (Colorado), Danny Manning (Wake Forest), Matt Painter (Purdue), and Ed Cooley (Providence) on the U19 staff.

HIGH SCHOOL CONNECTION
A pair of high school teammates will square off against each other when the Hawks and Wildcats meet, as a pair of sophomores from The Patrick School will play in today's game. Monmouth's Marcus McClary and Kentucky's Nick Richards were high school teammates at the New Jersey school, playing each other for the first time last season at MSG.

MONMOUTH VS. RANKED TEAMS
Monmouth's lone win in program history over a ranked opponent came over #17 Notre Dame on Thanksgiving 2015 at the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando, FL. Overall, Monmouth is 1-15 all time against ranked opponents, and 0-7 against top-10 schools all time. This is the second ranked team Monmouth will play this season after taking on #13 West Virginia on 11/15 at the Myrtle Beach Invitational. King Rice has played a ranked opponent in six of his eight seasons, including playing three in his first season of 2011-12 (#6 North Carolina, #22 Vanderbilt, #25 Harvard).

MU vs. Top-10 opponents all-time
3/15/01 #1 Duke 95, Monmouth 52 (NCAA Tournament)
3/19/04 #4 Mississippi State 85, Monmouth 52 (NCAA Tournament)
3/17/06 #4 Villanova 58, Monmouth 45 (NCAA Tournament)
1/1/12 #6 North Carolina 102, Monmouth 65
12/8/12 #4 Syracuse 108, Monmouth 56
12/28/16 #9 North Carolina 102, Monmouth 74
12/8/17 #8 Kentucky 93, Monmouth 76