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Amid all the buzz surrounding the men’s Kentucky basketball program, it’s important to also highlight the impressive success of Kenny Brooks and the women’s team this year. The Lady Cats are on a roll, with a 19-2 record and an 8-1 mark in conference play, currently ranked 11th in the nation. Brooks’ first season as head coach has truly revitalized the program.

Leading the charge is Virginia Tech transfer guard Georgia Amoore, who has been outstanding. She leads the team in minutes played, points (19.4 PPG), and assists (7.5 APG). Her exceptional play has earned her a spot as a finalist for the prestigious Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award.

In a release from UK Athletics:

The Wildcat leads the nation in assists per game (7.5) through 21 games in 2024-25. In doing so, she has helped lead her team – built from the ground up – to a 19-2 overall record and an 8-1 mark in the Southeastern Conference. She also has led them to a 4-1 mark against Associated Press Top 25 opponents.

If the season ended today, her 7.5 assists per game would break a more than four-decade-old school record, which was set by Pam Browning on 7.14 assists per game in 1982-83. Also, she currently has 157 assists on the season, needing just 53 more to break, too, the more than four-decade-old school record, also set by Browning on 209 assists in 1981-82. In fact, no player has entered even the top 10 of either of those lists since Amber Smith in 2009-10. 

Playing in a new conference, her production has abounded against the best teams in the nation. Through nine SEC games, she is averaging 23.0 points per game, 7.8 assists per game and 2.3 rebounds per game, while also adding nine steals and one block. Combining her 207 points and 71 assists in those nine league games, she accounts for more than 50.0 percent of production in conference contests.

Amoore, a graduate guard from Ballarat, Australia, recently led her team in scoring and assists in back-to-back Associated Press Top 25 wins, meanwhile tying the school record with her 43 points at No. 13/12 Oklahoma on Sunday. She becomes just the fifth player in Division I this season to score as many as 43 points, and the second in the SEC. She also became the first player in program history – and the only player in the league since at least 2002-03 – to have at least 43 points and eight assists in a single game.

Amoore remains the only active player in Division I – men or women – to have at least 2,000 career points and at least 800 career assists.

The Wildcat has drained 54 three-point field goals this season, while logging three games with at least seven so far in 2024-25. She became the lone player in program history to have three games with at least seven makes from the arc in a single season.

Amoore has scored in double digits in 20 games this season, while she has scored at least 20 points in 11 games this season.

In nine games, she has recorded at least three makes from the arc, and in 20 games, she has dished out at least seven assists.

She has put together two double-doubles on the year in points and assists.

The point guard is hauling in awards this season, including the following:

(As of Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. ET)

Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top 10 Finalist

NCAA March Madness Starting Lineup of the Week (Jan. 8, 2025)
John R. Wooden Award® Midseason Top 25 Watch List
Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week (Jan. 7 2025)
SEC Player of the Week (Jan. 7, 2025)
Wade Trophy Watch List
John R. Wooden Award® Preseason Top 50 Watch List
Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Watch List
Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List
All-SEC First Team by Media
All-SEC First Team by Coaches
Seventh-most votes in the preseason AP All-America Poll