The first game of the new year produced a result that became all too familiar for the Kentucky women’s basketball team in December.
Hoping to turn the page after six straight losses to close 2017, the Cats instead saw their skid get extended to seven in a 74-70 loss at No. 19 Texas A&M on Thursday night.
It’s the program’s longest losing streak since the Bernadette Mattox era. The last time the Cats (8-8, 0-2 Southeastern Conference) lost this many in a row was in 2001-02, when the slide topped out at 13 consecutive games.
“We’ve had a tough, tough stretch here,” Kentucky Coach Matthew Mitchell said in a postgame interview with WLAP-AM.