Otega Oweh is Chasing an Elusive Kentucky Basketball Accolade

Otega Oweh brings his lunch and shows up for work every day. The 6-foot-4 junior from Newark, New Jersey leads the Wildcats in scoring with 16.0 points per game. How he’s gotten to that mark is even more impressive.

Oweh has scored in double figures in every single game he has worn a Kentucky uniform. He’s the only player in the SEC this season to do it and one of just 10 in all of Division I college basketball. Marquette’s Kam Jones and Purdue’s Trey Kaufman-Renn are only others to do it at the power conference level.

It is an exclusive list in 2025. It made me wonder how many other Wildcats have scored in double figures in every game of a Kentucky basketball season. That list is even more exclusive.

Close Calls in Recent Years

Even the best scorers have off nights. Antonio Reeves scored in double figures in every game last year but one, a nine-point performance in the win over North Carolina. In Jamal Murray‘s second game as a Cat, he went 3-13 from the field and 1-10 from the three-point line, his only game in college without 10+ points.

A few others were on the right path until the calendar turned to March. Malik Monk had the fourth-highest scoring season in Kentucky basketball history in 2017. That includes a 6-point performance in the regular season finale against Georgia and a 2-point game in the opening round of the SEC Tournament. Jodie Meeks is No. 2 on the all-time single-season scoring list. He only had eight points in the Wildcats’ loss to LSU in the first round of the SEC Tournament.

Kentucky Wildcats Who Scored in Double Figures in Every Game of a Season

Otega Oweh still has six regular season games, and hopefully ten more in the postseason. If he can continue scoring at this rate, Oweh can become just the sixth Wildcat to score in double figures in every game of a Kentucky basketball season and the first to do it since 1988.

Rex Chapman, 1987-88
Kenny Walker, 1984-85, 85-86
Kevin Grevey, 1974-75
Dan Issel, 1968-69, 69-70
Vernon Hatton, 1957-58

The most remarkable entry on this list is the last. Vernon Hatton’s 495 points in 1958 rank No. 77 in single-season Kentucky basketball history. In December of ’57, he hit a 47-footer in overtime to extend a game against Temple, one they eventually won in triple overtime. Later in the season, he had one more heartbreaker for Temple. He sank a reverse layup at Freedom Hall with 16 seconds left to give Kentucky a 61-60 win in the Final Four. Hatton capped off that season with a 30-point performance in the National Championship victory over Elgin Baylor and Seattle.

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