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'Dogs turn tables with 84-72 win
Turnovers, poor effort on boards negate excellent shooting for UK, allow Georgia to knock 'Cats out of chance for 1st
Compiled by The Cats' Pause staff
For much of the current baskeball season, Hugh Durham's Georgia Bulldogs have been somewhat of a disappointment, but just as poorly as the 'Dogs played at Rupp Arena a month ago. they played as brilliantly Sunday afternoon in Athens.
The result was just as awesome in the reverse direction.
With Alex Kessler pouring home 22 points and collecting a game-high 13 rebounds, the 'Dogs pounded Kentucky long and hard and walked away with a convincing 84-72 victory although UK delivered a late scare.
Kentucky, which had hoped to grab a share of the lead in the wild-and-wooly Southeastern Conference, dropped two games off the pace and now must hope for an upset in Nashville on Wednesday or risk being put in a situation of having to pull several major upsets on the road.
Georgia turned the trick at home before a crowd of 9,812 with a national television audience tuned in to ABC Sports.
Kentucky's gameplan. as has been most of the season, was to control the tempo of the game, rebound and to hit a high percentage of its shots.
The Wildcats were successful on one of the three counts, hitting 53.6 percent to Georgia's
SEC Standings*
Conference
Team                                               W-L Pet.
LSU..............................................................7-3 .700
Alabama.......................................................7-4 .636
Tennessee....................................................6-4 .600
Vanderbilt....................................................6-4 .600
Florida.........................................................6-4 .600
Kentucky......................................................6-4 .600
Ole Miss......................................................5-5 .500
Georgia........................................................5-6 .455
Mississippi State...........................................3-7 .300
Auburn.......................................................0-10 .000
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Kentucky, in losing, fell to 11-11 overall and 6-4 in the SEC. Had UK won. it would have moved into a tie for first place.
To Eddie Sutton, it was just a matter of a very good club playing a very fine game.
"We just thought Georgia played a whale of a game." said Sutton following the con
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Sutton pinned the loss on lack of rebounding, saying that the 35-28 deficit was actually worse than the statistics indicated.
"If you're going to pinpoint one area for the loss, just look at the rebound totals, it seemed a lot worse."
Kentucky was beaten 19-11 on the offensive end.
In the end. it was the free throw line which killed the 'Cats. Georgia marched often and was as accurate as Daniel Boone himself with Kessler hitting 14 of 17 from the charity line.
Once Georgia got out to its double-digit lead, the 'Dogs fell into a comfortable groove, never threatened until the game's final minutes when UK sliced the score to 76-70 but could get no closer.
For Georgia boss Durham, it was a sweet victory, one which included a little revenge but more importantly took a notch out of the distance between Georgia and Kentucky in the league race.
"Our players will really enjoy this one." said Durham. "Kentucky is the program by which all other schools in the SEC measure themselves. Although they have lost some players, any time you beat coach Sutton and his team, it's a great accomplishment for the players. That and it's a big win in the conference."
While the 'Cats were battling the 'Dogs, the UK Board of Trustees and the UK Athletics Board were meeting with UK president David Roselie and listening to the university's official response to 18 NCAA allegations.
Did those briefings affect UK's game preparation?
"I'm sure that didn't help our preparation very much," Sutton told a Louisville Courier-Journal reporter. "I'm not looking for alibis, but that would have an adverse effect on any basketball team."
Kessler was joined in double-figure scoring by Patrick Hamilton with 16, Green with 15 and Cole with 10. UK was paced by forward Chris Mills who scored 19 while .Derrick Miller chipped in with 16 and LeRon Ellis with 13.