NCAA Championship #6
KENTUCKY 76, SYRACUSE 67
April 1,1996
East Rutherford, N.J.
Tony Delk
tied a championship game record with seven three-pointers and the Wildcats withstood a
late Orangemen rally to win their sixth national title before a capacity crowd of 19,229
in the Continental Airlines Arena at the Meadowlands. Delk, the Final Four’s Most
Outstanding Player, canned seven of 12 three-pointers to lead the Cats with 24 points. But
after Syracuse had cut the lead to two, 64-62, with 4:46 remaining, a Delk misfire was
tipped in by Walter McCarty to extend UK’s lead to four. After holding the Orangemen
on the next possession, Derek Anderson drained a three to push the lead to seven. SU would
get no closer than five in the final minutes. Delk was joined on the Final Four
All-Tournament team by freshman Ron Mercer, who was sensational off the bench, scoring a
career-high 20 points on 8-12 shooting from the field, including 3-4 from three-point
range.
KENTUCKY
PLAYER FG 3FG FT R F A TO B S TP
Anderson 4-8 2-3 1-1 4 2 1 2 0 3 11
Walker 4-12 0-1 3-6 9 2 4 0 0 4 11
McCarty 2-6 0-0 0-0 7 3 3 1 0 0 4
Delk 8-20 7-12 1-2 7 2 2 3 1 2 24
Epps 0-6 0-3 0-0 4 1 7 1 0 0 0
Pope 1-6 0-2 2-2 3 3 2 4 0 1 4
Mercer 8-12 3-4 1-1 2 3 2 0 0 1 20
Shepard 1-2 0-1 0-1 2 3 0 3 0 0 2
Edwards 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Team 1
TOTALS 28-73 12-27 8-13 40 19 22 15 1 11 76
SYRACUSE
PLAYER FG 3FG FT R F A TO B S TP
Burgan 7-10 3-5 2-5 8 5 1 3 0 1 19
Wallace 11-19 2-3 5-5 10 5 1 6 1 0 29
Hill 3-9 0-0 1-1 10 2 1 3 1 0 7
Sims 2-5 1-4 1-2 2 2 7 7 0 1 6
Cipolla 3-8 0-3 0-0 1 1 2 2 0 4 6
Reafsnydr 0-1 0-0 0-0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0
Janulis 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
Nelson 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Team 2
TOTALS 26-52 6-15 9-13 38 17 12 24 2 6 67
HALFTIME:
UK 42, Syracuse 33
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