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Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Marshall

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  • Kentucky won its fourth-straight game and is 8-3 on the season and Marshall is 7-6.
  • Kentucky leads the series 12-0, including 8-0 in Lexington.
    • UK is now 68-13 all-time against teams from the current alignment of Conference USA.
  • After the Christmas break, the Wildcats wrap up 2012 action Saturday at Louisville at 4 p.m. The game will be televised on CBS.

 First-Half Facts

  • Kentucky started with the lineup of Ryan Harrow, Julius Mays, Archie Goodwin, Alex Poythress and Nerlens Noel for the second-straight game.
  • Trailing 20-18 at the 11:43 mark, Kentucky finished the half with a 15-4 run to take a 33-24 lead into intermission.
  • The first half continues to tell the tale for the Wildcats.  UK is 8-0 this season when leading at halftime, 0-3 when behind at intermission.

 Second-Half Story

  • Marshall made its first three shots, quickly cutting it to 33-31.
  • The Wildcats rallied with a 26-5 run to make it 59-36.
  • UK led comfortably the remainder of the way, leading by as many as 31 points.

 Team Notes

  • Kentucky held Marshall to 54 points.  UK is 27-0 under Coach John Calipari when limiting opponents to 55 or fewer points.
  • Marshall shot 29.6 percent from the field.  Kentucky is 6-0 this season when holding the opponent under 40 percent.
  • Kentucky won the rebounding, 48-43.
    • UK won second-chance points 19-8.
    • UK got at least 40 rebounds for the fifth-straight game.
  • Kentucky had a season-low nine turnovers.
  • UK was efficient in points off turnovers, turning 17 Marshall miscues into 26 points.
  • UK dominated points in the paint 52-20.

Individual Notes

  • Ryan Harrow scored a career-high 23 points.  His previous best was 20 points against South Carolina-Upstate on Dec. 11, 2010, while playing for North Carolina State.
    • It is also Harrow’s third-straight game to set a season best, following 8 and 12 points in the previous two games.
    • He added four rebounds (one short of his career high), four assists and tied a career high with three steals.
  • Nerlens Noel totaled 11 points and 10 rebounds, his first Wildcat double-double.
    • Noel has at least six rebounds in every game this season.
  • Archie Goodwin scored 18 points.
    • Goodwin has scored in double figures in every game but one this season.
    • Coming into the game leading the team in free-throw attempts, Goodwin did a good job of getting to the line today, making 10 of 11 charity tosses.
  • Alex Poythress had nine points and tied a season high with nine rebounds.

Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 1, 1912, Kentucky defeats Georgetown College, 19-18, to complete the season with a perfect 9-0 record and earn its first title as Southern Champions.

 

On March 1, 1921, Kentucky upsets Tulane, Mercer, Mississippi A&M and Georgia to win the first Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball championship. Bill King's free throw with no time left on the clock lifted the Wildcats to the SIAA Championship over Georgia.  Hundreds of Wildcats fans await “play-by-play” via telegraph, and greet the team’s train with a celebration and parade in downtown Lexington. It is believed to be the first college basketball tournament ever played.

 

On March 1, 1952, Cliff Hagan scored 42 points against Tennessee.

 

On March 1, 1969, Dan Issel scored 31 points at Vanderbilt.

 

On March 1, 1969, Mike Casey joined the 1,000-point club.  He did it in 51 games.

 

On March 1, 1979, the 1979 SEC Tournament quarterfinals featured Kentucky and Alabama.  In a scintillating display of fast-paced basketball, Kentucky hit 68.3 percent of its shots (43-of-63) and outlasted Coach C.M. Newton’s Crimson Tide and star Reggie King (38 points) behind stellar guard play from Truman Claytor (25 points, 11-of-14 field goals), Kyle Macy (22, 9-of-16) and Dwight Anderson (19, 7-of-11) before 16,300 in the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.

 

On March 1, 1981, on Senior Day, No. 9 Kentucky defeated No. 2 LSU 73-71.  Kentucky denied LSU’s bid for an unbeaten SEC season when Sam Bowie blocked Howard Carter’s potential game-tying jumper just ahead of the final buzzer before 24,011 in Rupp Arena.

 

On March 1, 1987, Richard Madison's basket with eight seconds left enabled the Wildcats to upset the No. 12 Sooners.

 

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