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Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt

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  • drops to 21-11 overall and improves to 16-16 on the season.
  • Despite the loss, still leads the series 138-46. The Wildcats are 7-2 against the Commodores in neutral game sites, but have dropped each of the last two with both coming in the league tournament. The series is now tied 3-3 when the teams meet in the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.
  • Kentucky’s all-time SEC Tournament record now stands at 119-24.

Team Game Notes

  • Kentucky used the starting combination of , , ,  andAlex Poythress for the fifth-straight game. That combination is 4-3 this season.
  •  was the first sub off the bench for the Blue and White. He has been the first substation seven times this season now.
  • -Poythress connected on Kentucky’s first made 3-point attempt. The basket extended UK’s 3-point streak to 859 consecutive games which is a standard that ranks as the third longest such streak in the nation. Vanderbilt holds the second-longest such streak and pushed its run to 865.
  • Kentucky trailed 37-23 at halftime. UK is 2-10 this season when trailing at the break.

Individual Player Notes

#4 

  • Hit a 3-pointer on his first shot attempt of the game. He has now connected on at least one long-range shot in five games this season.

#10 Archie Goodwin

  • Reached double-figure scoring for a team-high 24th time this season with 12 points.

#12 Ryan Harrow

  • Hauled in five or more rebounds for the sixth time this season.

#15 Willie Cauley-Stein

  • Tallied six or more rebounds in seven-straight games.

#22 Alex Poythress

  • Drew his third charge of the season early in the first half.
  • Knocked down a 3-pointer in four of his last six games.

#33 

  • Notched his second drawn charge of the year.
  • Scored in double-figures for the 16th time this season with 10 points.

#34 Julius Mays

  • He has now made at least one 3-pointer in 19 of his last 20 games and in 29 games overall this season.
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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 22, 1958, UK wins its fourth NCAA title by defeating Seattle and Elgin Baylor, 84-72, in Louisville before a home-state crowd of 18,803 in Freedom Hall. The “Fiddlin’ Five” was led by Vernon Hatton’s 30 points.  This is the only NCAA championship Kentucky won within the commonwealth.  The win gave Rupp his most coveted title, the one he vowed to win after the NCAA had suspended UK’s 1953 season.

 

On March 22, 1975, UK upsets undefeated Indiana in the Mideast Regional semifinals to earn a trip to the Final Four. It was the Hoosier's first loss in 34 games.  Indiana was 31-0 and had obliterated Kentucky 98-74 in a December meeting remembered for Hoosiers Coach Bobby Knight slapping UK head man Joe B. Hall in the back of the head.  With the Final Four at stake, Kentucky senior guards Mike Flynn (22 points) and Jimmy Dan Conner (17, five rebounds) came up huge to lead the Cats to sweet payback.

 

On March 22, 1984, Winston Bennett's three-point play with 13 seconds left pushed the Wildcats past Louisville into the Mideast Regional final.

 

On March 22, 1985, Joe B. Hall announces his retirement after UK loses to St. John’s, 86-70, in the NCAA West Regional in Denver.

 

On March 22, 1998, in one of the most anticipated matchups of the NCAA Tournament, UK roars back from a 17-point deficit with 9:38 remaining to defeat Duke, 86-84. Kentucky uncorked an NCAA Tournament rally for the ages behind the relentless penetration of junior point guard Wayne Turner (16 points, eight assists) and clutch three-point shooting from Heshimu Evans, Allen Edwards, Cameron Mills and Scott Padgett.

 

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