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Kentucky Drops Heartbreaker to Georgia

With a final-second layup, Georgia stunned Kentucky with a 63-62 victory on Wednesday night at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia

The offensive breakthrough John Calipari hoped for at the start of the week hadn’t happened, but the win needed to get back in the Southeastern Conference race and turn its season around was there for the taking.
 
Up six with two minutes to go, appeared to be in good position to end a two-game skid and head into the most difficult stretch of the season with momentum.
 
And then the same bugaboos that have cost the Wildcats so frequently this season popped up at the absolute worst time. A scoring drought. Turnovers. Lost 50-50 balls. A missed free throw. And a defensive breakdown.
 
With a 6-0 game-ending run capped by a final-second layup by P.J. Horne, (9-4, 2-4 ) stunned Kentucky (4-8, 3-3) with a 63-62 victory on Wednesday night at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia. The Bulldogs’ win snapped a 14-game losing streak to the Wildcats.

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On March 15, 1973, No. 17 Kentucky defeated Austin Peay, 106-100 in overtime in the 1973 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen.  In UK’s first NCAA Tournament game without Adolph Rupp as its coach, senior center Jim Andrews scored 30 points, but it was senior reserve Larry Stamper who tallied the final six points in overtime as the Wildcats outlasted Austin Peay and its charismatic star, James “Fly” Williams (26 points), before 15,581 fans in Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym.  This was Joe B. Hall’s first NCAA tourney win.

 

On March 15, 1992, eligible for postseason play for the first time in three years, Kentucky dominates Alabama, 80-54, to take its 16th SEC Tournament Championship.

 

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