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Sahvir Wheeler Leads Second-Half Rally as Kentucky Tops Miles College

Kentucky probably didn’t expect an early-November challenge would come on Friday against Division II Miles College.

knew it would face an early-season challenge in November. The Cats probably didn’t expect that challenge would come on Friday against Division II Miles College.

 sparked an second-half run as the Cats came from behind to beat Miles 80-71 at Rupp Arena. Wheeler scored six points in an 8-0 run that gave the Cats the lead after they trailed by seven at the half.

Wheeler and  Jr. led with 15 points and six assists apiece.  hit all three of his attempts from behind the arc on his way to 13 points and  hit five of his seven shots on his way to 12 points.

 was held to four points but led all players with 12 rebounds.

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 24, 1947, before a Madison Square Garden record crowd of 18,493, Wat Misaka held Ralph Beard to two points and Utah ended the Wildcats’ bid for back-to-back NIT Championships.

 

On March 24, 1951, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Illinois in the 1951 NCAA Final Four.  After UK standouts Bill Spivey and Cliff Hagan fouled out, Shelby Linville, a 6-foot-5 junior, scored Kentucky’s final six points, including the game-winning basket on a layup with 12 seconds left before 16,425 in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

On March 24, 2017, in a highly anticipated matchup with UCLA, which beat the Wildcats in the regular season in Rupp Arena, freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox scores an NCAA Tournament freshman record 39 points to propel UK to the Elite Eight.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

March 24, 1972

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