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Kentucky closes out regular season with win at Florida

Kentucky extended its winning streak at Gainesville’s Stephen O’Connell Center to four Saturday as they defeated the host Florida Gators 71-63

extended its winning streak at Gainesville’s Stephen O’Connell Center to four Saturday as they defeated the host Gators 71-63 to finish the regular season 25-6 and with a 14-4 record in Southeastern Conference play.

led the way with 27 points and 15 rebounds in the Wildcats’ 71-63 win over Florida in Gainesville.

With the performance, Tshiebwe cruised to his 13th straight double-double. added 13 points. scored 11 points.

Colin Castleton led the Gators with 23 points.

Come back later for a full recap.

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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.

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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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