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Kentucky vs South Carolina

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Walter Cornett
December 10, 1979

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Details

Date	Time	League	Season
December 10, 1979	12:00 am	NCAA	1979-80

Results

Team	1st Half	2nd Half	1st OT	2nd OT	Final Score	Outcome
Kentucky	61	65	—	—	126	Win
South Carolina	39	42	—	—	81	Loss

Kentucky

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
40	Fred Cowan	15	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	5	5	1	4	0	1	5
52	Lavon Williams	26	3	5	0	0	3	4	0	11	1	3	1	0	2	9
31	Sam Bowie	23	8	10	0	0	7	9	0	9	2	0	0	4	1	23
4	Kyle Macy	28	11	17	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	7	3	0	2	24
23	Dwight Anderson	25	6	10	0	0	7	8	0	2	3	5	2	0	2	19
10	Dirk Minniefield	15	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	3	0	3	4
12	Bo Lanter	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Chris Gettelfinger	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Jay Shidler	11	5	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	2	10
32	Derrick Hord	25	6	11	0	0	6	7	0	5	2	1	1	0	3	18
33	Tom Heitz	5	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
34	Chuck Verderber	18	3	6	0	0	1	1	0	3	5	2	2	0	0	7
44	Charles Hurt	7	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	5	0	1	0	0	5
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	49	80	0	0	28	34	0	46	29	29	18	4	16	126

South Carolina

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0

MIN

200		200

FGM

49		27

FGA

80		65

3PM

0		0

3PA

0		0

FTM

28		27

FTA

34		40

OR

0		0

DR

46		32

PF

29		30

AST

29		15

TO

18		25

BLK

4		2

STL

16		7

PTS

126		81

Court

Rupp Arena

430 West Vine Street, Lexington, KY 40507, USA

Past Meetings

Date	Home	Results	Away	Time	Court
1979-02-25 00:00:00February 25, 1979	South Carolina	74 - 79	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1977-12-12 00:00:00December 12, 1977	Kentucky	84 - 65	South Carolina	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1976-12-13 00:00:00December 13, 1976	South Carolina	67 - 98	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A

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