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Kentucky vs Mississippi

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Walter Cornett
January 8, 1979

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Details

Date	Time	League	Season
January 8, 1979	12:00 am	NCAA	1978-79

Results

Team	1st Half	2nd Half	1st OT	2nd OT	Final Score	Outcome
Kentucky	41	49	—	—	90	Win
Mississippi	26	38	—	—	64	Loss

Kentucky

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
40	Fred Cowan	21	3	7	0	0	11	16	0	12	4	1	3	1	1	17
52	Lavon Williams	20	4	4	0	0	7	10	0	4	4	2	0	0	1	15
50	Chuck Aleksinas	30	6	13	0	0	2	4	0	10	3	1	3	0	0	14
4	Kyle Macy	36	5	10	0	0	3	3	0	4	0	4	1	0	5	13
20	Dwane Casey	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	0	1	0
15	Chris Gettelfinger	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Truman Claytor	18	5	8	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	11
23	Dwight Anderson	25	5	8	0	0	4	5	0	3	3	4	1	0	0	14
25	Jay Shidler	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
34	Chuck Verderber	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2
35	Clarence Tillman	15	1	5	0	0	2	2	0	6	2	1	1	0	0	4
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	30	58	0	0	30	42	0	42	18	18	14	1	9	90

Mississippi

#	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	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0

MIN

200		200

FGM

30		28

FGA

58		63

3PM

0		0

3PA

0		0

FTM

30		8

FTA

42		14

OR

0		0

DR

42		33

PF

18		33

AST

18		16

TO

14		21

BLK

1		1

STL

9		4

PTS

90		64

Court

Rupp Arena

430 West Vine Street, Lexington, KY 40507, USA

Past Meetings

Date	Home	Results	Away	Time	Court
1978-02-13 00:00:00February 13, 1978	Mississippi	52 - 64	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1978-01-16 00:00:00January 16, 1978	Kentucky	76 - 56	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1977-02-21 00:00:00February 21, 1977	Mississippi	69 - 81	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1977-01-24 00:00:00January 24, 1977	Kentucky	100 - 73	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1976-02-28 00:00:00February 28, 1976	Mississippi	87 - 94	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1976-01-31 00:00:00January 31, 1976	Kentucky	89 - 81	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1975-02-17 00:00:00February 17, 1975	Kentucky	108 - 89	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1975-01-18 00:00:00January 18, 1975	Mississippi	82 - 85	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1974-02-18 00:00:00February 18, 1974	Mississippi	61 - 60	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1974-01-19 00:00:00January 19, 1974	Kentucky	93 - 64	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1973-02-10 00:00:00February 10, 1973	Kentucky	88 - 70	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1973-01-06 00:00:00January 6, 1973	Mississippi	61 - 58	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1972-02-12 00:00:00February 12, 1972	Mississippi	82 - 90	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1972-01-08 00:00:00January 8, 1972	Kentucky	93 - 82	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-02-06 00:00:00February 6, 1971	Kentucky	121 - 86	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-01-02 00:00:00January 2, 1971	Mississippi	95 - 103	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1970-02-07 00:00:00February 7, 1970	Mississippi	85 - 120	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1970-01-03 00:00:00January 3, 1970	Kentucky	95 - 73	Mississippi	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A

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