Kentucky vs Florida

posted by
Walter Cornett
January 27, 1979

Details

Date	Time	League	Season
January 27, 1979	12:00 am	NCAA	1978-79

Results

Team	1st Half	2nd Half	1st OT	2nd OT	Final Score	Outcome
Kentucky	45	42	—	—	87	Win
Florida	38	43	—	—	81	Loss

Kentucky

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	FTM	FTA	DR	PF	AST	TO	STL	PTS
23	Dwight Anderson	35	7	10	11	15	4	5	1	5	0	25
52	Lavon Williams	33	2	8	6	8	7	4	1	5	3	10
34	Chuck Verderber	29	8	10	6	8	13	3	1	3	2	22
4	Kyle Macy	37	8	13	1	2	3	4	7	4	3	17
22	Truman Claytor	16	0	4	1	3	3	2	2	1	1	1
25	Jay Shidler	25	1	5	2	3	1	4	1	1	1	4
35	Clarence Tillman	11	2	5	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	4
40	Fred Cowan	14	1	3	2	3	3	1	0	2	0	4
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	29	58	29	42	38	24	13	22	11	87

Florida

#	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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

MIN

200		200

FGM

29		34

FGA

58		69

3PM

0		0

3PA

0		0

FTM

29		13

FTA

42		20

0		0

38		37

24		32

AST

13		16

22		19

BLK

0		3

STL

11		10

PTS

87		81

Court

Rupp Arena

430 West Vine Street, Lexington, KY 40507, USA

Past Meetings

Date	Home	Results	Away	Time	Court
1979-01-03 00:00:00January 3, 1979	Florida	76 - 65	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1978-02-04 00:00:00February 4, 1978	Kentucky	88 - 61	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1978-01-07 00:00:00January 7, 1978	Florida	67 - 86	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1977-02-14 00:00:00February 14, 1977	Kentucky	104 - 78	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1977-01-17 00:00:00January 17, 1977	Florida	71 - 73	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1976-02-21 00:00:00February 21, 1976	Kentucky	96 - 89	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1976-01-24 00:00:00January 24, 1976	Florida	82 - 89	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1975-02-24 00:00:00February 24, 1975	Florida	66 - 58	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1975-01-25 00:00:00January 25, 1975	Kentucky	87 - 65	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1974-02-25 00:00:00February 25, 1974	Kentucky	65 - 75	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1974-01-26 00:00:00January 26, 1974	Florida	82 - 91	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1973-02-17 00:00:00February 17, 1973	Florida	83 - 94	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1973-01-13 00:00:00January 13, 1973	Kentucky	95 - 65	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1972-02-19 00:00:00February 19, 1972	Kentucky	95 - 68	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1972-01-15 00:00:00January 15, 1972	Florida	72 - 70	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-02-13 00:00:00February 13, 1971	Florida	74 - 65	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-01-09 00:00:00January 9, 1971	Kentucky	101 - 75	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1970-02-14 00:00:00February 14, 1970	Kentucky	110 - 66	Florida	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1970-01-10 00:00:00January 10, 1970	Florida	69 - 88	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A

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