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Michigan State vs Kentucky

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Walter Cornett
March 18, 1978

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Details

Date	Time	League	Season	Game Notes
March 18, 1978	12:00 am	NCAA	1977-78	NCAA Mideast Regional Finals

Results

Team	1st Half	2nd Half	Final Score	Outcome
Michigan State	27	22	49	Loss
Kentucky	22	30	52	Win

Michigan State

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
	Earvin Johnson	39	2	10	0	0	2	2	0	4	4	5	2	0	6	6
	Greg Kelser	40	9	12	0	0	1	3	0	13	3	1	3	2	2	19
	Jay Vincent	38	4	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	8
	Terry Donnelly	34	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	5	5	0	1	2	2
	Bob Chapman	32	5	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	1	0	2	10
	Ronald Charles	16	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
	Mike Brkovich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	22	41	0	0	5	7	0	19	18	14	6	3	14	49

Kentucky

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
21	Jack Givens	34	6	12	0	0	2	3	0	7	3	0	0	1	2	14
53	Rick Robey	30	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	2	6
55	Mike Phillips	30	3	5	0	0	4	4	0	8	1	1	2	0	3	10
4	Kyle Macy	40	4	10	0	0	10	11	0	1	2	3	1	0	0	18
22	Truman Claytor	30	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	0
32	James Lee	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	0	0	3	2
25	Jay Shidler	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
52	Lavon Williams	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	18	39	0	0	16	18	0	24	16	10	3	1	14	52

MIN

200		200

FGM

22		18

FGA

41		39

3PM

0		0

3PA

0		0

FTM

5		16

FTA

7		18

OR

0		0

DR

19		24

PF

18		16

AST

14		10

TO

6		3

BLK

3		1

STL

14		14

PTS

49		52

Court

University of Dayton Arena

Past Meetings

Date	Home	Results	Away	Time	Court
1972-12-02 00:00:00December 2, 1972	Michigan State	66 - 75	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-12-13 00:00:00December 13, 1971	Kentucky	85 - 91	Michigan State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A

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