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Duke vs Kentucky

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Walter Cornett
March 27, 1978

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Details

Date	Time	League	Season	Game Notes
March 27, 1978	12:00 am	NCAA	1977-78	NCAA Championship

Results

Team	1st Half	2nd Half	Final Score	Outcome
Duke	38	50	88	Loss
Kentucky	45	49	94	Win

Duke

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
	Gene Banks	37	6	12	0	0	10	12	0	8	2	2	0	0	3	22
	Kenny Dennard	31	5	7	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	2	0	0	5	10
	Mike Gminski	37	6	16	0	0	8	8	0	12	3	2	0	0	1	20
	John Harrell	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	2	4
	Jim Spanarkel	40	8	16	0	0	5	6	0	2	4	3	0	0	4	21
	Jim Suddath	9	1	3	0	0	2	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	4
	Bob Bender	16	1	2	0	0	5	5	0	1	3	4	0	0	0	7
	Scott Goetsch	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	29	59	0	0	30	34	0	35	22	14	0	0	17	88

Kentucky

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OR	DR	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
21	Jack Givens	37	18	27	0	0	5	8	0	8	4	3	0	0	2	41
53	Rick Robey	32	8	11	0	0	4	6	0	11	2	0	0	0	2	20
55	Mike Phillips	11	1	4	0	0	2	2	0	2	5	1	0	0	0	4
4	Kyle Macy	38	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	0	1	8	0	0	3	9
22	Truman Claytor	24	3	5	0	0	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	8
32	James Lee	20	4	8	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	2	0	0	0	8
25	Jay Shidler	17	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	3	0	0	1	2
50	Chuck Aleksinas	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
52	Lavon Williams	10	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	2	2
40	Fred Cowan	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
30	Tim Stephens	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	Scott Courts	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Chris Gettelfinger	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Dwane Casey	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	200	39	68	0	0	16	25	0	32	26	20	0	0	14	94

MIN

200		200

FGM

29		39

FGA

59		68

3PM

0		0

3PA

0		0

FTM

30		16

FTA

34		25

OR

0		0

DR

35		32

PF

22		26

AST

14		20

TO

0		0

BLK

0		0

STL

17		14

PTS

88		94

Court

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Past Meetings

Date	Home	Results	Away	Time	Court
1969-12-20 00:00:00December 20, 1969	Kentucky	98 - 76	Duke	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A

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