Kentucky vs Mississippi State

posted by
Walter Cornett
March 8, 1976

Details

Date	Time	League	Season
March 8, 1976	12:00 am	NCAA	1975-76

Results

Team	1st Half	2nd Half	1st OT	2nd OT	Final Score	Outcome
Kentucky	42	43	9	—	94	Win
Mississippi State	50	35	8	—	93	Loss

Kentucky

#	Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	FTM	FTA	DR	PF	AST	PTS
21	Jack Givens	42	12	24	2	4	9	3	5	26
32	James Lee	31	2	15	1	3	11	2	1	5
55	Mike Phillips	33	11	18	0	0	9	4	1	22
12	Larry Johnson	40	6	11	4	4	7	4	3	16
15	Reggie Warford	37	4	10	4	4	2	3	5	12
30	Merion Haskins	12	0	2	1	2	4	1	1	1
44	Bob Fowler	16	3	4	2	3	4	1	1	8
22	Truman Claytor	13	2	3	0	0	1	3	1	4
20	Dwane Casey	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Team	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
	Total	225	40	87	14	20	51	21	18	94

Mississippi State

Player	MIN	FGM	FGA	FTM	FTA	DR	PF	AST	PTS
Gary Hooker	40	8	15	7	8	8	2	1	23
Walter Wright	28	5	11	0	0	7	3	0	10
Wiley Peck	35	5	10	1	2	8	5	0	11
Ray White	43	11	20	2	4	5	4	1	24
Al Perry	42	6	12	1	4	2	2	1	13
Joe Dean	7	0	1	2	2	2	1	0	2
Rich Knarr	3	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	4
Rick Moss	5	0	1	0	0	3	2	1	0
Taylor Williams	22	3	6	0	1	5	3	0	6
Team	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
Total	225	40	81	13	21	46	23	5	93

MIN

225		225

FGM

40		40

FGA

87		81

3PM

0		0

3PA

0		0

FTM

14		13

FTA

20		21

0		0

51		46

21		23

AST

18		5

0		0

BLK

0		0

STL

0		0

PTS

94		93

Court

Memorial Coliseum

201, Avenue of Champions, Academic Core, Hollywood, Fayette County, Kentucky, 40506, United States of America

Past Meetings

Date	Home	Results	Away	Time	Court
1976-01-03 00:00:00January 3, 1976	Mississippi State	77 - 73	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1975-03-08 00:00:00March 8, 1975	Mississippi State	80 - 118	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1975-02-01 00:00:00February 1, 1975	Kentucky	112 - 79	Mississippi State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1974-03-04 00:00:00March 4, 1974	Kentucky	108 - 69	Mississippi State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1974-02-02 00:00:00February 2, 1974	Mississippi State	70 - 82	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1973-02-12 00:00:00February 12, 1973	Kentucky	100 - 87	Mississippi State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1973-01-08 00:00:00January 8, 1973	Mississippi State	81 - 90	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1972-02-14 00:00:00February 14, 1972	Mississippi State	55 - 63	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1972-01-10 00:00:00January 10, 1972	Kentucky	104 - 76	Mississippi State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-02-08 00:00:00February 8, 1971	Kentucky	102 - 83	Mississippi State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1971-01-04 00:00:00January 4, 1971	Mississippi State	71 - 79	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1970-02-09 00:00:00February 9, 1970	Mississippi State	57 - 86	Kentucky	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A
1970-01-05 00:00:00January 5, 1970	Kentucky	111 - 76	Mississippi State	00:00:0012:00 am	N/A

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 16, 1985, in a win over UNLV, Kenny Walker scored 23 points and provided a key block in the final minutes as the Wildcats advanced to the West Regional final .

On March 16, 2002, Tayshaun Prince scored 41 points against Tulsa in the NCAA Tournament.

On March 16, 2003, after running the table in regular-season Southeastern Conference play, Kentucky defeats Mississippi State, 64-57, in the finals of the SEC Tournament to secure its 24th league tourney crown and complete a 19-0 season sweep of conference opponents. It marked the first time the feat had been accomplished in 51 seasons.

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