Tag: LSU

February 15, 1994: Never-quit Cats win with historic rally

 LSU led Kentucky by 31 points – 31! – with 15:34 left in the game. Then UK unleashed a rally for the ages, capped when Walter McCarty buried a three-pointer from the deep corner with 19 seconds left to give the Cats the lead for good. The 31-point, second-half deficit surmounted was the greatest road…

Feb. 15, 1990: Kentucky holds off LSU 100-95

Rick Pitino’s rag-tag first UK team with eight scholarship players and no one taller than 6-foot-7 — the same team that lost by 55 earlier in the season at Kansas — beat an LSU team with Shaquille O’Neal, fellow 7-footer Stanley Roberts and the sweet-shooting guard known then as Chris Jackson.  Read article.