Game notes from UK’s 81-75 overtime win
- UK defeated Mississippi State 81-75 in overtime to move to 25-1 on the season, and 10-1 in the Southeastern Conference. MSU is now 18-8 and 6-5 in the SEC.
- UK trailed 67-60 with three minutes to play in regulation. Counting the last three minutes of regulation and five minutes of overtime, the Cats outscored the Bulldogs 21-8.
- UK had three players, DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson and John Wall, record double-doubles.
- Cousins shot 7-for-11 from the field for 19 points and 14 rebounds.
- Patterson shot 7-of-12 from the field for 19 points and 10 rebounds. Patterson also had three blocks. The Huntington, W.V., native played all but three minutes of the game.
- Finally, Wall nearly got a triple-double, by scoring 18 points, grabbing 10 rebounds and dishing out eight assists. Wall also had two blocks, three steals and only three turnovers. It’s the second straight game Wall has recorded a double-double with a points-rebounds combination.
- Wall played all but one minute of the game.
- UK shot 35.3 percent from the field in the first half, but 51.9 percent in the second half.
- The Cats were 21-of-31 from the foul line for the game, but 10-16 in overtime.
- 10 of UK’s 14 points in overtime were scored at the charity stripe.
- UK outrebounded MSU 52-35.
- The Cats blocked 12 MSU shots to the Bulldogs’ two.
- UK turned the ball over 12 times.
- UK’s bench outscored the MSU bench 17-5.
- MSU’s biggest lead was by seven points with three minutes remaining in regulation.
- MSU junior foward Kodi Augustus was 4-for-7 from 3-point range Tuesday evening. The four makes and the seven attempts are both season highs.
- UK sophomore guard Darius Miller was 3-of-6 for nine points, two rebounds, one assist and two blocks in 19 minutes of play. After the game, UK head coach John Calipari asked the rhetorical question of whether Miller earned his starting spot back. Only time will tell.
- MSU junior guard Ravern Johnson did not play Tuesday night because of “attitude detrimental to the team,” MSU head coach Rick Stansbury said. Johnson is the Bulldogs’ leading scorer.
- A record crowd of 10,788 fans packed an electrifying Humphrey Coliseum.
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Brock Hamilton
Don’t forget to mention that from the point MSU was ahead 67-60, MSU had 10 fouls called against them and 0 called against Kentucky. That includes the final 3 minutes of regulation and 5 minutes of overtime. And also, don’t forget to mention MSU had 28 fouls called against them when they average 13.6 fouls a game and haven’t had more than 20 fouls called against them in a game all season. SEC protecting the top school in the conference once again. They do the same thing in football with Alabama and Florida. What a joke and a shame to do that to these kids.