NO. 25 KENTUCKY (15-4, 4-1 SEC) - University of Kentucky Athletics
NO. 25 KENTUCKY (15-4, 4-1 SEC) - University of Kentucky Athletics
NO. 25 KENTUCKY (15-4, 4-1 SEC) - University of Kentucky Athletics
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4<br />
Lahaina Civic Center (2,400)<br />
Honolulu, Hi. • Nov. 21, 2006<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> No. 20/22 68<br />
UCLA No. 5/5 73<br />
Luc Richard Mbah A Moute scored 18 points despite playing<br />
the final 8 1/2 minutes with four fouls, leading No. 5 UCLA to a 73-<br />
68 victory over No. 20 <strong>Kentucky</strong> in the semifinals <strong>of</strong> the EA Sports<br />
Maui Invitational.<br />
Mbah A Moute scored six <strong>of</strong> UCLA's last 10 points, ignoring the<br />
foul trouble to go inside for the first four points and then throwing<br />
down a dunk on the break to make it 69-65 with <strong>25</strong> seconds to play.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> got to 71-68 on a layup by Randolph Morris with 2<br />
seconds to go, but Arron Afflalo, who struggled from the field all<br />
game, made two free throws with .6 seconds to go for the final margin.<br />
Afflalo finished with 14 points on 5-for-18 shooting, including 1-<br />
for-8 from 3-point range, while Lorenzo Mata added 12 points and<br />
11 rebounds.<br />
Joe Crawford had 16 points for the Wildcats, while freshman<br />
guard Derrick Jasper had 12 points and nine rebounds.<br />
UCLA jumped out to a 26-9 lead, but the Wildcats were able to<br />
get it down to 38-30 at halftime.<br />
The final 10 minutes were the kind <strong>of</strong> game one would expect<br />
from the two most successful programs in college basketball history<br />
- UCLA holds a record 11 NCAA championships, four ahead <strong>of</strong><br />
runner-up <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
The Wildcats were finally able to tie the game for the first time<br />
at 48 on a 3 by Crawford with 11:46 to play, and their first lead <strong>of</strong><br />
the game came 1:24 later on two free throws by Jasper.<br />
There were three lead changes and four ties the rest <strong>of</strong> the way<br />
and neither team managed more than a five-point lead until<br />
Afflalo's dunk with 8 seconds left made it 71-65.<br />
Mbah A Moute scored down low to make it 67-62 with 2:20 left<br />
and Crawford answered with a three-point play 18 seconds later.<br />
After a <strong>Kentucky</strong> turnover and a UCLA miss, Wildcats coach<br />
Tubby Smith called two timeouts in a 13-second span, but Bruins<br />
point guard Darren Collison foiled any strategy by stealing the ball<br />
from Ramel Bradley and then found Mbah A Moute on the break for<br />
the game-clinching dunk.<br />
Afflalo, one <strong>of</strong> two returning starters from last season's national<br />
runner-up, entered the game shooting 56 percent from the field<br />
and 55 percent on 3s. In his first two seasons at UCLA he shot 46<br />
percent overall and 37 percent from beyond the arc.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> (3-1) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
13 Perry f 0-5 0-2 0-0 5 3 0 1 1 0 0 24<br />
21 Stevenson f 3-3 0-0 4-6 4 0 10 0 1 1 0 17<br />
33 Morris c 5-9 0-0 1-2 4 3 11 1 2 2 0 21<br />
03 Bradley g 2-6 2-4 2-2 3 4 8 1 4 0 0 23<br />
32 Crawford g 6-13 3-6 1-1 3 1 16 5 3 1 0 36<br />
01 Porter 1-2 1-1 2-2 3 3 5 0 0 0 0 12<br />
05 Jasper 2-5 0-1 8-12 9 2 12 4 4 1 3 34<br />
10 Obrzut 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2<br />
20 Meeks 2-6 0-1 0-0 0 3 4 0 1 0 0 <strong>15</strong><br />
23 Thomas 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 16<br />
TEAM 4 1<br />
Totals.............. 22-50 6-<strong>15</strong> 18-<strong>25</strong> 37 21 68 14 17 5 3 200<br />
UCLA (3-0) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
23 Mbah a Moute f 8-12 0-1 2-5 5 3 18 1 2 0 1 31<br />
14 Mata c 5-9 0-1 2-5 11 4 12 0 2 0 0 27<br />
02 Collison g 4-8 1-3 1-2 3 3 10 7 3 0 3 30<br />
03 Shipp g 3-6 0-2 3-5 6 2 9 3 1 0 1 36<br />
04 Afflalo g 5-18 1-8 3-3 4 2 14 2 0 0 0 33<br />
00 Westbrook 2-4 0-1 1-2 1 1 5 0 0 0 1 9<br />
11 Wright 1-2 0-0 1-2 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 7<br />
12 Aboya 1-3 0-0 0-0 2 3 2 0 0 1 1 11<br />
13 Keefe 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2<br />
20 Roll 0-3 0-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14<br />
TEAM 1<br />
Totals.............. 29-65 2-19 13-24 38 20 73 13 8 1 8 200<br />
1st 2nd Tot FG% 3FG% FT% Paint P-TO 2nd Bnch<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 30 38 68 .440 .400 .720 22 8 8 23<br />
UCLA 38 35 73 .446 .105 .542 50 21 14 10<br />
Officials: Tim Higgins, Bert Smith, Tony Greene<br />
Technicals: None.<br />
<strong>KENTUCKY</strong> BASKETBALL<br />
5<br />
Lahaina Civic Center (2,400)<br />
Honolulu, Hi. • Nov. 22, 2006<br />
Memphis No. 11/12 80<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> No. 20/22 63<br />
Freshman Willie Kemp scored 10 <strong>of</strong> his 12 points in the opening<br />
four minutes <strong>of</strong> the second half and No. 12 Memphis topped<br />
No. 20 <strong>Kentucky</strong> in an 80-63 victory in the third-place game <strong>of</strong> the<br />
EA Sports Maui Invitational.<br />
The Tigers were too fast for the Wildcats because <strong>of</strong> Kemp and<br />
fellow guard Andre Allen pushing the ball on the break. And they<br />
were too much inside with 6-foot-9, 260-pound Joey Dorsey keying<br />
the game-breaking 14-0 run in the second half with two monster<br />
dunks.<br />
Memphis bounced back from a disheartening 92-85 semifinal<br />
loss to No. 19 Georgia Tech, a game which the Tigers held a 16-<br />
point halftime lead only to be outrebounded 29-9 in the second<br />
half.<br />
There was no problem on the boards against <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
Memphis had a 38-27 rebound advantage, including 11-5 on the<br />
<strong>of</strong>fensive end.<br />
Center Randolph Morris was most <strong>of</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong>'s <strong>of</strong>fense<br />
throughout the first 30 minutes <strong>of</strong> the game. He finished with 18<br />
points and Joe Crawford had <strong>15</strong>.<br />
Robert Dozier, who was scoreless and fouled out in the loss to<br />
Georgia Tech, had <strong>15</strong> points for Memphis, while Chris Douglas-<br />
Roberts and Jeremy Hunt each had 13. Dorsey finished with six<br />
points and seven rebounds.<br />
Memphis led 43-40 after a first half that saw four lead changes<br />
and two ties over the final seven minutes. That all changed at the<br />
start <strong>of</strong> the second half when the 6-2 Kemp, who started all four<br />
games and came in averaging 8.7 points, took over.<br />
He was scoreless in eight minutes in the first half after picking<br />
up two fouls. He hit two 3s then scored twice on drives as the<br />
Tigers took a 55-46 lead four minutes into the second half.<br />
The pace <strong>of</strong> the game changed to what the Tigers like and<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> suddenly wasn't getting any <strong>of</strong>fense from Morris down<br />
low.<br />
Dorsey dunked to start the deciding 14-0 run. He then blocked<br />
a shot by Sheray Thomas and took <strong>of</strong>f on the break. The run was<br />
worth it when he took a short pass on the wing and threw down a<br />
power dunk. <strong>Kentucky</strong> coach Tubby Smith called a timeout but the<br />
tide was definitely the Tigers' way.<br />
Antonio Anderson's 3-pointer with 8:21 to go capped the run<br />
and Memphis was up 73-50.<br />
The third-place finish matched Memphis' best (1992) in four<br />
appearances on Maui.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>, which lost 73-68 to No. 5 UCLA in the semifinals,<br />
won the tournament in 1993, and finished third in 1997 and 2002.<br />
Memphis (3-1) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
02 Dozier f 6-12 1-4 2-2 7 2 <strong>15</strong> 2 6 0 2 36<br />
32 Dorsey f 3-5 0-0 0-2 7 3 6 0 3 1 0 22<br />
01 Kemp g 5-11 2-4 0-1 3 3 12 1 0 0 2 21<br />
12 Anderson g 2-7 1-4 3-4 5 0 8 5 0 0 2 31<br />
14 D.-Roberts g 5-7 1-1 2-3 1 0 13 1 1 1 1 29<br />
04 Niles 2-4 0-0 0-0 7 1 4 0 0 0 0 17<br />
05 Hunt 5-9 3-5 0-0 1 2 13 2 2 0 1 19<br />
<strong>15</strong> Allen 2-5 0-1 0-0 0 2 4 8 2 0 1 19<br />
20 Mack 1-2 1-2 0-0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 4<br />
35 Bailey 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 2<br />
TEAM 4 3<br />
Totals.............. 32-63 9-21 7-12 38 16 80 19 17 2 10 200<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> (3-2) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
13 Perry f 2-8 1-3 5-6 2 1 10 2 0 0 1 27<br />
21 Stevenson f 0-2 0-0 0-0 3 1 0 1 1 1 0 11<br />
33 Morris c 6-11 0-0 6-8 8 1 18 0 2 0 0 35<br />
03 Bradley g 3-7 1-5 2-3 1 0 9 2 2 0 2 26<br />
32 Crawford g 6-11 3-5 0-1 2 4 <strong>15</strong> 0 3 1 0 34<br />
01 Porter 1-4 1-2 0-0 1 3 3 1 1 0 1 11<br />
05 Jasper 0-0 0-0 0-0 5 4 0 4 2 0 0 14<br />
10 Obrzut 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3<br />
20 Meeks 1-1 1-1 1-2 1 0 4 3 3 0 1 19<br />
23 Thomas 1-3 0-1 0-0 2 3 2 0 2 2 0 20<br />
TEAM 2 2<br />
Totals.............. 21-48 7-17 14-20 27 17 63 13 18 4 5 200<br />
1st 2nd Tot FG% 3FG% FT% Paint P-TO 2nd Bnch<br />
Memphis 43 37 80 .508 .429 .583 44 17 11 26<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 40 23 63 .438 .412 .700 20 <strong>15</strong> 4 11<br />
Officials: Ed Hightower, Jeff Nichols, Mike Reed<br />
Technicals: None.<br />
2006-07 <strong>KENTUCKY</strong> WILDCATS<br />
6<br />
Rupp Arena (22,477)<br />
Lexington, Ky. • Nov. 28, 2006<br />
Col. <strong>of</strong> Charleston 61<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 77<br />
Freshman Perry Stevenson came <strong>of</strong>f the bench for the first time<br />
with a career-high 14 points as <strong>Kentucky</strong> rebounded from a setback<br />
in the Maui Invitational with a 77-61 victory over College <strong>of</strong><br />
Charleston.<br />
Randolph Morris led the Wildcats with 17 points and eight<br />
rebounds, but it was Stevenson who nailed the early shots with the<br />
game on the line. He missed all three free-throw attempts but connected<br />
on all seven field-goal tries -- more than doubling his previous<br />
high <strong>of</strong> three.<br />
The Wildcats, who dropped out <strong>of</strong> the Top <strong>25</strong> this week after<br />
losses in Maui against now-No. 1 UCLA and Memphis, missed<br />
their first nine shots and didn't hit a field goal until more than six<br />
minutes had passed.<br />
Stevenson's dunk pulled the Wildcats to within three points<br />
midway through the first half and began a 17-0 run that buried the<br />
Cougars.<br />
Seconds later, Stevenson showed <strong>of</strong>f a new signature move --<br />
an under-the-basket hook flip that gave the Wildcats their first lead<br />
at 12-11. He did it again the next time down, drawing the foul --<br />
albeit missing the free throw -- in the process.<br />
Charleston's star guard Dontaye Draper had only two points in<br />
the first half but found his shot in the second, leading the Cougars<br />
with <strong>15</strong> points.<br />
Charleston (3-3) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
05 Johnson f 3-8 0-1 0-3 7 3 6 1 3 0 1 29<br />
21 Lawrence f 3-12 1-6 0-0 5 2 7 0 2 0 1 30<br />
02 Mccandies c 2-6 0-0 0-0 11 5 4 0 2 1 0 20<br />
11 Draper g 4-14 2-7 5-7 4 2 <strong>15</strong> 4 5 0 2 37<br />
31 Hammond g 2-6 0-2 0-0 0 1 4 1 1 0 1 26<br />
12 Parris 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2<br />
14 Dickerson 2-9 0-5 0-0 1 2 4 2 0 0 2 17<br />
30 Skripkauskas 2-2 1-1 0-0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 2<br />
32 White,Jr 3-10 2-8 4-4 2 0 12 1 3 0 0 19<br />
34 Diarra 2-5 0-0 0-1 6 4 4 0 1 1 0 18<br />
TEAM 4 1<br />
Totals.............. 23-72 6-30 9-<strong>15</strong> 41 20 61 9 18 2 7 200<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> (4-2) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
13 Perry f 3-10 1-3 0-0 4 3 7 2 1 0 0 16<br />
23 Thomas f 0-0 0-0 2-4 4 0 2 1 1 1 1 26<br />
33 Morris c 7-<strong>15</strong> 0-0 3-6 8 2 17 0 2 1 0 <strong>25</strong><br />
03 Bradley g 1-3 0-1 4-4 4 2 6 2 4 0 3 <strong>25</strong><br />
32 Crawford g 6-13 1-4 2-2 5 0 <strong>15</strong> 2 1 0 2 29<br />
01 Porter 1-3 1-1 0-0 3 1 3 3 2 0 1 11<br />
05 Jasper 1-3 0-0 0-0 5 4 2 2 2 0 0 14<br />
10 Obrzut 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 7<br />
20 Meeks 2-5 0-2 2-2 3 0 6 5 1 0 0 21<br />
21 Stevenson 7-7 0-0 0-3 4 0 14 0 3 1 1 16<br />
42 Coury 2-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 2<br />
43 Carter 0-2 0-0 1-2 4 1 1 0 2 0 0 8<br />
TEAM 3 1<br />
Totals............. 30-63 3-11 14-23 49 <strong>15</strong> 77 17 20 3 8 200<br />
1st 2nd Tot FG% 3FG% FT% Paint P-TO 2nd Bnch<br />
Charleston <strong>15</strong> 46 61 .319 .200 .600 20 18 19 <strong>25</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 27 50 77 .476 .273 .609 42 20 18 30<br />
Officials: Tony Greene, Brent Bamaky, Ron Groover; Technicals: None.