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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7<br />
Smith Center (21,147)<br />
Chapel Hill, N.C. • Dec. 2, 2006<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 63<br />
North Carolina No. 7/6 75<br />
Wayne Ellington scored 17 points, Brandan Wright added 16<br />
and No. 7 North Carolina went on to beat <strong>Kentucky</strong> 75-63 in a<br />
game between college basketball's winningest schools.<br />
Reyshawn Terry also scored 16 points and capped the Tar<br />
Heels' decisive run with a pair <strong>of</strong> 3-pointers.<br />
The Tar Heels overcame Randolph Morris' 23 points on 11-<strong>of</strong>-<br />
12 shooting to earn their third straight victory in this series. North<br />
Carolina is 41 behind the Wildcats' NCAA record <strong>of</strong> 1,930 victories.<br />
Wright has scored at least 10 points in each <strong>of</strong> his seven games<br />
as a Tar Heel. For Terry, this was his second consecutive strong<br />
performance against <strong>Kentucky</strong>. He had a career-high <strong>25</strong> in the Tar<br />
Heels' win last December.<br />
The pivotal 11-2 stretch in this one started with a Roy Williams'<br />
lecture. He pulled his five starters with 17:16 remaining, upset that<br />
they allowed <strong>Kentucky</strong> to make its first three shots in the second<br />
half, pull within 36-33 and get to one loose ball in particular.<br />
Moments after Wright started the run with a hook shot, he and<br />
the other starters were benched for about 2½ minutes while they<br />
caught grief from their coach.<br />
When they returned, Terry got hot. He made two 3-pointers 26<br />
seconds apart to push the Tar Heels' lead into double figures for<br />
the first time, 47-35, with just over 13 minutes left. <strong>Kentucky</strong> never<br />
got closer than nine the rest <strong>of</strong> the way.<br />
Joe Crawford had 16 points and Bobby Perry added 12 for the<br />
Wildcats, who outrebounded North Carolina 42-36 but lost their<br />
third game against a ranked team this season.<br />
For the most part, Morris was <strong>Kentucky</strong>'s <strong>of</strong>fense in the first<br />
half. He was 5-<strong>of</strong>-5 shooting with 11 points during the opening 20<br />
minutes. The rest <strong>of</strong> the Wildcats were a combined 6-for-23 and<br />
went 0-for-9 from 3-point range - out <strong>of</strong> character for a team that<br />
entered shooting 36 percent from beyond the arc.<br />
"Obviously, they let me catch the ball in the post," Morris said.<br />
"Anytime I feel like I catch the ball with somebody behind me, I<br />
have the potential to score. I was just making shots today."<br />
Tyler Hansbrough, the star <strong>of</strong> the Ohio State win with 21 points,<br />
struggled against the Wildcats for the second straight season.<br />
The sophomore preseason All-American has failed to reach<br />
double figures three times in his career -- and two <strong>of</strong> those came<br />
against <strong>Kentucky</strong>. A year after scoring just six points against the<br />
Wildcats, Hansbrough finished this one with a season-low seven.<br />
"We just tried to help pack it in on the inside and eliminate his<br />
touches, and trap when he gets the ball," Morris said.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> (4-3) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
13 Perry f 5-8 2-3 0-0 6 2 12 1 2 0 0 <strong>25</strong><br />
23 Thomas f 1-4 0-1 0-0 4 2 2 3 3 0 1 23<br />
33 Morris c 11-12 0-0 1-3 7 3 23 0 3 3 0 31<br />
03 Bradley g 1-7 1-4 4-5 2 3 7 3 2 0 2 35<br />
32 Crawford g 5-12 0-5 4-5 8 4 14 2 7 0 0 35<br />
01 Porter 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 6<br />
05 Jasper 0-1 0-1 1-4 2 3 1 4 3 0 2 17<br />
10 Obrzut 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3<br />
20 Meeks 1-6 0-1 0-0 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 10<br />
21 Stevenson 0-1 0-0 0-0 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 12<br />
43 Carter 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3<br />
TEAM 3<br />
Totals.............. <strong>25</strong>-54 3-<strong>15</strong> 10-17 42 19 63 13 22 4 5 200<br />
UNC (6-1) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
03 Terry f 5-12 4-6 2-2 9 1 16 3 1 1 2 27<br />
34 Wright f 7-12 0-0 2-2 5 0 16 1 0 1 1 27<br />
50 Hansbrough f 2-10 0-0 3-6 3 3 7 1 1 0 2 30<br />
02 Ellington g 6-14 3-8 2-2 1 3 17 2 2 0 2 24<br />
05 Lawson g 1-2 1-2 2-2 0 5 5 7 2 0 2 27<br />
01 Ginyard 0-2 0-0 2-4 3 3 2 1 2 1 1 17<br />
04 Frasor 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 12<br />
14 Green 0-3 0-2 0-0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 9<br />
21 Thompson 2-5 0-0 0-0 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 11<br />
22 Miller 1-2 1-2 3-4 1 0 6 1 0 0 0 8<br />
32 Stepheson 1-4 0-0 0-0 4 0 2 1 0 1 0 8<br />
TEAM 4<br />
Totals............. <strong>25</strong>-67 9-21 16-22 36 20 75 20 9 4 10 200<br />
1st 2nd Tot FG% 3FG% FT% Paint P-TO 2nd Bnch<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 24 39 63 .463 .200 .588 38 9 6 5<br />
UNC 31 44 75 .373 .429 .727 24 19 10 14<br />
Officials: Karl Hess, Ted Valentine, Tom Lopes<br />
Technicals: None.<br />
<strong>KENTUCKY</strong> BASKETBALL<br />
8<br />
Freedom Hall (11,641)<br />
Louisville, Ky. • Dec. 5, 2006<br />
Chattanooga 63<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 79<br />
Ramel Bradley had a career-high 23 points, scoring six <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>'s season-high 13 3-pointers, as the Wildcats defeated<br />
Chattanooga 79-63 in their annual game at Freedom Hall.<br />
It was an outside shooting fest for both sides as the two teams<br />
combined for 72 points <strong>of</strong>f 3s. Chattanooga's Keddric Mays led the<br />
way with <strong>25</strong> points and seven 3-pointers, one shy <strong>of</strong> a career-high.<br />
With nobody in the Mocs' starting lineup taller than 6-foot-7,<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> coach Tubby Smith decided to go small too - giving freshman<br />
guard Derrick Jasper his first start.<br />
Jasper and Bradley split the point guard duties, and while<br />
Jasper came up with 10 rebounds, Bradley quickly rediscovered<br />
his outside shot.<br />
He nailed six <strong>of</strong> nine 3-point tries, breaking his career-high <strong>of</strong><br />
five 3s, which he set last month against Mississippi Valley State.<br />
Joe Crawford also made four 3-pointers among his seasonhigh<br />
19 points, and Bobby Perry had 17 points and was 3-for-3<br />
from long range. Randolph Morris also added 17.<br />
Jasper had one point and six assists to go along with his<br />
rebounds, but he also made some freshman mistakes. He drew a<br />
technical foul when he nudged a Mocs player and bumped into<br />
Morris when the <strong>Kentucky</strong> center was coming down with a<br />
rebound, turning the ball over to the Mocs.<br />
The Wildcats, who never trailed, took a 7-point lead before the<br />
Mocs pulled to 19-18 midway through the first half on a dunk by<br />
Casey Long.<br />
Chattanooga (4-4) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
34 Doaks f 1-8 0-4 0-0 3 3 2 0 1 0 0 20<br />
04 Mays g 7-17 7-<strong>15</strong> 4-7 3 0 <strong>25</strong> 1 2 0 2 31<br />
11 Bridgewaters g 3-14 2-6 3-6 0 2 11 1 4 0 1 22<br />
13 Hood g 3-6 2-3 0-0 7 1 8 1 1 1 0 33<br />
22 Long g 2-8 0-4 4-6 7 2 8 3 2 0 1 31<br />
01 Watts 1-3 0-0 1-1 2 1 3 1 3 0 0 13<br />
02 Ferrell 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0<br />
<strong>15</strong> Troupe 1-6 0-3 0-0 2 0 2 3 0 0 0 22<br />
21 Gwynne 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 5<br />
24 England 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0<br />
32 Lowndes 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 5<br />
44 Hartwell 1-3 0-0 0-0 6 1 2 2 0 0 0 18<br />
TEAM - - - 4<br />
Totals.............. 20-67 11-36 12-20 34 17 63 13 14 1 5 200<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> (5-3) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
13 Perry f 7-8 3-3 0-0 7 2 17 0 2 0 2 28<br />
33 Morris c 7-10 0-0 3-8 7 2 17 1 3 4 0 31<br />
03 Bradley g 8-13 6-9 1-2 6 1 23 5 4 2 2 31<br />
05 Jasper g 0-1 0-1 1-2 10 3 1 6 4 0 3 28<br />
32 Crawford g 7-13 4-9 1-1 4 3 19 2 2 0 0 30<br />
01 Porter 0-5 0-3 0-0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 16<br />
20 Meeks 1-4 0-1 0-0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 8<br />
21 Stevenson 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 10<br />
23 Thomas 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 9<br />
43 Carter 0-1 0-0 0-0 3 2 0 1 2 0 0 9<br />
TEAM - - - 2<br />
Totals.............. 30-57 13-26 6-13 44 14 79 18 20 7 7 200<br />
1st 2nd Tot FG% 3FG% FT% Paint P-TO 2nd Bnch<br />
Chattanooga 30 33 63 .299 .306 .600 12 17 10 9<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 45 34 79 .526 .500 .462 24 16 10 2<br />
Officials: Tony Greene, Anthony Jordan, Earnie Pheal<br />
Technicals: UK - Jasper.<br />
2006-07 <strong>KENTUCKY</strong> WILDCATS<br />
9<br />
Rupp Arena (24,<strong>25</strong>4)<br />
Lexington, Ky. • Dec. 9, 2006<br />
Indiana 54<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 59<br />
By the time <strong>Kentucky</strong> finished its border battle with Indiana,<br />
Bobby Perry had collected 11 points, 10 rebounds and 12 stitches.<br />
"He had a triple-double," Wildcats coach Tubby Smith joked<br />
about his forward, who had to leave late in the game with a gash<br />
above his eyebrow.<br />
Although the Wildcats and Hoosiers came into the game<br />
unranked, don't tell the players this game - the 50th overall<br />
between the programs - has lost its luster. <strong>Kentucky</strong> survived the<br />
physical - and, in Perry's case, bloody - defensive struggle with a<br />
59-54 victory.<br />
"I think the weight has definitely been taken <strong>of</strong>f our shoulders,"<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> center Randolph Morris, who had 16 points and 10<br />
rebounds, said. "It feels good to win a close game against a very<br />
solid team and one <strong>of</strong> our rivals. It was definitely a statement for us<br />
to pull out a close one under pressure."<br />
With the Wildcats ahead 47-41, Roderick Wilmont nailed consecutive<br />
3-pointers to tie the game. Before that, the teams were a<br />
combined 3-for-29 from beyond the arc.<br />
Morris quickly answered with his signature turnaround jumper<br />
at the 6-minute mark and converted the three-point play after drawing<br />
a foul from D.J. White.<br />
"Randolph is developing that mentality - `Get it to me, and I'll<br />
put it in,"' Smith said.<br />
White, who finished with 23 points, hit a layup two minutes later<br />
that pulled the Hoosiers within two, but jumpers by Joe Crawford<br />
and Perry put <strong>Kentucky</strong> up 57-52.<br />
With less than two minutes to go, Joey Shaw <strong>of</strong> the Hoosiers<br />
stole an inbounds pass and scored to make it a one-possession<br />
game. But Indiana's Lance Stemler missed a closely guarded 3-<br />
pointer, and Jodie Meeks made two free throws with six seconds<br />
left to clinch the win.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>, which has concentrated on defense in recent practices,<br />
held Indiana to 30 percent shooting.<br />
"We defended OK, probably good enough to win," first-year<br />
Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson said. "I thought we rebounded well<br />
enough to win. But you've got to make shots."<br />
Indiana's tough defense and <strong>Kentucky</strong>'s poor shooting allowed<br />
the Hoosiers to build a seven-point lead midway through the first<br />
half, silencing the crowd.<br />
But <strong>Kentucky</strong> quickly found a high-percentage shot: the dunk.<br />
A thundering one by Morris woke up the building.<br />
Amid the noise the Hoosiers, who had only one turnover to that<br />
point, committed four in the next two minutes, allowing the Wildcats<br />
to go ahead in one <strong>of</strong> 14 lead changes in the game.<br />
Derrick Jasper followed Morris' theatrics with a steal and dunk<br />
on <strong>Kentucky</strong>'s next trip down court, and fellow freshman Perry<br />
Stevenson added another dunk a few possessions later.<br />
Indiana (5-3) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
03 White f 10-19 0-0 3-3 9 2 23 2 1 4 2 39<br />
22 Stemler f 0-7 0-6 0-0 8 1 0 2 3 0 2 37<br />
01 Bassett g 0-4 0-3 0-0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 <strong>25</strong><br />
10 Wilmont g 5-11 2-7 1-2 1 2 13 0 1 1 1 23<br />
11 Suhr g 2-5 2-4 0-0 4 3 6 1 2 0 2 21<br />
20 Ratliff 2-10 0-3 0-0 4 1 4 0 1 0 0 16<br />
30 White 0-2 0-0 1-2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 5<br />
32 Shaw 1-4 0-0 0-0 2 3 2 1 0 0 1 9<br />
51 Calloway 2-10 0-2 1-2 3 3 5 3 3 0 3 <strong>25</strong><br />
TEAM 6<br />
Totals.............. 22-72 4-<strong>25</strong> 6-9 42 17 54 9 11 5 11 200<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> (6-3) FG 3FG FT R F Pts A TO B S M<br />
13 Perry f 5-9 0-2 1-2 10 1 11 2 2 0 0 24<br />
33 Morris c 6-12 0-0 4-5 10 2 16 1 2 4 0 37<br />
03 Bradley g 2-9 0-4 6-6 3 0 10 5 3 1 1 37<br />
05 Jasper g 1-2 0-0 0-2 4 2 2 5 5 1 1 33<br />
32 Crawford g 4-9 0-3 1-1 2 3 9 1 2 0 2 35<br />
01 Porter 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3<br />
10 Obrzut 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1<br />
20 Meeks 1-3 1-2 2-2 1 0 5 0 0 1 0 12<br />
21 Stevenson 3-3 0-0 0-2 3 0 6 0 1 1 0 9<br />
23 Thomas 0-2 0-0 0-0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 9<br />
TEAM 4 1<br />
Totals.............. 22-49 1-11 14-20 39 8 59 14 17 8 5 200<br />
1st 2nd Tot FG% 3FG% FT% Paint P-TO 2nd Bnch<br />
Indiana 26 28 54 .306 .160 .667 26 14 14 12<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> 28 31 59 .449 .091 .700 34 11 9 11<br />
Officials: Mike Stuart, Bert Smith, Tom Eades; Technicals: None.