Kentucky - 83 (Head Coach: Rick Pitino) - [Ranked 7th by AP]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	3pt FG	3pt FGA	FT	FTA	Off Reb	Def Reb	Tot Reb	PF	Ast	St	BS	TO	Pts
Rodrick Rhodes	32	6	8	1	1	4	7	1	3	4	3	1	1	1	3	17
Jared Prickett	17	4	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	5	1	0	3	9
Mark Pope	28	3	6	1	1	2	4	1	6	7	4	0	0	1	1	9
Jeff Sheppard	27	5	8	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	5	3	2	0	0	11
Tony Delk	32	6	10	3	5	2	2	0	7	7	3	3	3	1	2	17
Walter McCarty	21	2	5	0	2	0	0	0	6	6	3	2	0	1	0	4
Anthony Epps	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	3	0
Antoine Walker	16	5	9	0	1	3	3	3	0	3	3	2	0	0	3	13
Andre Riddick	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
Allen Edwards	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Scott Padgett	2	0	1	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Team								1	0	1
Totals	200	32	56	7	14	12	19	9	24	33	25	17	7	4	16	83

Florida - 67 (Head Coach: Lon Kruger) - [Ranked 15th by AP]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	3pt FG	3pt FGA	FT	FTA	Off Reb	Def Reb	Tot Reb	PF	Ast	St	BS	TO	Pts
Tony Mickens	10	2	7	0	1	0	0	3	1	4	2	0	0	0	1	4
Andrew DeClercq	30	1	4	0	1	7	10	2	4	6	4	2	0	1	2	9
Dametri Hill	21	4	10	0	2	2	2	1	5	6	1	1	0	2	0	10
Greg Williams	24	2	6	1	2	4	6	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	3	9
Dan Cross	38	4	11	2	5	11	12	0	1	1	4	0	1	0	3	21
Jason Anderson	11	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	1	2
Svein Dyrkolbotn	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	2
Dan Williams	19	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	2	2
LeRon Williams	9	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	3
Brian Thompson	16	1	4	0	0	2	4	2	1	3	1	0	1	0	1	4
John Griffiths	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0
Damen Maddox	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Clayton Bates	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team								6	2	8
Totals	200	18	52	3	12	28	38	15	20	35	18	8	7	5	15	67

Game Writeup - Courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Neil Burch; Dr. J's UK Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 28. (All Rights Reserved)

Wildcats Grill a Gaggle of Gasping Gators:

UK started like a house afire, and began the 1st half in perhaps the best effort thus far this season as they built a 28 point lead, then coasted to an 83-67 win over the Florida Gators in an ESPN televised game.

The Cats blew out to a 12-2 lead before the Gators realized what had hit them. UK hit on 3 consecutive 3s by Rhodes, Pope, and Sheppard before finally settling for a 2 on a Prickett basket (Jared was decked by a Hill elbow but no foul was called. When Florida missed, Prickett was still under the basket getting up and made the easy layup). Mickens scored the lone UF basket on a putback shot of a DeClerq miss. The lead was later expanded to 20-8 as Rhodes hit on a drive and a layup on a Delk assist, Sheppard hit on a putback of his own miss, and Delk hit from the top of the FT lane (the Gators got another Mickens shot, Greg Williams hit a pair of FTs, and Hill grabbed a dropped Williams ball and scored).

The Gators seemed somewhat discombobulated by the Cat's streaks, and UK maintained leads of 25-12 (at the 10 minute mark), 30-14 (after a sensational Walker twisting shot under the basket and foul), and 36-19 (when Delk cleanly blocked and grabbed a Williams shot near the top of the key). The Gators closed to within 41-29 at halftime as Hill had an inside basket, and Cross hit a pair of FTs and also got a 10 footer. UK shot 61% from the floor in the half, but the Gators managed only 27%. Florida was 0-6 from 3 point range and had only 8 field goals.

The Cats began the second half by pulling up to a 48-30 lead with a Sheppard 3, Pope hook, and a Rhodes basket balancing a DeClerq FT. Eventually this grew to a 55-32 lead until Cross hit the 1st Florida 3 of the night. Yet another spurt moved the Wildcats out front by 67-39 on a Walker putback, a Delk 3, Sheppard FTs, and a Prickett inside basket. Florida closed to 71-49 with 8 minutes left in the game on an Anderson reverse layup, a Hill inside basket, and a Thompson inside shot, but the win was never in doubt as the Cats moved back out 79-59 on Pope, Delk, and Rhodes FTs. Kentucky got a little sloppy at the end, trying to burn clock (and instead giving up a handful of turnovers), which allowed the Gators to close to 79-67 before Edwards dunked and Walker got a layup to provide the final margin of 83-67.

Tony Delk works inside against Brian Thompson (#3) and John Griffiths (#34)

Jeff Sheppard (#15) defends against Florida's Dan Cross (#12)

Rodrick Rhodes gets his shot blocked while defended by John Griffiths (#34) and Andrew DeClercq (#55)

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