South Carolina - 72 (Head Coach: Eddie Fogler) - [Unranked]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	3pt FG	3pt FGA	FT	FTA	Off Reb	Def Reb	Tot Reb	PF	Ast	St	BS	TO	Pts
Carey Rich	36	5	10	1	4	3	4	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	4	14
Melvin Watson	36	5	10	0	3	0	0	0	2	2	3	6	0	0	4	10
Andy Bostick	18	2	6	0	2	0	0	2	1	3	1	1	0	0	1	4
Malik Russell	35	7	11	2	3	6	11	6	4	10	1	1	2	1	4	22
Pete Van Elswyk	22	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	3	5	1	0	0	0	3	6
William Unseld	29	2	12	0	1	4	4	2	4	6	1	1	0	0	1	8
Ryan Stack	18	2	5	0	1	3	4	0	2	2	4	2	0	1	2	7
George Formanek	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
Shawn Wingate	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team								2	2	4					1
Totals	200	26	59	3	14	17	26	15	21	36	14	11	2	2	20	72

Kentucky - 90 (Head Coach: Rick Pitino) - [Ranked 6th 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	35	7	15	3	7	2	4	2	3	5	4	6	1	0	0	19
Walter McCarty	26	4	8	0	1	0	1	1	4	5	1	3	0	2	5	8
Andre Riddick	12	6	7	0	0	0	0	1	4	5	5	1	0	1	1	12
Jeff Sheppard	31	4	10	1	5	2	3	0	3	3	2	0	1	0	0	11
Tony Delk	15	3	6	2	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Anthony Epps	29	2	8	2	7	2	2	1	1	2	0	12	4	0	1	8
Mark Pope	25	4	6	1	2	4	4	4	3	7	3	0	1	1	1	13
Antoine Walker	12	3	6	0	0	2	2	4	2	6	1	2	0	0	4	8
Jared Prickett	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	2
Allen Edwards	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0
Team								2	0	2
Totals	200	34	69	9	26	13	18	16	21	37	19	24	8	4	13	90

Game Writeup - Courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Neil Burch; Dr. J's UK Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 30. (All Rights Reserved)

Wildcats Gash a Gang of Gelatinous Gamecocks:

6th ranked Kentucky cruised to a 90-72 victory over South Carolina last week, and were led in scoring by Rodrick Rhodes (19 points) and Mark Pope (13 points, a career high). Anthony Epps handed out a career high 12 assists (which is also a season high for any Wildcat). Unfortunately, Tony Delk experienced an injury which may hold him out of the Syracuse game (more about that later). Malek Russell scored a game-high 22 points for USC.

UK maintained the lead for the entire game against the Gamecocks, who have never won in Lexington. Prior to the unexpected loss at the end of last season in Columbia, USC had last beaten Kentucky in 1933.

The Wildcats led 40-32 at the half, and experienced an 8-0 run to start the 2nd half. South Carolina played a bit more methodically this time than during their previous 80-55 loss in Columbia, possibly in order to prevent another big blowout. The Gamecocks closed to within 64-55 later in the 2nd half on a pair of William Unseld FTs with about 9 minutes left, but UK had a 10-2 mini-run to take a 74-57 lead with about 6.5 minutes remaining. [JNB notes - didn't catch this one on SportSouth, who had originally listed it as being televised, so my apologies for my limited coverage of the details of the contest.]

Andre Riddick (#10) dunks with authority

Anthony Epps (#25) gets his fingers on a shot by USC's Melvin Watson (#10)

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