Georgia - 63 (Head Coach: Ken Rosemond) - [Unranked]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	FT	FTA	Reb	PF	Ast	Pts
Charlie Anderson	10	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	4
Dick Toth	34	1	4	3	3	3	5	2	5
Tim Bassett	40	8	16	1	1	17	2	0	17
John Fraley	33	6	15	3	4	2	1	2	15
Ronnie Hogue	35	6	14	1	1	6	1	0	13
Gino Gianfrancesco	36	1	2	3	3	0	2	1	5
Steve Zilko	7	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	2
Gary Adler	5	1	1	0	0	0	2	2	2
Team						1
Totals	200	25	57	13	15	30	14	7	63

Kentucky - 87 (Head Coach: Adolph Rupp) - [Ranked 17th by AP]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	FT	FTA	Reb	PF	Ast	Pts
Tom Parker	40	9	13	0	1	5	1	5	18
Larry Stamper	40	6	11	3	3	7	2	1	15
Jim Andrews	40	14	18	4	7	15	2	4	32
Bob McCowan	40	3	6	2	2	3	2	5	8
Stan Key	38	5	12	4	5	1	4	7	14
Ray Edelman	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Team						2
Totals	200	37	60	13	19	33	11	22	87

Andrews Gets Revenge, And So Does Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. - For 35 days Jim Andrews, Kentucky's center, had been carrying a grudge.

But that's all over now. He got his fill of revenge against Georgia Monday night and led Kentucky to its 10th straight win, 87-63, over the Bulldogs.

"We had Andrews primed for this one," said Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp. "when you start riding a guy about his defense, that usually wakes him up."

If that's what it takes, then Georgia's Tim Bassett must be the greatest thing that has happened to Andrews since alarm clocks.

Place: Georgia Coliseum, Athens. Time: About 10:00 p.m., Monday, Feb. 17, just after Georgia had beaten Kentucky (85-73). Enter Bassett, smiling.

"I knew I could take Andrews to the basket. That was our plan," says Bassett. "he's slow and he's not a good defensive player. He hurts them on defense."

In that first meeting Andrews finished with eight points, while Bassett had 27.

Between then and Monday night, somebody rewrote the script and put Bassett in, at best, a supporting role. This time, Andrews got star billing.

The 6-11 center racked up 32 points, game-high and pulled down 15 rebounds. Bassett had 17 points and 17 rebounds. More important, Kentucky got 87; Georgia 63, and that margin all came in the second half.

The Wildcats, which have now won 46 games straight at home, had Georgia down by 12 early in the first half. Kentucky jumped to a 9-0 lead, behind the inside play of Andrews and Tom Parker. In fact, almost five minutes had run off before Georgia scored. Ronnie Hogue made it 9-2 with 15:28 left in the first half.

Hogue's basket seemed to ignite the Wildcats again and before the Bulldogs could again change the lighting arrangement on their half of the scoreboard, Kentucky was up by 12.

Here, Rosemond decided to switch Bassett and Dick Toth and try to stop Andrews. Toth played Andrews close and Hogue and John Fraley started hitting from outside.

"We changed three defensive assignments for the second half and it paid off," explained Rupp. "I don't remember Fraley getting a basket in the second half and Bassett didn't intimidate us either.

"Bassett just couldn't handle Andrews here tonight," Rupp added.

Game Preview - Atlanta Journal (February 21, 1972)

Wildcat Memory Shakes Bulldogs - by Joe Litsch

Just about this time every other basketball season Kentucky is making a "title run."

And, just about this time every other season, Georgia has to go to Lexington to play Adolph Rupp's Wildcats.

And just about this time, Georgia usually gets literally run out of the Bluegrass country.

This stop has produced such disasters as 116-86 in '70; 106-87 in '68; and 74-50 in '66.

Now, the Bulldogs must try to reverse a Kentucky trend that has been going on for 45 games - that's how long it's been since the Wildcats lost on their home court. That goes back to an 87-77 loss to North Carolina in December of '68.

You can check the record books back as far as you like - to the beginning of basketball in the South even - and you can't find a Georgia win over Kentucky in Lexington. In fact, it's hard to find a Bulldog win over Kentucky anywhere, anytime.

Earlier this season, one of those rare occasions, which should rank right up there with Halley's Comet and a solar eclipse, happened in Athens. Georgia beat Kentucky, 84-72.

That was Kentucky's last loss this year and Rupp hasn't let the team forget it. He's called this perhaps his worst team ever. He said the same thing in '67 when Georgia beat Kentucky in Athens, 49-40, then when the Wildcats got the Bulldogs in Lexington, it was 101-76.

If ever there was a time when a Georgia team should be given a chance to end the Lexington hex, this should be the year.

Rupp has said this is the best Georgia team he can remember, and his memory covers some 41 years of Southern basketball.

Georgia's scoring more points than it usually does and the Bulldogs were able to handle the Wildcats handily in Athens. Combine all these facts and you've got the makings of an upset, except for one thing; Rupp smells another SEC championship and that's enough to make a difference. A big difference.

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