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- Saturday, January 14 1978 -
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Louisiana State - 76 (Head Coach: Dale Brown) - [Unranked]
| Player | Min | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | Reb | PF | Ast | TO | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeWayne Scales | 32 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Durand Macklin | 28 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 16 |
| Lionel Green | 24 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Jordy Hultberg | 32 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 |
| Kenny Higgs | 19 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| Willie Sims | 15 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| Ethan Martin | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Ernest Brown | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Walter Campbell | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rick Mattick | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Floyd Bailey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 4 | |||||||||
| Totals | 200 | 30 | 82 | 16 | 26 | 49 | 31 | 14 | 23 | 76 |
Kentucky - 96 (Head Coach: Joe B. Hall) - [Ranked 1st by AP]
| Player | Min | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | Reb | PF | Ast | TO | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Givens | 26 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
| Rick Robey | 25 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
| Mike Phillips | 24 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 23 |
| Kyle Macy | 29 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman Claytor | 16 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Chris Gettelfinger | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dwane Casey | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Jay Shidler | 17 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Tim Stephens | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| James Lee | 22 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| Fred Cowan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Scott Courts | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Chuck Aleksinas | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Lavon Williams | 10 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Team | 1 | |||||||||
| Totals | 200 | 33 | 61 | 30 | 39 | 43 | 23 | 20 | 25 | 96 |
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| Prior Game | | | Next Game |
| Auburn 101 - 77 | | | Mississippi 76 - 56 |
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LSU's Duran Macklin shoots while defended by Lavon Williams and Mike Phillips (#55)
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Rick Robey (#53) lays the ball in over LSU's Willie Sims (#10)
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A pre-blonde bomber Jay Shidler (#25) drives the ball
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