Kentucky - 108 (Head Coach: Rick Pitino) - [Ranked 4th 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	25	7	12	1	2	2	5	1	2	3	3	5	3	1	3	17
Jamal Mashburn	26	6	12	3	9	0	0	3	5	8	3	5	4	0	0	15
Rodney Dent	17	7	7	0	0	3	3	0	8	8	5	0	0	0	1	17
Travis Ford	32	3	8	3	8	2	2	1	2	3	2	7	2	0	3	11
Dale Brown	25	5	9	3	6	0	0	0	3	3	4	2	0	1	1	13
Nehemiah Braddy	10	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	4	4
Gimel Martinez	20	3	5	2	3	8	10	2	1	3	1	4	0	0	0	16
Jared Prickett	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
Andre Riddick	10	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	4	6	1	1	0	2	1	0
Jeff Brassow	16	3	5	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	4	2	0	0	1	7
Tony Delk	8	2	3	0	1	4	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	8
Chris Harrison	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team								0	0	0					0
Totals	200	38	71	13	34	19	25	9	29	38	29	27	9	4	15	108

South Carolina - 82 (Head Coach: Steve Newton) - [Unranked]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	3pt FG	3pt FGA	FT	FTA	Off Reb	Def Reb	Tot Reb	PF	Ast	St	BS	TO	Pts
Emmett Hall	30	3	12	0	1	3	7	3	2	5	4	1	0	0	1	9
Troy McKoy	15	0	5	0	2	3	4	2	1	3	1	2	0	0	4	3
Chris Leso	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	3	0	0	0	0	2
Carey Rich	32	1	8	0	2	1	2	0	4	4	3	2	4	0	7	3
Jamie Watson	28	6	14	0	1	11	16	5	2	7	3	3	0	0	4	23
Edmond Wilson	29	3	9	0	0	7	10	7	7	14	1	2	0	2	3	13
Terry Bynum	29	7	10	4	6	3	4	2	2	4	2	1	0	0	0	21
Shannon Hoskins	8	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	5
Waide Franklin	7	1	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	3	2	0	0	0	1	3
Obrad Ignjatovic	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Norm Greene	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team								1	2	3
Totals	200	24	66	6	16	28	43	21	28	49	21	11	4	2	22	82

Game Writeup - Courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Neil Burch; Dr. J's UK Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 26. (All Rights Reserved)

USC Goes Down:

Continuing in its recent winning ways, Kentucky demolished the Gamecocks in Columbia 108-82. This ties the record for the most points scored against USC in recent times (Louisville scored this many against them several years ago).

UK trailed 5-4 when it went on a 14-0 spurt, and from there the Wildcats never looked back. Leading by 11 at intermission, UK did pretty much what it wanted, offensively and defensively. The press and trapping worked very well in this game, and there were 6 players scoring in double figures, including Rodney Dent who had a career high 17 points and who operated in the post very well. He did not miss a shot from the floor or from the free throw line. In addition, Martinez continued to play well at the center position. And this game saw the return of Jeff Brassow from knee surgery.

Rick Pitino in his weekly TV show that he had asked Dent to be more aggressive offensively in the future, and that he had challenged his team to score at least 105 points against South Carolina. Both events occurred. Pitino praised his team's spacing, passing, and general ball movement.

According to UK fan Rick Suffridge in his r.s.b.c post, about 1/4 of the crowd was for Kentucky (this is comparable to my estimate of about 1/3 of the crowd at the Georgia game). He also mentioned that the PA announcer at one point called out "How about 3 seconds?" in a most unprofessional and classless act. UK's 108 points ties its season scoring record (Kentucky also had 108 against Morehead State). UK is now 13-1 (4-1 in the conference), while South Carolina falls to 7-8 (3-3 in the SEC).

South Carolina's Edmond Wilson (#30) goes up for a shot against Rodney Dent

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