Marshall - 75 (Head Coach: Billy Donovan) - [Unranked]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	3pt FG	3pt FGA	FT	FTA	Off Reb	Def Reb	Tot Reb	PF	Ast	St	BS	TO	Pts
Shawn Moore	31	3	17	1	7	6	8	5	4	9	1	3	3	1	4	13
Troy Gray	28	6	12	1	3	7	8	3	3	6	4	0	3	0	6	20
Curtis Raymond	29	3	9	0	2	0	0	4	2	6	4	1	1	1	1	6
Tink Brown	33	3	5	1	2	5	6	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	4	12
Doug Schieppe	16	1	6	0	5	0	0	1	4	5	4	0	0	0	2	2
Malik Hightower	31	3	11	1	6	3	4	3	4	7	2	0	2	0	7	10
Thad Bonapart	24	3	9	0	0	2	3	1	2	3	3	1	0	1	3	8
Chris Gray	9	0	1	0	0	4	4	0	3	3	2	2	1	0	1	4
Team								2	0	2					1
Totals	201	22	70	4	25	27	33	19	22	41	23	10	11	3	29	75

Kentucky - 116 (Head Coach: Rick Pitino) - [Ranked 5th 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	23	2	8	2	5	2	2	0	1	1	2	5	1	2	4	8
Walter McCarty	18	2	4	0	0	4	4	1	2	3	3	4	0	1	2	8
Andre Riddick	23	6	9	0	0	0	1	4	8	12	4	2	3	4	1	12
Tony Delk	16	5	9	3	7	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	0	4	14
Jeff Sheppard	26	7	9	5	6	2	2	1	3	4	3	1	5	1	1	21
Anthony Epps	19	1	3	0	1	2	2	0	3	3	1	8	1	0	3	4
Jared Prickett	18	4	5	0	0	4	5	3	2	5	0	1	2	2	1	12
Mark Pope	16	3	7	0	1	4	4	4	6	10	4	1	0	3	4	10
Antoine Walker	16	4	8	2	3	1	3	0	1	1	0	6	3	0	0	11
Chris Harrison	6	2	3	2	3	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	0	0	1	6
Allen Edwards	8	2	7	1	1	3	4	3	1	4	0	0	1	0	2	8
Scott Padgett	7	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
Cameron Mills	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Team								0	0	0	1
Totals	202	39	76	15	28	23	29	18	31	49	24	32	17	13	23	116

Game Writeup - Courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Neil Burch; Dr. J's UK Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 26. (All Rights Reserved)

Wildcats Hit Thundering Herd with Lightning:

Prior to the game with Marshall, UK Coach Rick Pitino met with Marshall Coach Billy Donovan, and told him "to try to whip Kentucky's ass, because we'll try to do the same to you." John Pelphrey and Billy Donovan received thunderous ovations from the Rupp Arena crowd. Jeff Sheppard got an unexpected start at point guard (part of Pitino's announced "Marshall Plan"). He hit on a sensational 5 of 6 3 pointers and has clearly improved a great deal since the beginning of this young season.

By halftime, UK's performance was already incredible. The Cats had scored 66 points while holding their opponent to 35. UK already had 20 assists, which is as many as Pitino normally expects for an entire game. The Wildcats had already achieved 37 deflections (Pitino wants at least 35 per game). Twenty turnovers had already been forced, and Marshall had hit on only 2 of 11 3 point attempts. The Cats, on the other hand, hit on 12 of 21 3s in the opening stanza.

The Thundering Herd missed on 11 of their 1st 12 shots, and appeared rattled by the huge Rupp Arena crowd. They had 7 turnovers in the game's 1st 5 minutes.

UK started the game with somewhat cold shooting of its own, but still managed a 15-7 lead early. After hitting on 13 of their next 16 shots, they led 48-19 and it was all over but the shouting. Sheppard had 19 points by the end of the half (he took only one shot in the second half). The Cats connected on 12 1st half 3 point shots. After 2 minutes had elapsed in the second half, the Wildcats led by 36 and were content not to expand this lead.

Scott Padgett was set to dunk the ball late in the game on an assist from Mills, but he barely hit the front of the rim with the ball. Padgett was the only Wildcat who played and failed to score.

Antoine Walker (#24) and Mark Pope (#41) stuff a Marshall shot while Chris Harrison (#3) attempts to take a charge

Rodrick Rhodes (#12) and Jeff Sheppard pressure Marshall's Troy Gray

Marshal Coach Billy Donovan and Assistant John Pelphrey (former Assistant UK Coach & UK player respectively) can only watch UK dominate

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