Kentucky - 89 (Head Coach: Orlando Smith) - [Ranked 7th by AP]

Player	Min	FG	FGA	3pt FG	3pt FGA	FT	FTA	Off Reb	Def Reb	Tot Reb	PF	Ast	St	BS	TO	Pts
Scott Padgett	32	4	11	2	4	0	0	4	5	9	4	2	4	0	2	10
Allen Edwards	18	2	5	1	3	4	6	0	0	0	5	4	1	0	1	9
Jamaal Magloire	22	2	4	0	0	2	5	1	5	6	4	1	0	0	1	6
Jeff Sheppard	18	4	9	1	2	2	4	3	2	5	2	1	2	0	1	11
Wayne Turner	34	6	13	0	1	2	3	2	2	4	1	8	2	0	3	14
Heshimu Evans	24	2	7	1	2	2	2	0	5	5	3	6	1	0	4	7
Nazr Mohammed	18	8	10	0	0	3	4	4	1	5	0	0	1	1	2	19
Cameron Mills	7	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	2
Saul Smith	18	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	2	2	2	0	2	0	1	4
Myron Anthony	5	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Ryan Hogan	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
Michael Bradley	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Masiello	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team										9
Totals	200	31	63	8	16	19	30	14	24	47	22	22	13	1	19	89

Purdue - 75 (Head Coach: Gene Keady) - [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
Brian Cardinal	31	3	10	1	3	5	6	2	2	4	4	5	4	1	3	12
Jaraan Cornell	16	2	4	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	4	1	1	0	1	6
Brad Miller (*)	33	4	9	0	1	2	3	4	10	14	3	3	2	4	4	10
Chad Austin	32	8	18	4	9	4	6	3	3	6	0	1	1	0	5	24
Alan Eldridge	30	2	8	2	4	2	2	1	1	2	1	4	3	0	4	8
Gary McQuay	15	1	5	1	2	0	1	1	2	3	3	1	0	1	1	3
Tony Mayfield	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	0
Mike Robinson	24	5	10	0	2	2	3	4	0	4	1	0	1	1	1	12
Mosi Barnes	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Char Kerkhof	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team										5
Totals	200	25	64	9	23	16	23	16	21	42	19	16	12	7	22	75

Game Writeup - Courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Neil Burch; Dr. J's UK Newsletter, Vol. 7 No. 14. (All Rights Reserved)

Purdue Purdon't:

7th ranked Kentucky defeated 5th ranked Purdue 89-75 in the Great 8 in Chicago, Illinois. Kentucky is now 2-1 in Great 8 play, having beaten Purdue twice in 2 years and losing once to UMASS!!! Purdue Coach Gene Keady would have become the Boilermaker's all-time winningest coach, had he won this game (he had to wait until later in the week to beat Louisville to achieve this).


Purdue got the opening tip and an early lead, although Kentucky's Edwards scored the game's 1st basket. The Boilermakers went up 5-2, then Kentucky tied the score at 5-5. Purdue raced ahead 11-5 on shots by Foster and Cornell (both hitting 3s). Following an old-fashioned 3 pt play, they even led 16-7. But this Kentucky team didn't panic, and they slowly crawled back thanks to a Mohammed bank shot, a Turner FT, and 3s by Edwards and Padgett to tie the score at 16-16. UK briefly went ahead 22-20 on FTs by Mills, but Purdue went back out on top by 25-23 following some Eldridge FTs. ESPN announcer Dick Vitale amusingly started to discuss UK equipment manager Bill Keightley, but Vitale pronounced the name Knightly on several occasions (including several minutes later, by which time he should have been corrected by his support staff). For the next several minutes a 1 pt lead went back and forth between the teams, but the Boilermakers took their last lead 35-34 after a Miller layup (Miller struggled to get free all night, with excellent denial defense by Padgett, and whenever he received the ball down low, he was immediately triple-teamed by UK). A pair of Mohammed FT tosses put Kentucky up 36-35, and the Cats led the rest of the way. A Padgett 3, a long Austin 2, and a buzzer-beating Anthony 3 concluded scoring in the 1st half, with the Wildcats up by a 42-37 margin.


An Eldridge 3 to open the 2nd half closed the margin to 42-40 UK, but a Sheppard 3 and driving layup, a Magloire layup, a Turner layup, and a Mohammed layup added up to a 53-40 edge for the Cats before Purdue stemmed the bleeding with a 3 pointer. The Boilermakers closed to 53-47, due largely to Kentucky's unwillingness to protect the ball after rebounds or steals. When Evans hit a 3, the worst seemed to be over. Although McQuay did manage a 3, the Cats had another spurt as Evans hit 2 FTs, Magloire tipped a shot in, Smith hit a 3, and Mohammed tipped a shot in, to give UK a 65-50 margin. Purdue cut that lead to 66-57 and 68-59, but could never get any closer. Magloire, Turner, and Sheppard combined to make it 74-59, and after Miller walked twice but wasn't called, he hit an inside shot to make it 74-62 after his FT. The lead bounced between 13 and 15 pts for UK for some time, reaching 17 when Turner scored on an easy inbounding play. Mohammed had a putback, then Ryan Hogan hit a 3 on a break to make it 88-67, Kentucky's largest lead of the evening. Within only a few minutes left, Kentucky relaxed a bit on defense, and Austin hit 2 consecutive 3s to inspire his team (and make it 88-75), but a Hogan FT and better ball control towards the end preserved the 89-75 victory.


Kentucky managed marvelous 3 pt shooting in this game, hitting on 50% of their shots outside the line.

Purdue's Brad Miller shoots over Scott Padgett

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