BOTTOM LINE: No. 12 Kentucky visits Georgia after Georgia Amoore scored 21 points in Kentucky's 80-61 win over the Auburn Tigers. The Bulldogs have gone 7-4 in home games. Georgia is 5-3 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 15.9 turnovers per game.
Kentucky went on the road and got a 14-point win over Georgia, but it felt like the Cats left a lot on the table. Kenny Brooks‘ squad led 23-4 after the first quarter, and it felt like a true route was in store in Athens.
Georgia proved more than up to the task in upsetting No. 7 Kentucky Tuesday night. The Bulldogs showed it's formidable, too, in rugged SEC.
Fresh off that 106-100 win over the Florida Gators at Rupp Arena on Saturday, the No. 6-ranked Kentucky Wildcats travel to Stegeman Coliseum to face the Georgia Bulldogs in their first SEC road game of the season.
Kenny Brooks and the No. 12 Kentucky women’s basketball team sailed to 5-0 in Southeastern Conference play with a 78-64 victory against Georgia at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Ga., on Sunday afternoon.
Kentucky’s distance shooting woes returned in Athens. One game after the Cats lit up Rupp Arena with a 14-for-29 3-point shooting clinic against Florida, one of the best 3-point defenses in the country, Kentucky went just 6-for-25 from distance against Georgia, which also boasts a 3-point defense that ranks in the top 20 nationally.
The Kentucky Wildcats joined just about every other ranked team by losing a game last week. Here’s how it all shook out in the new AP Top 25 poll.
ATHENS, Ga. — Freshman forward Asa Newell scored 12 of his 17 points after halftime and Georgia led the entire ... Lamont Butler led Kentucky (12-3, 1-1) with 20. Foul trouble hurt the Wildcats. Amari Williams went to the bench with four fouls early ...
The Kentucky Wildcats have made it through the snow all the way down to Athens, Georgia, to take on the Bulldogs. This game will be only the second true road game Kentucky has played this year ...
Sophomore center Clara Strack continued to emerge as an unstoppable, overwhelming force for a Kentucky roster off to its best conference start in over a decade (UK opened SEC play 6-0 in 2012-13). She was one of three Wildcats to finish in double-figure scoring, and one of two to grab at least 10 rebounds.
(The Wildcats also dropped three straight meetings in Athens from 1987 through 1990 ... setback in the Big Apple: Though Kentucky trimmed Georgia’s lead to five with 12 minutes remaining ...