Wildcats play No. 2 South Carolina on Sunday at 5 p.m. ET
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The No. 13/15 University of Kentucky women’s basketball team concludes its regular season slate of games on Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. ET as it plays host to No. 2 South Carolina at a nearly sold out Memorial Coliseum in a game that will be shown live on ESPN2 with Tiffany Greene and Gail Goestenkors.
UK is currently locked in as a top-six seed in the 2015 Southeastern Conference Tournament to held in Little Rock, Ark., next week. The Wildcats could move up to a No. 4 seed and gain a double-bye in the SEC Tournament for the sixth-straight season with a three-tiered combination of a win over South Carolina, a LSU loss to Texas A&M and an Ole Miss win over Mississippi State.
Kentucky looks to win its sixth straight game on “Senior Night” and chart its first regular-season win over the Gamecocks since winning 78-74 in Memorial on Feb. 14, 2013.
The Wildcats got back on the winning track Thursday at Arkansas, using their stifling defense to hold the Razorbacks to a season-low 26.8 percent shooting and just 51 points. Three of UK’s seniors spoiled Arkansas’ “Senior Night” as Azia Bishop netted a team-high 12 points followed by 11 points each from Goss and O’Neill. The win snapped the Cats’ three-game losing skid and gave them their fifth straight win over the Razorbacks.
UK is led by the guard play of Goss, Makayla Epps, Linnae Harper and O’Neill this season. Epps, an
All-SEC and Nancy Lieberman Award candidate, currently leads the league in scoring (SEC-only games
with 15.1 ppg, while O’Neill, a candidate to repeat as the SEC 6th-Woman of the Year, follows Epps with 13.3 ppg. All-SEC candidates Harper and Goss follow with 12.3 ppg and 10.5 ppg, respectively.
Single-game reserved tickets are available at a cost of $9 for all ages for UK Hoops’ Senior Day vs. South Carolina. General admission tickets for adults are $8 while single-game general admission tickets for seniors and children (ages 6-18, 65 and over) are only $5.
Children ages five and under are admitted free in the general admission seating area and UK students, faculty and staff are admitted free with valid identification.
Fans interested in UK Hoops tickets can visit the Joe Craft Center ticket office, go to UKathletics.com, or call the UK ticket office at 1-800-928-CATS. Tickets are also available at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
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