ESPN’s Chris Low has taken a look at how each SEC team fared in 4th quarter scoring last season in conference play and Kentucky was 7th in the conference.
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[*][B]LSU:[/B] 88-20, plus 68
[*][B]Alabama:[/B] 73-13, plus 60
[*][B]Arkansas:[/B] 62-38, plus 24
[*][B]Georgia:[/B] 53-51, plus 2
[*][B]South Carolina:[/B] 55-54, plus 1
[*][B]Auburn:[/B] 41-48, minus 7
[*][B]Kentucky: [/B]41-56, minus 15
[*][B]Vanderbilt:[/B] 35-51, minus 16
[*][B]Mississippi State:[/B] 36-55, minus 19
[*][B]Tennessee:[/B] 36-55, minus 19
[*][B]Ole Miss: [/B]20-49, minus 29
[*][B]Florida:[/B] 22-72, minus 50
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The thing that this doesn’t show is how many points team gave up in the first 3 quarters.
Kentucky, in SEC play, usually wasn’t in games after 3 quarters last season and most opponents had usually called off the dogs.
Well, not Steve Spurrier.
Here is how the Wildcats looked in the first 3 stanzas:
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[*]Kentucky: 53-186, minus 133.
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Now, if Kentucky can just get to the 4th quarter maybe we could look at this a little bit differently next season.
