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[FONT=Arial Narrow]Kentucky vs. Baylor[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]March 25, 2012
NCAA Tournament Regional Finals
Georgia Dome – Atlanta, Ga.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Kentucky improves to 36-2, while Baylor ends its season at 30-8.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– The Wildcats are 7-0 all-time against Baylor and 2-0 against the Bears in the NCAA Tournament.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– UK is now 109-46 in NCAA Tournament games.
— The Wildcats are 15-18 in NCAA Tournament regional final games.
— Kentucky is 68-29 all-time in Atlanta and 5-2 in NCAA Tournament games played in Atlanta.
— The Wildcats have advanced to the Final Four in back-to-back seasons for the first time since going three straight times in 1997, ’97 and ’98.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Head coach John Calipari is now 36-13 in the NCAA Tournament and has been to four Final Fours.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– The Wildcats will face Louisville on Saturday in New Orleans in the Final Four.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]Team game notes[/FONT][COLOR=#FF0000][FONT=Arial Narrow]
[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial Narrow]– The Wildcats used the starting combination of Terrence Jones, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Doron Lamb, Anthony Davis and Marquis Teague for the 27[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] time this season. UK is 26-1 with that starting five.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Darius Miller was the first sub off the bench for UK. It was his 25[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] time as the Wildcat sixth man.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Kentucky extended its streak of games with a 3-pointer to 825 games, the third-longest streak in the country.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– With nine blocked shots, the Wildcats pushed their NCAA record number of blocks to 326.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Trailing 10-5, Kentucky went on a 16-0 run over a 3:40 span to take a 21-10 lead.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Kentucky led 42-22 at the half. The Wildcats are 30-0 when leading at halftime.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– UK held Baylor to 22 first-half points, the fewest by an opponent since holding Georgia to 19 on March 1.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– It was also the fewest first half points by a UK opponent since allowing 16 to Cornell in the 2010 Sweet 16.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Kentucky has scored 80+ points in each game in the NCAA Tournament. The last school to do that in four straight games was Kentucky in the 1998 tournament. (Elias)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Doron Lamb were selected to the NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was selected NCAA South Regional Most Outstanding Player, it marks the second straight season UK has had a player named MOP (Brandon Knight, 2011).[/FONT]
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[CENTER][FONT=Arial Narrow] [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]Individual game notes[/FONT][/CENTER][COLOR=#FF0000][FONT=Arial Narrow]
[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial Narrow]#1 Darius Miller[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Finished with eight points pushing his career total to 1,230 points, placing him 37[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] on the UK all-time scoring list.
— Ranks 10[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] on UK’s all-time 3-point field goals list with 173.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Averaging 13 points and 3.3 rebounds in NCAA Tournament.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]#3 Terrence Jones[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– With 12 points, Jones moves to 54th on UK’s all-time scoring list with 1,049 career points.
— Dished a career-high six assists
— Finished with 12 points, nine rebounds and six assists.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]#14 Michael Kidd-Gilchrist[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Tallied 17 first-half points, the eighth time this season he’s gone for double-digits in the first half.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Finished with 19 points and five rebounds.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Fouled out for the fifth time this season.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Selected to NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Most Outstanding Player of NCAA South Regional[/FONT]
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#20 Doron Lamb[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– With 14 points moved to within 14 points of his 1,000[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] career point.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Averaging 16.8 points in NCAA Tournament.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Selected to NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]#23 Anthony Davis[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Tallied 14 first-half points, the 10[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] time this season he’s gone for double-digits in the first half.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– With six blocks, moved to sole possession of third on the NCAA all-time freshman block list with 175.[/FONT][COLOR=#FF0000][FONT=Arial Narrow]
[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial Narrow]– Broke the SEC single-season blocks list.
— Averaging 14.5 points, 11 rebounds and 4.5 blocks in NCAA Tournament.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]– Selected to NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]#25 Marquis Teague[/FONT][COLOR=#FF0000][FONT=Arial Narrow]
[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial Narrow]– Finished with three assists to four turnovers. In last 20 games, has 107 assists to 48 turnovers, a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio.
— Averaging 14.5 points and 5.3 assists in NCAA Tournament.[/FONT]
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