Kentucky-South Carolina Postgame Notes
South Carolina 68, Kentucky 62
Jan. 26, 2010
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Kentucky suffered its first loss and is now 19-1, 4-1 SEC on the season.
South Carolina improves to 12-8, 3-3.
UK is 41-10 against the Gamecocks and 16-6 in Columbia.
Kentucky will be in action again Saturday, returning home to host Vanderbilt.
Tip-off is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. with the game being televised on ESPN.
Team game notes
The Wildcats used the starting combination of Eric Bledsoe , DeMarcus Cousins ,
Darius Miller , Patrick Patterson and John Wall for the fifth straight game.
Kentucky is 17-1 with that starting five.
The Wildcats played in their blue uniforms for the fifth time this season.
The Cats are 4-1 in their road blues.
South Carolina won the opening tip. The Wildcats have won the opening tip
16 times this season.
Perry Stevenson was the first sub off the bench for Kentucky. It was his
first time this season to be the first Wildcat off the bench. Kentucky extended its streak of game with a three-pointer to 731 games,
the third longest streak in the country.
The Wildcats led 29-26 at halftime. With the loss UK drops to 15-1 when
leading at the half.
UK shot 38.6 percent from the field, its lowest percentage of the season.
Kentucky was outrebounded for only the fourth time this season.
Individual game notes
#3 Darnell Dodson
Recorded his first dunk of the season.
#11 John Wall
Tied freshman assist record with 126 th of the season, held by Dirk Minniefield,
1979-80.
#15 DeMarcus Cousins
Recorded his 11 th double-double of the season, tying Chris Mills' (1987-88)
UK freshman record for double-doubles in a season.
Tied career high with 27 points.
Has three straight double-doubles.
Tallied third 20-10 game this season and first since 24 point-10 rebound
effort against UNC Asheville.
Scored double-digits in 12 straight games.
Has 13 multi-blocks game this season.
Has eight blocks in last three games.
#54 Patrick Patterson
Moved to 27 th on UK's all-time scoring list with 1,328 points.
Tied season high with two blocks
Finished with eight rebounds, the most since tallying 11 against Long Beach
State.
