UK vs Tennessee: Gameday News and Notes

Tomorrow’s SEC matchup between Kentucky and the Tennessee Volunteers is set for 12:00 pm EST.

KENTUCKY WILDCATS (16-10, 10-3 SEC) vs. Tennessee Volunteers (25-3, 11-2 SEC)
Date: Sunday, March 2
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST
Site: Knoxville, TN - Thompson-Boling Arena
TV: CBS Online: via CSTVPPV.com ($9.95)
Game Audio: UK: [link] Yahoo!: [link]
Live Stats: [link]

Kentucky

The ‘Cats are coming off a 58-54 victory over the Ole Miss Rebels on Wednesday.

Kentucky goes into Knoxville with the SEC lead, along with NCAA tournament hopes on the line. They will have to do it without freshman Patrick Patterson, who was lost for the season with a stress fracture in his left ankle.

Team Stats

					FG	3PT	FT	Reb	Misc
Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FG%	3PT%	FT%	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	PF	PPG
Joe Crawford	F	25	17	33.0	46.5	35.0	77.5	3.6	2.3	2.8	0.6	0.2	2.8	16.8
Patrick Patterson	F	25	25	35.7	57.4	0.0	73.1	7.7	1.7	2.1	0.8	1.2	2.8	16.4
Ramel Bradley	G	25	23	34.0	42.9	38.8	85.0	4.6	3.3	3.2	1.7	0.2	2.6	15.8
Jodie Meeks	G	11	5	23.2	30.7	32.0	79.4	2.6	1.5	1.1	0.5	0.1	1.7	8.8
Perry Stevenson	F	26	1	22.3	56.4		75.0	4.3	0.8	1.5	0.8	1.3	2.6	5.2
Ramon Harris	F	22	20	20.0	45.8	27.3	60.0	3.4	1.1	1.7	0.8	0.4	1.3	3.5
Derrick Jasper	G	15	1	26.9	38.1	41.7	53.3	5.2	1.9	2.0	0.7	0.7	2.5	3.3
Kerry Benson	G-F	2	0	11.5	33.3	50.0	100.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
A.J. Stewart	F	17	2	9.9	56.7		54.5	2.1	0.4	1.1	0.4	0.5	1.2	2.4
Michael Porter	G	20	9	16.0	31.9	43.3	83.3	1.2	1.3	1.8	1.0	0.0	1.9	2.4
Mark Coury	F	26	25	11.9	43.9		53.8	2.0	0.7	0.8	0.4	0.3	1.8	2.2
Jared Carter	C	11	0	4.2	57.1		100.0	0.7	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.4	0.8	0.9
Mark Krebs	F	4	0	0.8	100.0	100.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.8
Morakinyo Williams	C	5	0	6.0	33.3			1.0	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.8
Dwight Perry	G	7	0	2.4	0.0	0.0	66.7	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
Dusty Mills	G	4	0	1.2	0.0			0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0
Matt Scherbenske	G	3	0	1.3	0.0	0.0		0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Tennessee

After being ranked number 1 for the first time in school history. The Volunteers look to recover from it’s upset loss to the hands of the Vanderbilt Commodores this past Tuesday.

Tennessee also looks to avenge an earlier loss to the ‘Cats at Rupp back in January.

Team Stats

					FG	3PT	FT	Reb	Misc
Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FG%	3PT%	FT%	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	PF	PPG
Chris Lofton	G	28	28	29.3	39.5	38.8	84.5	3.4	2.0	1.1	1.3	0.1	1.4	15.4
JaJuan Smith	G	28	28	26.5	44.6	37.2	77.5	3.5	2.4	1.8	1.8	0.0	2.4	14.0
Tyler Smith	F	28	28	27.8	53.9	35.5	70.5	6.9	3.6	2.2	1.5	0.5	2.5	13.4
Wayne Chism	F	28	26	21.9	43.9	29.6	49.3	6.0	1.1	1.0	0.9	1.3	3.0	9.1
J.P. Prince	G	19	0	19.0	49.6	20.0	52.1	3.4	1.7	1.6	1.1	0.6	2.4	8.8
Ramar Smith	G	28	13	21.1	45.5	26.3	61.5	2.4	3.1	2.1	1.2	0.0	2.5	8.2
Duke Crews	F	18	2	16.1	48.1		65.2	4.6	0.6	1.1	0.5	0.4	2.3	6.0
Jordan Howell	G	28	15	18.8	35.8	35.2	68.8	1.4	2.4	1.0	0.5	0.1	1.6	5.2
Cameron Tatum	G-F	7	0	10.6	50.0	37.5	42.9	2.3	0.9	1.1	1.1	0.3	1.1	5.0
Brian Williams	C	25	0	11.7	58.0	50.0	44.0	4.0	0.4	0.6	0.3	0.3	1.9	2.8
Ryan Childress	F	21	0	10.9	36.7	18.8	61.1	2.6	0.8	0.7	0.4	0.3	1.5	2.8
Josh Tabb	G	20	0	10.7	51.7	28.6	0.0	2.0	1.3	0.6	0.8	0.1	0.8	1.7
Quinn Cannington	G	6	0	1.5	100.0	100.0		0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.8
Rick Daniels-Mulholland	F	6	0	1.2	100.0		50.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5
Tanner Wild	G	8	0	1.8	33.3	100.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.4
Steven Pearl	F	15	0	2.8	37.5		0.0	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.5	0.4

Winning Keys:

• Limit Turnovers
• Control the pace
• Bench Production

Preview Thoughts

After the loss of Patrick Patterson it’s going to be interesting to see how the team will respond. We will need some kind of effort from the likes of Stevenson, Stewart, Carter etc. Ramel Bradley and Joe Crawford can’t do everything, but I’m sure they’ll do their best.

I don’t know what coach Gillispie’s gameplan will be, but I expect he’ll have something up his sleeve.

The status of Jodie Meeks is uncertain at this point. If he’s able to play, that will be a huge help.

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