Thursday’s game in Oxford features a pair of teams near the top of the
SEC standings with third-place Florida visiting fourth-place Ole Miss.
The 13th-ranked Gators will face a Rebel squad coming off two straight
wins and three victories in its last four outings. Ole Miss has
defended its home court with a perfect 8-0 mark this season, while
Florida is 1-4 on the road.
JOHNSON
CITY, Tenn. – Swayze Black’s putback at the buzzer forced overtime and
LaSondra Barrett capped a 20-point night with four game-winning free
throws in the final minute as the LSU women’s basketball team rallied
back from a double-digit deficit to defeat East Tennessee State,
71-68...
-- Kentucky improves to 20-1, 6-0 in the Southeastern Conference
-- The Cats have won 12-straight. The second longest streak in the
Calipari era behind the 19-0 start by the 2009-10 squad.
NASHVILLE
– South Carolina needed extra time but held off a charging No. 25/22
Vanderbilt team to score a 65-60 victory Sunday afternoon at Memorial
Gymnasium. The Gamecocks (15-5, 4-3 SEC) snapped a three-game losing
streak with what had previously delivered a seven-game win streak –
stingy, disciplined defense, aggressive offense and gutty plays when
they counted most. Senior La’Keisha Sutton finished with 20 points,
including a career-high four 3-pointers, and five of the team’s nine
points in overtime.
LEXINGTON,
Ky. – Behind a season-high team score on floor exercise, where two
Wildcats set or tied their career-high marks, the University of
Kentucky gymnastics team showed improvement from its first Southeastern
Conference meet of the year to its second meet of the year in a
196.275-194.075 loss to No. 8 Florida at Memorial Coliseum on Friday
night.
A
staunch defensive effort, combined with a record-setting night from
kicker Jeremy Shelley, propelled the University of Alabama football
team to its 14th national championship with a 21-0 victory over LSU.
Arkansas Head Coach Bobby Petrino (on the game): “We had a lot of big
plays. I’m glad we were able to come out in the second half and score
like we did. We’ve certainly played well in our last three games at
home. I like it when we crank up our run game and what else can you say
about our special teams, they’ve been great all season, scoring five
touchdowns.”
ATLANTA---Offensive
MVP Onterio McCalebb rushed for a season-high 109 yards and had 180
all-purpose yards, Emory Blake caught six passes for a career-high
tying 108 yards and Barrett Trotter came off the bench to throw for 175
yards and one touchdown to lead Auburn to a 43-24 victory over Virginia
in the Chick-fil-A Bowl in the Georgia Dome.
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – Florida’s Jordan Jones scored 16 points and the Gators benefited
from seven made threes to hand the LSU women’s basketball team its
first Southeastern Conference loss and snap its 10-game winning streak
by a score of 62-58 on Sunday afternoon in the O’Connell Center.
TUSCALOOSA,
Ala. – While the University of Alabama remains proud of Foster
Auditorium, the new home of its women’s basketball team, Mississippi
State has also found the facility to its liking.
Trailing
for most of the contest Thursday night, MSU notched its first
Southeastern Conference victory of the season and a second straight win
in this building. A late Kendra Grant 3-point basket broke a tie as the
Lady Bulldogs posted a 66-61 victory.
LEXINGTON,
Ky. – The Ole Miss men’s tennis team capped off a great tournament at
the SEC Indoor Championships with the senior twin duo of Marcel
Thiemann and Chris Thiemann taking the Doubles Championship here Monday
morning at the Boone Tennis Complex.
LAS
VEGAS – The University of Florida’s Caroline Hitimana (Waterloo,
Belgium) defeated Duke’s Ester Goldfeld and captured the 10th annual
Freeman Memorial Championships consolation singles title on Sunday
afternoon at the Fertitta Tennis Complex on the UNLV campus.
There's
a saying that defense wins championships. For Georgia, linebacker
Jarvis Jones and his defensive teammates proved that point, as the
Bulldogs held off a tough Kentucky team 19-10 in Athens on Saturday.
With the win, Georgia clinches the SEC Eastern Division title.
UK Head Coach Mathew Mitchell
Opening Statement…
“That
was a great college basketball game. Two really tough teams went at it
tonight and played hard. We have so much respect for Tennessee. They
played such a tough game. I couldn’t be prouder of our players. They
earned every bit of it..."
COLUMBIA,
S.C. – No. 24 South Carolina dropped a 66-58 decision to No. 9/8
Kentucky Sunday afternoon in SEC women’s basketball action at Colonial
Life Arena. The Gamecocks (14-4, 3-2 SEC) out-rebounded the Wildcats
(16-2, 5-0 SEC) on the afternoon but saw Kentucky’s 11 second-half
offensive rebounds help them to the comeback victory.10
teams for the first time in school history.
KNOXVILLE,
Tenn. – Despite taking first in two more events than top-ranked
Georgia, the 14th-ranked University of Tennessee Lady Vol swimming and
diving team came up a bit short on Saturday afternoon, as the Lady
Bulldogs prevailed by a score of 169-131 at Gabrielsen Natatorium in
Athens, Ga.atatorium in Athens, Ga.
But
the co-Big East Conference champs had to work to put away Vanderbilt
(6-7), a team that tied for fourth in the Southeastern Conference's
East Division, despite forcing three turnovers and coming up with two
sacks. The Commodores led 21-17 when Abernathy became the first
Cincinnati player to return a kickoff for a TD in the program's 13 bowl
appearances.
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