The N ° 1 Auburn won a share of the title of the SEC on Saturday in a 94-78 victory against Kentucky n ° 17 when the Tigers won their first victory inside Rupp Arena since 1988. The Wildcats had won 20 consecutive games at home against Auburn and were 51-2 against the tigers in Lexington before staining a decadevous outing.
The Kentucky (19-10, 8-8) went almost 10 minutes without basket on the ground during a stretch covering the two halves, and its beginning of the second half was particularly disastrous. The United Kingdom has committed reversals on six consecutive possessions to start half-time without even trying to shoot.
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The Wildcats finished with 18-year-old turnover, which led to an advantage of 21-9 in reversal points for Auburn, which led up to 22 at the start of the second half. The Tigers (27-2, 15-1 sec) will win the title of the pure and simple league with a victory in one or the other of their last two games or a defeat of the Alabama in one of his last three games.
The UK’s beat by Auburn came a slow day for the national candidate of the year John Broome. The Star Center briefly left the match in the second half after seeming to injure the shoulder but returned and finished with nine points out of 9 shots.
Miles Kelly intensified a summit of 30 points to compensate, including the 3 consecutive banking points while the Tigers built a 13 -point lead in the first six minutes. Chad Baker-Mazara contributed 22 for Auburn, and Tahaad Pettiford added 21 while the tigers pulled 51.8% of the soil.
Koby Brea led Kentucky with 21 points while Andrew Carr has scored 20 years. The Wildcats equaled a season with only four people made at 3 points, and all four came from Brea.
Wildcats hampered
In the case of a legendary performance during the UK victory at Oklahoma – his former school – Wednesday, the top scorer in Kentucky, Otega, Oweh, suffered a brutal outing. He only recorded 11 minutes in the first half after picking up his third fault with three remaining minutes in the frame. Oweh finished with four on 1 points of 3 shots.
Oweh’s difficulties have occurred while injury problems have continued to afflict Kentucky. The second striker Jaxson Robinson was again not available for the United Kingdom due to a persistent wrist injury. Robinson missed four games in February before returning to Oklahoma’s victory. However, he only recorded 12 minutes in this competition and was excluded from the Auburn match in the dry availability report on Friday.
Kentucky’s leader Lamont Butler, who is dealing with a throbbing left shoulder injury, played for a second consecutive match and recorded 32 minutes – most of January – while wearing a bulky splint. But its effectiveness continues to be limited because it finished with 15 points out of 4 shots with five reversals and without assists.
Implications in playoffs
The victory also cemented the Place d’Auburn as a seeded planned at n ° 1 of the NCAA tournament, because the tigers now have 16-2 in Quad 1.. Kentucky entered as a seeded n ° 3 planned in the CBS sports range and is now 9-9 in Quad 1.
Kentucky has come at equality in seventh row in the dry classification. Wildcats must finish among the first eight to avoid playing on the first day of the dry tournament later this month. The United Kingdom firm at home against LSU modest and on the road against n ° 14 Missouri. A 2-0 finish would almost certainly keep the Wildcats out of the action of day 1, but a 1-1 finish could leave them vulnerable, according to the teams such as Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt takes place in the section.
