Kentucky Wildcats vs Santa Clara Broncos

NCAA Men's Basketball Championship - Midwest Region - 1st Round

26-9

Final/OT

	1	2	OT	T
Santa Clara SCU	31	42	11	84
Kentucky UK	29	44	16	89

Kentucky WildcatsKentuckyUK

22-13

Santa Clara Broncos

starters
Elijah MahiE. Mahi#8
Bukky OboyeB. Oboye#12
Christian HammondC. Hammond#1
Jake EnsmingerJ. Ensminger#44
Brenton KnapperB. Knapper#0
bench
Allen GravesA. Graves#22
Francis ChukwudebeluF. Chukwudebelu#3
Sash GavalyugovS. Gavalyugov#2
KJ CochranKJ Cochran#7
Thierry DarlanT. Darlan#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
39	20	7-16	4-8	2-2	5	2	1	1	0	0	5	3
17	6	3-4	0-1	0-0	2	0	3	1	1	0	2	4
41	9	3-11	1-5	2-3	5	4	2	2	0	0	5	2
42	14	5-8	2-3	2-2	8	2	0	3	0	5	3	2
13	2	1-5	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	17	5-12	1-3	6-6	7	1	0	0	1	4	3	3
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	16	6-16	4-11	0-0	6	5	0	0	0	0	6	3
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
7	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
	84	30-73	12-33	12-13	38	17	7	8	2	12	26	20
		41%	36%	92%

Kentucky Wildcats

starters
Andrija JelavicA. Jelavic#4
Malachi MorenoM. Moreno#24
Collin ChandlerC. Chandler#5
Otega OwehO. Oweh#00
Denzel AberdeenD. Aberdeen#1
bench
Mouhamed DioubateM. Dioubate#23
Brandon GarrisonB. Garrison#10
Jasper JohnsonJ. Johnson#2
Kam WilliamsK. Williams#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	7	3	0	0	0	2	5	0
20	3	1-2	0-0	1-2	6	1	3	0	0	3	3	3
42	5	2-10	1-9	0-0	2	5	0	2	1	0	2	1
43	35	11-24	3-8	10-12	8	7	2	1	1	1	7	2
38	16	6-11	4-8	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	17	6-8	1-2	4-4	8	1	2	1	3	0	8	3
25	10	5-6	0-0	0-3	7	1	3	0	6	2	5	5
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
	89	32-63	10-28	15-21	40	19	11	5	11	9	31	17
		51%	36%	71%

Brandon Garrison seals Kentucky's OT win with emphatic jam

0:20

Brandon Garrison throws down vicious poster slam for Kentucky

0:21

Bukky Oboye throws it down off the lob for Kentucky

0:17

Game Information

St. Louis, MO

Referee:Tony Padilla

Referee:Steve McJunkins

Referee:Todd Austin

NCAA Division I

West Coast Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Gonzaga	16-2	-	31-4
Saint Mary's	16-2	-	27-6
Santa Clara	15-3	1	26-9
Oregon State	9-9	7	17-16
Seattle U	8-10	8	21-14
Pacific	8-10	8	18-15
San Francisco	8-10	8	17-16
Washington State	7-11	9	12-20
Loyola Marymount	6-12	10	15-17
Portland	6-12	10	15-19
San Diego	5-13	11	12-21
Pepperdine	4-14	12	9-23

Southeastern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Florida	16-2	-	27-8
Arkansas	13-5	3	28-9
Alabama	13-5	3	25-10
Vanderbilt	11-7	5	27-9
Tennessee	11-7	5	25-12
Texas A&M	11-7	5	22-12
Georgia	10-8	6	22-11
Kentucky	10-8	6	22-14
Missouri	10-8	6	20-13
Texas	9-9	7	21-15
Auburn	7-11	9	22-16
Oklahoma	7-11	9	21-16
Mississippi State	5-13	11	13-19
Ole Miss	4-14	12	15-20
South Carolina	4-14	12	13-19
LSU	3-15	13	15-17

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