Otega Oweh scored 20 points but Kentucky saw a late lead disappear as the Cats fell to Missouri 73-68 on Wednesday night at Rupp Arena.<\/p>\n
Jaland Lowe and Malachi Moreno each scored nine points for the Cats, while Mo Dioubate and Kam Williams each had eight.<\/p>\n
Kentucky scored first on a Denzel Aberdeen bucket but Missouri scored the next four to take a two-point lead. Oweh tied the game with a pair of free throws and Dioubate hit two of his own to give UK a 6-4 advantage. However, the Tigers scored the next four to take the lead back.<\/p>\n
Moreno tied the game on a dunk, but the Tigers took the lead back on a free throw but a Brandon Garrison dunk made it 10-9 Cats. Missouri took the lead back on a three-point play, starting a 7-0 run that gave the Tigers a 16-10 lead.<\/p>\n
Oweh scored on a fast-break layup but Missouri answered with a three to lead 19-12. Dioubate hit two free throws, Oweh hit a three and then scored on a steal-and-score to tie the game at 19-19. But the Tigers scored four in a row to lead 23-19.<\/p>\n
A Moreno half-hook cut the deficit in half and a Williams layup tied the game at 23-23. Missouri took the lead back on a three before Dioubate scored in the lane to cut the deficit to 26-25. The Tigers scored to take a three-point lead before an Oweh free throw and another from Jayden Quaintance got UK within one, 28-27. However, Missouri scored the next five to lead by six.<\/p>\n
Jaland Lowe made two free throws to make it 33-29 and after a Missouri turnver, Oweh hit a shot from about 70 feet away to get the Cats within one, 33-32, at the half. Oweh led all scorers with 13 points in the first half.<\/p>\n
Kentucky scored first in the second half on a jumper by Lowe, a fast-break layup by Aberdeen and another fast-break layup by Oweh that gave the Cats a 38-33 lead. After a Missouri basket, Aberdeen hit a three and the Cats led 41-35.<\/p>\n
The Tigers responded by scoring the next seven points, taking a 42-41 lead in the process. But Lowe hit a corner three to give UK a two-point lead. Williams followed with a three of his own and Kentucky led 47-42 with 13:09 remaining.<\/p>\n
The teams traded baskets, with Dioubate scoring for UK, making it 49-44 Cats. Missouri scored the next seven points to lead 51-49 with 9:31 to play. Oweh made one free throw to get the Cats within one and Moreno made another to tie the game at 51 apiece.<\/p>\n
Kentucky regained the lead on a pair of Lowe free throws and extended it on a Moreno layup that gave the Cats a 55-51 lead. After a Missouri basket, Williams hit a corner three that gave UK a five-point lead. Missouri hit two free throws, but Moreno hit a pair of his own and UK led 60-55.<\/p>\n
Missouri hit a three to get within two before Oweh made one of two at the line to give Kentucky a 61-58 advantage. A Garrison dunk, off an Oweh assist, extended the lead to five and an Oweh three gave the Cats a 66-58 lead with 4:37 to play. However, Missouri scored the next seven to get within one.<\/p>\n
A Garrison basket stopped the run and gave Kentucky a 68-65 lead, but the Tigers responded, getting within one with 1:14 remaining. Missouri took the lead with 36 seconds remaining and iced the game with free throws late.<\/p>\n
Kentucky returns to action on Saturday, hosting Mississippi State on Saturday. Tipoff is set for 8:30 p.m. ET and the game can be seen on the SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Otega Oweh scored 20 points but Kentucky saw a late lead disappear as the Cats fell to Missouri…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1322,51,131323,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-501612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-men-s-basketball","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115860218088650992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}