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Kentucky improves to 14-2 and 3-0 in the SEC for the first time since 92-93. They host 6th ranked Tennessee Thursday.

^ I'm looking forward to that game.

Go Lady Cats

Strikeout King Wrote:^ I'm looking forward to that game.

Go Lady Cats

I am too. It should be a great game.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Keyla Snowden scored 22 points as Kentucky (No. 9 ESPN/USA Today, No. 11 AP) beat Mississippi State 88-40 on Sunday.

Kentucky (14-2, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) set a school record for its margin of victory in SEC play, eclipsing a 31-point win over Auburn last Feb. 3.

The Wildcats, who host No. 6 Tennessee on Thursday night, also set a school record by hitting 14 3-pointers.

Diamber Johnson had 13 points to lead Mississippi State (10-5, 0-2), which shot 28 percent from the field. The Bulldogs were without second-leading scorer Porsha Porter, who was out with an illness.

Kentucky dominated from the opening tip, scoring the game's first nine points while forcing Mississippi State into turnovers on six of their first eight possessions.

The Wildcats led 50-21 at halftime.

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=320080096

Strikeout King Wrote:^ I'm looking forward to that game.

Go Lady Cats

SK, what's up with the Gay Pride Texans logo?

The game was out of hand early. It was only a matter of how many records would fall when No. 11 Kentucky trounced Mississippi State 88-40 on Sunday.

UK won its 14th straight game at Memorial Coliseum in front of 5,306. The ones who stuck around until the end saw Bria Goss' three-pointer late set a new school record for made three-pointers at 14.

Also, it was UK's largest margin of victory ever in an SEC game. The previous mark was 31 points against Auburn last season. The Cats have No. 6 Tennessee up next.

Keyla Snowden, who hit four of six from long range, led all scorers with 22 points. A'dia Mathies added 20 points, including hitting three three-pointers of her own.

At 3-0, Kentucky is off to its best start in Southeastern Conference play since the 1992-93 season.

Kentucky opened the game scoring nine unanswered and it never got much closer.

The Cats held the Bulldogs 8:20 without a field goal while using a 25-3 run to expand its lead. Snowden had 10 points in that spree. The 40 points were the fewest points scored by the Bulldogs this season.

The win also gave Coach Matthew Mitchell 100 wins at UK.

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/08/20210...ecord.html

Congrats to Matthew Mitchell on his 100th win at UK! He has done an amazing job at Kentucky. He is a great coach, a great recruiter, and a great guy. I hope he sticks around for a long time.

stardust Wrote:sk, what's up with the gay pride texans logo?

mvp2..........

Good win going into Thursday's game against Tennessee.

Congrats Lady Cats! Can't wait for Thursday night's game against the Lady Vols.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell said he had too much respect for Southeastern Conference teams to ignore Sunday's game against Mississippi State, even with a matchup looming against Tennessee on Thursday.

So the No. 11 Wildcats came out Sunday and pounded Mississippi State 88-40.

The 48-point victory margin was the biggest ever for Kentucky (14-2, 3-0) in an SEC game. The previous school record was 31 points last season in a 69-38 win against Auburn on Feb. 3.

The Wildcats set another school record Sunday with 14 made 3-pointers. Six players hit at least one, with senior Keyla Snowden making 4 of 6 from long range and leading Kentucky with 22 points.

"The thing I was most happy about is that they were all in the flow of team basketball and off of good team execution," said Mitchell, who won his 100th game as the Wildcats' coach. "We hustled in transition offense. That was a big, big emphasis before the game in preparation."

Kentucky dominated from the opening tip, scoring nine unanswered points while forcing the Bulldogs (10-5, 0-2) into six turnovers on their first eight possessions. Kentucky's full-court press held Mississippi State to just one field goal over a 10-minute first-half stretch, and the Wildcats were up 35-9 by the time a Diamber Johnson jumper ended it.

The Wildcats were able to stretch Mississippi State out so thinly on the perimeter because the Bulldogs were without guard Porsha Porter, whom Mississippi State coach Sharon Fanning-Otis said was her team's best defensive player.

Porter, who averages 14.4 points per game, is also the Bulldogs' second-leading scorer. Fanning-Otis said Porter had a high fever Saturday morning and a doctor advised she not make the trip.

"Them being one down on the perimeter really tilted the advantage in our favor," Mitchell said. "But you still have to go out and hustle, and you still have to do the things necessary to create the turnovers. I thought it was our best day in a long, long time of running the floor and finishing on the other end of some good hustle plays."

Kentucky has made a living off those hustle plays this season, converting them into turnovers and fast-break opportunities. The Wildcats entered Sunday's game leading the country with a plus-12.6 turnover margin.

They forced Mississippi State into 29 turnovers while committing 12 of their own, and they scored 40 points off turnovers to Mississippi State's five.

Snowden said she and her teammates had thought briefly about facing Tennessee but wouldn't let themselves dwell on it prior to Sunday's game. Kentucky has faced Tennessee in the last two SEC Tournament finals — both won by Tennessee — so the teams are familiar with each other.

"We talk about it, but now that it's the next game on our schedule, we're going to be focused in on it," Snowden said. "Before this game, we were focused on Mississippi State and that was it."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/w...9363_x.htm